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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 [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Woods -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:0751568538.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:WomenDrawing inspiration from Egypt, '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 with someone she didnThe Daughters of Izdihar't really know just to afford the rent. And let's not get into explores the job with Lewisham Council and her colleagues there. Could it get any worse? Well, it looked as though it might when Polly burst into her life. She's one lives of those irritatingly happy, joyful people two women who simply won't take no for an answer and she's determined to make Annie happy. Whether she likes it or could not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]] <!-- Marilyn Bennett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lorraine has one of those voices which makes you stop whatever you're doing so that you can listen ''properly''. She has some disadvantages though. She's a checkout operator for Fresh and Co and frankly it's not the best place to be if you're hoping to be the next big superstar. Her manager is her mothermore different, but that's not ''quite'' as much of a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart and she's street smart. But Lorraine (actually, it's Lolly to her Mum) has one really big advantage too: she sounds just like the superstar she idolises and that lady has been indulging in some illegal substances and needs a body/voice double at pretty short notice. It's the perfect opportunity yet find themselves fighting for Lorraine. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Full Review]] <!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:James_Island.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 rights of the village women 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, griefweavers – those with magical abilities -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.co.uk/gp/product/000826001X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=000826001X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 'Tis the season to be jolly, eat too many mince pies and read books with titles like ''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 in a penchant for ''Christmas'' books and look forward to indulging in society pitted against them each year. This year being no different I was greatly looking forward to some literary Christmas magic - 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:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] PollyNehal, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of born into the Little Beach seriesupper class, seems wishes to be the last of this trilogy. Never say never but by the end of this book, the author has certainly secured the destiny of these three much-loved characters. Don't be put off if you haven't read the previous ones, it really won't matter particularly as the author provides a helpful little synopsis at attend the start Weaving Academy to help those, like me, that are new learn 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 control her abilities and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Having just discovered author Heidi Swain and her series of novels featuring then join the residents of Wynbridgemilitary, I couldn't wait to read this book and it certainly didn'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 but instead she is forced into an original mix of characters arranged marriage with a feel-good storyline to create a totally compelling readNico. But, don't worry if you haven't read any of Giorgina on the other instalments as each one focuses on hand did not have a different lead character and story so it really won't matter. [[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.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's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]  Jenny privileged upbringing like Nehal and Isla were focused teenagers. So much so in fact that they decided feels great pressure to write a life plan provide for their futures right down to predicting the year in which Jenny would marry the man of her dreams. As luck would have it, 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 family 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? Jenny's working on it! [[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, maintain their marriage is overreputation, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams whilst secretly attending meetings 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-Keep.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 Daughters of two mothers and two daughters, and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is Izdihar – a nurse. 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 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 world, or at least the internet, the do's and do notgroup campaigning for women's of parentingrights. There's one thing she didn't do, though, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMR, she and her husband decided Giorgina also happens to forgo the jabs for their children. 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 be in love a good romcom and so was excited to read Chrissie Manby's latest novel. It certainly didn't disappoint on the comedy value and pleasingly it was more a 'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships and day-to-day family relations providing the best laughs. [[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby|Full Review]] <!-- Hepburn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hepburn_Picture.jpg|link=http://www.amazonNico.co.uk/dp/1471161714/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Picture House by the Sea by Holly Hepburn]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] So as another typically dreary British summer What follows is drawing to a close, I found myself craving a fix story of literary sunshine and sea kissed romance. In such a mood it was then, that I came across the cover for The Picture House by the Sea. Perfect blue skies, glistening sea, a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cart. 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: left;"|===[[Angelica Stone by Susi Osborne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friendsunjust society, but she's not big on friends. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system filled with hypocrisy and didn't so much fall through the cracks as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to cope. She's been told that she's taintedcruelty, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' people. One of her jobs is working in which blossoms a supermarket and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle group of fish. [[Angelica Stone by Susi Osborne|Full Review]] <!-- Colins -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colins_Chasing.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008202192/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Chasing the Sun by Katy Colins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Author Katy Colins became Britain's most famous jilted bride when the true story of her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viral, before becoming a romantic comedy book series with this the latest one. [[Chasing the Sun by Katy Colins|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Heidi Swain|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this book. It was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storyline, delightful characters admirable women fighting for their rights and innocent romance. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy to pick up and put down (not that I wanted to) throughout the dayovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca ChanceB0B575J99N|title= Killer AffairBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 34|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Rebecca ChanceElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a school in York. It was ''comfortable'chance' but she longed for me it was a very mixed readsomething more in life. The cover blurb describes it as She'd 'irresistibly readable' and still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'a glittering page-turner' which it most certainly and now was, starting with the time to make a famed but as yet unidentified woman on change. She needed challenges. There was a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery womanlittle trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. The story then restarts from the beginning setting After a telephone interview, she was offered the scene, characters position and events that will eventually lead up to it wasn't long before she was exploring the revengeful opening actbeautiful city. It's not until the end of the book that this mystery betrayal is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite a long bookThere were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)0241542405|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=24.5

|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she'It starts with becoming a homeowners not left her home for 1, then settling 214 days. She'd ''like'' to: infact, then reproducingshe so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. WellThen, it actually starts she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a lot before thengood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a set cardiac nurse and full of fractured memories of our heroinesound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's childhood – things Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she recalls was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her parents retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and relatives saying both the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to and about herthe school. It goes through her childhoodThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and pen letters Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys 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|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friend conveying her wishes for her lifefriends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, those wishes being revised knowing that she was dying and affirmed by that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the liberty rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of university yearstheir trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, those wishes being met and go along with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Life should be careful what you wish have been good for, but not even our wise, modern woman could not see Hollie: She was just going into the next step after final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the reproducing – owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn''standing disappointed in front t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the refrigerator''fact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Pentland0008421714|title=Wilde Like MeMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=World famous fashion When Beth Carlyle and beauty vlogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of Glitteran angry exchange - well, takes on a new challenge in the form of Simon was angry and Beth was doing her touching debut novelbest 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 ''Wilde Like Meau fait''with your medical acronyms. You will be transported into a world full When he was born, the left side of exasperating drama with the PSMs (Posh School Mums), his hearthadn't developed properly and he needed open-warming mother daughter moments and selfheart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-righteous men who you realise arenprotective particularly when someone isn't the be all and end alllooking where they're driving. Now enters Robin Wilde}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, a single mum to Lyla and make-up artist living in her grannyAdolf Hitler's house simply just trying schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to get bythe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. The novel follows her journey of self discovery For yes, which even sheBritain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn'd admit sounds like some awful clichet happen as we know it, and shows you that only we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland'you'. 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 drudges, and 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 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 party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler' can make you happys visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonRuth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The Friendsinger, 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, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong

|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 LongbowGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's family stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has learnt a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to live with tragedyabsorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. A quarter of She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a century earlier Bodinephoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=He's Aunt Alice disappeared without Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a tracepartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. Nothing She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has softened the pain read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but life goes she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on and the family business (someone else's philosophies, to something a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps them all busylittle deeper. Bo Charles is fully focussed as the resortmore of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's manager but distraction is on the horizon in the form shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of Callen Skinnerhis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. Local lad Callen comes home 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= Helly Acton|title= 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 successful Hollywood film career partnership, because things tend to get done on his CV and an eye for a certain Longbow ladyterms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. HoweverAh, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a womansurprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author= Alyssa Sheinmel|title= What Kind of Girl|rating= 4|genre= Women's body Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is found on resort land Callen 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 implicatedtipped upside down. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen Her relationship has just ended and Bo shake themselves free of a lawmannow she's prejudice the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in order 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 discover the truth? The clockblow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297}}{{Frontpage|author= Katie Fforde|title= A Springtime Affair|rating= 4|genre= Women's ticking as Bo Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and Callen try to solve this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a mystery while putting themselves in the firing line warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and then Aunt Alice returns.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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB07W4MNBSG|title=Spandex and the CityBe 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>