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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Eloisa James|title=When the Duke Returns|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''When the Duke Returns'', the newest volume in the 'Desperate Duchesses' series, continues the regency celebrity romp saga where [[Duchess by Night by Eloisa James|Duchess by Night]] left off. The focus, this time, is on Isidore, the Duchess of Conway: hot-headed, hot-blooded and Italian to boot, she was married by proxy at the age of sixteen and is still a virgin seven years later. Isidore's cunning plot to entice back the husband she has never seen from his travels in Asia and Africa works perfectly and Simeon, His Grace Duke of Conway is now back in England, ready to claim his estate and, as Isidore presumes, ready to claim his beautiful wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961104</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nia Pritchard |title=More Than Just A Wedding|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=If you like novels in which little happens as the story strolls towards its happy ending, then Nia Pritchard's sequel to 'More Than Just a Hairdresser' may suit you. If the Liverpudlian vernacular and setting pushes your buttons, then maybe you'll enjoy its light-hearted picture of Scouse life. My mother-in-law will probably love it. I'm sorry to say that it wasn't my cup of tea at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784124</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Porter 1471180158|title=Sicilian Sunset|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah Livingstone's jewellery business was struggling but she was still annoyed when her father called James Ross for help. Sarah and James had had a relationship some ten years earlier and Sarah really didn't want to work with him, particularly after her marriage. Most people thought that her husband's death in a plane crash had been the cruel end to a good marriage. Only a few knew that he had been about to leave her to live with another woman. It's left Sarah very reluctant to get involved with any man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089430</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Margaret Thornton|title=Until We Meet Again|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=In the fateful summer of 1914 Tilly Moon is settled in the midst of the Moon family in Scarborough. It's an extensive clan with the usual close relationships, unusual situations and slight distances between people for no apparent reason. Tilly's an accomplished pianist and she longs to take her music studies further, but there's someone who's coming to mean more to her than her music. Her twin's best friend, Dominic Fraser is the apple of her eye and he feels the same way about her. There are war clouds on the horizon though and when Britain declares war on Germany Tommy and Dominic are quick to enlist as were many of the men in and around the Moon family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007486</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Liza Palmer|title=A Field Guide to Burying Your ParentsPenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Grace is reluctantly participating Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a 5k race when she receives man who's a control freak with all the news: her estranged sister is calling to tell her their estranged father has had subtlety of a strokehalf brick. That Jamie's two lots of estrangement in just two generations of familyson, but a summons is a summonsBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and Grace soon finds herself dragged back into the heart of the family she desertedmore you read, working with the others to discover the many hidden secrets of more you'll suspect that he's on the father who deserted them allautistic spectrum. It Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a tough jump from her happy life of a good job, a new boyfriend frequent flier in the local A&E and a home of her own sometimes Bo's not fit enough to return go to school. Missed shifts or the family life she left behind a long need to be away on time ago, and Grace has to decide whether she pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can ignore be controlled and put in the pull of her biological siblings once more or whether the time has wrong. It was going to come to let bygones be bygones. After all, while there are lots of four letter words she would associate with her family, ''love'' is not one of thema head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340962151</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Julia Williams|title=Last Christmas|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=With Christmas fast approaching, what better way of getting in the spirit of things than by reading this excellent book that captures the joys and stresses of the festive season so well? The reader follows four different people – Catherine Tinsall and her husband Noel, Marianne Moore and Gabriel North. Each of these characters have their own reasons for not really looking forward to Christmas (mainly because of the experience of last Christmas) and these reasons slowly become apparent to the reader as the story progresses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla NoliLauren Bravo|title=The Mother's TalePreloved

|summary=''It Gwen is early evening. I am suckling my infant son… We are picture perfect. Madonna pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and child''.  No doubt about it: a new mother totally smitten ends with her son. Zach is adorable. Quiet. Undemanding. A happy, generally relaxed, child. Gorgeous.  But Zach isnan oh-my-God-I't her firstm-nearly-bornforty. First there was CassieHaving 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. A child who entered the world screaming Catharsis is key and Gwen has since learned exactly what power she can wring with such lungs. Not yet two years old, Cassie adores decided now is the time to take back her father, but even him she manipulates. Her mother she terrorises.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Sue Moorcroft|title=Starting Over|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The story opens when Tess bumps her old reliable car into a breakdown truckThen Richard left them. That's rather convenient, since she isn't hurt, and the guy driving it is able to tow her to his garage, and then give her a lift to her new home. Naturally, since this is the 'chick-lit' genre, Tess and the truck-driver, who goes by the unlikely name of Ratty (an abbreviation of his surname) feel mutual antipathy of the sort that's clearly going to lead, sooner or later, to strong attraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stella WhitelawHadeer Elsbai|title=Midsummer MadnessThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=YouDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 'll like Sophie Gresham. She wanted to 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be an actress but suffers from paralysing stage fright and when the side effects became too much more different, yet find themselves fighting for her she worked behind the scenesrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. She's a very good prompt despite Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the fact that you need Weaving Academy to wrap up very warmly learn to survive in control her abilities and then join the prompt corner military, but instead she loves is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her job family and most maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the cast Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in the theatre companylove with Nico. It's What follows is a bit story of a shock though when she realises that the guest producer from New York is Joe Harrisonan unjust society, the man she helped out when he had nothing to eat filled with hypocrisy and nowhere to sleep. Sophie was cruelty, from which blossoms a little softer in those days – in the meantime she's had to develop a protective shellgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089147</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer BohnetB0B575J99N|title=Follow Your Star|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's three years since Nanette Weston left Monaco. She'd been engaged to a Formula 1 racing driver and had lived the life of the wealthy but a serious car accident had ended all that. The accident could have killed her fiancé and she lost her driving licence because of the alcohol she'd consumed. Her slow recovery was hindered by the end of her engagement but she's found some contentment in being a nanny to two young children. When her friend and employer, Vanessa, remarries and takes an extended honeymoon in the Amazon Nanette is asked to take Beneath the children back to Monaco where their father lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089090</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Miss Read|title=Christmas at Thrush GreenBrooke Adams

|summary=Set Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the rural village of Thrush Green, this book is right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the latest in time to make a series surrounding familiar characterschange. She needed challenges. There is was a little trepidation when she applied for the feisty Ella Bembridge, who is finally having to admit that old age is creeping up as her eyesight failsprofessoressa job in Bologna. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about her After a telephone interview, but she refuses to accept any help. Albert Piggott has decided was offered the position and itwasn's time to retire now that his wife, Nelly, is a successful cafe owner and can afford to take care of him! And relative newcomer Phil Hurst and her husband are arranging t long before she was exploring the local nativity play, despite a number of set-backsbeautiful city. Will everything be in place for Christmas? And will independent Ella make a decision about There were some natural doubts before her future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>first class but it went surprisingly well.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maxine Barry0241542405|title=River DeepMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Two young women both have a love of the ThamesWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Melisande RayHer outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's beloved hotelgoing to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the Ray safety of Sunshine is on the river bankher home. ItShe's here fortunate that guests come she has a good friend, Sadie, who want to be pampered and looked after in the way that only the best hotels can do wellvisits regularly with her two children, but when Wendell James checks in to the hotel it's not pampering he's looking forand Matilda. HeSadie's buying a piece cardiac nurse and full of land not far from the Ray of Sunshine sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and hethere's sussing out the competitionalso an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. There's something personal in there too – if his new hotel means that the Ray of Sunshine goes under then that would be an added bonusThen Tom McDermott arrives. ThereHe's just from Holding Hands, a slight doubt in his mind when a red-haired maid catches his eyecharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah Fleming0008441618|title=Remembrance DayOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=In Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the year 2000 an old lady in a wheelchair watches the unveiling new head of the new war memorial in the village square. ThereWest Burntridge First School: if she didn's pride in what has been achieved, in the family who are gathered around t live up to her and retired predecessor there are memories too. Some are good but many are not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Abby McDonald|title=The Popularity Rules|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but could well be a brief browse at house price slump in that part of the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alleytown. The Americanised language, music scene setting school had an active Parent Teacher Association and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene yearsfunds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. SoThere was one difficulty, despite its label, Ithough - they were ''devastatingly shockable''ve given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteenwith two members, read the story avidlyin particular, and enjoyed causing problems for the ironyhead. So well done, Abby McDonald, Laura Spence and 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 an entertaining story, cleverly toldtheir real gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BakerGiovanna Fletcher|title=Through Rose-Coloured GlassesWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived in one of the poorer parts of Liverpool 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 friends, Vicky and whilst there might not have been a lot of money Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to spare follow, knowing that she was happy in her job as an apprentice milliner dying and spent her free time nursing her mother, Sarahthat they would need help to carry on living. Her father had been killed in Whilst some of the Great Warrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, but it was the nineteen thirties and the Radcliffes were making the best of things. The son another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their next door neighbour was a jockey trips away, and it was his free tickets which took Dinah Vicky and her friend to a race meeting at Aintree. It was there that she met Richard HaldaneZaza, a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet struggling with their grief and introduced her their own life troubles, decide to a life of wealth and privilege beyond her wildest dreams. Within weeks they were married - drop everything in their own lives, and within hours Dinah discovered that her husband was not the man she thought he wasgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Matthews B09FS89KX9|title=That Loving FeelingFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Have you ever wondered what successful authors write about? Life should have been good for Hollie: Since they no longer partake of She was just going into the everyday world final year of work, how do they her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB'write about what they know' while still sounding fresh and up to s diner. Bob - the minute? owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. And how do they think up all those unique plots? Well, Carole Matthews has solved the problem Hollie had moved in 'That Loving Feeling' by setting the book in a Public Librarywith her boyfriend, cleverly utilising the hours she must have spent promoting Marcus: her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up mother thought he was great and down the countryhe was doing well in his career. To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty of interest from library readers and it's a rather nice touch, isnHollie wasn't it, quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to set a book amongst your loyal fan base.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Griffiths |title=The Lost Guide to Life and Love|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living in London control her and hankering for a more glamorous life than the one she has. She has a taste most of this when all he wanted her boyfriend Jake takes to leave her to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers and models. Little does she know job at the time but some of diner. Then there was the people she only glimpses fact that night are about to become very important he would be violent, both to her. Just after, she agrees to go on a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in the Pennines. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on her own. Surprisingly though, it is relief rather than fear that she experiences, particularly when she realises that where she is staying has very strong links with her family's history and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen who's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quotingother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Freda Lightfoot 0008421714|title=House of AngelsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel focuses to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the Angel family who live in the Lake District in the late 1900s. Josiah Angel is the head of the family and appears last page) seemed to either be a respectable business man, bringing up his three daughters after the death of his wifereading it or had already done so. The family live in a beautiful house and – Every day Mrs March went to outsiders – the daughters seem local patisserie to have everything – comfortbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, moneyPatricia asked, beauty and an easy lifeas she was wrapping the bread, in great contrast to ''but isn't this the poverty around them. Not far from Josiahfirst time he's department store are based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the workhouse with its brutality and fact that Johanna is the blocks whore of slum flats infested with ratsNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Silver 1473685745|title=Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cassie may be 'just' a PA and living and working in one of the most expensive cities on the planet, but thanks to a flair for fashion, and a generous banker boyfriend you'd never know it from looking at her. But, in the fickle world of fashion, friendships and fat-cat bonuses, things can change in an instant. Let go from her job, and from her relationship by her rhymes-with-banker now ex, she is forced to fend for herself and make some cut backs (*shudder*). Forget the Louboutins and the fancy, on-fashion belts, the only buckling she'll be doing any time soon is the buckling down to get a new job, reduce her outgoings, and maintain the smidge of self-respect she has left.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543559</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Emily Barr|title=The Life You Want|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Many good writers have a signature style and for me, Emily Barr's has always been the utterly authentic travel details all her books have been peppered with, whether it be the lazy life in a lush French farmhouse, or the excitement of backpacking across Asia. Her new title is no exception, and this time the destination is India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755335600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tatiana Boncompagni|title=Hedge Fund WivesKatie Marsh

|summary=Chick lit is about finding a man in order When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to live happily ever after: not just any manapologise for having knocked Simon's son, of courseJake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Mr Right himselfJake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''Hedge Fund Wivesau fait'' is as pink cotton-wooly as any self-respecting chick lit novel in search of a herowith your medical acronyms. But... it also flies in When he was born, the face left side of this conventionhis heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. In the storySo, marrying money does not secure the fairy tale ending. It's really amazing that Tatiana Boncompagni Simon has managed every right to deliver a ragsbe over-to-riches happy ending for her heroine while roundly denouncing the riches along the wayprotective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756187X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janette Jenkins C J Carey|title=Angel of BrooklynWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=On It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the eve state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the Great War, Jonathan Crane arrives home sanctioned return to the unyielding grey throne of Edward VIII with his home town of Anglezarkewife, Lancashire with a beautiful new bride on his armQueen Wallis. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received into the embrace of For yes, Britain caved in the women of this alien place lead- her beauty is captivating and up to the stories about where she grew upWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, enchanting; Jonathan Crane's new foreign wife is not ordinary among these folk and they we are suspicious now a protectorate – well, we share enough of her and the same blood as sometimes only gritty, British women know how, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward herthe Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Who is But this stunning creature that is trying to infiltrate their lives?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Santa Montefiore|title=The Italian Matchmaker|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lucamost certainly a different Britain, a halffor Nazi-Italianstyled phrenology, rich banker has been through a painful divorce and ideas of female purpose, has decided to take stock put all of his life. He decides that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to leave the City behind anddrudges, at the suggestion of a friend (andbeyond those, inevitably, ex-lover) he decides right on down to take off for the summer to visit his parents who havechildless, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in (the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on husbandless and the Amalfi coastwidows. Here Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, his parents live is employed with a rich assortment the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of eccentric friends in residenceit – after all, including a pet pig.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340840544</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Harrison |title=The Secret Shopper Unwrapped|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Glamourous Grazianot every book can be banned, sassy Sandie and enthusiastic Emily first got together in Harrison's earlier titlenot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, 'The Secret Shopper's Revenge'. Now and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're back but this time there are many more hassles to deal with than just a bit of simple, secret shoppingstamped ready for reprint. Think toy boys and sugar daddies and the odd A-lister That is her job, a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefullyat least, reformed criminals and criminal exesuntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, long lost mothers and with their potential new mothers in law (in the same room! At the same time!) and the delight or dread that comes from finding yourself unexpectedly in the family way. Combine all these factors with the run up to Christmas and you have three good friends run off their feet in every direction but, because friendship is really all that matters, resolutely there for each other in a pinchspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarra Manning Ruth Hogan|title=UnstickyMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Low paid but with big dreams, talented fashionista Grace is This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the process of being dumped by early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy whom she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enough(as he would have been called then), he's doing it on her birthdaya girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and if even chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''that'sTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' not bad enough, he's doing it in Libertyto use her family'ssea-front booth. Right by The singer, the scryer and the new season Marc Jacobs bags. Itsufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just wrongbefore then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. And yet We also see her on her last day, as one door closesfifty years later, another opens right next to itin possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. And this one Just who is biggershe, older and a lot more expensive. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace as who delivered the tears begin secrets about her to fallImelda, whisking her off and why did it have to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cake. There are worse things I can think of, that's for sure.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'FlanaganJennifer Saint |title=The Perfect ManAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I've read many This re-telling of the myth of Sheila O'Flanagan's books Ariadne and have always found them light enjoyable reads with the Minotaur is interesting storylines and likeable charactersunusual. This Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is what I was expecting from ''The Perfect Man'', and I wasn't at all disappointedsympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience.  Unlike most of O'FlanaganSaint's books, this one narrative is not set in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship in told predominantly through the Caribbean. Britt McDonaghviewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the successful author of reader to really connect with Ariadne as a novel also entitled ''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present character in her own right rather than just a series prop in the heroics of talks and workshops about successful romantic writingTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg Wolitzer Lucy Holland|title=The PositionSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wifeSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, Rozfor most of us, seemingly like no other man has ever loved are a woman – his idolatry is boundlesscornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, bordering on theatrical and yet fleshing out of this worshipcharacters, Paul has examining relationships and re-evaluating the germ role of an ideawomen. Who would not want to know Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the ways in which it plot is possible handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? How could everyone not want come to seelife, to ''share'' feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the artistic renderings pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of this act of love?storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Carly B08NF79QXT|title=Fraser's LineCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=When Edie died Fraser was devastated. TheyThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she'd been married s nominated for thirty one years - and he'd been devoted to herwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Nothing had been too much trouble She's delighted and hethe two people she'd been quite prepared to watch s brought with her flirt with other men, to shine in any companythe event couldn't be more pleased. He wasSonja, after allher mother, the man she went home withis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Her death had come suddenly Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and weeks later he was still in a state of shockLiberty adores Jessica's husband, but he knew that he would have to sort out her affairs Charles and he enlisted the help of a casual acquaintance to support himtheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. He was Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in for some painful shocksher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438960069</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy DillonB08GFSK2WZ|title=Lost Dogs and Lonely HeartsThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucy Dillon's previous novelGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, [[The Ballroom Class by Lucy Dillon|The Ballroom Class]], featured three couples whose individual stories end up muddled when they start the same dancing lessonsabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. In She's not had sex for eight months and she'Lost dogs s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and Lonely Heartsshe has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life'' we have three very different families whose lives end up intertwined when they suddenly become involved s chaotic: she dealt with the local rescue kennels. Sound familiar? While leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the premise for shower fell through the two is similarroof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the stories share pervy postman. She only one common theme: theyhas to take her mother're both great readss dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Candlish B08CHJLNBS|title=Before We Say GoodbyeCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Olivia suffered He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a great deal partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in her childhood and teenage yearsthe heritage library next door. Her mother Maggie would disappearEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, often for months at which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a time[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, leaving Olivia and her brother disorientatedabove all, upset and - eventually - very angryhe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. But when her mother lies dying They're obviously not at all compatible, thereso why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's a big question Olivia wants not his usual type at all: it's obvious to askhis friends. Did her mother deliberately keep her away from Richie And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, the young man why does she fell in love with when she was sixteenfeel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751540382</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Lorraine Jenkin |title=Eating Blackbirds|rating=4When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down.5|genre=WomenHer relationship has just ended and now she's Fiction|summary='Delightful'the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, 'unsophisticated' so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don'funny' tags jump to mind t, but one thing is for ''Eating Blackbirds''sure, one of several books published this year, aimed at the womenisn's mainstream market from Welsh publishers Honno. I read it in a couple of sittings, not wanting t going to put it downblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190678406X</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura Elliott Katie Fforde|title=The Prodigal SisterA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sisters RebeccaI'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, Julie family and Lauren are travelling from Ireland to attend their younger sister's wedding in New Zealandfriendships. This is unlikely to be just any provided two romances for the price of one, but it was actually the family reunion though element as no one had heard from Cathy since she fled from their home fifteen years ago. There are many unresolved issues but Cathy has invited them all with opposed to the hope romance that they can achieve some closure and hopefully move on with their livesI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561470</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Campbell B07W4MNBSG|title=When Good Friends Go BadBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=A famous designer, a cleanliness-obsessed stay at home mum and a slightly kooky Yank who talks It was coming up to angels might not be three people you'd pick to be friends Halloween in 1987 and a normal story, but these women haven't met now, as pushinggroup of sixth-40 year olds. No, form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were good friends, great friends even, all through high school, and though life has evidently taken then in different directions, fifty. When you can understand how something like surviving their teen years together would form an everlasting bond. Except it didn'tre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, really. They've barely talked in years, and even the reunion organised ten years ago went wrong. So how is it but Liz was convinced that they've ended up back in each others' lives? What's happened? Why now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519992</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melissa Hill |title=Before I Forget|rating=4.5|genre=Womenyour entire life depends on who you marry's Fiction|summary=At the start of the book, Abby's partner of four years has just left her and, in dealing with her misery, she is becoming a bit of a workaholic and a social recluse. One morning, on her way to work she becomes The only eligible boys were the victim of a freak accident Young Farmers and suffers a brain injury that is going to affect her long term memory. Faced with the prospect idea of forgetting all that she holds dear, Abby re-evaluates the way she has been living and makes a list of all the memorable experiences she hopes to create. She also sets about capturing all the memories in a 'memory chest' on her computer so that she will be able to remember all the wonderful experiences. Suddenly she is enjoying life a lot more especially when she meets the handsome farmhouse and thoughtful Finn. Unexpectedly, Abby's life has never looked better except, of course, for the fact that she keeps forgetting things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340952997</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lindsey Kelk |title=I Heart New York|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Holed up in a New York hotel room, Angela is getting a New York make over from her NY NBF, Jenny. And how, we ask ourselves, did our heroine end up in The City That Never Sleeps? Well, if you had caught your boyfriend of ten years having sex with a skinny (grrr!) blonde on the back seat of your car (where the car seats couple of your future children were supposed called Will and Olly appealed to go), during the wedding reception of your best friendsCharlotte, or perhaps William and that everyone – including your best friends - apart from Oliver if you had known what he had been up were Elizabeth who was determined to for some considerable time, you may very well have kicked off your Louboutins, hitched up your bridesmaids dress and headed for marry the nearest airport too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007288387</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaishree Misra |title=Secrets and Lies|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Four girls became friendly at school in Delhirather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Fifteen years later three of them are in London, but Zeba is still in India. She The place to start their search was a promising actress (on and off obviously the stage) at school but in 2008 sheYoung Farmers's the reigning queen of Bollywood. Let no one say Halloween disco that she hasn't earned her position; some of those producers can be quite demanding – on and off the stageweekend. Back in London Bubbles is the wife of a millionaire Indian businessman. It There was an arranged marriage and although it's never been close Bubbles isn't just one problem - there were too unhappy. Sam is the trophy wife and her marriage seems to have ground to a halt, whilst Anita, always the brainiest of the group, seems to have difficulty many Elizabeths in keeping a relationship going. There was another girl who had an influence on the girls, but they hated Lily D'Souza – and then she diedclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561683</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Margot Berwin|title=Hot House Flower|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Themed fiction, where there is a clear obsession with a specific topic can be a bit hit or miss, but in the past I have enjoyed ones that focus Move on to [[Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen MackFeatures|books]] and [[Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn|shoes]] and especially [[The Food of Love by Anthony Capella|foodthe latest features]]. The key in my mind has always been to write about something other people obsess over, establishing an immediate bond between reader and writer. This title falls into this category but with a rather unusual and specific fixation: tropical plants. I know little about these, and have never really wanted to change that fact, but though I didn't share the author's fascination initially, by the end of the book I was hooked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091926122</amazonuk>}}