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I often find it hard to keep up with multigenerational novels and each chapter written from someone else’s perspective but the transitions in this were pretty seamless and the humour was just right. This is an emotional , heartwarming and captivating read and I finished it in one afternoon , completely unable to put it down ! In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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. It got into the depths of mother / daughter / grandmother / great grandmother relationships in such a wonderful and both heartbreaking and endearing way. Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - and a coming-of-age tale like no other. Grace doesn’t want a traditional celebration for her birthday, but her granddaughter Elin has other ideas.Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by roots running deep into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world. 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. We follow Elin as she struggles with her marriage, and Becca as she discovers love for the first time. A genuine young woman who warms to the whole of Beca’s family, she has a positive affect on all of them.
It is a story that tenderly portrays a broken family, outlining the complexities that define history, with an ending that is both heart-breaking, yet uplifting at the same time. 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.The characters in this one generally are likeable accept Alys making me warm to the writing of her even more. It is a joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel - with characters you'll come to know and love - from no. I was completely captivated by this character-driven story of mother/daughter relationships and really cared about the characters; I was genuinely sad to finish it and leave them all behind.
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.She’s determined that Grace’s big day will be celebrated, her own daughter, Becca is slightly mortified by her mother’s quest to party, much preferring to spend quality time with her great grandmother. Finally, Beca, sixteen years old, artistic and musical but not good at lessons, constantly at odds with perfectionist Elin who sees education as a gateway to the world, she knows she is about to fail all her GCSEs and disappoint her mother, again. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Were their circumstances the reasons for their mistakes or is it just their different personalities?
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