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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hornby1471180158|title=The HiveMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ThereJamie 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 an old joke thatson, for parentsBo, there are only two good days in the school holidays - the first 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the lastmore you read, but in St Ambrose the more you'll suspect that he'real'' work begins when s on the children go back autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to school take time off at the start of the new school year. Thereshort notice - she's a new head at frequent flier in the school (local A&E and hesometimes Bo'll have s not fit enough to go to be knocked into shape) but school. Missed shifts or the real power is Beatrice - 'Bea' need to those whom she elects be away on time to call friends for the time being - who rules the parents, decides who is in or out pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and what status they should have put in the communitywrong. And how does she do it? Well, she's the queenIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704358</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Christina Jones|title=An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jay loves Erin and Erin loves Jay. They live in a picture perfect village called Nook Green and are planning their dream wedding, which is only a few weeks away. The plans are coming along perfectly and everything is running according to schedule. Life simply couldn’t get any better than this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957131</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ciara GeraghtyLauren Bravo|title=Lifesaving for BeginnersPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=A fatal car crash links Kat Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and Milo, two people who otherwise might never have metends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. After all, they live in different countries, and she’s old enough to be his mother. He likes lifesaving classes and Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the banana muffins in his mother’s café, while she lives off cigarettes and wine, and writes for toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a livingmid-life crisis. And yet Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now, because of is the crash, they are linked. They don’t realise it yet, but as time passes their lives will move closer. As secrets are unearthed, they will become bound to one another in different ways.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998121</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|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'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''.
{{newreview|author=Cathy Woodman|title=Country Loving|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Stevie Dunsford receives a call to tell her that her father’s farm is in danger of going under, she doesn’t have any idea how bad things really areThen Richard left them. Her life is in London with her successful career in accountancy and her good looking boyfriend. She plans to go to the farm in Devon for the weekend to sort things out and that will be that. However, when she discovers the state of things, she has no option other to stay and try to make things better even though she and her father have been estranged for years. What she does not expect though, is how readily and happily she fits back into life on the farm and soon her London life and Nick start to lose their attraction. Of course, this new contentment has got nothing to do with her blossoming relationship with the gorgeous local vet, Leo. It’s time to move forward and commit to the farm and Leo. However, just as things are really looking good, Stevie makes an unexpected discovery that threatens to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fern BrittonHadeer Elsbai|title=The Holiday HomeDaughters of Izdihar|rating=3.54|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Pru and Connie might be sisters but theyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar're as different as chalk and cheese. It's always been like this. Pru is explores the elderlives of two women who could not be more different, although not by much yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and she's weavers – those with magical abilities - in a hard-nosed businesswoman who ''always'' gets what she wantssociety pitted against them. Husband Francis was acquired in much Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the same way that you might employ staff - Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and that's his function. He looks after Pru and their son Jeremythen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Connie, Giorgina on the other hand, is did not have a homebody - married privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to Greg (who runs provide for her parents' family business) and mother to Abigail maintain their sixteen-going-on-seventeen year old daughter. Therereputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's another difference toorights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Francis What follows is pure a story of heart and an honest manunjust society, largely unappreciated by his wife, but Gregfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, although Connie believes differently, is from which blossoms a philandering little sh.group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007468539</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella NewmanB0B575J99N|title=LeftoversBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Susie Rosen is what Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a magazine calls teacher at a prestigious girl'leftovers school in York. It was ' - 'comfortable'' but she's thirty longed for something and lacks her dream man, job or homemore in life. You might She'd 'think'still not found the right vocation nor met the right man' that she has the job of her dreams as she's an account manager in advertising, but she finds it unfulfilling - and that's on now was the good daystime to make a change. She needed challenges. On There was a little trepidation when she applied for the bad days she resurrects her plan that she's going to get promoted by Christmas and then quitprofessoressa job in Bologna. Boyfriend Jake cheated on her After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and although the relationship broke up some time ago she hasnit wasn't got over himlong before she was exploring the beautiful city. Right now life revolves around the job, minimising the effect of There were some of the more dreadful colleagues and natural doubts before her girlfriends - first class but some of them are proving to be not quite as reliable as she might have hopedit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756271X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janey Fraser0241542405|title=Happy FamiliesMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Happy families areWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, contrary 214 days. She'd ''like'' to popular belief: in fact, not all alike. Bobbie is a working mum of two children who we’ll call ‘spirited’ for want of a better phraseshe so nearly does. Her husband works late a lot so she’s the one left trying outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to juggle running the house with wrangling the children and still fitting in catch her own jobtrain. Then, she can't. Andy is dad She simply can't force herself to two teens who are perfectly behaved, or at least they are during leave the rare moments he spends at safety of her home. His wife Pamela is She's fortunate that she has a goddessgood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and a Perfect Parent to bootMatilda. He’s Sadie's a very lucky guycardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. And then there’s Vanessa, In fact it was Sadie who feels gave Meredith her mothering days cat, Fred. Groceries are behind 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 until her young grand-daughter comes to stay…and doesn’t leavespare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580853</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen0008441618|title=Dear ThingOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Everyone hopes for the happily ever after, and Claire and Ben expected Jo Fairburn knew that once they were married, once they had 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 with a garden big enough for a swing, price slump in that part of the babies would naturally follow afterwardstown. So what happens when The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the babies don't? How long do you try funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to get pregnant? the school. How long do you endure IVF? At what point do you say enough is enoughThere was one difficulty, and let go of the dream? And what ifthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', at that moment of feeling you simply cannot take any morewith two members, your best friend offered to be a surrogate motherin particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and carry your baby?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Bratley|title=The Antenatal Group|rating=4.5|genre=WomenKate Monroe objected to Jo's Fiction|summary=Five women are all looking forward to meeting their new babies restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a few weeks time. Part of their preparations involve joining the local antenatal group where they get to meet each other. Little do they realise, when they turn warm-up act for their first session, how much they are going to come to rely on and care for each other. This book is partly a testament to all those lasting friendships that are formed in groups just like this all over the countryreal gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218388</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in ParisWalking on Sunshine
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Anna Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has been working as a supervisor died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and taster at a chocolate factoryZaza. She’s 30But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, never much cared about schoolknowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the 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 Vicky and recently split with her boyfriend. Life isn’t particularly excitingZaza, but she’s reasonably content struggling with her lot. Then a freak accident at worktheir grief and their own life troubles, followed by a nasty infection decide to drop everything in hospital leaves her unemployedtheir own lives, apathetic and go along with no idea what her future holdshim.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751549207</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB09FS89KX9|title=Good Husband MaterialFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Fergal is part Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a popular pop bandgood boss. Regularly Hollie had moved in the news for various scandalswith her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he is introduced was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the prologue to this novel when diner. Then there was the fact that he recalls his first, somewhat dramatic meeting with 17-year-old Tishwould be violent, both to her and the year-long romance which followedto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562817</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Stothard0008421714|title=The Art of LeavingMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=LukeThe problem began just after the publication of George March's a barrister and Eva? She's a romantic most successful novel editor and habitual leaverto date. Be Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it a party or a manhad already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as shewas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's working based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the exit strategy from the moment everything startsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. This makes Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Eva and Luke have been together for three years a little abnormal in Eva world. The other abnormality in Eva world Johanna is the blonde woman she keeps spotting in random placeswhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, almost as if sheunloveable wretch.''s being spied upon…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882370</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cora Carmack1473685745|title=Losing ItUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=3.54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Bliss is a drama student, but what else would you expect with a name like that? And yet, when we When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first meet hermet they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, I would never have guessed that Simon was angry and Beth was doing her major. She just doesn’t seem the type. She’s also not the type best to pick up random men in barsapologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but that’s exactly what she does as the book startsJake has history. It’s her friend Kelsey’s fault He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. She’s determined to get Bliss out there When he was born, because that’s not where Bliss normally is. About to graduate at the end left side of the yearhis heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Bliss Simon has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time every right to change thatbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisC J Carey|title=Peaches for Monsieur Le CuréWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=It’s It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's 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 seven years since I read [[Chocolat by Joanne Harris|Chocolat]]the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, set Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a small French town called Lansquenetprotectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. I liked it 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, on ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the wholedrudges, and often wondered what happened beyond those, right on down to Viannethe childless, the chocolate-making husbandless and rather mystical the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, not to mention Rose Ransom, is employed with the people whose lives she affected so deeply. A couple task of years later I read ''The Lollipop Shoes'' which purported bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be a sequelbanned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, but really stood alone. It was set in Paris and rather different in styleso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. I liked it That is her job, at least, but somehow it did not feel as if it involved until the same peoplefirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776998</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BerryRuth Hogan|title=The AdoptionMadame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=It is 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 sad fact that only humdrum job wanting to become a few decades agosinger, and chiefly, Imelda, the forced removal third generation of an infant from its unmarried Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother was widely considered will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the best option 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 all concerneda woman called Billie. It Just who is hard she, and who delivered the secrets about her to imagine the terrible trauma suffered by these women when the authorities intervened Imelda, and took away that tiny bundle, destined for why did it have to remain a new life with new parents.secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091947057</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura KempJennifer Saint |title=Mums Like UsAriadne |rating=24.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Stella Smith is fed up with This re-telling of the expectation that mums should be superwomen. She feels that there are certain women, who appear to have achieved perfection in terms myth of motherhood, that make all other mums feel inept Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and inferiorunusual. She feels Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that realism is best and that sympathetic to strive its origins but also appealing to be 'good enougha modern audience. Saint' s narrative is what most mums should aspire told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to. That is why she sets up her death, allowing the 'Mums Like Us' group that meets weekly reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her messy kitchen and rejoices own right rather than just a prop in slovenliness, messy clothes and overeatingthe heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099574586</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie FfordeLucy Holland|title=A French AffairSistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone 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, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a 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 a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.
|isbn=1529039037
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B08NF79QXT
|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique
|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Gina Makepiece Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just moved to six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Cotswolds to live near her sister SallyRetail Best Newcomer Award. They are intrigued when they discover that their dear Aunt Rainey has left them something in She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her willto the event couldn't be more pleased. In order to find out what though Sonja, they have to go to the French Househer mother, is an antiques centre, ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where the ownerLiberty 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 husband, MatthewCharles and their four-year-old daughter, has a letter from their aunt to openAva. It transpires that they have been left Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a stall man in the centre and their aunt has requested that Matthew helps them get to grips with the world of antiquesher life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846056543</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor MoranB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Last Time I Saw YouKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=As a woman in her mid thirtiesGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, Livvy feels that her life is OKabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She has a good job even though 's not had sex for eight months and she 's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is slightly intimidated by being visited on her boss and is often in danger of being overlooked she has a real talent for new projectsattracting drama. Her love life might be non-existent but at least 's chaotic: she shares her home dealt with James, the one time love leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her life which only works if she can settle for being good mates. However, when she hears that Sallystark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her best friend from many years ago, has been killed in mother's dog out for a car accident, walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her world is turned upside downface - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876327</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda GreenB08CHJLNBS|title=The MummyfestoCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Three womenHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, who meet regularly in the school playground, have become close friendsMayfair letting agents. Sam has two sons: the sensitive She's Emilia, old-fortwenty-his years Zach, who is sevennine, librarian and archivist in the fun-loving five-year-old Oscarheritage library next door. Anna Emilia has two teenagersread [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, Will and Charlottewhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, and to something a younger daughter called Esme. Jackie just has Alicelittle deeper. OscarCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, Esme and Alice are classmatesbut, and good friends; sadlyabove all, Oscar suffers from an incurable muscle-wasting diseasehe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, and so why can only move in a wheelchairCharles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. Sam and her partner Rob have to use ventilators and other machines just And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to keep him alive? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, knowing that any infection could be seriously life-threatening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875223</amazonuk>isn't it?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beth GutcheonHelly Acton|title=GossipThe Shelf|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Loviah FrenchWhen we meet Amy, Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf met when they were at boarding school. Lovie owns a top-class dress shop she's in Manhattan - the place where women of a certain class go when they want something for relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a special occasion and partnership, because things tend to be secure in the knowledge that they will be treated well and discreetly. Dinah is a columnist who chronicles the lives of New York's rich and famousget done on his terms, whilst Avis is a prominent figure in the art world. Lovie is our narrator and but she's also the glue which holds the three women togethersticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. TheyHaven're both devoted to t we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her and she to them, but pack for a small, imagined slight, many decades earlier, has left an icy distance between Dinah surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and Avis.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899821</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
{{newreview|author=Sam Binnie|title=The Baby Diaries|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=Hot on the heels talk of [[The Wedding Diaries by Sam Binnie|the Wedding Diaries]], Kiki and Thom are back with the next installment of their livesschool. It’s not giving too much away, given Mike was the title, to tell you that there’s a baby on the way. It most popular boy in school who was sortaalways so in love with her, kinda not all everyone knew that planned, but they’re happy if a little shocked. Luckily she’s got so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her sister to guide her through the processand some don't, numerous friends who are newly marriedbut one thing is for sure, newly pregnant or newly parents themselves, and her own mother who seems this isn't going to be almost nice for onceblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007477104</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernardine BishopKatie Fforde|title=Unexpected Lessons in LoveA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Cecilia Banks and Helen Gatehouse met by chance in a doctorI's waiting room ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and a friendship developed because they were both cancer survivors, albeit with a colostomy. It this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a case of opposites attracting: Cecilia was quietwarm, reservedcosy read focused on romance, married for the second time family and the mother of Ian whom she idolisedfriendships. Helen had never married, loud in This provided two romances for the nicest sense price of the word and an author. They gave each other mutual support and an outlet for their preoccupations. People with whom you can discuss the, erone, intricacies of your stoma are few and far between! The relationship wasn't entirely uncritical: Helen was less than impressed when Ian dumped (sorry - there's really no other word for but it) a baby on his mother. Cephas was actually the result of a fling he'd had with family element as opposed to the child's mother and she'd disappeared. He - a war correspondent - was on his way abroadromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184854782X</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona GibsonB07W4MNBSG|title=Pedigree Mum|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Kerry Tambini moves to Shorling, she has high expectations that she and her family will live there happily forever. Within weeks though, her dreams are shattered after her husband Rob shocks her by an indiscretion that he can hardly remember. This indiscretion turns out to have a devastating consequence leaving Kerry with no option but to ask Rob to move out. This leaves her alone with the children in Shorling and pretty much friendless as she struggles to find anything in common with the snooty mums she meets at the school gate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562612</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Carolyn Mathews|title=Transforming PandoraLizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Pandora Armstrong It was coming up to Halloween in the spring 1987 and a group of 2003 she's grieving for her husband, Mike, who had died just a few weeks beforesixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. It hadnWhen you't been his first heart attack and he had reduced his workload re only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but this attack Liz was fatalconvinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. He was The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in his fifties a farmhouse and Pandora feels that he'd been snatched away from her as they'd only been married for a few years. When having a friend suggests that she goes with her to an Evening couple of Clairvoyance she runs out of excuses children called Will and Olly appealed to refuse Charlotte, or perhaps William and although sheOliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers's not exactly ''convinced'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubtHalloween disco that weekend. A spirit voice mentioned her children and Pandora There was adamant that she didn't have any children just one problem - it's actually quite a sore point - but that wasn't true of Mikethere were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780997450</amazonuk>
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