![]() ![]() In a biting takedown of the British press coverage of Atkinson’s coup, Hilary Mantel wrote: “On the day after Kate Atkinson’s first novel won the Whitbread Prize, the Guardian’s headline read: ‘Rushdie makes it a losing double.’. Written in the midst of self-reinvention after Atkinson failed the oral defense of her doctoral dissertation on postmodern American short fiction, Behind the Scenes garnered effusive praise-until it unexpectedly edged out Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh for the Whitbread (now Costa) Prize. ![]() ![]() The opening line, “I exist!” uttered by the embryonic Ruby Lennox at the start of Kate Atkinson’s 1995 novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum could easily encapsulate the 20 years and nine novels that have followed Atkinson’s tumultuous debut. ![]()
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