Readers are losing sleep over Liz Nugent’s ‘addictive and dark’ new novel

Liz Nugent is back with an addictive and gripping new novel

The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent is finally here, and readers are losing sleep over the novel. It's one of the most-anticipated novels of 2026, and there's no doubt this will go to #1, like all of Nugent's other books.

The book synopsis reads:

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.

Readers and writers have been sharing rave reviews of the book already, with many admitting they couldn't put it down.

"Practically inhaled this. Lost sleep over it," said one reader.

Graham Norton said, "What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by."

"I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph," Freida McFadden added.

"Only Liz Nugent could have written this book... an infliching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting, and always gripping story," Sinéad Crowley shared.

You can buy The Truth About Ruby Cooper here.

We cannot wait to get stuck into it.