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|summary=Amber Scott has been with her fiancé Ed for over ten years. Things may not be perfect in their relationship but they muddle along OK in their London home, both going off to their separate jobs. However, one day, just as Amber is about to celebrate a promotion of her own, Ed announces that he has been offered a partnership in a law firm. This should be fantastic news but the problem is that it is over two hundred miles away in Cornwall and would mean Amber having to give up everything that she has worked for in order to go with him. And, of course, as Ed points out many times, if she really loves him she wouldn't even have to think about it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409135500</amazonuk>
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|author=Alice Peterson
|title=Ten Years On
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The prologue of this book sees Becca with her student friends at a New Year's Eve party. Afterwards, she and her boyfriend Ollie and their flatmate Joe hang out for a while, talking about the future. They wonder what they might be doing in ten years' time...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383256</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Allen
|title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jeanne Le Page suffered a panic attack as the ferry neared Guernsey. It was a decade and a half since she'd left the island following the deaths of her parents in a boating accident. She'd been in the boat with them but had no memory of what happened other than the occasional flashback. It was the death of her grandmother which brought her back to the island, but she never intended to stay for long - in fact just long enough to arrange for the sale of the cottage which her grandmother had left her. But somehow the island worked its magic on her and she found herself making friends and developing more of a social life than she'd had back on the mainland.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780882300</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gwen Kirkwood
|title=Another Home, Another Love
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rosemary Palmer-Farr is nowhere near as grand as her name might lead you to expect. In fact she's a down-to-earth girl, fresh out of horticultural college who's taken over the gardens attached to her mother's hotel. It's her mother who has the social pretensions. She's determined that Rosemary Lavender (it's OK - everyone else calls her Rosie) is going to make a good marriage and that certainly doesn't include any of the tenant farmers (or their offspring) she's been so friendly with. And when push comes to shove she'll do ''whatever'' is necessary to keep her away from one particular man of the soil whilst pushing the suit of the local landowning family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096305</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pamela Kavanagh
|title=The Lonely Furrow
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The loss of the family business was no fault of the Drummond family, but by the time that they'd repaid what was owed they had no home and no means of making a living. The elder son, Nathan, lost his fiancé and there was little left for them to do but to leave Glasgow and move to a farm which had been in Florence Drummond's family for some time. They weren't farmers, but there was little choice but for them to buckle down and make the best of the situation presented to them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096372</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway
|title=The Lady Most Likely
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Hugh, the Earl of Briarly, has acknowledged his mortality after a nasty accident, and has decided to take a wife. Not being a very sociable person - he likes horses better than people - he asks his married sister Carolyn to produce a list of eligible young ladies. She does so, and then invites them and various other friends to a house party.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074995776X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sinead Moriarty
|title=Me and My Sisters
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Louise, Sophie and Julie. Three women. Three sisters. One a successful business woman. One a successful trophy wife. One a successful mother of four. All of them seem to the others to have it all. All of them have more troubles than the others could ever imagine.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241950589</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maria Goodin
|title=Nutmeg
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Meg was rather underdone when she was born. Her mother ate lots of eggs during pregnancy, in the hope of giving her a good glaze, but instead she came out clucking like a chicken, and was fortuitously caught in a frying pan by the gas man...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248246</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Robinson
|title=The Greatest Love Story of All Time
|rating=2.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It was the blurb on this one that had me interested, mentioning Fran’s 30th birthday (mine’s a few months away) and the fact she’s bluffed her way into a very posh job (something some might say I’ve just done too). I thought we might be kindred spirits and even if we weren’t, I thought I might be signing up for some fun, flirty chick lit which is never a bad thing.
 
Until now.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952980</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rosy Thornton
|title=Ninepins
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Laura lives deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens with her daughter Beth and at the time that we meet them she's just coming up to her twelfth birthday. Her father has remarried and now has three young sons, but mother and father decided early on that they would have cordial relations for Beth's sake - and the habit has stuck. Money from Beth's father is a little hit and miss, so Laura has been in the habit of letting out the pumphouse - once a drainage station - to students, but this time its occupant is Willow, who is seventeen years old and who has been in care. It takes a while for her history to emerge, but her mother was a hippy with no sense of responsibility and it ''seems'' that Willow might have been guilty of arson.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905207859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa Kleypas
|title=Rainshadow Road
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's sometimes said that bad luck comes in threes. It certainly happens that way for Lucy, the rather hapless heroine of this book. First her boyfriend of two years announces that he wants her to move out, because - of all things - he has decided that he likes her sister Alice better. Then Lucy's car breaks down. And then, just as she seems to be dealing with her circumstances fairly well, she is knocked over by a car.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953888</amazonuk>
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