The Truth About Ruby Cooper with Liz Nugent

How well can we ever know the people closest to us? And how far can a lie travel? In The Truth About Ruby Cooper, Liz Nugent turns her darkly perceptive gaze on two sisters whose lives are changed forever by a single incident. Moving between Boston and Dublin and across decades of fallout, this is a story of family secrets, sibling rivalry, shame and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Join one of Ireland’s most compelling novelists for a conversation about the darkness beneath ordinary lives — and a character readers may never quite decide whether to love or condemn.

Liz Nugent is the internationally bestselling, award-winning author of six novels, renowned for creating unforgettable, morally complex characters. Her newest novel, The Truth About Ruby Cooper, went straight to number one in the Irish charts and remained there for seven weeks. Dark, unsettling and fiercely compelling, it explores how a single act can reverberate through a family for generations. Critics and fellow writers have praised Nugent’s psychological insight and fearless storytelling, with Lisa Jewell calling it her best book yet. With that same instinct for the darker shades of human behaviour, Nugent once again draws readers into complicated territory without offering easy answers.

Liz will be joined by acclaimed crime writer William Shaw, author of the bestselling The Birdwatcher and the DS Alexandra Cupidi series. A formidable storyteller in his own right, Shaw brings a crime writer’s eye to a conversation about character, suspense, ambiguity and the darker corners of human behaviour.

Expect a lively, revealing conversation about what makes us judge a character, what keeps us turning the pages and why the darkest stories can illuminate something profoundly human. For Liz Nugent fans — and anyone who loves psychologically complex fiction — this is one not to miss.

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