The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent - ISBN: 9781844886791
Hardcover
A dark secret from a beautiful sister’s past shatters everything.

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

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  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    12 April 2026

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Summary

The latest deliciously dark novel from bestselling author, Liz Nugent.

“If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.”

Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode. Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston. Not that Ruby wants to think about the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844886791
ISBN-10:1844886794
Author:Liz Nugent
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Sandycove
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:12 April 2026
Weight:578g
Dimensions:242mm x 164mm x 35mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Dark, fearless and compelling - in other words, classic Liz Nugent. Utterly distinctive and unique, this is another unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer. * Jane Casey *
I couldn’t stop reading! Absolutely a triumph! * Frieda McFadden *
An absolute belter of a book … Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best – Louise Kennedy
Absolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks. * John Marrs *
What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by. – Graham Norton
Only Liz Nugent could have written this book … an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story – Sinéad Crowley
Liz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Ruby Cooper is her most morally complex character yet. Utterly compelling. – Tammy Cohen
An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever – Shari Lapena
Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist. – Anthony Horowitz
Addictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last. – Diane Jeffrey

About The Author

Liz Nugent

Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television before becoming a full-time writer. Her five novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond - have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.

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