Publisher Description
When Ruth Quayle used a special app to search for pictures of herself online, she found dozens of images of "Ruth Quayle" -- and one of "Ruby Starling."
When Ruby Starling gets a message from a Ruth Quayle proclaiming them to be long-lost twin sisters, she doesn't know what to do with it -- until another message arrives the day after, and another one. It could be a crazy stalker ... but she and this Ruth do share a birthday, and a very distinctive ear....
Ruth is an extroverted American girl. Ruby is a shy English one. As they investigate the truth of their birth and the circumstances of their separation, they also share lives full of friends, family, and possible romances -- and they realize they each may be the sister the other never knew she needed.
Written entirely in e-mails, letters, Tumblr entries, and movie scripts, Finding Ruby Starling is the funny and poignant companion to Karen Rivers's The Encyclopedia of Me.
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“A trio of narrators is the perfect match for this epistolary novel. Nora Hunter brings equal parts trepidation and enthusiasm to the voice of twelve-year-old Ruth Quayle, an adopted child who discovers she may have an idential twin…Charlotte Cole and Nora Hunter give the two girls a heartfelt connection, and their emotional ‘tween-speak’—with both British and American accents—will have listeners chuckling. Liam Aiken applies a calm, level-headed tone to Ruth’s best friend, J Edgar, who attempts to keep Ruth’s emotions in check. Also notable is Susan Duerden as Ruby’s mom, Delilah, a flighty artist whose lackadaisical approach to parenting rings true.”
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About Karen Rivers
Karen Rivers
writes rich and funny novels for middle-grade readers, young adults, and the
occasional grown-up. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her two
children and a noxious-smelling dog.
About the Narrators
Liam
Aiken is an actor known for his roles in the films Henry Fool, Sweet November, The Road to
Perdition, and Stepmom, for which
he received the Young Artist Award. He graduated in 2008 from Dwight-Englewood
School in New Jersey and is attending New York University’s Kanbar Institute of
Film & Television. He currently resides in New Jersey.
Nora Hunter has narrated several audiobooks, including The Ballad of Aramei by J. A. Redmerski and Beyond This Point Are Monsters by Margaret Miller. Her reading of One for the Murphys won her an AudioFile Earphones Award.
Charlotte Cole was
born in Bristol, England, but spent her more formative years in the picturesque
County of Devon. Charlotte is a recent graduate of The American Academy of
Dramatic Arts and also studied a summer at South Coast Repertory Theatre in
Costa Mesa. Charlotte’s most recent voice over credits include Rally On! and the short film The Sentient.
Neil Hellegers grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in theater arts and a minor in psychology before getting an MFA in acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2003 and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theater education, and audiobook narration. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.