Ruth Leigh is a freelance writer and novelist, and is married with three children, one husband and assorted livestock.
She blogs at www.ruthleighwrites.co.uk, Authors Electric and More Than Writers.
Ruth is a recovering over-achiever who does the school run in her onesie most days.
The UK’s premier Instamum Isabella M Smugge has never met a hashtag she doesn’t like. And with her mother’s wedding to organise, blended families to negotiate and her long-awaited house renovation – all while potty training a toddler – there are plenty to choose from. What could possibly go wrong?
Now in her third year of living the rural dream, starry Instamum Issy Smugge is up against it. A single parent of four with an award-winning brand, a gin-swigging mother convalescing upstairs and a distraught relative craving a shoulder to cry on...
Life in the country isn’t going as Issy Smugge planned it. However, the woman Gorgeous Home magazine once called ‘Britain’s Most Relatable Mum Designer’ is nothing if not resilient...
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...
'Her spiritual journey is believable and authentically portrayed without being preachy'
'very well written, easy to pick up and if Ruth is being compared to Jane Austen, it wouldn't take much, ahem, persuasion'
'An intriguing, sometimes painful, at times hilarious journey ... If you haven't met Issy Smugge, you need her in your life!'
'So many touching and acutely perceptive moments in this novel and often very funny as well, and I must say I loved the end of …
