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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paige Toon1471180158|title= The Last Piece of my Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Bridget is a travel writer and blogger with dreams of writing a book, but so far that has remained just a dream. Then an opportunity arises: not to write a book of her own, but to ghost write someone else's. Nicole died with a bestseller in print and plans for a sequel, and her publishers are keen that Bridget picks up where she left off. It's an unusual proposition, even more so because she will need to go and spend time with Nicole's husband and baby daughter as part of her research, but it might be the foot in the door she needs to segway into that book she's been planning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162559</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Patricia Falvey|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish SagaPenny Parkes

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore HouseJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's young heiress Victoria had hoped 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 she and Rosie Killeen would be friends foreverhe's on the autistic spectrum. Rosie soon comes Sometimes Jamie needs to know better as theretake time off at short notice - she's a social chasm between those who live frequent flier in the House local A&E and those, like Rosiesometimes Bo's family, who have been brought up merely not fit enough to serve them. The days of innocence are coming go to an end in many waysschool. Soon, as Missed shifts or the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll need to be more than steps away on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way 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 nation that will never be the same againhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Colleen OakleyLauren Bravo|title= Close Enough to TouchPreloved|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=''One time, Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a boy kissed me four and I almost died...My lips started tingling. My tongue swelled to fill ends with an oh-my mouth. My throat closed; -God-I couldn't breathem-nearly-forty. Everything went black.'' So begins Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the tale toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of an unlikely romantic heroine: a girl who mid-life crisis. Catharsis is allergic to other human beings. After the extreme humiliation suffered in the aftermath of the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse key and hides herself away from Gwen has decided now is the world for nine years. When her source of income suddenly dries up, Jubilee needs time to overcome take back her fears, step out into the world and find a job. Working at the local library, she meets divorced dad Eric and his quirky adopted son, Aja and strikes up a friendship with them. As their mutual attraction starts to grow, can there be any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nancy Revell0008506337|title=Shipyard The Garnett Girls at War: (Shipyard Girls 2) |author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Warning: This review contains spoilers for [[The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell|Book 1]] 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 the series from the beginninglove.The war bites deeper Richard was twenty-one and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more 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 contend with than Oxford and having a heavier workloadglittering career. The Elliott household is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in Africa, muting In the celebrations when his twinevent, Joe, comes home, albeit injured. Rosie is getting over they eloped and Richard took her horrendous episode with her murderous uncle but she's still not back to full healthaway from the Isle of Wight. Working shifts at the yard during the day Margo did go to Oxford and secretly by night as a brothel manager went on to afford her little sister's school fees is become a bit of a strain at times but the worst seems to be overwell-respected journalist. The complications in Rosie's life aren't over yet thoughcouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. A complication of Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the heart is family home on the horizonIsle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: can ''she afford would never be able to fall leave him in love with a police detective? Meanwhile Gloria attempts to move on from her abusive husband arencharge''t that easy. The war is taking more than its share of casualties but then so is life Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeHadeer Elsbai|title=The New NeighboursDaughters of Izdihar

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Dartmouth Circle has always been Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the epitome lives of British middle two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class propriety. Manicured lawns, well-kept house facades… All is where it should be wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and life then join the military, but instead she is ordered, forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the disrupting influence other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the townDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's university students out rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of sight an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and out of mind. Imagine, thencruelty, the horror when the good citizens of the Circle hear that one from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationpersonal obstacles. Will it be the harbinger of doom they expect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dinah JefferiesB0B575J99N|title=Before Beneath the RainsPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire to returnElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. Therefore It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in 1930, following life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the death of her husband, when right man'' and now was the British government commission her time to photograph scenes of Indian life, make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she jumps at applied for the chanceprofessoressa job in Bologna. What After a telephone interview, she doesnwas offered the position and it wasn't realise is that not everyone long before she comes across is delighted with was exploring the ideabeautiful city. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for There were some natural doubts before her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlyfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pam Jenoff0241542405|title=The Orphan's TaleMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=Herr NeuroffWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's circus has a secretnot left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: as well as a much needed wartime source of entertainmentin fact, itshe so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's also refuge going to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fatescatch her train. One such personThen, Astrid, a trapeze and high wire artist, lives a precarious life in which she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly acthome. She's an expert fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who has perfected visits regularly with her art over time two children, James and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, Matilda. Sadie's a non-circus family new comercardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, quicklyFred. ThereGroceries are online deliveries and there's a reason behind the circus owneralso an internet-based support group where you's demand thoughll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Noa Then Tom McDermott arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlands. It was a spur of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their futureHe's from Holding Hands, no matter how long… or short… a time that may becharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Amanda RobertsSarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|titlesummary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The Roots of school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the Treetoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Giovanna Fletcher|title=Walking on Sunshine

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can seeMike's wife, not from the trunkPia, the branches and the leaveswho he was with for seventeen years, but from what you can't see - the roots. Disturbance to the roots can be devastating. It's similar in human beingshas died. Annie had lived for 63 yearsAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, secure in the love of her parentsso are their best friends, Elsie Vicky and FrankZaza. SheBut Pia left them all some 'rules'd looked after them in her home in their final years and it was quite by chance to follow, knowing that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until ''after'' her birth, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father dying and that her mother was married they would need help to himcarry on living. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: Whilst some of the man she'd loved rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after allwardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marilyn BennettB09FS89KX9|title=Granny with BenefitsFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age Life should have been good for a woman, particularly if sheHollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's not marrieddiner. Has she given up on Bob - the idea of having owner - regarded her fondly: he was a family? good boss. Does Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career mean everything . Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her? job at the diner. On Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and to other hand is she desperately looking for a man? people.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first met Dale (name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or Heaven had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on Legs - HoL - that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she thought of him). Shewas wrapping the bread, 'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmother's home, but she couldnisn't resist this the opportunity to do first time he's based a little dressing up. character on you?'' SoShe mentioned that Johanna, wearing the principal character had 'her grandmothermannerisms''s clothes. Perhaps this would not have mattered, wig resting just above her eyebrows and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on except for the end of her nose she met fact that Johanna is the man whore of her dreams. OnlyNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, rather than laughing and explaining what she'd been doingunloved, Grace carried on the pantomime - and called herself Louiseunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898736</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1473685745|title=The Summer Seaside KitchenUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary= Colgan has a diverse portfolio When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of chick lit (an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and she also writes Dr Who novels) under Beth was doing her belt best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but starting with [[Meet me at the Cupcake Café]] in 2011, she Jake has history. He has established herself as one of the queens of the chickHLHS -lit subgenre that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait''comedy romance with food'''your medical acronyms. When he was born, the Queen left side of Hearts his heart hadn't developed properly and the queen of fruit tartshe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to an obvious benefit of her popularity and presumably her bank balance 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's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the sound state funeral of satisfied ahhhhs and mmmms from her growing fanbase. As you can see I do miss the Old Jenny Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a little bit, the brasher and swearier characters and watching over the much more cutting humour. But. There is something sanctioned return to be said for a well written feelgood novel and I did enjoy the sweetshopthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the caféWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, the bakery and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''Summer Seaside Kitchenthe mainland'' which . But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the trieddrudges, tested and well loved ingredients beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of a perfectly escapistit – after all, not every book can be banned, mostly but and not totally predictable chick-lit romance with every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of her house specialfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna BellRuth Hogan|title=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting EvenMadame Burova|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= We begin This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the story with Lexi and her boyfriendearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. Lexi is one of those women So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), who has a begrudging relationship with her mothergirl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, who is constantly pestering to get her down the aislethird generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, a father who has a spine missing Palmist and a boyfriend who leaves Clairvoyant'', to use her as a sports widowfamily's sea-front booth. The more I talk to my female friends about thissinger, 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 luckier I realise I am to not havefamily stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. A partner Just who is entirely uninterested in sport but does fixate on Star Trekshe, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and guns.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn O'PorterJennifer Saint |title= The CowsAriadne |rating= 34.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= Reading This re-telling of the blurb for this novel, myth of Ariadne and the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'Porter, I got very excitedMinotaur is interesting and unusual. It talks about Jennifer Saint presents the cow being story in a piece way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of meatAriadne, born spanning from her childhood to breedher death, one of allowing the herd, and compares this reader to women, saying how they don't have to fall into really connect with Ariadne as a stereotype. I expected character in her own right rather than just a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was an easy to read, enjoyable romp through three modern women's livesprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni JordanLucy Holland|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage Sistersong is overpart of a genre I particularly enjoy, albeit 15 years the modern retelling of folk and two daughters further along than predictedfairy tales. IndeedThese stories, this is definitely not for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a good weekend for Janice fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the awkwardness role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the girls' schoolteacher being plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the other woman characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbourspre-Saxon age they live in. At least Janice This is well adjusted a masterpiece of storytelling and over her ex-husband AlecI was captivated from beginning to end. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy HoldenB08NF79QXT|title= Honeymoon SuiteCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary= This is an excellent readThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, weaving together many stories. We have Nell who, yes, is left at the altar after a whirlwind romance. It's horrible and horrifying and she isCherry Blossom Boutique, understandably, distraught. Her last modicum of self-respect vanishes for just six months when she rings to cancel her honeymoon, only to find it non-refundable. And so, in a rare show of gumption, she decides to go anyway, taking along her friend Rachel and Rachel's daughter Juno nominated for - and wins - the rideRetail Best Newcomer Award. At the same time, bestselling novelist Dylan is having romantic woes of his own. An almighty fire has chased him out of town She's delighted and he needs to disappear, at least for a bit. As luck, and artistic license, would have it, the two end up in the same place. But this is not the first time they have crossed paths, and they are both in for an almighty shock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosie Blake|title=How to Get a Love Life|rating=3|genre= Womenpeople she's Fiction|summary= Nicola is brought with her to the sort of girl who knows whatevent couldn's for dinner based on what day of the week it ist be more pleased. Meticulously tidy Sonja, her mother, she employs a cleaner as well just to make doubly sure nothing is out of place. And an ex-model and Brazilian: you can set your watch by the time she eats see where Liberty got her daily treat of a Mini Rolllooks from. Not all of this is bad. I believe in scheduled relaxationJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and felt my heart skip a beat whentheir four-year-old daughter, on the first day of my honeymoon, we received a schedule with our activities Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for the week. But the point is, Nicola is at the far end of the spectrum, and one thing: she certainly does not seem the kind to have misses having a messy, chaotic love man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadiya HussainB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: there's really no other way of putting itGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. TheyShe're of Bangladeshi origin s not had sex for eight months and theyshe're the only Muslim family s stuck in the small village of Wyvernage. On the surface they look to be happy, but actually each karma trap: an awful lot of the sisters bad luck is struggling in being visited on her own wayand she has a real talent for attracting drama. For the most part they're doing it quietly, but itHer life's not always chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the case. The eldest is Fatima. Her name's often abbreviated stairs to Fatti: absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it's not meant unkindlyand left her, stark naked, but she's well upholstered and staring at thirty she's unmarriedthe pervy postman. Even She only has to take her mother doesn't seem to think that there's much point in trying to find dog out for a husband walk for herto end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chrissie ManbyB08CHJLNBS|title= A Fairy Tale For Christmas|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as a singer on a cruise ship. He is the impressive Director of Entertainment on board, and they fall into a relationship which Kirsty hopes will grow and develop into something special. When Jon announces he wants to return to England to his West Country seaside home, Kirsty is faced with a difficult decision: whether to follow him and cement their flourishing relationship or pursue her own career with a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author= Diane Allen|title= The Mistress of Windfell ManorBrooke Adams|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Charlotte Booth is the beautiful daughter of a successful wool farmer 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 a place in Charlotte's heart, but he cannot provide her with the life she desires, so when wealthy mill owner Joseph Dawson comes to town Charlotte sees her luck begin to change. After a brief courtship, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move in to the illustrious Windfell Manor, but things soon turn sour when one of Joseph's mill workers is found dead and Charlotte starts to suspect that Joseph isn't the man she first thought he was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond for a Parrot|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that her education really started. That was the beginning of the road to discovery. The discovery that she can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape the cruelty of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generate. That, in turn, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nancy Revell|title=The Shipyard Girls|rating=53

|summary=1940 He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the workload of ThompsonsMayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, the Tyneside shipyardtwenty-nine, increases so much they do librarian and archivist in the unthinkable: employ women to perform the roles traditionally taken by menheritage library next door. ItEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's the bravest as well as the strongest women who accept the challenge andmoved on from new age books like that, under the expert tuition of Rosiewhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, begin to take their places beside their male counterpartssomething a little deeper. ItCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not an easy ride for any at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of themhis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. In factAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, as they band together, therewhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's one particular group that will face dangers in their daily lives as real obviously a non- and more imminent - than any encountered on the slipway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754633</amazonuk>starter, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa DickensonHelly Acton|title= Mistletoe on 34th StreetThe Shelf

|summary= It's DecemberWhen we meet Amy, and Olivia is off to New York. Sadly it's not for the Christmas of a lifetime, or even a pre-holiday shopping weekend. Sheshe's going for work, in fact she's leading a team of colleagues, so it's far from a relaxing triprelationship with Jamie. Luckily sheYou can'll be home in time for the big day itself, and then she'll t really be able to relax. Except, in call it a comedy of errors such as thispartnership, because things don't exactly go tend to plan. Fierce weather grounds flights and shatters dreamsget done on his terms, and new Christmas plans come into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751563099</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fionnuala Kearney|title=The Day I Lost You|rating=4.5|genre=Womenbut she's Fiction|summary=Anna is missing; a difficult truth for her mother Jess to absorb. Anna went ski-ing with friends, leaving Jess to look after Anna's daughter, Jess' granddaughter. Little Rose is now a comforting presence for Jess as sticking around because she thinks about Anna, piecing together the person and life that Jess thought hopes she knew aboutcan change him. HoweverAh, Anna has secrets, at least one of which will have repercussions… and not just for Jessyes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diney Costeloe|title=The Sisters of St Croix|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasnHaven't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt in a French convent and a father who died in WWI rather than Richard - we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her mother's husband and the man who raised her. Adeline decides to go to France pack for a short holiday in order surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to learn more from her aunt that her family knew as Sarah Hunt. Both Sarah get down on one knee? Was the work (and Adelaide part, hoping that they will see each other again soon and they will, but in circumstances that neither of them envisaged. As the Second World War begins and Germany captures France, there's danger ahead for each of them.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa PimentelAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The One That Got AwayWhat Kind of Girl

|summary= When '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're American, and planning not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a weddingblack eye, you want that wedding claiming he gave it to be in a properher, English castleher whole world is tipped upside down. Of course you do. ItHer relationship has just ended and now she's the only thing that matterstalk of the school. It's far more important than Mike was the hassle of shipping most popular boy in your whole family from the States, forcing your sister to spend a week school who was always so in a foreign country love with her ex or anything else. This is the situation Ruby finds herself in. Her ex, Ethaneveryone knew that, is the best man so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and shesome don's Maid of Honour. It cant, but one thing is for sure, this isn't be avoided. And it's going to be a disasterblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405923733</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vanessa GreeneKatie Fforde|title= The Little Pieces of You and MeA Springtime Affair

|summary= Sometimes you know I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what you want in lifeI was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, can list it all quite easilyfamily and friendships. At This provided two romances for the end price 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 it was actually the family element as opposed to accomplish in their lives. Lofty goals and easier winsthe romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751563765</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Penelope JacobsB07W4MNBSG|title= Playing FTSEBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= Melanie is something It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of a sixth-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 ''wunderkindyour entire life depends on who you marry'', 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 only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the way idea of the other, but she's living in a farmhouse and having a smart girl couple of children called Will and can learn Olly appealed to play this Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to her advantagemarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. With her friend Jenny keen The place to lead her astray, Mel must learn start their search was obviously the give and take of life Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the City, and how far to push the limits to get aheadclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781324611</amazonuk>