Family Secrets with Liz Nugent’s Signature Sting
Liz Nugent takes a devastating early incident and follows its fallout across decades, cities and family bonds. With sisters at its centre and tension simmering under the surface, this is exactly the kind of psychologically sharp family drama that lingers long after the last page.
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The Truth About Ruby Cooper
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Family Secrets with Liz Nugent’s Signature Sting
Liz Nugent takes a devastating early incident and follows its fallout across decades, cities and family bonds. With sisters at its centre and tension simmering under the surface, this is exactly the kind of psychologically sharp family drama that lingers long after the last page.
- Book Synopsis
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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 the past. But it can’t stay a secret forever.
Ideal for readers who...
enjoy character-driven literary fiction shaped by secrets, guilt and long-term consequences
like stories that move across decades and between Boston and Dublin
are interested in the pressures and tensions of close-knit religious communities
want emotionally intense family drama centred on sisters and fractured loyalty
prefer novels where an early incident reverberates through lives, relationships and identity
Ideal for readers who:
- Read family dramas shaped by secrets and long-buried damage
- Are drawn to the fallout of one early incident between two sisters
- Enjoy stories moving between Boston and Dublin across the years
- Want an emotionally intense novel with tension and depth
- About The Author
- Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her six novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties, Strange Sally Diamond and The Truth About Ruby Cooper - 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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- ISBN
- 9781844885732
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sandycove, (12 March 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Weight
- 452 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 233 x 154 x 30 mm
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