The Truth About Ruby Cooper

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