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|summary=This love affair tale Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the city subtlety of Liverpool is mostly told through the eyes of architect Tom Bainesa half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. With He's asthmatic and the Second World War loomingmore you read, Baines is desperately working 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 book frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to capture school. Missed shifts or the memory of buildings that need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are at risk, occasions when Jamie can be controlled and appears a man more put in love with the past and solid, cold structures than mankindwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531933</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine JenkinLauren Bravo|title=Chocolate Mousse and Two SpoonsPreloved|rating=4.5

|summary=From the first sentence: 'With one hell of Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a crash, Lettie Howell’s dinner service hit the wall…', I knew big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I was going to enjoy this tale'm-nearly-forty. An opening thus full Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of expletive a mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and resounding Welsh Voice immediately makes it clear who’s Gwen has decided now is the boss and I can relax, knowing I’m in competent hands. Welcome, Lorraine Jenkin, time to my handful of favourite chick-lit authors.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1870206959</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ru Freeman0008506337|title=A Disobedient GirlThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=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-one and described by Margo'A Disobedient Girls mother as 'an older man' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage family, whose daughter, Thara, is Latha Her parents worried that Richard's ageinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. As children In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the girls are the best Isle of friends, but they are destined Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into the picturebecome a well-respected journalist. Meanwhile The couple had three children: Rachel, Biso serves a cruel Imogen and drunken husband who beats her Sasha. Life was lived in London and terrorises her childrenholidays were spent at Sandcove, one the family home on the Isle of whom is another manWight. Even then the doubts about Richard's love child. Bisodrinking were never far from Margo's husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and mind: ''she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are would never be able to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it leave him in the arms of Tharacharge''s boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events that will echo far into her future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debby HoltHadeer Elsbai|title=Recipe For ScandalThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=ThereDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s evidently a market explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for scandalous tales, or else many the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a women's weekly would have gone out of business by nowsociety pitted against them. Nehal, but this bookborn into the upper class, though full of scandalwishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is slightly differentforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. This isn't council estate scandal or even trashy celebrity scandalGiorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, itwhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's juicyrights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, firmly middle class scandal from which blossoms a group of the type [[:Category:Zoe Heller|Zoë Heller]] might write about, admirable women fighting for their rights and it's wickedly captivatingovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847396542</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules StanbridgeB0B575J99N|title=A Date in Your Diary|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Harry knows that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows there's a difference between what we need and what we want – and she wants a bloke. More specifically, she wants a date for Beneath the latest in a string of friend-and-family weddings, a wedding where, thanks to a 'tricky' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sight, Harry comes to the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to go. At best, she'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes and will joyfully accompany her to the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for a magazine journo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Sharon Owens|title=The Seven Secrets of HappinessBrooke Adams

|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was hard to think that life wasn't perfect 'comfortable'' but she longed for Ruby O'Neillsomething more in life. She 'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and Jonathan had an idyllic marriage and now was the time to make a beautiful homechange. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a dress shop which telephone interview, she enjoyed was offered the position and although it wasn't long before she might not be close to her parents she had good friendswas exploring the beautiful city. It was Christmas Eve and the tree had just been delivered by a lovely man on behalf of the garden centre when There were some natural doubts before her world fell apart. Jonathan had been killed in a car crashfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141028564</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Sarah Duncan|title=A Single to Rome|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie is in love with Michael. They've been together for three years, but Michael wants some space. He hasn’t said he doesn’t love her, so there is still a chance he could come back… Then he goes and finds himself a new girlfriend. Devastated, Natalie consoles herself with the help of her friends, who persuade her to go speed dating. There she meets Guy, a friendly man, who like her is trying to get over someone – his new ex-wife Vanessa. But Guy is one of the nice ones, and before she knows it, he has been invited to her friend’s wedding as Natalie’s date. At least she won’t be going alone and Michael will be there. But her love life isn’t her only worry. Past actions have come to light that have put her career in danger. At a loss, Natalie turns to Guy for help, who offers her the use of his flat in Rome. A place to escape? Or a place to dwell? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345932</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Pearse0241542405|title=Stolen|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The story of ''Stolen'' is an interesting one. David Mitchell is walking along a beach in Selsey, Sussex in May 2003, when he comes across a young woman – beautiful, half-drowned and barely alive. She is taken to hospital and her photo is featured in the newspapers, as the police hope to discover who she is. Meanwhile, Dale, a female hairdresser, sees the photo and believes the girl to be Lotte, who she befriended on a cruise they were working on. Along with Dale's colleague Scott – who also knew Lotte – they visit the girl, but she has amnesia and seems to have forgotten almost everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718152859</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Julie Highmore|title=The MessageClaire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''The Messagelike'' is very much a twenty first century tale as it all hinges on a voicemail message made from a mobile phoneto: in fact, she so nearly does. It is also based Her outdoor clothes are on the fact that it is very easy and she's even considered which shoes to send a message wear if she's going to one person when it is actually meant for someone elsecatch her train. Then, she can't. This is what happens She simply can't force herself to Jen when leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she receives has a message from good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her husband Roberttwo children, James and Matilda. There is nothing particularly special about this message; that is until Jen realises that she is not the intended recipient Sadie's a cardiac nurse and then full of sound common sense. In fact it has 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 shattering effect on her marriagecharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343018</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Pearlman0008441618|title=The Cookie ClubOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=Chocolate bonbons with an almond glaze. Peanut butter cookies double dipped Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in chocolatethat part of the town. Coffee The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and raisin hermit biscuitsthe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. Crisp vanilla fingers There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with toasted almondstwo members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Thin crunchy crisps flavoured with molasses Laura Spence and ginger.  If youKate Monroe objected to Jo're even s restrictions on the slightest bit peckish after toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that, I guarantee you'll be starving by the time you finish this wonderful book full of festive flavourwas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847376843</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eloisa JamesGiovanna Fletcher|title=When the Duke ReturnsWalking on Sunshine

|summary=If you like novels in which little happens as the story strolls towards its happy ending, then Nia PritchardMike's sequel to 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 Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'More Than Just a Hairdresserrules' may suit youto follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. If Whilst some of the Liverpudlian vernacular rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and setting pushes your buttonsVicky and Zaza, then maybe you'll enjoy its light-hearted picture of Scouse struggling with their grief and their own life. My mother-troubles, decide to drop everything in-law will probably love it. I'm sorry to say that it wasn't my cup of tea at alltheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784124</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Porter B09FS89KX9|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>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Margaret Thornton|title=Until We Meet AgainPenelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=In Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the fateful summer final year of 1914 Tilly Moon is settled in her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the midst of the Moon family in Scarboroughowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. It's an extensive clan Hollie had moved in with the usual close relationshipsher boyfriend, unusual situations Marcus: her mother thought he was great and slight distances between people for no apparent reasonhe was doing well in his career. TillyHollie wasn's an accomplished pianist t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and she longs to take most of all he wanted her music studies further, but there's someone who's coming to mean more to leave her than her musicjob at the diner. Her twin's best friend, Dominic Fraser is Then there was the apple of her eye and fact that he feels the same way about would be violent, both to 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 familyother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007486</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liza Palmer0008421714|title=A Field Guide to Burying Your ParentsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Grace is reluctantly participating in a 5k race when she receives The problem began just after the news: her estranged sister is calling to tell her their estranged father has had a stroke. Thatpublication of George March's two lots of estrangement in just two generations of family, but a summons is a summons, and Grace soon finds herself dragged back into the heart of the family she deserted, working with the others most successful novel to discover the many hidden secrets of the father who deserted them alldate. It's a tough jump from her happy life of a good job, a new boyfriend and a home of Everyone but Mrs March (we know her own to return to first name only on the family life she left behind a long time ago, and Grace has last page) seemed to decide whether she can ignore the pull of her biological siblings once more either be reading it or whether had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the time has come local patisserie to let bygones be bygones. After allbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, while there are lots of four letter words as she would associate with her familywas wrapping the bread, ''lovebut isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?' is not one of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340962151</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Williams|title=Last Christmas|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=With Christmas fast approaching She mentioned that Johanna, 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 principal character had 'her husband Noel, Marianne Moore and Gabriel Northmannerisms''. Each of these characters Perhaps this would not have their own reasons mattered, except for not really looking forward to Christmas (mainly because of the experience fact that Johanna is the whore of last Christmas) and these reasons slowly become apparent to the reader as the story progressesNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560865</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Noli1473685745|title=The Mother's TaleUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=''It is early evening. I am suckling my infant son… We are picture perfect. Madonna When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and childBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon''.  No doubt about it: a new mother totally smitten with her s son. Zach is adorable. Quiet. Undemanding. A happy, generally relaxedJake, childoff his bike. Gorgeous.  But Zach isnHe wasn't her firsthurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS -bornthat's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. First there When he was Cassie. A child who entered born, the world screaming left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and has since learned exactly what power she can wring with such lungshe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. Not yet two years oldSo, Cassie adores her father, but even him she manipulates. Her mother she terrorisesSimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftC J Carey|title=Starting OverWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The story opens when Tess bumps her old reliable car into a breakdown truck. ThatIt's rather convenientApril 1953, since she isnand Adolf Hitler't hurts 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 guy driving it is able sanctioned return to tow her the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to his garagethe World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and then give her we are now a lift to her new homeprotectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Naturally, since 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 'chick-lit' genredrudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, Tess the husbandless and the truck-driverwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, who goes by is employed with the unlikely name task of Ratty (an abbreviation of his surname) feel mutual antipathy 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 sort thatparty line before they's clearly going re stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to lead, sooner or laterlight, with their potential to strong attractionspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931224</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stella WhitelawRuth Hogan|title=Midsummer MadnessMadame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=You'll like Sophie Gresham. She wanted to be an actress but suffers from paralysing stage fright and when This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the side effects became too much for her she worked behind the scenesearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. She's So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a very good prompt despite the fact that you need to wrap up very warmly to survive girl in the prompt corner she loves her a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and most chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of the cast in the theatre company. ItMadame Burova, ''s a bit of a shock though when she realises that the guest producer from New York is Joe HarrisonTarot-Reader, the man she helped out when he had nothing to eat Palmist and nowhere to sleep. Sophie was a little softer in those days – in the meantime sheClairvoyant''s had , to develop a protective shell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Bohnet|title=Follow Your Star|rating=3.5|genre=Womenuse her family's Fiction|summary=It's three years since Nanette Weston left Monacosea-front booth. SheThe singer, the scryer and the sufferer'd been engaged to s mother will all become staff at a Formula 1 racing driver and had lived revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the life of first time in the wealthy but a serious car accident had ended all thatfamily stall. The accident could have killed We also see her fiancé and she lost on her driving licence because last day, fifty years later, in possession of the alcohol she'd consumed. Her slow recovery was hindered by the end a pair of her engagement but she's found some contentment in being letters that will change everything for a nanny to two young childrenwoman called Billie. When her friend and employerJust who is she, Vanessa, remarries and takes an extended honeymoon in who delivered the Amazon Nanette is asked secrets about her to take the children back Imelda, and why did it have to Monaco where their father lives.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089090</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miss ReadJennifer Saint |title=Christmas at Thrush GreenAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Set in This re-telling of the rural village myth of Thrush Green, this book Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the latest story in a series surrounding familiar characters. There way that is the feisty Ella Bembridge, who is finally having sympathetic to admit that old age is creeping up as her eyesight fails. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about her, its origins but she refuses also appealing to accept any helpa modern audience. Albert Piggott has decided itSaint's time narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to retire now that his wifeher death, Nelly, is allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a successful cafe owner and can afford to take care of him! And relative newcomer Phil Hurst and character in her husband are arranging own right rather than just a prop in the local nativity play, despite a number heroics of set-backsTheseus. Will everything be in place for Christmas? And will independent Ella make a decision about her future?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maxine BarryLucy Holland|title=River DeepSistersong|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Two young women both have Sistersong is part of a love of the Thames. Melisande Ray's beloved hotelgenre I particularly enjoy, the Ray modern retelling of Sunshine is on the river bankfolk and fairy tales. It's here that guests come who want to be pampered and looked after in the way that only the best hotels can do wellThese stories, but when Wendell James checks in to the hotel it's not pampering he's looking for. He's buying most of us, are a piece cornerstone of land not far from the Ray of Sunshine childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and he's sussing out the competitiona fresh perspective. There's something personal in there too – if his If handled well these retellings give new life and new hotel means meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the Ray role of Sunshine goes under then that would be an added bonuswomen. There's just Sistersong is a slight doubt perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in his mind when a redmodern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-haired maid catches his eyeSaxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah FlemingB08NF79QXT|title=Remembrance DayCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=In the Thirty-one-year 2000 an old lady in a wheelchair watches Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the unveiling of Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the new war memorial in two people she's brought with her to the village squareevent couldn't be more pleased. ThereSonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's pride in what has been achievedhusband, in the family who are gathered around her Charles and there are memories tootheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. Some are good but many are notLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Abby McDonaldB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Popularity Rules|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Anne Baker|title=Through Rose-Coloured GlassesLisette Boyd

|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in one of the poorer parts of Liverpool and whilst there might not have been a karma trap: an awful lot of money to spare she was happy in bad luck is being visited on her job as an apprentice milliner and spent her free time nursing her mother, Sarahshe has a real talent for attracting drama. Her father had been killed in life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the Great War, but it was stairs to absorb the nineteen thirties and water - then the Radcliffes were making shower fell through the best of things. The son of their next door neighbour roof whilst she was a jockey and in it was his free tickets which took Dinah and left her friend to a race meeting , stark naked, staring at Aintreethe pervy postman. It was there that she met Richard Haldane, She only has to take her mother's dog out for a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet and introduced walk for her to a life of wealth and privilege beyond end up with dog poo spattered across her wildest dreams. Within weeks they were married face - and within hours Dinah discovered that her husband was not a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the man she thought he wasoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Matthews B08CHJLNBS|title=That Loving FeelingCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=Have 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 ever wondered what successful authors write about? dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Since they no longer partake Charles is more of the everyday world of worka [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, how do they he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian'write about what they know' while still sounding fresh and up to the minute? . And how do they think up They're obviously not at all those unique plotscompatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? Well, Carole Matthews has solved the problem in She'That Loving Feelings not his usual type at all: it' s obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by setting the book in a Public LibraryCharles's superficiality, cleverly utilising the hours why does she must have spent promoting her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up and down the country. feel drawn to him? To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty of interest from library readers and itThe relationship's obviously a rather nice touchnon-starter, isn't it, to set a book amongst your loyal fan base.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon Griffiths Helly Acton|title=The Lost Guide to Life and LoveShelf|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living When we meet Amy, she's in London and hankering for a more glamorous life than the one she hasrelationship with Jamie. She has You can't really call it a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her partnership, because things tend to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers and models. Little does get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she know at the time but some of the people hopes she only glimpses that night can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are about to become very important to looking up when he tells her. Just after, she agrees to go on pack for a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in the Penninessurprise trip. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on her own. Surprisingly though, Could this be 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? Is he ''s history and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen whofinally's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quoting.going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Freda Lightfoot |title=House of Angels|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=Historical Fiction|summary=The novel focuses on Her relationship has just ended and now she's the Angel family who live in the Lake District in talk of the late 1900sschool. Josiah Angel is Mike was the head of the family and appears to be a respectable business man, bringing up his three daughters after the death of his wife. The family live most popular boy in school who was always so in a beautiful house and – to outsiders – the daughters seem to have everything – comfortlove with her, moneyeveryone knew that, beauty so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and an easy lifesome don't, but one thing is for sure, in great contrast this isn't going to the poverty around them. Not far from Josiah's department store are the workhouse with its brutality and the blocks of slum flats infested with ratsblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Silver Katie Fforde|title=Confessions of a Reluctant RecessionistaA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cassie may be I'just' a PA and living and working in one of the most expensive cities on the planet, but thanks ve wanted to a flair read author Katie Fforde for fashion, ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a generous banker boyfriend you'd never know it from looking at her. Butwarm, in the fickle world of fashioncosy read focused on romance, family and 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 This provided two romances for herself and make some cut backs (*shudder*). Forget the Louboutins and the fancy, on-fashion beltsprice of one, but it was actually the only buckling she'll be doing any time soon is the buckling down family element as opposed to get a new job, reduce her outgoings, and maintain the smidge of self-respect she has leftromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099543559</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily BarrB07W4MNBSG|title=The Life Be Careful Who 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>}} {{newreviewMarry|author=Tatiana Boncompagni|title=Hedge Fund WivesLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Chick lit is about finding a man in order It was coming up to live happily ever after: not just any man, of course, but Mr Right himself. ''Hedge Fund Wives'' is as pink cotton-wooly as any self-respecting chick lit novel Halloween in search of 1987 and a hero. But... it also flies in the face group of this conventionsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. In the storyWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, marrying money does not secure the fairy tale ending. Itbut Liz was convinced that 's really amazing that Tatiana Boncompagni has managed to deliver a rags-to-riches happy ending for her heroine while roundly denouncing the riches along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756187X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janette Jenkins |title=Angel of Brooklyn|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=On the eve of the Great War, Jonathan Crane arrives home to the unyielding grey of his home town of Anglezarke, Lancashire with a beautiful new bride your entire life depends on his arm. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received into the embrace of the women of this alien place - her beauty is captivating and the stories about where she grew up, enchanting; Jonathan Cranewho you marry''s new foreign wife is not ordinary among these folk and they are suspicious of her and as sometimes only gritty, British women know how, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward her. Who is 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=Luca, a half-Italian, rich banker has been through a painful divorce and has decided to take stock of his life. He decides to leave only eligible boys were the City behind Young Farmers and, at the suggestion idea of living in a friend (farmhouse and, inevitably, ex-lover) he decides to take off for the summer to visit his parents who have, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in (the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on the Amalfi coast. Here, his parents live with having a rich assortment couple of eccentric friends in residence, 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 Grazia, sassy Sandie children called Will and enthusiastic Emily first got together in Harrison's earlier title, 'The Secret Shopper's Revenge'. Now they're back but this time there are many more hassles Olly appealed to deal with than just a bit of simpleCharlotte, secret shopping. Think toy boys and sugar daddies or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the odd Arather superior Patrick Shepley-lister, a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefully, reformed criminals and criminal exes, long lost mothers and 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 wayBotham. Combine all these factors with the run up The place to Christmas and you have three good friends run off start their feet in every direction but, because friendship is really all that matters, resolutely there for each other in a pinch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarra Manning |title=Unsticky|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Low paid but with big dreams, talented fashionista Grace is in search was obviously the process of being dumped by a boy whom she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enough, he's doing it on her birthday, and if even 'Young Farmers'Halloween disco that's'' not bad enough, he's doing it in Liberty'sweekend. Right by the new season Marc Jacobs bags. It's There was just wrong. And yet, as one door closes, another opens right next to it. And this one is bigger, older and a lot more expensive. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace as the tears begin to fall, whisking her off to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cake. There are worse things I can think of, that's for sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan|title=The Perfect Man|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I've read problem - there were too many of Sheila O'Flanagan's books and have always found them light enjoyable reads with interesting storylines and likeable characters. This is what I was expecting from ''The Perfect Man'', and I wasn't at all disappointed.  Unlike most of O'Flanagan's books, this one is not set in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship Elizabeths in the Caribbean. Britt McDonagh, the successful author of a novel also entitled ''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present a series of talks and workshops about successful romantic writingclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Meg Wolitzer |title=The Position|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wife, Roz, seemingly like no other man has ever loved a woman – his idolatry is boundless, bordering Move on theatrical and yet out of this worship, Paul has the germ of an idea. Who would not want to know the ways in which it is possible to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? How could everyone not want to see, to ''share'' [[Features|the artistic renderings of this act of love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>}}latest features]]