Named as one of 50 Writers You Should Read Now by The Guardian. From the award-winning author
of The Rift Nina Allan this early novel cements her reputation as one of the most interesting
contemporary speculative fiction writers. Ruby tells the story of Ruby Castle told in snapshots
and fleeting glimpses and secret histories in tales repeated and reinvented by those who fall
under the horror film actresss spell: her childhood sweetheart an antiquarian bookseller with
a passion for magical artifacts the mistress of the poet who was once Castles lover a young
girl in a future Russia who dreams of the stars. Worlds collide and the boundaries between the
real and the fantastic begin to break down. Is Ruby Castle a living person or a collective
fantasy? By the end the world that Castle created through her films has become dangerously
indistinguishable from our own.
