It is such a well written book, with the characters being fully formed and believable, it had me rooting for the best outcome for them all. This is a story of mother and daughter relationships, a bitter sweet tale that tells of heartbreaks, joy and forgiveness.

Ruth Jones, you smashed this book, this was my first book I’ve read by Ruth, I’ll be going back to read the rest. The depth of emotion between Judy, Chloe and baby Bobo is wonderful to watch, and in Love Untold this intergenerational maternal web is beautifully captured by Ruth Jones. The time she looses her cool is with her academic mum which she is the opposite like the rest of the family it seems. The characters were interesting and well developed and the story was strong enough to keep me reading when I should have been somewhere else! 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.Grace doesn’t want a traditional celebration for her birthday, but her granddaughter Elin has other ideas. This review was written voluntarily and my rating was in no way influenced by the fact that I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel from Transworld Publishers, Random House UK, Bantam Press via NetGalley.

This is an emotional , heartwarming and captivating read and I finished it in one afternoon , completely unable to put it down ! But Grace’s granddaughter, Elin, is also estranged from Alys and any reconciliation will cause huge problems in the family. Her novels are full of wonderful characters and the stories so well written, much in the same vein as Graham Norton. Ruth Jones is, of course, a great storyteller, and she has pulled it off again with this tale of four generations of Welsh women.The characters in this one generally are likeable accept Alys making me warm to the writing of her even more. The novel is set in Jones’s beloved Wales, and scattered with Welsh terms of endearment, which adds to the sensation of reading it wrapped in a comfort blanket. Ruth Jones is not afraid to push the emotional buttons, and her writing keeps getting better and better.

Like many chic lit books the characters learn all about love; but unlike a lot of books, they experience the bad parts of love as well as the good. A story of three generations, misunderstandings, heart break, rescue, love and ultimately coming together.

It is possible to empathise with each of them in some way but also to despair of any forgiveness for the irresponsible Alys.

Also found the colloquial grammer used whenever characters spoke irritating, ie the way all the gs were dropped - "nothin" "pickin" etc. Noticed another reviewer mentioned she disliked the way RJ often leaves the endings off words, ie, "nothin" instead of "nothing and "somethin", not "something". Grace doesn’t like a lot of fuss, so a surprise party to celebrate her reaching ninety is not going to be well received. 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?

P'haps because I'm Welsh myself I can identify with her characters and the use of certain colloquialisms. That's Grace, nearly ninety; her wayward daughter Alys; Alys's daughter Elin, a headteacher; and Beca, the younger generation, just 16.