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Product Identifiers
PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-101468314963
ISBN-139781468314960
eBay Product ID (ePID)237916636
Product Key Features
Book TitleIris and Ruby : a Novel
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicSagas, Coming of Age, Romance / General, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorRosie Thomas
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThe pairing of these two women, at opposite life stages, shows how the generations can heal one another while discovering more about themselves...Lovely to read.
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisThe unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen in years. An unlikely bond develops between them as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one true love--the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux-- whom she lost to the ravages of conflict. This long-ago love has shaped Iris's life and, as becomes increasingly apparent, the lives of her daughter and granddaughter. And it's about to affect them all, again, in ways they could not have imagined., Rosie Thomas, an author who "can write with ravishing sensuality" (The Times), has created her most touching story yet, set in the haunting and seductive vistas of Egypt
