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The MacLeans live in a close-knit community in Glasgow at the start of the Second World War. When Ruby MacLean is 17, she falls pregnant and is forced to marry Gerry Reilly. As their daughter is born, Gerry heads off to war, leaving Ruby to cope alone. Many years later, now retired, Ruby looks back at her family history and uncovers a tale of lies that she could never have suspected....

She didn't choose this life. But now she's in it, she'll be damned if anyone takes it from her. Ruby never wanted to be part of the family business. She was meant for a life far from the streets her father, Colm Byrne, ruled with fear and favors. But when a violent triad war leaves Colm fighting for his life and the Byrne firm exposed, Ruby is dragged into a world she thought she'd escaped.

Helen Dunmore’s novels have been published in 15 countries. She is also a children’s author, short storywriter, prize-winning poet, and the first winner of Britain’s coveted Orange Prize. In Mourning Ruby, she crafts the poignant tale of a woman who, abandoned at birth, builds a loving family of her own. When tragedy strikes, she once again must forge her own history.