Ruth Leigh is a freelance writer and novelist, and is married with three children, one husband and assorted livestock.
She blogs at Big Words and Made Up Stories, Authors Electric and More Than Writers.
Ruth is a recovering over-achiever who does the school run in her onesie most days.
Meet Isabella Smugge – as in ‘Br-uge-s’, naturally! Instagram influencer, consummate show-off and endearingly self-unaware. With a palatial home, charming husband and three well-mannered children, she is living the Country Life dream...
Instagram influencers and lifestyle bloggers were in the news recently for all the wrong reasons when many sought to escape the UK lockdown by heading to Dubai for ‘work’. Presenting a minutely manicured perfection, they sell us a dream that surely even their reality can never truly live up to. This is the gap that new author Ruth Leigh explores to hilarious and poignant effect in The Diary of Isabella M. Smugge...
September
This morning, I woke up at 6 am, got up, did my stretches and forty lengths of the pool then said to myself, ‘Isabella, you’re a lucky girl. No cellulite to speak of, all your own teeth, a handsome husband, three beautiful children and a lovely house.’
I wouldn’t want to give you the impression that...
'Ruth paints Isabella’s character with great insight into the human psyche. Amidst the humorous writing is real pathos'
