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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - Remove -->she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainLauren Bravo|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersPreloved

|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: thereGwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I's really no other way m-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of putting ita mid-life crisis. TheyCatharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life're of Bangladeshi origin |isbn=1398510629}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when theyfell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man're the only Muslim family in the small village of Wyvernage. On the surface Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they look felt she could achieve - going to be happy, but actually each of the sisters is struggling in her own wayOxford and having a glittering career. For In the most part event, they're doing it quietly, but it's not always eloped and Richard took her away from the caseIsle of Wight. The eldest is FatimaMargo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. Her name's often abbreviated to FattiThe couple had three children: it's not meant unkindlyRachel, but she's well upholstered Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at thirty she's unmarriedSandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even her mother doesnthen the doubts about Richard't seem to think that theres drinking were never far from Margo's much point mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in trying to find a husband for hercharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chrissie ManbyHadeer Elsbai|title= A Fairy Tale For ChristmasThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 3.54|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as a singer on a cruise ship. He is Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the impressive Director lives of Entertainment on boardtwo women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and they fall into weavers – those with magical abilities - in a relationship which Kirsty hopes will grow and develop society pitted against them. Nehal, born into something special. When Jon announces he wants the upper class, wishes to return attend the Weaving Academy to England learn to his West Country seaside homecontrol her abilities and then join the military, Kirsty but instead she is faced forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a difficult decision: whether privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to follow him provide for her family and cement maintain their flourishing relationship or pursue her own career reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbeangroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diane AllenB0B575J99N|title= The Mistress of Windfell ManorBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Charlotte Booth is the beautiful daughter of a successful wool farmer Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and like any young Victorian woman, she looks forward to the day she can be married and have a family of her own. Her childhood sweetheart Archie has teacher at a place prestigious girl's school in CharlotteYork. It was ''comfortable''s heart, but he cannot provide her with she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the life she desires, so when wealthy mill owner Joseph Dawson comes to town Charlotte sees her luck begin time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a brief courtshiptelephone interview, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move in to she was offered the illustrious Windfell Manor, but things soon turn sour when one of Joseph's mill workers is found dead position and Charlotte starts to suspect that Joseph isnit wasn't long before she was exploring the man she beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first thought he wasclass but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wray Delaney0241542405|title=An Almond for a ParrotMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her education really startedhome for 1,214 days. That was the beginning of the road She'd ''like'' to discovery: in fact, she so nearly does. The discovery that Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she can realise ghosts for others's going to catch her train. Then, that she can escape 't. She simply can't force herself to leave the cruelty safety of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generatehome. ThatShe's fortunate that she has a good friend, in turnSadie, who visits regularly with her two children, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse andfull of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, nowFred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, the condemned cell so you can guess what she does in Newgate Prisonher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. As she awaits her fateHe's from Holding Hands, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrotcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'' and allows us to read over her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nancy Revell0008441618|title=The Shipyard GirlsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=1940 and Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the workload new head of Thompsons, the Tyneside shipyard, increases so much they do the unthinkableWest Burntridge First School: employ women if she didn't live up to perform her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the roles traditionally taken by mentown. It's the bravest as well as the strongest women who accept the challenge The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and, under the expert tuition of Rosie, begin funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to take their places beside their male counterpartsthe school. ItThere was one difficulty, though - they were 's not an easy ride 'devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for any of themthe head. In fact, as they band together, thereLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's one particular group restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that will face dangers in was just a warm-up act for their daily lives as real - and more imminent - than any encountered on the slipwaygripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754633</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa DickensonGiovanna Fletcher|title= Mistletoe Walking on 34th StreetSunshine|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= It's December, and Olivia is off to New York. Sadly it's not for the Christmas of a lifetime, or even a pre-holiday shopping weekend. She's going for work, in fact she's leading a team of colleagues, so it's far from a relaxing trip. Luckily she'll be home in time for the big day itself, and then she'll really be able to relax. Except, in a comedy of errors such as this, things don't exactly go to plan. Fierce weather grounds flights and shatters dreams, and new Christmas plans come into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751563099</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fionnuala Kearney|title=The Day I Lost You|rating=4.5

|summary=Anna is missing; a difficult truth Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for her mother Jess to absorbseventeen years, has died. Anna went ski-ing And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, leaving Jess Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to look after Anna's daughterfollow, Jess' granddaughterknowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Little Rose is now a comforting presence for Jess Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as she thinks about Annaclearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, piecing together the person struggling with their grief and their own life that Jess thought she knew about. Howevertroubles, Anna has secretsdecide to drop everything in their own lives, at least one of which will have repercussions… and not just for Jessgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney CosteloeB09FS89KX9|title=The Sisters of St CroixFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=On Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasn't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt in a French convent veterinary degree and a father who died in WWI rather than Richard - her motherthree years later - was still working at BB's husband and diner. Bob - the man who raised owner - regarded herfondly: he was a good boss. Adeline decides to go to France for a short holiday Hollie had moved in order to learn more from with her aunt that boyfriend, Marcus: her family knew as Sarah Huntmother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Both Sarah Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and Adelaide part, hoping that they will see each other again soon and they will, but in circumstances that neither most of them envisagedall he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. As Then there was the Second World War begins fact that he would be violent, both to her and Germany captures France, there's danger ahead for each of themto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa Pimentel0008421714|title= The One That Got AwayMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= When youThe problem began just after the publication of George March're Americans 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 or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, and planning a weddingPatricia asked, you want that wedding to be in a properas she was wrapping the bread, English castle. Of course you do. It's 'but isn't this the only thing that matters. Itfirst time he's far more important than based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the hassle of shipping in your whole family from the States, forcing your sister to spend a week in a foreign country with principal character had 'her ex or anything elsemannerisms''. This is Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the situation Ruby finds herself in. Her ex, Ethan, fact that Johanna is the best man and she's Maid whore of Honour. It canNantes - 't be avoided. And it's going to be a disasterweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405923733</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vanessa Greene1473685745|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 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>}}{{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author= Penelope Jacobs|title= Playing FTSEKatie Marsh|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 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 wife unexpectedlybike. 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. One minute she When he was reaching up for born, the perfect serve left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and the next she he needed open-heart surgery when he was lying dead of a massive heart attack on the tennis courtfew days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It hadn't been s 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 perfect marriage: sanctioned return to the two had little in common, but Tim had stayed throne of Edward VIII with his wife firstly for , Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the sake World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the childrensame blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, then eventually for Isobel's sake Nazi-styled phrenology, and eventually because he realised ideas of female purpose, has put all of that he would feel guilty if he left her. After gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the shock of her death came drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the realisation that he was 55childless, retired the husbandless and could now do what he likedthe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And that was where in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the idea task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – 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 grand tour came fromparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. He was going to take a leisurely trip around That is her job, at least, until the cultural sights first emerging signs of western Europe and indulge himselffemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340953071</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Georgia ClarkRuth Hogan|title= The RegularsMadame Burova|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= If offered This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the chance to immensely upgrade your beautyearly 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 the very definition of gorgeousa singer, to have a face and body chiefly, Imelda, the likes third generation of which are only ever seen on magazine covers and catwalksMadame Burova, would you take it? This is the question posed to best friends Evie''Tarot-Reader, Krista Palmist and Willow, when they are presented with Clairvoyant''Pretty, to use 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 just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, an enchanted solution fifty years later, in possession of which a single drop guarantees a stunning physical appearance pair of letters that will change everything for a weekwoman called Billie. Before the ''Pretty'', the girls had regular faces, faced regular problems Just who is she, and found themselves regularly disappointed by the dating world. But this bottle has who delivered the potential secrets about her 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 brokenImelda, and the addiction why did it have to such remain a lifestyle proves to be far more sinister than they ever imagined.secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160181</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Talulah RileyJennifer Saint |title= Acts of LoveAriadne |rating= 4.5

|summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face This re-telling of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention myth of Ariadne and the public. For Bernadette Minotaur is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest interesting and most powerful men of unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the world, exposing them with controversial distaste story in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a deep insecuritymodern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, and a desperate longing spanning from her childhood to be loved by her death, allowing the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such reader to really connect with Ariadne as a position character in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is own right rather than just a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon prop in the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale heroics of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put downTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenLucy Holland|title=FallingSistersong

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Here Sistersong is the story part of three womena genre I particularly enjoy, from three generations within the same familymodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. There is JoThese stories, for most of us, are a forty year old single mother whose first husband died, cornerstone of childhood and whose second husband ran off I relish seeing them retold with their nannyfresh eyes and a fresh perspective. She is left caring for her older teenage daughterIf handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, Lydiafleshing out characters, examining relationships and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyonere-evaluating the role of women. Her daughter Lydia Sistersong is the second female charactera perfect example of a modern retelling done well, and as well as the usual teenage angst she plot is also dealing handled with griefcare, still, over her father's death, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret that she is unable keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to talk come to anyone about. Finally there's Honor who is Jo's mother in lawlife, the mother of Jo's first husbandto feel real and human, Stephen. Honor has most importantly they feel relatable in a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in with Jo for a time as she has no one else who can help her. She too This is hiding a secret masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from the world, and as you read the story you begin beginning to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any of them will ever start telling the truthend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa JewellB08NF79QXT|title= I Found YouCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4.53|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= A man is missingThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and his new wife is worriedwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Miles away Sonja, her mother, a man is found alone an ex-model and confused on a beach, Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and his new Liberty's best friend is concerned. Are the two in any way connected : they've known each other since university and what events have occurredLiberty adores Jessica's husband, in the past Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in the present, to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>her life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhona MartinB08GFSK2WZ|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=54|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=HazelGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century has had a tough time absolutely gorgeous to say the leastlook at - and single. Therefore when She's not had sex for eight months and she comes across Black John, 's stuck in the karma trap: an outlaw about to be hanged awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she sees her chancehas a real talent for attracting drama. By proposing Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to him absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she'll save his life was in it andleft her, marrying himstark naked, her ownstaring at the pervy postman. At least that's HazelShe only has to take her mother's theory but the fates will make it dog out for a bit more of walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a strugglephoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah FlemingB08CHJLNBS|title=The Last PearlCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=He''I always thinks Charles Devereaux, without the grit there would be no pearl. Sorrows have thirty-eight and a way of strengthening the heartpartner at Wickham Jones, never forget that, child.'' Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread on the tableMayfair letting agents. She manages to find some joy in her work though's Emilia, twenty-nine, especially librarian and archivist in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jewthe heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The two become friends and he offers to take her Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on as his apprenticesomeone else's philosophies, stringing pearlsto something a little deeper. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to Charles is more of a better life? At the same time[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, many miles away in Scotlandabove all, Jem Baillie and his father canhe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They't contain their delight when they discover a magnificentre obviously not at all compatible, flawless freshwater pearl at the end so why can Charles not get this woman out of a long day of fishing. They call the pearl his mind? She'Queenies not his usual type at all: it' and from s obvious to his friends. And given that pivotal momentEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, the fates of Gretawhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosie BlakeHelly Acton|title= How to Find your (First) HusbandThe Shelf|rating=3.54

|summary=Isobel Graves hasn't got the life she envisioned. She moved to LA to become a star-soaked television presenterWhen we meet Amy, instead she's dressing up everyday in a series of wacky promotional costumes on the streetsrelationship with Jamie. She thought sheYou can'd be married t really call it a partnership, because things tend to a gentlemanget done on his terms, instead but she's fallen into a lacklustre relationship with a pilotsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, whose booty calls do not send her sky highyes. So Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when Isobel sees he tells her to pack for a man from her past on TV, someone she was once married surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the playground at school, she wonders what her life would be like if they were married now. With everything to gain work (and nothing to lose, Isobel attempts to find her first husband and take back control of her life. the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The One We Fell In Love WithWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary= I'm ' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not sure whether it would be flattering or stressful to have 3 beautiful women lusting after you. In the case of Angus, it's itchy footed Phoebe who'd rather be flitting around the French Alps than stagnating in suburban Sale, boho musician Eliza who When Mike Parker's still waiting for girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her big break, and former nurse Rose who her whole world is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and a life in the city to move back up north… and live with her mother. Itnow she's a complicated situation, made only more complex by the fact that talk of the girls know each otherschool. In Mike was the past theymost popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don've shared a roomt, and a womb. Hellobut one thing is for sure, tripletsthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela LambertKatie Fforde|title=Kiss and KinA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=ItI's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband George. Looking back she's concluded that she ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was fond ofexpecting - a warm, but probably not ''in love''cosy read focused on romance, with himfamily and friendships. They had This provided two sons and it's romances for the elder price of these, Roderick who's married to Jennifer. They have three childrenone, but there's been a rather silly feud between it was actually the Capels and Jennifer's family, the Gaunts, which dates back element as opposed to the couple's wedding, when Clarissa Gaunt, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you romance that I really shouldn't. Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother and was overheardenjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liz FenwickB07W4MNBSG|title= Under a Cornish Sky|rating= 3.5|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>}}{{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Veronica Henry|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopLizzy Mumfrey

|summary=It is with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home to the pretty Cotswold town of Peasebrook. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacy, a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the community. Julius was loved by all: he always had time coming up to listen to his customers Halloween in 1987 and share a recuperative cuppa in times group of need. However, his finances were another matter entirely and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with an eversixth-mounting pile of debt. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''too'' happy to help out, but can Emilia really give up your entire life depends on her fatherwho you marry's dream?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Juliet Ashton|title= These Days of Ours|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Not everything that looks like love is love'. Kate and Charlie The only eligible boys were childhood sweethearts, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying her wayward cousin the Young Farmers and Kate marrying her wayward cousin's pretentious ex-boyfriend? How can they still be four friends? Follow Kate through her life where she experiences all kinds the idea of love living in all kinds of places a farmhouse 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>}}{{newreview|author= Eliza Kennedy|title= I Take You|rating= 2|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= In having a week from now, Lily and couple of children called Will are getting married! This weekend, they'll be leaving New York and jetting down Olly appealed to Florida to spend the week with her family, preparing for the big dayCharlotte, or perhaps William and it's all brilliantly exciting. They're quite the golden couple, her a lawyer at a big firm, him an archaeologist at a top museum, young, attractive, they bring the world to its knees. And then sometimes Lily gets on her knees, but, ooops, it's just as likely to be in front of her boss or a random from the bar as it is her fiancé. Lily, Oliver if you see, is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type. Instead she likes were Elizabeth who was determined to sleep around, drink, take drugs and breakdown in tears, all while keeping this a secret from marry the man she's supposed to love and while holding down a substantial professional job of course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)|title= Roxy|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of the book that her much older husband has been killed in a car accidentrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. To add The place to start their search was obviously the shock of this, the revelation Young Farmers' Halloween disco that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on the hard shoulder, is a further blow to Roxyweekend. I found this an interesting set-up for a story, and wondered how this There was going to go. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells us, ''she is looking for revenge'', I thought the book would be a development of the character of Roxy into a selfjust one problem -motivating, strong character. But this wasn't there were too many Elizabeths in the caseclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>