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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delia Franklin1471180158|title=Almost PerfectMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=24.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Almost Perfect is the debut novel Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for Delia Franklin, and comes a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a delightfully quirky front cover, which is part of what attracted me to ithalf brick. It starts well Jamie's son, too. GloriaBo, who works as housekeeper for a late middle-aged farmer called Will, is happily surveying her vegetable patch'has his problems'. The tractor approaches He's asthmatic and as Will climbs downthe more you read, his mobile phone alerts him to the fact more you'll suspect that his only granddaughter Lucy has had he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a fall, frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and is put in the wrong. It was going to come to a serious state in hospitalhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992886309</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleyLauren Bravo|title=The Baron Next Door|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy a relaxing break in Bath, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmother, Lady Effington. Charity doesn't just love music, she ''lives'' music; it is an intrinsic part of her very being and she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianoforte. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns up on her doorstep, demanding that she keep the ''infernal racket to a minimum'', she declares war on the insufferably rude Baron next door. The result is a light-hearted and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin to bond, despite their differences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Year I Met You|author=Cecelia AhernPreloved|rating=34

|summary=Jasmine Gwen is the main protagonist of this book, and also the narrator. She’s single and has just lost pressing her job, much to her dismay. She’s the kind of person who likes to be busy and to have middle-aged bosom on a purpose in life, but the conditions of her former employment mean big number that she’s on starts with a year’s ‘gardening leave’: she receives a full salary but is not allowed to start another job for a full year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501765</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Last Anniversary|author=Liane Moriarty|rating=4four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=For years, Scribbly Gum has Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a tourist trap, with crowds flocking from the mainland to visit the untouched site bit of the Munro Baby mystery, when a newborn was found abandoned on the island, her parents vanishedmid-life crisis. The baby Catharsis is now a grandmother herself, but the mystery lingers on, key and, well, it’s quite a good business for the residents. Silver linings and all that. But Gwen has decided now Connie, one of two sisters who found is the baby, has passed away, and left time to take back her house to a stranger, an outsider, someone who doesnlife't really belong on the island. Will Sophie’s arrival disturb the peace? Are long hidden secrets about to surface? And what will it mean for the extended family if they do?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405918519</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Catherine Hall|title=The Repercussions|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Once home from her role as a photo-journalist in Afghanistan, Jo decides to move into the Brighton flat that her great aunt Elizabeth has bequeathed her. While searching through the belongings that go with the home, she finds Elizabeth's WWI diaries from the time that she nursed wounded servicemen from the Indian Corps at the Brighton Pavilion. These entries cause her to reflect on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series of letters, telling her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did to Then Richard left them and, indeed, to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienHadeer Elsbai|title=The King's SisterDaughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=ItDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's England in 1380 and 17 year old Elizabeth 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of Lancaster has always dreamt two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her betrothal abilities and then join the sort of love of which balladeers singmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. So when she meets Giorgina on the person other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her father has lined upfamily and maintain their reputation, her face drops to say whilst secretly attending meetings of the least. The Earl Daughters of Pembroke is eight years old so sheIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's not pleasedrights. However one day Giorgina also happens to be in love will find her with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelly cause her to choose between the love cruelty, from which blossoms a group of her life admirable women fighting for their rights and family with fatal consequencesovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=One Step Closer To YouBeneath the Porticoes|author=Alice PetersonBrooke Adams

|summary=Single mum Polly has Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a lot of baggage, but it all basically boils down to two things, boys and boozeprestigious girl's school in York. She’s been to hell and back, It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now, she seems to be doing ok, holding down a job in a café, looking after son Louis and staying off was the sauce. She’s even in a position time to help those she meets, like her fellow AA-ers and single dad Ben at school who is adjusting to his new role.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782061835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Indian Summer|author=Marcia Willett|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mungo is make a retired actor and directorchange. His brother Archie is a landowner, struggling to make ends meet She needed challenges. Kit is There was a good friend who comes to stay, wanting a safe place while little trepidation when she decides whether or not to get applied for the professoressa job in touch with a former boyfriendBologna. Neighbours include Emma, an army wife with two small children who is tempted to an affair with After a friend of her husband’stelephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the elderly brothers Philip and Billy who have a secret that’s been hidden for forty years.beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071530</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicci Gerrard0241542405|title=The Twilight HourMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Eleanor has been persuaded by When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her children home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to seriously consider sheltered accommodation: in fact, she so nearly does. At the age of 94 Her outdoor clothes are on and blindshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she isncan't considered safe rattling around a big old house. She doesnsimply can't surrender without conditions though: before force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she considers moving outhas a good friend, a stranger should be employed to sort Sadie, who visits regularly with her photos two children, James and papers before burning themMatilda. The family agree Sadie's a cardiac nurse and Peter is appointedfull of sound common sense. Gradually he realises why Eleanor doesn’t want In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her children to see the documents cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as the story of hidden lifeJIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, love and loss is revealeda charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405919833</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Geras0008441618|title=Cover Your EyesOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=For London fashion journalist Megan forbidden love ends suddenly and painfully, just when Jo Fairburn knew that she thinks it will blossom into something lasting and legitimate. Elsewhere, in was under intense pressure as the countryside, Eva Conway lives with new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her daughter, son-retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in-law that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and granddaughters in Salix House – the house that Eva used funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to call her own when she was a famous fashion designerthe school. Now she feels aloneThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, even in particular, causing problems for the heart of her familyhead. Not only this but she also faces the loss of the home that means so much Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to her. As Megan and EvaJo's paths cross they discover restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that each of them has was just a dark guilty secret eating away at them, but then Salix House has secrets toowarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Woman Who Stole My LifeGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Marian KeyesWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=Stella is an author working on her second book. Though now back in IrelandMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, she talks of a life in New York. It sounds fabulous. But something has changeddied. Whatever it And whilst he isdealing with his grief, we’re not sure. Maybe the mighty have fallenso are their best friends, the stars have stopped collidingVicky and Zaza. Either wayBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that adventure is over as the book startsthey would need help to carry on living. It’s not where Whilst some of the story startsrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, thoughanother one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and we’re soon plunged back into the pastVicky and Zaza, struggling with the events that have lead Stella their grief and their own life troubles, decide to this point. First on the list, a serious illness, without which nothing that followed would have happened, or at least not drop everything in the way it did. This may sound confusing but the book is anything buttheir own lives, and despite its great length, I sped through itgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155335</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=The Seafront Tea RoomsFall On Me|author=Vanessa GreenePenelope Potts

|summary=Charlie, Kat and Seraphine, are strangers brought together in Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the Seafront Tea Rooms by their mutual love final year of afternoon teaher veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Kat is Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a younggood boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, single mum struggling Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to get by while control her ex provides very little help, Charlie is a heartbroken journalist writing a tea feature for and most of all he wanted her magazine while visiting to leave her difficult sisterjob at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, and French Seraphine has come across the channel both to au pair, improve her English and get some perspective on a new, complicated relationshipto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552232</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=A Most Desirable MarriageMrs March|author=Hilary BoydVirginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jo and Lawrence have been married for nearly forty years. It has been a good marriage and they are both looking forward The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to spending more time together and pursuing new interests once Lawrence has retireddate. However, as Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the time approaches Jo notices that Lawrence appears more edgy and withdrawnlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She puts it down Every day Mrs March went to pre-retirement nerves; nothing the local patisserie to really worry about. Sobuy olive bread but on that particular morning, when Lawrence makes a confession to her immediately after his retirement partyPatricia asked, as she couldnwas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't have been more surprised. this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She realises mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her husband has been living a secret life and mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that changes everything: instead Johanna is the whore of anticipating their rosy future together, sheNantes - ''s now looking forward to the prospect of life as a single womanweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067922</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Fitzgerald1473685745|title=Zemindar|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emily's husband Charles to the exotic sub-continent for a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskine. Although none of the travellers have ever met Oliver, many of the people they encounter have heard of him and the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindar. These stories tantalise Laura as the information conflicts and she's unable to develop a mental picture of the man. That's not all that's conflicting: there's an increasing feeling of unrest in this furthest outpost of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead to one of the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British history. Laura, Emily and Charles are naïve, but that won't save them from what's to come – something beyond their worst nightmares. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Holly Peterson|title=The Idea of HimKatie Marsh

|summary=Allie Crawford seemed 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 have it madeapologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. She was married to Wade He has HLHS - the sort that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of man you who made other women are not ''droolau fait''with your medical acronyms. When he was born, had the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a job in few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 high-profile Manhattan PR firm bit, and two kids whom she adoredwatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. What could be better? What could go wrong? WellFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it looked , and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as though something was going wrong when Allie found Wade locked in their laundry room with a decidedly glamorous blondethe Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. There had been But this is most certainly a bit different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a blip caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in their marriage whilst Allie was breastfeeding their younger childthis puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, but Allie thought that Wade had learned his lesson and would be careful about hurting so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her in futurejob, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What I Love About YouRuth Hogan|authortitle=Rachel GibsonMadame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Natalie is This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the girl next door when Blake moves to town but it’s neither love nor even friendship at first sightearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. Sure So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), her daughter might have taken a shine girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the handsome stranger who likes third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to keep himself to himself but to Natalie he’s arrogant and obnoxioususe her family's sea-front booth. Still The singer, you can’t live next door to someone the scryer and never run into themthe sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just as you can’t avoid your neighbours before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a small townpair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and since Truly, Idaho fits who delivered the bill on bothsecrets about her to Imelda, they’re going and why did it have to see each other.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasJennifer Saint |title=Your Beautiful LiesAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersWomen's Fiction |summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is married to William, a police superintendentinteresting and unusual. Although she and their daughter have all Jennifer Saint presents the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life story in a way that is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a strike that will become violent on both sides of the dividemodern audience. ItSaint's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on the side you're on but unfortunately Annie isn't permitted to choose. However this narrative is only told predominantly through the start viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her problems. Tom Greenwooddeath, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a former boyfriend, is back on the streets after serving character in her own right rather than just a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that prop in the unfinished business is with her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifeheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah HarknessLucy Holland|title=The Book of LifeSistersong

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop 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 vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are back home in 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 21st century plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but now face 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 tragic news pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of Aunt Sarahstorytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's partnerFiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, Emthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's deathnominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Hard-She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her tothe event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-getmodel and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and is making life dangerously difficult for DianaLiberty adores Jessica's husband, Matthew Charles and their unborn twinsfour-year-old daughter, Ava. If this isnLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't enough, they still need to find and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Lifefor one thing: she misses having a man in her life. However, they have very dangerous competition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen NobleB08GFSK2WZ|title=The 49th DayKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=After escaping a disastrous marriageGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, Katherine Walsh travels absolutely gorgeous to an island retreat in Wales look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in order to pick up the pieces karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her life, relax and decide future directionshe has a real talent for attracting drama. However, rest and recreation isnHer life't all s chaotic: she dealt with the 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 discovers. During therapy sessions her ancient past is unlocked was in it and odd happenings that have haunted left her for years start to make sense, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Katherine also realises that it may be She only has to take her benefit to learn how to trust mother's dog out for a man again but the chance of love isn't walk for her biggest surprise. She appears to be pregnant so any decisions she makes about end up with dog poo spattered across her future must include face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the new life within heroffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782795936</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=It Had to Be YouCapturing Emilia|author=Ellie Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well in her life until it all goes startlingly wrong. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst she is dressed as Henry VIII He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at a thirtieth birthday party and unfortunately Wickham Jones, the whole debacle is filmed and ends up on YouTubeMayfair letting agents. She becomes known as 'head butt girl' as she is filmed demonstrating her furys Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Her PR job is also going nowhere as Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she finds herself having 's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to try and promote some very strange conceptssomething a little deeper. At least she has her two best friends for solace and they can Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all be found, many eveningshe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, drinking away their sorrows and putting the world so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to rightshis friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk> And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mill River RedemptionHelly Acton|authortitle=Darcie ChanThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rose and Emily are sisters who co-exist rather than interact. In the past, a devastating event drove them apart, and now they both have their own lives, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew up. When their mother Josie dieswe meet Amy, they are brought back together first in their mourning and then she's in their frustration at a message from beyond the grave: their mother is determined to achieve in death what she couldnrelationship with Jamie. You can't while still alivereally call it a partnership, a sisterly reconciliation. She has left her estate because things tend to the girlsget done on his terms, but in order to access the funds they will need to cooperate and coordinate efforts to unearth the clues she has left them's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. With neither in Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a position surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to walk away from get down on one knee? Was the potential gold mine, they have to put aside their differences, if only for work (and the summer.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|title=Little Lies|author=Liane Moriarty|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Death and kindergarten are not two things you would normally think went togethergirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, but this time they have. Someone her whole world is deadtipped upside down. A murder investigation Her relationship has been launchedjust ended and now she's the talk of the school. But why are Mike was the police finding it most popular boy in school who was always so hard to get answers? What actually went on in love with her, everyone knew that night, so why did he do what he did? And can an incident in the playground on the first day really have come Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to this?blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405918462</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Five Days LeftKatie Fforde|authortitle=Julie Lawson TimmerA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mara I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and Scott are both on this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a countdown. Each has five days left. But when the weekend comeswarm, who will be happy, who will be mourningcosy read focused on romance, family and who will be out friendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed to the picture forever?romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780892136</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=The Girls from Corona Del MarBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Rufi ThorpeLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Exploring the friendship of Mia and Lorrie Ann, two girls who grew It was coming up together to Halloween in 1980's Corona Del Mar, this novel is unexpectedly tragic; definitely not just another trashy, girly work 1987 and a group of fictionsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Written from the point of view of Mia When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, it tells the journeys of the two friends and the events which have led them to where they are now. but Liz was convinced that ''The Girls from Corona Del Maryour entire life depends on who you marry'' explores not . The only eligible boys were the subjects Young Farmers and the idea of friendship, growing apart living in a farmhouse and growing up, but also those having a couple of death, war, drugs, abortion children called Will and coping with a disabled child. And, in my opinionOlly appealed to Charlotte, Rufi Thorpe does this brilliantly; sometimes with subtlety or perhaps William and elegance but often through Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the frank, brutal honesty of rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the characterYoung Farmers's narrationHalloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954193</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Rock Chick Rescue|author=Kristen Ashley|rating=2|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jet McAlister is working two jobs Move on to help pay for her mother's medical expenses, after a stroke left her mostly paralysed on one side. It's okay - Jet likes taking care of people - but she can't deal with any more complications in her life.[[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J4DPNN8</amazonuk>}}the latest features]]