![]() They build up a kind of tapestry of this family’s past. In a way they look random, but they’re not. Running under this book, I was always keen on the structure that – because there’s always something behind the closed door, because there’s always a secret – each chapter has a footnote, which is a glimpse into the past of this particular family. Ruby is an unhappy girl, she has an unfortunate life, she has secret and buried tragedy in her life that, throughout the book in a way, her task is to discover what happened to her, because all books, ultimately, are about identity. It begins with her conception and I stole very heavily from Tristram Shandy at the beginning of this book. ![]() ![]() It’s the first person narrative of a girl called Ruby Lennox. ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a book I thought about for five years and then I wrote in about five months. ![]()
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