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

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Ruth Jones’ third novel is another warm, heartfelt story, filled with strong and joyful female characters that captures the challenges and joys of relationships and family. The reader gains knowledge of this family's background, including the harm and suffering that have been inflicted upon them.

It's a great read, refreshingly free of stereotypes, as we follow events in the lives of the four women in the run-up to Grace's ninetieth birthday. This is a story about mothers and daughters: the love inherent in that bond and the heartache that miscommunication can bring.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. This book has my heart and I plan to keep it to re read when I need reminding of how important our family is.

What a wonderful, heart-warming, beautifully emotional story by Ruth Jones of 4 generations, trying to navigate their own lives and their relationships with others and each other.It is a story that tenderly portrays a broken family, outlining the complexities that define history, with an ending that is both heart-breaking, yet uplifting at the same time. Elin is busy organising a surprise birthday party for Grace and as usual it has got completely out-of-hand, exasperating both her husband Greg and Beca. This book looks at multi generation female relationships and familial ties as well as what bonds and binds mothers and daughters. Love Untold tells the stories of four generations of women, mothers and daughters set in South Wales.

That's Grace, nearly ninety; her wayward daughter Alys; Alys's daughter Elin, a headteacher; and Beca, the younger generation, just 16.Her novels are full of wonderful characters and the stories so well written, much in the same vein as Graham Norton. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is filled with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom. We follow Elin as she struggles with her marriage, and Becca as she discovers love for the first time. I often find it hard to keep up with multigenerational novels and each chapter written from someone else’s perspective but the transitions in this were pretty seamless and the humour was just right. I was completely captivated by this character-driven story of mother/daughter relationships and really cared about the characters; I was genuinely sad to finish it and leave them all behind.