Ruth Gilligan was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and is now studying English at Cambridge University. Her first novel Forget topped the bestseller charts in 2006 in Ireland, while her second Somewhere In Between, also enjoyed great success on the bestseller's list, leading her to be hailed as 'Ireland's newest publishing sensation'. She starred in Ireland's national soap opera Fair City for a number of years, and also writes pieces for the Irish Times, the Sunday Times Style Magazine, plus she her own weekly column in The Irish Independent Saturday Magazine.