Culture & Life

Uprooted author finds Luxembourg's dark side in new book

What if a girl was kidnapped at Luxembourg's Schueberfouer? UK author Ruth Dugdall talks about her latest psychological thriller, Nowhere Girl, which explores just such a scenario.

20.10.2015

(JB) Moving abroad can be stressful. UK author Ruth Dugdall knows this only too well. A few weeks after moving from Suffolk to Luxembourg, she suffered a stroke and went temporarily blind in one eye.

Having just arrived, the mother-of-two found herself in hospital in a foreign country where she didn't speak the language. “I was very anxious about all of that. I was thinking, 'what if you were here without papers, what would you do? Would you go to hospital? Probably not'.”