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

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Love Untold tells the stories of four generations of women, mothers and daughters set in South Wales. I must be very careful about spoilers in this delicious novel revolving around this family so full of resentment, long-held anger, prodigal daughters, and cold-water swimming. She’s determined that Grace’s big day will be celebrated, her own daughter, Becca is slightly mortified by her mother’s quest to party, much preferring to spend quality time with her great grandmother. I cried and I laughed and now there’s a hole in my life where Grace and her dysfunctional family used to be. For Grace time is running out to solve the family rifts that have been going on for the last thirty years.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It got into the depths of mother / daughter / grandmother / great grandmother relationships in such a wonderful and both heartbreaking and endearing way.Female characters that cross over many generations always makes for a great read, and in this novel from Ruth Jones, her latest that is no exception.

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. Grace had moved in with John and Cissie Edwards to turn their beautiful home, Syn-yMor, into a guest house. Widowed in her thirties, left to bring up a teenage daughter, Alys, she ran a boarding house with her friends John, and his sister Cassie for years until Cassie and John's ill-health forced them to move to a home where she visits them every day.The 2019 Christmas Day special of Gavin and Stacey gained national critical acclaim, drawing an audience of over 18 million, winning a BAFTA for TV moment of the year and a National Television Award for Impact. The reader learns the history of this family, and the hurt and pain that has been caused in the past.