The Truth About Ruby Cooper
The deliciously dark new suspense novel from the bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond
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- 329,00 Kč
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- 329,00 Kč
Publisher Description
The deliciously dark new suspense novel from the international bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
‘I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!’ Freida McFadden
‘What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by’ Graham Norton
‘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
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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 about the past.
But it can’t stay a secret forever.
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‘Absolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks.’ John Marrs
‘Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist.’ Anthony Horowitz
‘Once again, the incomparable Liz Nugent invites us into the darkest parts of the human psyche. I'm certain her legions of fans will agree: Ruby is her most unforgettable creation yet’ Catherine Ryan Howard
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From its opening line—"For the second time in six weeks, I woke up with the wrong husband"—Nugent's enthralling sixth novel retains the jaw-dropping drama and darkness of its bestselling predecessor, Strange Sally Diamond. The action kicks off in 1999, when 16-year-old Ruby accuses her older sister Erin's boyfriend of sexually assaulting her. The fallout shatters her Boston family, setting off shock waves that will impact their lives for decades. Ruby's Irish immigrant mother whisks her daughter away to Dublin for a fresh start, where Ruby instead spirals into addiction and self-harm. Back in Boston, Erin masks her debilitating distrust of others by overachieving at Harvard. Even as the sisters (who share narration duties) struggle to move forward on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with Erin building a career in publishing while Ruby gives birth to a baby girl and sets her sights on a troubled former child star she meets in rehab, their trajectories remain toxically intertwined. The action barrels toward a devastating, long-delayed day of reckoning between the sisters, and it's a testament to Nugent's storytelling prowess and gift for well-timed plot twists that, even knowing there's a train wreck looming, readers won't be able to look away. This is a masterpiece.
