Ruby Soames
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Ruby Soames

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Ruby Soames writes emotionally charged, character-driven fiction about ambition, desire, and the fallout from choices we can't take back. She's fascinated by the tension between self-preservation and self-destruction — especially when it plays out behind closed doors, in relationships that look perfect from the outside. Her latest novel, 'Homewrecked', is longlisted for the Somerset (CIBA) Award for Contemporary Literature and is a finalist for the Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2025. Her previous novel, 'Seven Days to Tell You', won Readers' Favourite at the Hookline Novel Writers' Competition before being published by Bloodhound Books. If you enjoy the layered domestic tension of 'Big Little Lies', the cool intelligence of Anne Tyler, or the emotional precision of Maggie O'Farrell, you'll find yourself in familiar territory. Born in Chelsea to an American-Irish model and film financier, Ruby was expelled from her girls' boarding school at fifteen. With no qualifications, she got by as a model, painter and decorator, and life insurance sales rep until, in love with reading, she found her way to Bristol University to study Literature and Theology. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MSc in Psychology from Liverpool. Ruby's writing has appeared in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, and her short fiction has been shortlisted in literary competitions including The Short Story Prize. She lives in the south of France with her two children and travel writer Jon Bryant. Fun fact: although a descendant of Nell Gwynne, she has never eaten fruit.
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