
Rosie Thomas, a "master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan) has been delighting readers with her globe-spanning romantic sagas for more than three decades. Here, in Iris and Ruby, she has written her most touching story yet, set in the haunting and seductive vistas of Egypt.The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in ...
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: The Overlook Press (April 5, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1468302639
ISBN-13: 978-1468302639
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 2292727
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This was a beautiful book, a story of an elderly Grandmother and her very young Granddaughter. Both a bit wary of each other at the beginning but as time went on they each taught each other something and despite the age gap the bond between them gr...
, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for 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, those of her daughter and her granddaughter. And it is to affect them all, again, in ways they could not have imagined.