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

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The ending took me totally by surprise and I had to read the last couple of chapters twice because my eyes leaked (I sobbed) and the print blurred. Grace is fast approaching her 90th birthday; the only thing on her mind is a reunion with Alys, the daughter she hasn’t seen for 30 years.

The conflicts and emotions are real and raw and you’ll find yourself relating to so many arguments and points of tension. A genuine young woman who warms to the whole of Beca’s family, she has a positive affect on all of them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I would like to thank both Netgalley and Random House for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. 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.

Also found the colloquial grammer used whenever characters spoke irritating, ie the way all the gs were dropped - "nothin" "pickin" etc.

The reader gains knowledge of this family's background, including the harm and suffering that have been inflicted upon them. The reader learns the history of this family, and the hurt and pain that has been caused in the past. She exudes warmth and wisdom, and reading this book makes you feel someone’s draped a warm overcoat across your shoulders. Sounded too familiar - as I was the great-granddaughter in my family until I lost my great-nan when I was 24, I just had to read this to see how the dynamics worked between the 4!It got into the depths of mother / daughter / grandmother / great grandmother relationships in such a wonderful and both heartbreaking and endearing way. Love Untold is the first book I’ve read by Ruth Jones, but after loving it I’ve added her others to my (ever-growing) list. 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. 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.