Ruth Jones is, of course, a great storyteller, and she has pulled it off again with this tale of four generations of Welsh women. But Grace is close to the end of her life, and she knows she has no choice but to try to heal her family.

It is a joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel – with characters you’ll come to know and love – from no.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.

This book looks at multi generation female relationships and familial ties as well as what bonds and binds mothers and daughters. This odd couple will go on three magical adventures to save books from people who have imprisoned, mistreated and betrayed them. Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is shot through with Ruth Jones’s warmth and wisdom. Also found the colloquial grammer used whenever characters spoke irritating, ie the way all the gs were dropped - "nothin" "pickin" etc. I fell in love with Grace, Elin, Beca (and Soozi) straight away, but it did take me a long time to warm to Alys.I would like to thank both Netgalley and Random House for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

P'haps because I'm Welsh myself I can identify with her characters and the use of certain colloquialisms. Grace is approaching ninety and a surprise party is planned for her, organised by her granddaughter, Elin, yet all Grace requires is the rift in her family to be healed.

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 end of this story is incredibly moving and brought me to tears (and I have never cried over a book before). The most beautiful story spanning four generations of one family and all the hurt, harm and secrets that have been hidden. She just wants a quiet celebration: her daily swim in the sea and a cup of tea with 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 when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. It's a great read, refreshingly free of stereotypes, as we follow events in the lives of the four women in the run-up to Grace's ninetieth birthday. 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.Her 16 year old daughter Beca is about to fail her GCSE’s, her husband has started behaving strangely and her grandmother is secretly trying to track down Elin’s mother Alys before she turns 90, so the scene is set for some spectacular secrets to be revealed. Thoughtful hug in a box care packages and gifts for every occasion, hand packed, beautifully gift wrapped and delivered directly to their door. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.