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Iris and Ruby

Octogenarian Iris Black bonds with her teenage granddaughter, Ruby, who has run away from a difficult relationship with her mother in England to seek refuge in Cairo.

Main Author: Thomas, Rosie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Older women > Egypt > Cairo > Fiction.
Memory > Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Egypt.
Summary: Octogenarian Iris Black bonds with her teenage granddaughter, Ruby, who has run away from a difficult relationship with her mother in England to seek refuge in Cairo.
Physical Description: 416, 8 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781468302639 (hardback)
1468302639 (hardback)
Author Notes: Rosie Thomas is the author of numerous critically acclaimed, bestselling novels, including Daughter of the House (2015), The Illusionists (2014), and Iris and Ruby (2006). She has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Born in a small village in northern Wales, Thomas discovered a love of traveling and mountaineering when her children were grown. In the years since, she has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, and trekked in the footsteps of Shackleton on South Georgia Island.

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