The Truth About Ruby Cooper
A Novel
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- Ожидается 26 янв. 2027 г.
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- 9,99 $
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“I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!” —Freida McFadden, New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid
“Enthralling...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.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From the internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond comes a twisted suspense novel about two sisters and the scandal that changes their lives forever.
If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.
Sixteen-year-old Ruby and her older sister Erin live comfortably in their Boston home with their pastor father and Irish mother, until one day Ruby is involved in an incident with Erin’s boyfriend, Milo, that causes her family to implode. Ruby and her mother leave in a hurry for Ireland, while Erin and her father stay behind.
As the story alternates between Erin and Ruby’s perspectives over decades, two very different women emerge. Erin struggles with trust issues. Ruby is set on a course of self-destruction.
When the truth threatens to emerge from this “brilliantly dark and tangled web” (Graham Norton), the sisters’ lives may be upended all over again. Can either of them ever truly recover from the events of that day in 1999?
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.
