Love Untold: The joyful Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy book club pick 2023

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The novel is set in Jones’s beloved Wales, and scattered with Welsh terms of endearment, which adds to the sensation of reading it wrapped in a comfort blanket. This review was written voluntarily and my rating was in no way influenced by the fact that I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from Transworld Publishers, Random House UK, Bantam Press via NetGalley. The characters were interesting and well developed and the story was strong enough to keep me reading when I should have been somewhere else!

Ruth's second novel, Us Three, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and paperback and has sold almost a quarter of a million copies.Meanwhile Grace's great-grand-daughter Beca is oblivious to all these worries, too busy navigating the highs and lows of teenage life and keeping secrets of her own.

Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is shot through with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom. I cried and I laughed and now there’s a hole in my life where Grace and her dysfunctional family used to be.The end of this story is incredibly moving and brought me to tears (and I have never cried over a book before). Her novels are full of wonderful characters and the stories so well written, much in the same vein as Graham Norton.

Told from each woman's point of view this novel criss-crosses backwards and forwards in time, stopping on key events in their lives. The most beautiful story spanning four generations of one family and all the hurt, harm and secrets that have been hidden.Grace is close to Alys’s own daughter, Elin, but the family rift runs deep, affecting Elin’s marriage and her relationship with her teenage daughter Beca. For Alys, Grace’s daughter, Elin’s mother she has been constantly running from herself and has come close throughout her life to time running out. Her 16 year old daughter Beca is about to fail her GCSE’s, her husband has started behaving strangely and her grandmother is secretly trying to track down Elin’s mother Alys before she turns 90, so the scene is set for some spectacular secrets to be revealed.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is filled with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom. This is a wonderful story about the relationships between different generations of women within the same family. Love Untold tells the stories of four generations of women, mothers and daughters set in South Wales.Meanwhile Grace's great -grand-daughter Beca is oblivious to all these worries, too busy navigating the highs and lows of teenage life and keeping secrets of her own. The Cat Who Saved Books is a heart-warming story about finding courage, caring for others - and the tremendous power of books. Told by a series of flashbacks the stories of Grace, Alys, Elin and Beca are revealed, together with a surprise twist at the end.