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

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Thoughtful hug in a box care packages and gifts for every occasion, hand packed, beautifully gift wrapped and delivered directly to their door. 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.

The prime and proper headteacher whose daughter fails all but two exams and a husband who runs to play hippie. P'haps because I'm Welsh myself I can identify with her characters and the use of certain colloquialisms. It is a joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel – with characters you’ll come to know and love – from no. 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. The reader gains knowledge of this family's background, including the harm and suffering that have been inflicted upon them.

She exudes warmth and wisdom, and reading this book makes you feel someone’s draped a warm overcoat across your shoulders. The Times Crime Book of the MonthGuardian Best Crime and Thrillers----------'A warm, wise and witty warning never to underestimate the elderly' Val McDermid'I completely fell in love with it' Shari Lapena'This is properly brilliant.

WENDY, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young, while VIOLET, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier. 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.

This odd couple will go on three magical adventures to save books from people who have imprisoned, mistreated and betrayed them. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

I loved all the characters and did not see the twist in the story coming, so it was rather emotional for reasons I can’t go into without giving away the ending. Everyone thinks they know the truth, but they are all keeping secrets, will Grace's party be a joyous reunion or a day of tears and recriminations? 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. Grace doesn’t like a lot of fuss, so a surprise party to celebrate her reaching ninety is not going to be well received.Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is filled with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom. It is possible to empathise with each of them in some way but also to despair of any forgiveness for the irresponsible Alys. The reader is given windows into the thoughts and experience of each woman, but some of their secrets are only revealed later in the plot. Ruth Jones is best known for her outstanding and award-winning television writing, most notably BBC One's Gavin and Stacey , which she co-wrote with James Corden and in which she played the incorrigible Nessa Jenkins. 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!