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|summary=Anna Gwen is missing; a difficult truth for pressing her mother Jess to absorb. Anna went skimiddle-ing aged bosom on a big number that starts with friends, leaving Jess to look after Annaa four and ends with an oh-my-God-I's daughter, Jess' granddaughterm-nearly-forty. Little Rose is now Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a comforting presence for Jess as she thinks about Anna, piecing together the person and mid-life that Jess thought she knew aboutcrisis. However, Anna Catharsis is key and Gwen has secrets, at least one of which will have repercussions… and not just for Jess.decided now is the time to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney Costeloe0008506337|title=The Sisters of St CroixGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasnThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in a French convent and a father who died in WWI rather than love. Richard was twenty- her one and described by Margo's motheras 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's husband influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the man who raised event, they eloped and Richard took heraway from the Isle of Wight. Adeline decides Margo did go to go Oxford and went on to France for become a short holiday in order to learn more from her aunt that her family knew as Sarah Huntwell-respected journalist. Both Sarah The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Adelaide part, hoping that they will see each other again soon Sasha. Life was lived in London and they willholidays were spent at Sandcove, but in circumstances that neither the family home on the Isle of them envisagedWight. As Even then the Second World War begins and Germany captures France, theredoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's danger ahead for each of mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa PimentelHadeer Elsbai|title= The One That Got AwayDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= When youDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar're American, and planning a wedding, you want that wedding to be in a proper, English castle. Of course you do. It's explores the only thing that matters. It's far lives of two women who could not be more important than different, yet find themselves fighting for the hassle rights of shipping women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in your whole family from a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the Statesupper class, forcing your sister wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to spend a week in a foreign country with learn to control her ex or anything else. This is abilities and then join the situation Ruby finds herself in. Her ex, Ethanmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the best man other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and shemaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's Maid of Honourrights. It can't Giorgina also happens to be avoidedin love with Nico. And it's going to be What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a disastergroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405923733</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vanessa GreeneB0B575J99N|title= The Little Pieces of You and Me|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Sometimes you know exactly what you want in life, can list it all quite easily. At Beneath the end of their first year of uni, Isla and Sophie make lists. Just one list each, but with a number of items on. Things they want to accomplish in their lives. Lofty goals and easier wins. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751563765</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPorticoes|author= Penelope Jacobs|title= Playing FTSEBrooke Adams|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Melanie is something of a ''wunderkind'', a graduate at an investment bank with brains to match her body. In a male dominated environment she's finding that one gets in the way of the other, but she's a smart girl and can learn to play this to her advantage. With her friend Jenny keen to lead her astray, Mel must learn the give and take of life in the City, and how far to push the limits to get ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781324611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Titchmarsh|title=Mr Gandy's Grand Tour|rating=3.5

|summary=Timothy Gandy lost his wife unexpectedly. One minute she Elizabeth Miller was reaching up for the perfect serve thirty-four and the next she was lying dead of a massive heart attack on the tennis courtteacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It hadnwas ''comfortable''t been the perfect marriage: the two had little in common, but Tim had stayed with his wife firstly she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the sake of right vocation nor met the children, then eventually for Isobelright man''s sake and eventually because he realised that he would feel guilty if he left hernow was the time to make a change. After the shock of her death came the realisation that he was 55, retired and could now do what he likedShe needed challenges. And that There was where a little trepidation when she applied for the idea of the grand tour came fromprofessoressa job in Bologna. He After a telephone interview, she was going to take a leisurely trip around offered the cultural sights of western Europe position and indulge himselfit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340953071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Georgia Clark0241542405|title= The Regulars|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= If offered the chance to immensely upgrade your beauty, to become the very definition 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 Evie, Krista and Willow, when they are presented with ''Pretty'', an enchanted solution of which a single drop guarantees a stunning physical appearance for a week. Before the ''Pretty'', the girls had regular faces, faced regular problems, and found themselves regularly disappointed by the dating world. But this bottle has the potential to change everything. The adventure that ensues takes all three young women on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery as dreams are fulfilled, hearts are broken, and the addiction to such a lifestyle proves to be far more sinister than they ever imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160181</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMeredith Alone|author= Talulah Riley|title= Acts of LoveClaire Alexander|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention of the public. For Bernadette is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest and most powerful men of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, is a deep insecurity, and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such a position in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him 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'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julie Cohen|title=Falling|rating=5

|summary=Here is the story of three women, from three generations within the same family. There is Jo, a forty year old single mother whose When we first husband diedmeet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, and whose second husband ran off with their nanny214 days. She is left caring for her older teenage daughter, Lydia, and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris'd ''like'' to: in fact, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyoneso nearly does. Her daughter Lydia is the second female character, outdoor clothes are on and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over her father's death, anger with even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her mother for her second disastrous marriagetrain. Then, and her own very difficult secret that she is unable to talk to anyone aboutcan't. Finally thereShe simply can's Honor who is Jo's mother in law, t force herself to leave the mother safety of Joher home. She's first husband, Stephen. Honor fortunate that she has a fallgood friend, breaks Sadie, who visits regularly with her hiptwo children, James and is forced to move in with Jo for Matilda. Sadie's a time as she has no one else cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who can help gave Meredith hercat, Fred. She too is hiding a secret from the world, Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any of them will ever start telling the truthcan guess what she does in her spare time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lisa Jewell|title= I Found You|rating= 4 Then Tom McDermott arrives.5|genre= Women He's Fiction|summary= A man is missing, and his new wife is worried. Miles awayfrom Holding Hands, a man is found alone and confused on a beach, and his new friend is concernedcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's. Are the two in any way connected and what events have occurred, in the past and in the present, to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>

{{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=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Under a Cornish SkyTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' is the story of two very different women who are forced , to work together to complete a common goaluse her family's sea-front booth. Their personalities couldn't be more different The singer, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse scryer and although she is the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a skilled architectrevamped holiday camp, she is never able to succeed but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her career because others take credit for on her work. In relationshipslast day, fifty years later, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable with; in possession of a fact pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is not lost on she, and who delivered the secrets about her sleazy current boyfriendto Imelda, Mattand why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4. Lady5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of-the-Manor Victoria, on myth of Ariadne and the other hand, simply oozes self confidenceMinotaur is interesting and unusual. Although she is Jennifer Saint presents the story in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to do exactly what she wantsa modern audience. Despite a long list Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distractionAriadne, spanning from her one true love is childhood to her death, allowing the family home of Boscawen, reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a glorious estate set prop in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the seaheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Veronica HenryLucy Holland|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopSistersong|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It Sistersong is with part of a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home to genre I particularly enjoy, the pretty Cotswold town modern retelling of Peasebrookfolk and fairy tales. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacyThese stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled wellthese retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-loved bookshop that serves as evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a beating heart modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to the community. Julius was loved by all: he always had time come to listen life, to his customers feel real and share human, most importantly they feel relatable in a recuperative cuppa modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in times . This is a masterpiece of need. However, his finances were another matter entirely storytelling and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with an ever-mounting pile of debtI was captivated from beginning to end. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only ''too'' happy to help out, but can Emilia really give up on her father's dream?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juliet AshtonB08NF79QXT|title= These Days of OursCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4.53|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Not everything that looks like love is loveThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Kate She's delighted and Charlie were childhood sweetheartsthe two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying her wayward cousin mother, is an ex-model and Kate marrying Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her wayward cousinlooks from. Jessica's pretentious exthirty-boyfriend? How can four and Liberty's best friend: they still 've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be four friends? Follow Kate through perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life where she experiences all kinds of love in all kinds of places and learns that not everything that looks like love is love, but that just sometimes what looks like love might be the real deal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eliza KennedyB08GFSK2WZ|title= I Take YouThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating= 24|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= In a week from nowGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, Lily absolutely gorgeous to look at - and Will are getting married! This weekend, theysingle. She'll be leaving New York s not had sex for eight months and jetting down to Florida to spend she's stuck in the week with karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her family, preparing and she has a real talent for the big day, and itattracting drama. Her life's all brilliantly exciting. They're quite chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the golden couple, her a lawyer shower by putting something down at a big firm, him an archaeologist at a top museum, young, attractive, they bring the world bottom of the stairs to its knees. And absorb the water - then sometimes Lily gets on her knees, but, ooops, it's just as likely to be the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in front of her boss or a random from the bar as it is and left her fiancé. Lily, you seestark naked, is not exactly staring at the monotonous, monogamous typepervy postman. Instead she likes She only has to sleep around, drink, take drugs and breakdown in tears, all while keeping this a secret from the man sheher mother's supposed dog out for a walk for her to love end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and while holding down a substantial professional job of coursephoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)B08CHJLNBS|title= RoxyCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 3|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a young wife (Roxy) is told partner at Wickham Jones, the beginning of the book that her much older husband has been killed in a car accidentMayfair letting agents. To add to the shock of thisShe's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the revelation heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, which leave you dependent on the hard shouldersomeone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a further blow to Roxy[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. I found this an interesting set-up for a storyThey're obviously not at all compatible, and wondered how so why can Charles not get this was going woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to gohis friends. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells usAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, ''why does she is looking for revenge'feel drawn to him? The relationship', I thought the book would be s obviously a development of the character of Roxy into a selfnon-motivatingstarter, strong character. But this wasnisn't the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa BeazleyHelly Acton|title= Keep Me PostedThe Shelf

|summary=When we meet Amy, she'Keep me Posteds in a relationship with Jamie. You can' is written in t really call it a light-heartedpartnership, informal stylebecause things tend to get done on his terms, narrated by a young mother called Cassie who lives in New Yorkbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. She and her husband Leo have twin toddlers, and her life is busyAh, full of technology and fast foodyes. Her older sister Sid is more laid back, and something of a technophobe; although they used to be close, they havenHaven't really we all been in touch much since Sid and there? Things are looking up when he tells her family moved to Singaporepack for a surprise 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>1925240754</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertAlyssa Sheinmel|title= After BirthWhat Kind of Girl

|summary='Song of the Skylark' has quite 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 cast of charactersblack eye, and I found claiming he gave it a little difficultto her, at first, to keep track her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of everyonethe school. Lizzie is Mike was the main protagonist; we meet most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her trying in vain to apply for new jobs after losing , everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her previous and some don't, but one. We quickly learn that she was sacked thing is for rather blatant immoral behaviour with her bosssure, a married manthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel HoreKatie Fforde|title= The House on Bellevue GardensA Springtime Affair

|summary= Leonie I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was left a large, somewhat runpretty much exactly what I was expecting -down London house by a friendwarm, some years previously. She's an artistcosy read focused on romance, family and something friendships. This provided two romances for the price of a bohemianone, and lets out rooms at low price but it was actually the family element as opposed to people in need. There's Peter, who occupies the basement and lives in squalor, which - occasionally - she tries to clean up. There are also an elderly Indian couple, Hari and Bela, who have been there for some time, and a young and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelromance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>1780897561