I read 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' initially several years ago and I loved it so much that I have since consciously read all the books written by Kate Atkinson. I very rarely read a book more than once and yet I have returned to this book over and over again and every time I read it I discover something new that I missed before or am presented with a view or emotion from one of the characters that I hadn't seen or felt previously. One of the most innovative thing about this author is that many of her stories have a degree of overlap or are somehow interlinked either by a character or an event which means that you can read a new novel and then be able to go back to previous novels and read it from a different perspective which means that you are able to get so much more from the stories and the characters. Even those novels that are not linked in an obvious manner seem to have fragile threads connecting them all which mean that each time she brings out a new novel her previous novels impact on how you read the new story whilst the new novel impacts on the previous novels which then cry out to be read once again. If you are a reader who needs something that is easy to read but which still provides you with something to think about then I would recommend that you give this novel a go.