Love Untold
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991015
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99

Love Untold

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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.

Grace is about to turn ninety. She doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants to heal the family rift that's been breaking her heart for decades.

But to do that she must find her daughter Alys - the only person who can help to put things right.

And when she finds her - if she does - she risks betraying granddaughter Elin. Who is far less forgiving of the past, with its hurts and secrets and lies. Meanwhile Grace's great-grand-daughter Beca is oblivious to all these worries, too busy navigating the highs and lows of teenage life and keeping secrets of her own.

All families have their problems. And most of them get resolved. But Grace's problem is thirty years old. And she doesn't have time on her side.

So is it too late for her to make peace? Or is reconciliation still within reach?

Love Untold is about mothers and daughters and the complex bond between them. It's about the heartache that comes from leaving things unsaid and the power of true forgiveness. It is a joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel - with characters you'll come to know and love - from no.1 bestselling author Ruth Jones
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991015
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Ruth Jones

Ruth Jones is best known for her outstanding and award-winning television writing, most notably BBC 1's Gavin and Stacey, which she co-wrote with James Corden and in which she played the incorrigible Nessa Jenkins. The most recent Christmas Day special of Gavin and Stacey gained national critical acclaim, drawing an audience of over 18 million and winning a National Television Award for Impact. Ruth also created and co-wrote Sky 1’s Stella, which ran for six series. As well as being Bafta-nominated for her role as the eponymous Stella, Ruth has also starred in several other television comedies and dramas.

Her debut novel Never Greener has now sold over a quarter of a million copies. It was chosen as WHSmith Fiction Book of the Year 2018, was a Zoe Ball Book Club pick, and was a Sunday Times bestseller for fifteen weeks, three weeks at number one. Us Three is Ruth’s second novel.

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Us Three
Never Greener
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Praise for Love Untold

A beautiful, warm and moving story. I feel bereft now it's over. Ruth Jones just gets better and better

Clare Pooley

A joyful, life-affirming novel

Adele Parks

Full of such warmth and kindness, and the writing is utterly beautiful. I adored it

Joanna Cannon

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

Her best book yet

Woman & Home

A 'hug in a book', with characters that felt so real it was like I knew them

Prima

Rich in warm, engaging characters and a judicious mix of humour and pathos... it's a compassionate, wise and life-affirming book

The Observer

A wise and warm-hearted story about people finding their way back to each other

Culturefly

Ideal for fans of Jojo Moyes

Candis

A sweeping tale of family secrets rippling across generations, this is an astutely observed novel that will appeal to Maeve Binchy readers, as well as Ruth's own legion of fans

Clare Mackintosh

From the opening page, Love Untold is a beautifully warm and totally absorbing read. I cried and I laughed and now there's a hole in my life where Grace and her dysfunctional family used to be. I adored it

Jane Fallon

Wonderfully heartfelt... Jones tenderly portrays broken family and its complexities building to an ending as heartbreaking as it's uplifting

Daily Express
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