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Iris and Ruby

Name: Iris and Ruby
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Rating: 3.9 (2811 reviews)
Author: Rosie Thomas
ISBN: 9780007223237

Rosie Thomas

3.90 ( 2,811 Ratings by Goodreads)

Iris and Ruby

Rosie Thomas(Author)

3.90 (2,811 Ratings by Goodreads)

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Published: 6 March, 2006

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Best-selling author Rosie Thomas will not fail to delight old and new fans alike, with her stunning new novel "Iris and Ruby". Set in the surrounds of Cairo, "Iris and Ruby" is a stirring story of family relationships spanning three generations. Fragility and forgetfulness have left 82-year-old Iris vulnerable and in the care of her manservant, Mamdooh. Stiflingly quiet and claustrophobic, Iris's Cairo house is suddenly disturbed by the unexpected arrival of her troubled and wilful granddaughter, Ruby, who, labouring under a fraught relationship with her family, has run away from England to seek solace with the grandmother she hasn't seen for many years. An unlikely bond arises as the two women open themselves up to one another and Ruby helps Iris document her deteriorating memories of the vibrant life she enjoyed in Cairo during World War Two, a time when she lost her heart to her one true love-the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux-and then lost him to the ravages of the war. This early devastation of Iris's heart precipitated a disastrously compensatory marriage and the birth of Ruby's mother, thus shaping the lives of all three women. It is the need to recover Iris's past and solidify Ruby's present that leads the two women into terrible danger in the Egyptian desert. With skilfully intertwined narratives, written from the points of view of both Iris and Ruby, Rosie Thomas has created a characteristically atmospheric novel, rich and alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of Cairo and the vast, foreboding desert surrounding it. It is a highly moving story spanning three generations of one family.

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Winner of Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2007.

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Type	Book
ISBN13	9780007223237
ISBN10	0007223234
Number Of Pages	400
Item Weight	520 g
Product Dimensions	148 x 32 x 232 mm
Publisher / Reseller	HarperCollins
Format	paperback
Edition	New title

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Praise for Rosie Thomas:

`Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love.' The Times

`Honest and absorbing, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests.' Mail on Sunday

`A master storyteller.' Cosmopolitan

`A story full of passion... will keep you reading long after bedtime.' New Woman

`Thomas's novels are beautifully written. This one is a treat.' Marie Claire

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Author's Bio

Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers Sun at Midnight, Iris and Ruby and Constance. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She lives in London.

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Iris and Ruby

Rosie Thomas

3.90 ( 2,811 Ratings by Goodreads)