Lock and Key (novel)
After her drug and alcohol addicted mother abandons her, child services forces 17-year-old Ruby Cooper to move in with her sister, Cora, who had left for college when Ruby was young. Ruby is upset about this arrangement and continues to wear the key to her old home on a chain around her neck. After learning she will be transferring to a new high school, Ruby attempts to run away but is found out. Nate Cross, Jamie and Cora's next-door neighbor, covers for her. Over the span of the story, Ruby slowly becomes closer to Nate.
Ruby Rees
Ruby’s writing and directing career is surprisingly extensive for one so young, at the age of 15 she wrote and directed the award winning play “Serpents”, . which was performed at the St Michael’s theatre, Melbourne, Australia in 2010. Rees directed the play “Neighbourhood Watch” at the age of 18, the short film “Alien” which was shortlisted for the Tropfest film festival Australia, in 2014”, . In 2014, Ruby moved to New York City, where continued to write and direct plays with The Manhattan Repertory Theatre, her play “Kaston” debuting there in 2015. . wrote the play “Bad religion” in 2016, and wrote and starred in the short film “Harvey”. Ruby Rees’s first venture into writing feature movies is the film “Women by the sea” which is essentially a film entirely about women due to hit the big screen in 2019. Rees is a big advocate of equality for women, and the production of this movie employs females only as a spotlight to demonstrate that females can and do speak out against inequality and sexism.