25 April,

Fiction /

Liz Nugent: The Truth about Ruby Cooper

Saturday, 25 April 2026, 5:30pm

Town Hall Theatre / €20/22
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We are delighted to welcome Liz Nugent to Cúirt this year with her compelling new novel The Truth about Ruby Cooper. Following five Number One Bestsellers, including Strange Sally Diamond and Our Little Cruelties, Liz Nugent brings us another suspenseful thriller, about the lives of two sisters in the wake of tragedy.

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. As the years pass, the fallout reverberates through the sister’s lives in Dublin and Boston, and the truth cannot stay a secret forever.

This event is sponsored by Dubray

Liz is a writer of award-winning psychological suspense novels Unravelling Oliver (2014), Lying in Wait (2016), Skin Deep (2018), Our Little Cruelties (2020) and Strange Sally Diamond (2023). All five books topped the Irish bestsellers list and Liz has won multiple literary awards.

Liz’s “wickedly dark, twisted and brilliantly observed” fifth novel, Strange Sally Diamond went straight to number one in Ireland and won Crime Novel of the Year at the ‘An Post’ Irish Book Awards 2023. It was the second bestselling book of 2023 in Ireland, after the Booker-winning Prophet Song by Paul Lynch and was also the most borrowed adult book in Irish libraries in 2024.

Liz’s sixth novel The Truth About Ruby Cooper was published in March 2026.

Liz’s novels have been translated into over 30 languages across 42 territories and she has also written extensively for radio and television.



Event Location

Town Hall Theatre

1 Courthouse Square, Galway, H91 VF21

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Access Statements Cúirt

The main auditorium is step free with accessible seating and
accessible toilet facilities. Please let the box office know of any
requirements so that they can assist with seating. There are two
accessible parking spaces on Waterside immediately by the
venue and a further two spaces on Corrib Terrace. There is a
Loop System in every auditorium. There is a Fresh Air Distribution
System. All events at the Town Hall Theatre will be captioned.