Review: The Sunday Lunch Club

The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Every few weeks, Anna and her siblings, their partners and sometimes ex-partners meet for Sunday lunch. They talk, sometimes they fight, sometimes they interfere in each other’s business, but they always eat.

When Anna unexpectedly falls pregnant during a one-night stand in her gay brother’s Utility Room, she has to come to terms with impending motherhood at the age of 40. Sitting at the lunch table wedged between her ex-husband Sam, his new girlfriend Isabel, Anna’s new partner (not the father of her child!) Luca, things could be awkward but also at the table are her ageing grandmother, her promiscuous, hippy sister, her flamboyantly gay brother, his lovely partner Santi and their adopted daughter Paloma.

A letter has been hand delivered to Anna's house that is going to change the family forever and will make Anna face up to her painful past.

I will admit and say that initially I wasn’t sure on this book. At the beginning, the way it was written I felt that I was reading the second book in a series, and things were mentioned that I felt I should already know about, but once I settled into it, I realised that it would all be explained to me by the end, and I became totally engrossed in it.

This is a lovely book about a family sitting around a table every few weeks or so, sharing a meal, sharing news and sometime sharing revelation – but the Piper family certainly aren’t The Waltons!

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