Ruth Jones is not afraid to push the emotional buttons, and her writing keeps getting better and better. 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. Grace is close to Alys’s own daughter, Elin, but the family rift runs deep, affecting Elin’s marriage and her relationship with her teenage daughter Beca.

The book starts with Elin, a headteacher, who is organising a surprise 90th birthday party for her grandmother who brought her up when her mother was unable to, despite her grandmother having said that she didn’t want a party. MARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married to DAVID, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person. This is a story about mothers and daughters: the love inherent in that bond and the heartache that miscommunication can bring. A story of three generations, misunderstandings, heart break, rescue, love and ultimately coming together.

Grace doesn’t like a lot of fuss, so a surprise party to celebrate her reaching ninety is not going to be well received. Noticed another reviewer mentioned she disliked the way RJ often leaves the endings off words, ie, "nothin" instead of "nothing and "somethin", not "something". But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. 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. PRAISE FOR RUTH JONES'Heartfelt, joyful, brave, utterly compelling' RACHEL JOYCE'I adored it' JOANNA CANNON'Joyful, life-affirming' ADELE PARKS'Beautifully warm and totally absorbing.

The prime and proper headteacher whose daughter fails all but two exams and a husband who runs to play hippie.Widowed in her thirties, left to bring up a teenage daughter, Alys, she ran a boarding house with her friends John, and his sister Cassie for years until Cassie and John's ill-health forced them to move to a home where she visits them every day. Love Untold tells the stories of four generations of women, mothers and daughters set in South Wales. I loved all the characters and did not see the twist in the story coming, so it was rather emotional for reasons I can’t go into without giving away the ending. Told from different points of view, this book is measured as it builds on all the past and present frustrations that all the characters have.

Her daughter, Alys reluctantly moves in with her but escapes to London as soon as she turned eighteen.The ending took me totally by surprise and I had to read the last couple of chapters twice because my eyes leaked (I sobbed) and the print blurred. She just wants a quiet celebration: her daily swim in the sea and a cup of tea with granddaughter Elin and great-granddaughter Beca.