Oh this book is an absolute delight!! I became so absorbed in the characters and their lives that I read it in a day and now feel sad that I’ve finished it. Following three women from their late teens to early fifties, we see love, laughter, feuds and friendship, without once feeling that the story is too far fetched. Ruth has written each woman brilliantly, giving her layers and ensuring that none are perfect, all are doing their best and making you want to befriend all of them. I hadn’t read her previous novel, despite having it on my tbr pile for a few months, but now am off to read it immediately to see if it’s as good as this. I definitely recommend this book!
Thank you so much to netgalley, the publishers and to Ruth Jones for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest unbiased review.

Catrin, Lana and Judith are childhood friends who have their dream holiday at 18 before starting university. Their lives are interwoven from children to adults in a tale of smiles, sadness, joy and pain. Spanning a friendship of decades what will life hold for them.
Told in three parts this was an alright read but the last part made it four stars. I really hoped it would be funnier than it was but it’s an enjoyable read. Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

If your looking for a tale of friendship and rivalries, love and heartbreak then this latest novel from Ruth Jones has it all. I couldn’t put it down, shed a tear or two and thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Wonderful.

I really like Ruth Jones tv work especially Gavin and Stacey. This was the first time I read one of her books and it certainly won't be the last. The characters were realistic along with some of the storylines.

It was funny and witty and a lovely story of friendship love and loss.

Thank you, NetGalley for the opportunity.

Catrin, Lana and Judith are childhood friends who at the age of 8 swear to stay friends forever. The novel begins with the girls on the point of leaving school, aware that their lives will be very different from then on. Catrin will go to medical school, Lana to study musical theatre and Judith to London to study economics. But before this they will go to Greece for one last big holiday. What happens on that holiday affects their lives and friendship. Will they ever be the same threesome again?

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. It made me laugh and cry and I felt as though I knew the characters well by the end. Catrin was perhaps a little less developed than Lana and Judith and at times she came across as a little insipid, unsurprising really as she was so often cast in the role of peacemaker between the other two. I loved the character of Patricia, Judith's mother, a monstrous Narcissus of a figure and thought she was particularly well done.

This is a lovely, comfortable read. . Grab yourself a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit, put on the fire and settle into your favourite sofa, plunge into this book and ignore the storms outside. Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC.

Love Ruth's books funny witty and true to life keep them coming. Second book just as good as the first one

Well done Ruth... I enjoyed your first book but I loved this one..... it was a lovely, warm and comforting story about 3 friends from wales! It followed their lives from the age 5 to 52 and there was lots of highs and lows. It made me tearful and happy and I really wanted to read in one go! Hope there’s another book soon

Lana, Judith and Catrin are three childhood friends who embark on a holiday to Greece together for several weeks. How their lives work out beyond the holiday forms the major part of the narrative.
I feel that this book reads more like a screenplay than a novel, comprising mostly of dialogue amongst the various characters in the girls’/women’s lives. I found the characterisation to be a bit thin and lacking in individuality, possibly needing actors to flesh them out? It was hard to differentiate between the three characters’ ‘voices’ if it hadn’t been for the named chapters making it clear. The scenarios that the women found themselves in were predictable, and the ‘surprising’ developments didn’t happen for me .
This book that I had so looked forward to reading was a disappointment. I love Ruth Jones’ television work, but this novel fell flat.
I am sure it will be popular with many readers, however it just didn’t work for this reader, sorry.

My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance copy of this book.

I absolutely loved this! I was a big fan of Jones’ first book and I think this might be even better! The story of friendship is gripping, I couldn’t put it down! I think this will be one of the top summer reads of 2020!

Slightly predictable in places and took a few chapters to get going but was an easy read with likeable characters and an easy to follow storyline. Although I may have read a lot of this in Ruth Jones accent.

This was such a comfortable book. After a couple of chapters the characters really seemed to come alive and I was engrossed.

Lana, Judith and Catrin have been best friends and inseparable since they first met at primary school. Following on from their A Levels they have the trip of a lifetime island hopping around Greece.
However, when they return to Wales, they have to grow up and then something happens that shakes this friendship to the core. Can they forgive and forget or are some thing simply too big to move beyond.

I found the characters to be so real and liked how there wasn't just one voice telling the story. We met many characters and jumping between these characters and the years, I felt that the characters were more realistic.

I will be telling everyone about this book

I absolutely loved this book and found it a heart warming and easy read.
It took me a couple of chapters to get into and engage with the characters but after that, I was totally engrossed in the story.
It’s a little predictable, however that certainly didn’t take away from how much I enjoyed the book.
This is my first book by Ruth Jones and I’m now away to read her 1st book after being super impressed with this one.

It took me a few chapters to get into this book and I considered swapping to another but all of a sudden the characters really came into their own and I was hooked. That is the only reason for dropping a star as I really enjoyed it and I read this book in one sitting. The way the book flipped between characters and the different years was really interesting as you got to see different chapters on the characters lives and that helps as a reader to become really invested in the story and the characters. A fantastic mix of heartbreak and love, I will now be ordering Jones’s other book. Thanks netgalley.

This was a good book however I did call a lot of the scenes before it happened so was rather predictable but was a nice easy read