Love Untold: The joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author

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The funny, moving and uplifting new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Never Greener and Us Three. Four generations of one family. Four women- Grace, Alys, Elin and Beca. Each of them has a secret. Each has been misunderstood. And each of them longs for just one thing... to feel loved. Thirty-two years ago, Alys's destructive relationship with both her mother Grace and daughter Elin reached a new low and she left under a cloud of anger. The family's not spoken to her since. Now Grace is about to turn ninety and she secretly longs to see Alys again. Even though she knows Elin will be furious after vowing never to forgive her mother for how she behaved. And in amongst all this is young Beca, who's never even met Alys - in fact she's always believed her grandmother to be dead. But then again, Beca is busy with her own life, navigating the highs and lows of first love. No family is without its problems. Can the Meredith women find their way back together and tell each other how they truly feel? Love Untold explores the complex yet indestructible bond between mothers and daughters, and the heartache that miscommunication can bring. It's a joy-filled, heart-rending, life-affirming and sob-inducing story, peopled with characters you'll feel you know personally.

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. 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. Ruth also created and co-wrote Sky One's Stella, which ran for six series. Ruth has starred in several other television comedies and dramas. Her debut novel Never Greener was chosen as WHSmith Fiction Book of the Year 2018, was nominated for Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, was a Zoe Ball Book Club pick, and was a Sunday Times bestseller for fifteen weeks, three weeks at number one. 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. Ruth was awarded a Comedy Women in Print Prize in 2020. Love Untold is her third novel.

Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is shot through with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom. A big warm blanket of a book. I loved it * Jojo Moyes * Rich in warm, engaging characters and a judicious mix of humour and pathos... it's a compassionate, wise and life-affirming book * The Observer * Full of such warmth and kindness, and the writing is utterly beautiful. I adored it * Joanna Cannon * A 'hug in a book', with characters that felt so real it was like I knew them * Prima * Her best book yet * Woman & Home *