This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

Great storyline with good strong characters. Very well written. I would recommend this book to anyone.

A monumental saga which is definitely for lovers of Catherine Cookson.
It tells of the trials and tribulations of Grace from her difficult childhood.a loveless marriage to eventually finding love.
It is a real saga that draws you in from the very first page and is so difficult to put down.
It is one of those books that leaves you bereft when you finish it because you have lost a friend.
Rosie Goodwin never leys you down and this book is no exception.
Can’t rate it high enough.

The third book in the Days of the Week series. I enjoyed this one. Tender,caring heartbreak and heartwarming historical.
Pub Date 22 Feb 2018
Thank you to Bonnier Zaffre. I was provided a complimentary copy from Bonnie Zaffre through NetGALLEY. All opinions expressed are my own.

Lovely story as usual from Rosie. Lovely characters and good setting. Sad and thrilling at the same time with a strong storyline

Review: Another compelling book by Rosie Goodwin about a women who has to be strong to get through her life. A Mother's Grace has great characters that you feel deeply about whether that be with love or loath. A really strong detailed plot. A great book to while away a few hours with.

This book tells the story of Grace and to a lesser extent her mother Madeline. Grace is kind and generous, but not perfect which makes her a likeable heroine. She makes mistakes in particular when she married Dylan and she bravely lives with the consequences of her decision rather than taking the easy option and running away. The book also enabled me to learn a little more about the work of women in WW1 a subject I have become increasingly interested in.
My only criticism is how little we learn about Luke who is so important to Grace's journey and the author could have developed his character more.
I love Rosie Goodwin's books having discovered her in my local library last year and I look forward to reading more from here. Thank you to Netgalley for giving me a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

A great book following the ups and downs of Grace's life. Born into a well off family her father is a Judge you'd think that Grace would have a comfortable life. Due to circumstances beyond her control things don't go as planned. Grace is a fighter and she won't give up she just rolls up her sleeves and gets on with what life deals her. A great read.

There's nothing better then an afternoon of nothing to do but read a Rosie Goodwin book.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was hooked from the first chapter.

This book had pluses and minuses, but overall, I wasn’t a fan. Mixing compelling secondary characters with some pretty shoddy plotting and underdeveloped main characters, A Mother’s Grace had high points- but didn’t get me hooked.
Set at the turn of the century, the book follows the life of Madeleine Kettle, a woman who marries for love but ends up trapped in an abusive relationship, and her daughter Grace, who grows up in an abusive relationship and realises that she wants to be a nun. I really enjoyed Goodwin’s secondary character building- they’re given time to develop in their own right, and made me want to learn more about their lives, especially Grace’s crazy aunt Gertie. Similarly, her descriptions of life in Edwardian England were really interesting- also we get to spend a lot of time in Wales, my homeland! Goodwin has a good eye for detail, and major brownie points for that.
It was when we get to the main characters, though, that things started to fall apart. Grace was painted as saintly, a paragon of patience, goodness and virtue, which started to get irritating after she married the man she didn’t love. Her relationship with her father didn’t feel well-developed: I felt like his sudden death halfway through the novel was pretty abrupt, and left a lot of plot threads hanging. It was almost like she changed her mind halfway through writing the book and decided to focus on Grace’s married life instead.
And Grace’s married life made me want to cry. Her love interest was just as saintly as her- the pastor, no less, and the theme of forbidden love here was a tad cliché for me, and their romance felt a little underbaked. Perhaps I just like my books less angsty, but I really liked Dylan, her other love interest and the brother of Grace’s childhood friend Myfanwy. The thing that made me angry was the character development of Dylan, who goes from a sweetheart into a serial abuser. Why?! And worse, Grace puts up with it, for four years. It seems unnecessary, shoehorned into the plot to make Grace suffer for her supposed sin of having a child with a priest, but it wasn’t believable. It felt like suffering for sufferings’ sake.
So, this book wasn’t my cup of tea. It was easy to read, and I got through it in one sitting, like a cup of hot chocolate. But like hot chocolate, it was also a bit sickly, a bit black-and-white, for my liking. If you like chocolate box romances, then this is for you, but for me it’s not ideal.

Sometimes life throws us curve balls and we just have to deal with them . Madeline had to endure a loveless marriage to a man who had a fetish for young girls . Her only salvation was her daughter Grace who she had to protect him from by turning to her religion and faithful staff for help and protection.Her own daughter Grace suffers the same fate as she marries only to give her son a father . Again a loveless marriage filled with drunkenness and beatings. Again this mother survived because of her son. Mothers are survivors and protectors of their children . This book shows that .