Review: The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent

 

Publication Date: March 2026

Publisher: Penguin Books

Blurb:   [Goodreads]

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.

Liz Nugent has done it again and proven herself as one of my all time favourite authors. I don't know how she comes up with the most insane, gripping and unforgettable books each and every time. This was no exception. 

The book centers around two sisters Ruby and Erin. Ruby has always felt she lived life in Erin's shadow, never as pretty, clever or interesting as her. Then something life changing happens to them and their family which divides them and send their lives on a ricochet path for the rest of their days.