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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 - 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren Bravo|title=Preloved|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh- Remove my-God->I'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 a mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary="15" <!The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREone and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well->respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.

{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Hadeer Elsbai|==title=[[The Curious Heart Daughters of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]=Izdihar|rating=4|genre=Fantasy [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]Drawing inspiration from Egypt, [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeThe Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and just as she was edging closer to death she finallyweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, finally got born into the call that she neededupper class, that a heart was available for her wishes to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog attend the Weaving Academy to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers learn to decide on control her actions. But with her new heartabilities and then join the military, but instead she has been given is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a new life. Can Ailsa manage privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to start to live on provide for her ownfamily and maintain their reputation, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Woods -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568538Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How Giorgina also happens to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from early-onset dementia and her marriage was well and truly over. She lived in a damp and depressing tenth-floor ex-council flat and had to share love with someone she didn't really know just to afford the rentNico. And let's not get into the job What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with Lewisham Council hypocrisy and her colleagues there. Could it get any worse? Wellcruelty, it looked as though it might when Polly burst into her life. She's one from which blossoms a group of those irritatingly happy, joyful people who simply won't take no admirable women fighting for an answer their rights and she's determined to make Annie happyovercoming their personal obstacles. Whether she likes it or not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]]isbn=0356520471}}<!-- Marilyn Bennett -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0B575J99N| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Beneath the Porticoes[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Brooke Adams| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]==rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womensummary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's Fiction]] Lorraine has one of those voices which makes you stop whatever youschool in York. It was 're doing so that you can listen ''properlycomfortable''but she longed for something more in life. She has some disadvantages though. She's a checkout operator for Fresh and Co and frankly itd ''s still not found the best place to be if youright vocation nor met the right man''re hoping and now was the time to be the next big superstarmake a change. She needed challenges. Her manager is her mother, but that's not ''quite'' as much of There was a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart and little trepidation when she's street smartapplied for the professoressa job in Bologna. But Lorraine (actuallyAfter a telephone interview, she was offered the position and itwasn's Lolly to her Mum) has one really big advantage too: t long before she sounds just like was exploring the superstar she idolises and that lady has been indulging in some illegal substances and needs a body/voice double at pretty short noticebeautiful city. It's the perfect opportunity for LorraineThere were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Full Review]]}}<!-- James -->|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|0241542405[[image:James_Island.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ietitle=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]] Meredith Alone| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Claire Alexander===[[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Much to the disgust of the village and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a new wife, the 'scarlet woman' Romily Temple. But, can his death and final demand that his children spend seven days together at childhood home, Island House, bring about a reconciliation and forgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, grief-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling together. [[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James|Full Review]] <!-- Moorcroft -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorcroft_Little.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/000826001X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=000826001X]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|General Fiction===[[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:WomenWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Fiction|WomenWednesday 14 November 2018 and she's Fiction]] 'Tis the season to be jollynot left her home for 1, eat too many mince pies and read books with titles like 214 days. She'd 'The Little Village Christmas''. And so we come to this latest offering from the ever popular Sue Moorcroft. I am unashamed to admit that I have rather a penchant for like''Christmas'' books and look forward to indulging : in them each yearfact, she so nearly does. This year being no different I was greatly looking forward to some literary Christmas magic - Her outdoor clothes are on and frankly if you can take the romance of Christmas and ramp up the nostalgia by inserting a village setting I am more than happy to leave my cynicism behind to wallow in some festive sentimentality. [[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft|Full Review]] <!-- Colgan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colgan_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/075156477X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=075156477X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Womenshe's Fiction|Womeneven considered which shoes to wear if she's Fiction]] Polly, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the Little Beach series, seems going to be the last of this trilogycatch her train. Never say never but by the end of this book Then, the author has certainly secured the destiny of these three much-loved characters. Donshe can't be put off if you haven. She simply can't read force herself to leave the previous ones, it really wonsafety of her home. She't matter particularly as the author provides s fortunate that she has a helpful little synopsis at the start to help thosegood friend, Sadie, like mewho visits regularly with her two children, that are new to these stories. [[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan|Full Review]] <!-- Swain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Swain_Sleigh.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164853]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sleigh Rides James and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5starMatilda.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women Sadie's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Having just discovered author Heidi Swain a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her series of novels featuring the residents of Wynbridgecat, I couldn't wait to read this book Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and it certainly didnthere't disappoint being every bit as good as the [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|previous book]]. Yet again Heidi Swain has managed to combine s also an original mix of characters with a feelinternet-good storyline to create a totally compelling read. But, don't worry if based support group where you haven't read any of the other instalments ll find Meredith as each one focuses on a different lead character and story JIGSAWGIRL, so it really won't matteryou can guess what she does in her spare time. [[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain|Full Review]] <!-- Pimentel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pimentel_Jenny Then Tom McDermott arrives.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718186443?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718186443]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women He's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]  Jenny and Isla were focused teenagers. So much so in fact that they decided to write from Holding Hands, a life plan for their futures right down to predicting the year in charity which Jenny would marry the man of her dreams. As luck would have it, supports people with problems such as the predicted year arrives Jenny finds herself living with Chris – kind, dependable Chris. The sort of guy with whom she would happily walk down the aisle. Then that fateful long girly weekend with Isla happens in Vegas. A cocktail or two and voila, a sudden, very different husband. Can Jenny get a divorce in time for her wedding to Chris without Chris finding out about this little…errr... glitch? JennyMeredith's working on it! [[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel|Full Review]].}}<!-- Jordan -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008441618| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Other Parents[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tagauthor=thebookbag-21]] Sarah Stovell| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janiceif she didn's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be babysitting at Caroline's a house. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's price slump in that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams part of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill-Keeptown.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008217122/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] This is the story of two mothers and two daughters, The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is funds which they raised were a nurseconsiderable benefit to the school. She has a daughter, Rosie, and Rosie is ill with measles. As a nurse, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can be, but because Rosie has a rare allergy that prevents vaccination, there There was nothing she could do except cross her fingers and hope herd immunity would carry her through. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' and tells the worldone difficulty, or at least the internet, the dothough - they were 's and do not's of parenting. Theredevastatingly shockable's one thing she didn't do, thoughwith two members, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMRin particular, she and her husband decided to forgo causing problems for the jabs for their childrenhead. And now, like Rosie, she has measles. [[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Manby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Manby_Worst.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473639778/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] I love a good romcom Laura Spence and so was excited Kate Monroe objected to read Chrissie ManbyJo's latest novel. It certainly didn't disappoint restrictions on the comedy value and pleasingly it toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was more a 'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships and daywarm-to-day family relations providing the best laughsup act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. [[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby|Full Review]]}}<!-- Hepburn -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Giovanna Fletcher[[image:Hepburn_Picture.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471161714/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Walking on Sunshine| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[The Picture House by the Sea by Holly Hepburn]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womensummary=Mike's Fiction]] So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to a closewife, Pia, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romance. In such a mood it who he was thenwith for seventeen years, that I came across the cover for The Picture House by the Seahas died. Perfect blue skiesAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, glistening seaso are their best friends, a beautiful Art Deco building Vicky and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartZaza. Consider me sold! [[The Picture House by the Sea by Holly Hepburn|Full Review]] <!-- Osborne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Osborne_Angelica.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911320947/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: But Pia left;"|===[[Angelica Stone by Susi Osborne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Womenthem all some 's Fiction|Womenrules's Fiction]] I'd say to follow, knowing that Angelica Stone she was known as Angel dying and that they would need help to her friends, but she's not big carry on friendsliving. She has the sort Whilst some of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall through the cracks rules are around practicalities such as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to cope. She's been told that she's taintedclearing out her wardrobe, another one that she ruins every relationship without intending Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and that she's best staying away from 'decent' people. One of her jobs is working in a supermarket Vicky and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty Zaza, struggling with their grief and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fish. [[Angelica Stone by Susi Osborne|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Katy Colins|title= Chasing the Sun|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Author Katy Colins became Britain's most famous jilted bride when the true story of her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viraltheir own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, before becoming a romantic comedy book series and go along with this the latest onehim. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heidi SwainB09FS89KX9|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo CottageFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this bookLife 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's diner. It Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was utterly enchanting a good boss. Hollie had moved in with its charming feel-good storylineher boyfriend, delightful characters Marcus: her mother thought he was great and innocent romancehe was doing well in his career. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to pick up control her and put down (not that I most of all he wanted her to) throughout leave her job at the diner. Then there was the dayfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Chance0008421714|title= Killer AffairMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Rebecca ChanceThe problem began just after the publication of George March's much anticipated and praised latest most successful novel is definitely worth a 'chance' to date. Everyone but for me Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it was a very mixed reador had already done so. The cover blurb describes it Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, 'irresistibly readable' and but isn'a glittering page-turnert this the first time he' which it most certainly was, starting with s based a famed but as yet unidentified woman character on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. you?'' The story then restarts from the beginning setting the sceneShe mentioned that Johanna, characters and events that will eventually lead up to the revengeful opening actprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. It's Perhaps this would not until the end of have mattered, except for the book fact that this mystery betrayal Johanna is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite the whore of Nantes - ''a long bookweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Sophie Divry 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 Alison Anderson (translator)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=C J Carey|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsWidowland|rating=2.54

|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'It starts with becoming s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a homeownerbit, then settling inand watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, then reproducingQueen Wallis.'' WellFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it actually starts , and we are now a lot before thenprotectorate – well, with a set we share enough of fractured memories of our heroinethe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''s childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and about her. It goes through her childhoodBut this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and pen letters ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to a best friend conveying her wishes for her lifethe drudges, and beyond those wishes being revised , right on down to the childless, the husbandless and affirmed by the liberty of university yearswidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, those wishes being met is employed with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out that you should of it – after all, not every book can be careful what you wish forbanned, but and not even our wiseevery story excised immediately from British civilisation, modern woman could not see and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the next step after party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front first emerging signs of the refrigerator'female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise PentlandRuth Hogan|title=Wilde Like MeMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=World famous fashion and beauty vlogger Louise PentlandThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, also known all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as Sprinkle of Glitterhe would have been called then), takes on a new challenge girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the form third generation of her touching debut novelMadame Burova, ''Wilde Like MeTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. You The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will be transported into 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, fifty years later, in possession of a world full pair of exasperating drama with letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the PSMs (Posh School Mums)secrets about her to Imelda, heartand why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-warming mother daughter moments telling of the myth of Ariadne and self-righteous men who you realise aren't the be all Minotaur is interesting and end allunusual. Now enters Robin Wilde, Jennifer Saint presents the story in a single mum way that is sympathetic to Lyla and make-up artist living in her grannyits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's house simply just trying narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to get by. The novel follows really connect with Ariadne as a character in her journey own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of self discovery, which even she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, and shows you that only '''you''' can make you happyTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonLucy Holland|title=The FriendSistersong

|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and schoolThirty-gateone-mums who meet for coffeeyear old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, winethe Cherry Blossom Boutique, gossip for just six months when she's nominated for - and momentary escape from their respective liveswins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne is found battered She's delighted and half-dead in the playgroundtwo people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Three weeks later Cece moves into the areaSonja, her children starting that same schoolmother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Gradually she finds herself falling into the orbit of MaxieJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Anaya Charles and Hazel and hears what happened to the still comatose Yvonnetheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did Life would be perfect for Liberty if it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is wasn't for one of the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… thing: she misses having a very dangerous position to be man inher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB08GFSK2WZ|title=Come SundownThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Bodine Longbow's family has learnt George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to live with tragedylook at - and single. A quarter of a century earlier BodineShe's Aunt Alice disappeared without a trace. Nothing has softened the pain but life goes on not had sex for eight months and the family business (a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps them all busy. Bo is fully focussed as the resortshe's manager but distraction is on the horizon stuck in the form karma trap: an awful lot of Callen Skinner. Local lad Callen comes home with a successful Hollywood film career bad luck is being visited on his CV her and an eye she has a real talent for a certain Longbow ladyattracting drama. However, when a womanHer life's body is found on resort land Callen is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen and Bo shake themselves free chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of a lawman's prejudice the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in order to discover it and left her, stark naked, staring at the truth? pervy postman. The clockShe only has to take her mother's ticking as Bo dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and Callen try to solve a mystery while putting themselves in photo being taken by someone who shares it around the firing line and then Aunt Alice returns..office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the 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, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles 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 at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny ColganHelly Acton|title=Spandex The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the Citywait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author= Alyssa Sheinmel|title= What Kind of Girl|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= '' 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 black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of the school. Mike was the most 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't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297}}{{Frontpage|author= Katie Fforde|title= A Springtime Affair|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed. |isbn=1780897561}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= Touted as a super-hero romantic comedy, ''Spandex It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and the City'' features a girlgroup of sixth-next-door Holly, a typically insecure 20-something rom-com heroine, enjoying her life in Centerton (Colgan's stand in for Gotham)form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When a handsome stranger she meets at a bar turns out to be the you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''Ultimate Manyour entire life depends on who you marry'', a vigilante superhero straight from . The only eligible boys were the Marvel or DC universe (Young Farmers and the superpowers are more idea of living in a farmhouse and having a Marvel kindcouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, but or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the character rather superior Patrick Shepley- both of Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the UM and of his adversary Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - reference Batman, among others), she can't help falling for himthere were too many Elizabeths in the class. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>