For the first time in Russian - the debut novel of the famous Kate Atkinson, who received the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating Salman Rushdie's Farewell Sigh of the Moor; her cycle of novels about private detective Jackson Brody ("Crimes of the Past," "Turn for the Better," "Should We Wait for Good News?," "A Little Light, with a Dog Together"), who managed to fall in love with the Russian reader, Stephen King dubbed "the main detective project of the decade." When Ruby Lennox was born, her father was sitting in the beer hall "Hound and a hare," telling a woman in an emerald green dress that she was single. Now Ruby lives in the shadow of York Cathedral, in a flat above her parent's pet shop, and tries to make sense of the tangled history of four generations of her family. Where did great-grandmother Alice go after being photographed by visiting French photographer Monsieur Armand? Why, at the age of five, Ruby, without explaining anything to her, was sent to live with her aunt, and clearly not on vacation? Looking for a way in the labyrinth of births and deaths, secrets and deceptions, the girl says to herself: "My name is Ruby. I'm a precious ruby. I'm a drop of blood. I'm Ruby Lennox."