About Ruth Leigh

Ruth is a novelist and freelance writer living in beautiful East Suffolk with three children, one husband, and a cat.

She’s been writing content and blogs for charities and small Suffolk businesses for the last fifteen years and loves adding value with words.

She published her first novel, The Diary of Isabella M Smugge, in February 2021. The second novel, The Trials of Isabella M Smugge, followed in October 2021; the third, The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge, was published in 2022 and the fourth, The Further Adventures of Isabella M Smugge, in August 2024.

In 2023, Ruth published the Jane Austen-inspired book A Great Deal of Ingenuity in July and The Little Book of Unexpected Poetry in October.

Ruth learned to read at age four and hasn’t stopped since. Her first piece of fiction was produced on sugar paper and written with crayons back in Class Three at primary school. She was surprised and pleased to be given a gold star for it and has hoped for more of the same ever since.

Ruth’s freelance clients include several Christian charities, a radio station, a florist, an estate agent and a trainer. She likes nothing better than taking some raw data and turning it into a polished piece of prose. Her favourite ever compliment from a client is this. “You can throw Ruth a few bones and she’ll produce a delicious bowl of soup.”