Chapter 1-3 Summary

Chapter One 1951 Conception

Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a story about Ruby Lennox and her family, both her immediate family and her grandparents and great-grandparents. It is about how the women of this family deal with the deaths of beloved family members, betrayal of the ones closest to them and the consequences of their own decisions that follow them through out their lives as they try to find happiness. This novel follows the main character Ruby Lennox from conception all the way through her life until she has to make the funeral arrangements for her own mother, a woman Ruby struggles her whole life to understand.

In chapter one Ruby has just been conceived, her mother Bunty Lennox does not know yet that she is pregnant. Ruby knows all that her mother feels and thinks about her life and...