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 Further Adventures of Isabella M Smugge, the fourth novel in Ruth’s Issy Smugge series, won the Christian Resources Together ACW Book of the Year Award 2025.
Queen of the Socials, Isabella M Smugge, inspires millions. But challenging events now demand she steps up in the real world too. Is it time for Issy to become a pillar of her community? Having seen her agent, Mimi, for who she is...
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...
'The author is very witty and we are kept entertained and amused on every page, but there are some very touching moments as well'
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'I personally know an " Izzy", and so found the book very realistically written, and "yes Ruth, very funny"'
'While the book is light and entertaining, it also has real depth ... It’s a witty, thoughtful and comforting read that lingers after the final …
