Random Home presents the audiobook release of Hardly ever Greener by Ruth Jones, read by Sharon Small.

In her unmissable debut, actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones shows us the dangers of trying to recapture whatever was once dropped and failing woefully to realise the beauty of what we should already have.

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‘We spend most of our lives wishing we were someplace else or another person, or excited or harping back. Always considering the grass is certainly greener on the other side. But it never is definitely. It’s still lawn..Read More about Never Greener: the number one bestselling debut from the co-creator of GAVIN & STACEY Just a different patch from it, that’s all.’

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The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up.

When Kate was twenty-two, she had a rigorous and passionate affair using a married guy, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she’d never overcome it.

Seventeen years later, life has moved on – Kate, now a successful actress, is living in London, wedded to Matt and mother to little Tallulah. Meanwhile Callum and his wife Belinda are happy together, surviving in Edinburgh and viewing their kids grow up. Days gone by, it would appear, is certainly well and really in it all.

But Kate matches Callum again.

And they are faced with a choice: to leave from each other . . . or even to risk learning what might have been.

Second it’s likely that a rare gift in lifestyle. But it doesn’t mean they should always be taken . . .

‘Ruth Jones is great on human character and just why we make the mistakes we perform. I felt for each and every personality. Unputdownable.’ Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Me personally BEFORE YOU