The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton @julietstories @BookMinxSJV #Uplit #TheSundayLunchClub

Book Blurb:

The first rule of Sunday Lunch Club is … don’t make any afternoon plans.

Every few Sundays, Anna and her extended family and friends get together for lunch. They talk, they laugh, they bicker, they eat too much. Sometimes the important stuff is left unsaid, other times it’s said in the wrong way.

Sitting between her ex-husband and her new lover, Anna is coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy at the age of forty. Also at the table are her ageing grandmother, her promiscuous sister, her flamboyantly gay brother and a memory too terrible to contemplate.

Until, that is, a letter arrives from the person Anna scarred all those years ago. Can Anna reconcile her painful past with her uncertain future?

Juliet Ashton weaves a story of love, friendship and community that will move you to laughter and to tears. Think Cold Feet meets David Nicholls, with a dash of the joy of Jill Mansell added for good measure.

The Sunday Lunch Club was published on the 19th of April 2018 in ebook and paperback.  You can purchase a copy of this book here.

Book Review:

I so enjoyed this entertaining, heartwarming and uplifting book.  The idea of a Sunday Lunch Club is a fantastic one that I’d love to put into practice in the future as it’s a great way of keeping a family together and to make some memories that could last a lifetime.

The fly on the wall view the reader has of the family lunches ensures that the reader feels connected to the family and involved in all that happens.  It made me feel that I knew all the characters personally and I therefore cared more about them.

There is plenty of action throughout the book that kept me intrigued and turning the pages to find out how everything resolves.  The author uses great skill in interweaving dramatic and sad events with funny and sweet moments that were lovely to read about.  This made the book seem more real as if this could happen to anyone.

My favourite character was Anna.  I admired her courage and how she faced her fears and got on with it when it would have been very easy for her to crumble.  Her love for her family was almost palpable and it was lovely to read about how much she obviously cared for her family.

This is Juliet’s third novel and I can’t wait to read more from her.  I so enjoyed reading about this family and spending time in their company that I was sad to finish the book.

Huge thanks to Simon & Schuster for my copy of this book via netgalley.  I will be recommending this beautiful book to everyone!

About The Author:

Juliet Ashton was born in Fulham and still lives in London. She writes under a variety of names, including her real name, Bernadette Strachan, and as Claire Sandy. She is married and has one daughter. Find out more at http://www.berniestrachan.com