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

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Is she strong enough to reach out to her wayward daughter, now seventy years old, and heal the rift? When I started the book, I wasn’t that sure about the characters as Grace is easy to understand and love, however, the same can’t be said for her granddaughter, beautifully portrayed as a Head Teacher, following in her grandfather’s footsteps, whereas her daughter hates school and the tension between the two is palpable. 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. This is a wonderful story about the relationships between different generations of women within the same family. Any mother or daughter will identify with many of the situations in this book and be encouraged by the final denouement.

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. Grace, in her 90th year, certainly doesn’t act her age and her home by the sea in Dylan’s Quay has been a refuge for her grand-daughter Elin and Elin’s daughter Beca throughout their lives.

But Grace is close to the end of her life, and she knows she has no choice but to try to heal her family. Despite her age Grace swims daily, either in the hideous swimming pool in her garden or wild swimming in the sea, and does yoga several times a week. 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. It is a joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel - with characters you'll come to know and love - from no.

Four generations of Welsh women are locked into this marvellously heartwarming novel from Ruth Jones: Grace, her daughter Alys, granddaughter Elin and great-granddaughter Beca. 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.But Grace’s granddaughter, Elin, is also estranged from Alys and any reconciliation will cause huge problems in the family.