Ruth Figgest was born in Oxford but grew up in the USA. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport prize five times and one of her stories, ‘The Coffin Gate’, was commissioned for broadcast on Radio 4.Ruth was a clinical audiologist and a senior manager in the NHS prior to her present position as Chief Executive of a charity that runs a community centre in East Sussex. She lives in Eastbourne.
Mother and daughter Caroline and Erica are best of friends and worst of enemies.Set in the American mid- and south-west, their story unfolds over more than 50 years against a backdrop of sweeping social change. Feisty and argumentative, they roll with the punches, surviving car crashes,...
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