Painting Ruby Tuesday Book

A ten-year-old girl sabotages a murder enquiry in this blackly comic novel set against the soundtrack of the Sixties.It is 1965. Annie Cradock is a highly imaginative, precocious only daughter of strict parents in an Essex village. There have been several murders in her village, and when Annie is an inadvertent witness to a horrendous crime she is terrified and tries to put the police off the scent -- with devastating consequences.Thirty-five years later Annie, a trained musician and teacher, is frustrated in her marriage, having an affair, and has never been quite able to escape her past. Only when she discovers a photograph album in a Manhattan bookshop can she begin to put her ghosts to rest.The novel is populated with wonderful, vivid characters including the glamorous, piano-playing Mrs. Clitheroe who was Annie’s childhood friend Babette; Ollie the rag-and-bone man; her exciting artist lover plus her American husband Alan, who is far more comfortable with facts than emotions. The most memorable of all is Annie herself -- a bright, funny girl who lives very much in her own head.Read More