_ **_** FROM THE AUTHOR OF **** INSIDE THE WAVE **** , THE COSTA BOOK OF THEYEAR 2017****Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italianrestaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in thedark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from and what can she become?Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a newlife for herself. But when sudden tragedy changed the course of that life forever, and all the lives that touch hers, Rebecca is out in the world again,searching . . .**_Mourning Ruby_ ****explores identity and maternal ties and is bestsellingauthor Helen Dunmore's eighth novel.****'Moments that bring the reader to tears . . . a fascinating - oftenbrilliant - novel' _The Times_*** * ***'Bold and unusual . . . miraculously written, Dunmore's drama of loss andregeneration pieces together shattered lives' _Daily Mail_*** * ***'Emotionally restrained, beautifully observed'** _**Daily Telegraph** ___Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: _Zennor in Darkness_ ,which won the McKitterick Prize; _Burning Bright_ ; _A Spell of Winter_ ,which won the Orange Prize; _Talking to the Dead_ ; _Your Blue-Eyed Boy_ ;_With Your Crooked Heart_ ; _The Siege,_ which was shortlisted for the 2001Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002;_Mourning Ruby_ ; _House of Orphan_ ; _Counting the Stars_ and _The Betrayal_, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet,children's novelist and short-story writer.words : 410689