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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgia Clark1471180158|title= The RegularsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= If offered the chance to immensely upgrade your beautyJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, to become for a man who's a control freak with all the very definition subtlety of gorgeous, to have a face and body the likes of which are only ever seen on magazine covers and catwalks, would you take it? This is the question posed to best friends Eviehalf brick. Jamie's son, Krista and WillowBo, when they are presented with 'has his problems'Pretty'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, an enchanted solution of which a single drop guarantees a stunning physical appearance for a week. Before the more you'll suspect that he'Prettys on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she'', s a frequent flier in the girls had regular faces, faced regular problems, local A&E and found themselves regularly disappointed by the dating worldsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. But this bottle has Missed shifts or the potential need to change everything. The adventure that ensues takes all three young women be away on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery as dreams time to pick Bo up from school are fulfilled, hearts are broken, occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the addiction wrong. It was going to come to such a lifestyle proves to be far more sinister than they ever imaginedhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160181</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Talulah RileyLauren Bravo|title= Acts of LovePreloved|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. She Gwen is strong, careerpressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention of the publicforty. For Bernadette is Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the ''Man Whisperer'', winning toss - Gwen finds herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest and most powerful men having a bit of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articlesa mid-life crisis. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, Catharsis is a deep insecurity, key and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect man. She Gwen has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier now is the only candidate for such a position in her heart, and will stop at nothing time to win him take back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale of ''will-they-wont-they'her life' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen0008506337|title=FallingThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Here is The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the story of three womenevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from three generations within the same familyIsle of Wight. There is Jo, Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a forty year old single mother whose first husband diedwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and whose second husband ran off with their nannySasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. She is Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left caring for her older teenage daughterthem.}} {{Frontpage|author=Hadeer Elsbai|title=The Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, Lydia, and her ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two little oneswomen who could not be more different, Oscar yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and Iris, whilst harbouring weavers – those with magical abilities - in a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyonesociety pitted against them. Her daughter Lydia is Nehal, born into the second female characterupper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and as well as then join the usual teenage angst military, but instead she is also dealing forced into an arranged marriage with griefNico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, still, over her fatherwhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's deathrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, anger filled with her mother hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for her second disastrous marriage, their rights and her own very difficult secret that she is unable to talk to anyone aboutovercoming their personal obstacles. Finally there|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4|genre=Women's Honor who is JoFiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's mother school in law, the mother of JoYork. It was ''comfortable''s first husband, Stephenbut she longed for something more in life. Honor has a fall, breaks her hip, She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and is forced now was the time to move in with Jo for make a time as she has no one else who can help herchange. She too is hiding needed challenges. There was a secret from little trepidation when she applied for the worldprofessoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, and as you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who she was offered the others are, position and if any of them will ever start telling it wasn't long before she was exploring the truthbeautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Jewell0241542405|title= I Found YouMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= A man is missingWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, 214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and his new wife is worriedshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Miles away Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a man is found alone good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and confused on Matilda. Sadie's a beachcardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, and his new friend is concernedFred. Are the two in any way connected Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what events have occurred, she does in the past and in the presenther spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhona Martin0008441618|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Hazel, an orphaned peasant during Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the 16th century has had new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a tough time to say house price slump in that part of the leasttown. Therefore when she comes across Black John, The school had an outlaw about active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to be hanged she sees her chancethe school. By proposing to him sheThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''ll save his life and, marrying himwith two members, in particular, her owncausing problems for the head. At least thatLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's Hazel's theory restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but the fates will make it a bit more of that was just a strugglewarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Last PearlWalking on Sunshine

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Mike''I always thinks wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, without the grit there would be no pearlhas died. Sorrows have a way of strengthening the heartAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, never forget thatso are their best friends, childVicky and Zaza.But Pia left them all some 'rules' Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother to follow, knowing that she was dying and siblings and must work as a skivvy that they would need help to put bread carry on the tableliving. She manages to find Whilst some joy in of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her work thoughwardrobe, especially in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jew. The two become friends and he offers another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take her on as his apprentice, stringing pearls. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same time, many miles one of their trips away in Scotland, Jem Baillie and his father can't contain Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their delight when they discover a magnificent, flawless freshwater pearl at the end of a long day of fishing. They call the pearl 'Queenie' grief and from that pivotal momenttheir own life troubles, the fates of Gretadecide to drop everything in their own lives, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linkedgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rosie BlakeB09FS89KX9|title= How to Find your (First) HusbandFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Isobel Graves hasnLife should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB't got s diner. Bob - the life she envisionedowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. She Hollie had moved to LA to become a star-soaked television presenterin with her boyfriend, instead she's dressing up everyday Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in a series of wacky promotional costumes on the streetshis career. She thought she Hollie wasn'd be married t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to a gentleman, instead she's fallen into a lacklustre relationship with a pilot, whose booty calls do not send leave her sky highjob at the diner. So when Isobel sees a man from her past on TV, someone she Then there was once married to on the playground at school, she wonders what her life fact that he would be like if they were married now. With everything to gain and nothing to loseviolent, Isobel attempts both to find her first husband and take back control of her lifeto other people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paige Toon0008421714|title= The One We Fell In Love WithMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= IThe problem began just after the publication of George March'm not sure whether s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it would be flattering or stressful had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to have 3 beautiful women lusting after you. In buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the case of Angusbread, it's itchy footed Phoebe who'd rather be flitting around but isn't this the French Alps than stagnating in suburban Sale, boho musician Eliza whofirst time he's still waiting for her big breakbased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, and former nurse Rose who is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend and a life in the city to move back up north… and live with principal character had 'her mothermannerisms''. It's a complicated situation Perhaps this would not have mattered, made only more complex by except for the fact that Johanna is the girls know each other. In the past theywhore of Nantes - ''ve shared a roomweak, and a womb. Helloplain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, tripletsunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=Angela LambertC J Carey|title=Kiss and KinWidowland

|summary=It's six months since April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the death throne of Harriet Capel's husband GeorgeEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Looking back sheFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn's concluded that she was fond t happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of, but probably not the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''in lovethe mainland'', with him. They had two sons But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and it's the elder ideas of female purpose, has put all of thesethat gender into a caste system, Roderick who's married ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to Jennifer. They have three childrenthe drudges, but there's been a rather silly feud between the Capels and Jennifer's familybeyond those, right on down to the Gauntschildless, which dates back to the couple's weddinghusbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, when Clarissa GauntRose Ransom, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in is employed with the church which dropped into one task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldnit – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they'tre stamped ready for reprint. Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about That is her job, at least, until the bridefirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's mother and was overheardvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Liz FenwickRuth Hogan|title= Under a Cornish SkyMadame Burova|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Under a Cornish Sky'' is the story of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't be more different, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse and although she is a skilled architect, she is never able to succeed in her career because others take credit for her work. In relationships, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable with; a fact that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matt. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoria, on the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Veronica Henry|title=How to Find Love in a Book Shop|rating=4

|summary=It is with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home to This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the pretty Cotswold town of Peasebrookearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacy, So we have a wellbullied half-loved bookshop that serves cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a beating heart to the community. Julius was loved by all: he always had time to listen humdrum job wanting to his customers and share become a recuperative cuppa in times of need. Howeversinger, his finances were another matter entirely and Emilia wonders how she can keep chiefly, Imelda, the bookshop open with an ever-mounting pile third generation of debt. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only Madame Burova, ''tooTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' happy , to help outuse her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but can Emilia really give up just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her father's dreamlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Juliet AshtonJennifer Saint |title= These Days of OursAriadne |rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Not everything This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that looks like love is love'sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Kate and Charlie were childhood sweethearts, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying her wayward cousin and Kate marrying her wayward cousinSaint's pretentious ex-boyfriend? How can they still be four friends? Follow Kate narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her life where she experiences all kinds of love childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in all kinds of places and learns that not everything that looks like love is love, but that her own right rather than just sometimes what looks like love might be a prop in the real dealheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eliza KennedyLucy Holland|title= I Take YouSistersong|rating= 25|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= In Sistersong is part of a week from nowgenre I particularly enjoy, Lily the modern retelling of folk and Will fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are getting married! This weekend, they'll be leaving New York a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and jetting down new meaning to Florida to spend the week with her familystories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, preparing for the big dayfleshing out characters, examining relationships and it's all brilliantly exciting. They're quite -evaluating the golden couple, her role of women. Sistersong is a lawyer at perfect example of a big firmmodern retelling done well, him an archaeologist at a top museumthe plot is handled with care, young, attractive, they bring keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the world characters to come to its knees. And then sometimes Lily gets on her kneeslife, butto feel real and human, ooops, it's just as likely to be most importantly they feel relatable in front of her boss or a random from modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the bar as it is her fiancépre-Saxon age they live in. Lily, you see, This is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type. Instead she likes to sleep around, drink, take drugs a masterpiece of storytelling and breakdown in tears, all while keeping this a secret I was captivated from the man she's supposed beginning to love and while holding down a substantial professional job of courseend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)B08NF79QXT|title= RoxyCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 3|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= I liked Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the premise Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at - and wins - the beginning of Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the book that two people she's brought with her much older husband has been killed in a car accidentto the event couldn't be more pleased. To add to the shock of thisSonja, the revelation that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on the hard shoulderher mother, is a further blow to Roxy. I found this an interesting setex-up for a story, model and wondered how this was going to goBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells us, Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty'she is looking for revenges best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, I thought the book would be a development of the character of Roxy into a selfCharles and their four-year-motivatingold daughter, strong characterAva. But this Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't the casefor one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa BeazleyB08GFSK2WZ|title= Keep Me PostedThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary='Keep me Posted' George Jackson is written in a lightthirty-heartedthree years old, informal style, narrated by a young mother called Cassie who lives in New Yorkabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She 's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her husband Leo have twin toddlers, and her life is busy, full of technology and fast foodshe has a real talent for attracting drama. Her older sister Sid is more laid back, and life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of a technophobe; although they used the stairs to be closeabsorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, they havenstaring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother't really been in touch much since Sid and s dog out for a walk for her family moved to Singaporeend up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elisa AlbertB08CHJLNBS|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhood. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months of motherhood, however, or a partner of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searing, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Kathryn Flett|title=OutstandingBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Ivy House is He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a preparatory school with an partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She'outstanding' Ofsted reports Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Eve Sturridge is the head teacher and Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she puts heart and soul into making certain that it's the best moved on from new age books like that it can possibly be - well, as far as shewhich leave you dependent on someone else's allowed philosophies, to by the ownersomething a little deeper. But it looks as though sheCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's getting into the big time when Stefan and Anette Sorensen (A-list billionaires) choose Ivy House for their son and daughtershocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. ThereThey're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's another bonus toonot his usual type at all: the Sorensens run a hedge fund and Eveit's seventeen-year-old daughter Zoe is keen obvious to have a career in financehis friends. What could be more natural than And given that some work experience could be on offerEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298247</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica JamesHelly Acton|title= Song of the SkylarkThe Shelf|rating= 4.5

|summary=When we meet Amy, she'Song of the Skylarks in a relationship with Jamie. You can' has quite t really call it a cast of characterspartnership, and I found it a little difficultbecause things tend to get done on his terms, at firstbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, to keep track of everyoneyes. Lizzie is the main protagonist; Haven't we meet all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her trying in vain to apply pack for new jobs after losing her previous one. We quickly learn that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour with her boss, a married mansurprise trip.Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel HoreAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The House on Bellevue GardensWhat Kind of Girl

|summary= Leonie was left '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a largeblack eye, claiming he gave it to her, somewhat run-her whole world is tipped upside down London house by a friend, some years previously. SheHer relationship has just ended and now she's an artist, and something the talk of a bohemian, and lets out rooms at low price to people the school. Mike was the most popular boy in need. There's Peter, school who occupies the basement and lives was always so in squalorlove with her, which - occasionally - she tries to clean up. There are also an elderly Indian coupleeveryone knew that, Hari so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and Belasome don't, who have been there but one thing is for some sure, this isn't going to blow over any time, and a young and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelsoon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny ColganKatie Fforde|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever AfterA Springtime Affair

|summary= I loved the introduction 've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this book. It explains that it's was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a story for readers who love bookswarm, cosy read focused on romance, family and outlines with light humour the places where the author recommends settling down with a good bookfriendships. I related strongly to This provided two romances for the idea price of reading in bedone, and forgetting who is who but it was actually the family element as I drop off to sleep; this is my usual mode. Travelling is also, in my experience, an excellent time opposed to read. I don't read in the bath - and the author's description of books drying out on radiators conjured up a depressing image - but romance that I really enjoyed all her other suggestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G MettsB07W4MNBSG|title=Waltzing in ViennaBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction books, several of them of local interest to South Carolina natives and visitors. This is his first novel, however, and you may be surprised It was coming up to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again Halloween in Charleston; in their early forties, they're facing turning points in their professional 1987 and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habit, they summon the courage to decide a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they want from middle age and refresh their sex lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)|title= The Dyslexic Hearts Club|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should would be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similardoing when they were fifty. It wasnWhen you't. That's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-pacedre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, dialogue driven novel but Liz was convinced that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Clubyour entire life depends on who you marry'' is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expecting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jane L Gibson|title=The Gessami Residence|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny Walker has been only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a widow for three years. She's had support from her parents (Dad's still farmhouse and having a bit protective), her two sonscouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who are at university, and her three girl friendswas determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The four women have had a meal together every week but now they've decided place to go on holiday for a fortnight. One of start their search was obviously the women - Rose - is in the business so sheYoung Farmers's in charge of making the arrangements and she insists Halloween disco that they have to turn up at the airport before they find out their destinationweekend. Ibiza wasn't ''quite'' what they were expecting, but then three of the four women are unattached (Amanda is married There was just one problem - in an unenthusiastic sort of way) and they all like to drink and flirt. What couldn't go right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Brooke|title= The Child's Secret|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= There are obvious suspects in any missing child case, with the parents often at the top of the list. In the case of 8 year old Jasmine, though, there's someone else who catches the police's eye: local park worker Sam who has something of an unconventional relationship with the girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Fallon|title= Strictly Between Us|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Tamsin and Michelle have been friends for decades. Aside from parents, they're the longest relationship were too many Elizabeths in the book, longer than Michelle and Patrick's marriage, longer than Bea has worked as Tamsin's assistant. All four characters feature heavily, though, in a story that is always moving and never boringclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>