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The Truth About Ruby Cooper
Liz Nugent
  • Published: 17 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781844885732
  • Imprint: Penguin Ireland
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

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17 Mar 2026
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12 Mar 2026
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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 past.

But it can’t stay a secret forever.
  • Published: 17 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781844885732
  • Imprint: Penguin Ireland
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Liz Nugent

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. 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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Also by Liz Nugent

Strange Sally Diamond
Our Little Cruelties
Skin Deep
Lying in Wait
Unravelling Oliver
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Praise for The Truth About Ruby Cooper

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
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