‘Answer the question, Ruby.’
‘There was no question.’
‘Are you or are you not planning to use a trip to the United States to skip your birthday?’
‘I will be

crossing the international dateline at the time, rendering me twenty-nine forever more.’
In Campaign Ruby, the novel where it all began, Ruby managed to get- drunk, the Leader of the

Opposition elected, and Luke.
In Ruby Blues, what’s a girl to do when she’s about to turn thirty, when her wardrobe is drab,

her love life becomes lukewarm and the government is leakier than a cheap umbrella?
Work? Luke? Can she have it all? And, more importantly, what should she wear to the Midwinter

Ball?