Author Jane Ward will celebrate the spring release of Should Have Told You Sooner in the city where Noel and Bryn’s story began – London! Join Jane Ward for a brief reading, conversation, and canapés, and help her celebrate the London launch of her fourth novel, Should Have Told You Sooner.

Boston, Massachusetts

18 May 2026

Massachusetts author Jane Ward is bringing her most recent novel, Should Have Told You Sooner, to London. Join Jane on Thursday, 28 May 2026 from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm at St. Mary’s Bourne Street, 30 Bourne Street, London SW1W 8JJ (off Sloane Square) and help her celebrate the spring 2026 release of her fourth novel. Light nibbles and refreshments will be served.

About Should Have Told You Sooner:

While studying art history in London, Noel Enfield falls deeply for aspiring artist Bryn Jones. Their future seems set — until Bryn leaves for a five-month painting trip through Italy, Noel discovers she is pregnant, and a series of painful misunderstandings leads her to make a life-altering decision.

Thirty years later, Noel returns to London for a museum secondment, determined to prove she has moved on. Instead, she is drawn back into the city’s close-knit art world and the unresolved past she thought she had buried. When she finally learns why Bryn never came back, everything she believed about her choices, her family and her own resilience is shaken.

Praised by Kirkus Reviews as an “artful and affecting novel of loss and reconnection,” and by Booklist as a “beautiful book about the fickleness of humanity…and the ability to overcome our choices and rewrite the future,” Should Have Told You Sooner is a moving story of romance, regret and second chances.

About Jane Ward:

Jane Alessandrini Ward is the author of Should Have Told You Sooner (2026), In the Aftermath (2021), The Mosaic Artist (2011), and Hunger (2001).

Once upon a time, Jane worked in the food and hospitality industry, both planning private events and working as a weekend baker in a neighborhood bakery.

Later, she became a contributing writer to an online regional and seasonal food magazine, as well as a blogger and occasional host of cooking videos for an internet recipe resource affiliated with several regional newspapers.

Most recently, she has contributed book reviews to Story Circle and Mom Egg Review. She loves to travel and often documents her trips through travel photography. Jane is a dual US-UK national currently living in Massachusetts, north of Boston.

For more information, visit https://www.janeaward.com/.