For the first time in Russian - the debut novel of the famous Kate Atkinson, which received the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Farewell Sigh; her series of novels about private detective Jackson Brody (“Crimes of the past”, “Turn for the better”, “Should we expect good news?”, “It’s almost daylight, with a dog together”), which managed to fall in love with the Russian reader, was dubbed by Stephen King “the main detective project of the decade.” When Ruby Lennox was born, her father was sitting in the Hound and Hare pub, telling the woman in the emerald green dress that he was single. Now Ruby lives in the shadow of York Cathedral, in a flat above her parents' pet shop, and tries to make sense of the tangled history of four generations of her family. Where did great-grandmother Alice go after she was photographed by the visiting French photographer Monsieur Arman? Why, at the age of five, without explaining anything to her, was Ruby sent to live with her aunt, and obviously not for the holidays? Finding her way through the labyrinth of births and deaths, secrets and deceptions, the girl repeats to herself: “My name is Ruby. I am a precious ruby. I am a drop of blood. I'm Ruby Lennox."