Download or read book Ruby in Her Navel written by Barry Unsworth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, this work is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the present. Unsworth transports the reader to a distant past filled with deception and mystery, and whose racial, tribal, and religious tensions are still present.