Reviews round-up
Ruth
by Kate Riley
5 of 5 critics positive
8 reviews: 1 rave, 4 positives; 3 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“Riley’s wonderful debut follows a woman at odds with the Christian commune”
Ruth by Kate Riley
Positive
Read the review ↗“Kate Riley's perceptive debut novel”
She Has No Autonomy. Can She Be Happy?
Positive
Read the review ↗“a very different kind of candour”
Ruth by Kate Riley review – a very different kind of candour
Positive
Read the review ↗“an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity”
A Writer With a Divine Touch Captures Life in a Christian Commune (Published 2025)
Positive
Read the review ↗“finds wit and wonder in a closed world”
Review | Kate Riley’s ‘Ruth’ finds wit and wonder in a closed world
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗Josie Mitchell · Abridged Cow Skeleton: Kate Riley’s ‘Ruth’
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗Books in brief: A Life and a Half, Ruth and The Course of the Heart
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
