The Sunday Lunch Club - Juliet Ashton

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Title: The Sunday Lunch Club
Author: Juliet Ashton
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 416
Date read: July, 2021

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?


A story of four siblings and their families, plus the random strays they picked up along the way. Told (mostly) through the semi-monthly lunches. While the siblings' relationships were slightly strained at times, there was no doubt that they truly cared for each other, and I liked how they kept trying to prop each other up… slightly misplaced at times, but always coming from a place of genuine affection.

In some ways the book reminded me slightly of "The Nest", although I can't quite say how. The Pipers were certainly a lot less dysfunctional. Guess it was just as a general concept.