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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Chamberlain1471180158|title=The Silent Sister|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Her father dead, her mother too, her only brother struggling with the after effects of a tour in Iraq. Riley’s life is not the easiest right now, but with the mammoth task of clearing out her late father’s estate, she’s back in her hometown for the summer while school’s out and she has time off her adolescent counselling job. Riley is expecting to have a long but simple task ahead of her, sorting through things to keep, things to donate, things to sell. But as she rifles through a lifetime’s collection, she finds far more than she bargained for including troubling news about her sister Lisa who committed suicide as a teenager. Except, it seems, she didn't. With the help of family friends, reams of paperwork and an email history he never expected her to find, Riley discovers her father had been keeping some big secrets. Lisa didn't drown, after all. She took off under an assumed name with a new identity, never to be heard of again. It’s a traumatic discovery for Riley, especially without anyone to share it with, but the more she digs into the past, the more she realises how little she knows about her family history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447211308</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Kate Riordan|title=The Girl in the PhotographPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Alice Eveleigh is sent to Fiercombe Manor Jamie Matson works in 1933 as an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the result subtlety of a scandalhalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Back in He's asthmatic and the 1890s more you read, the Manor had been home to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but it doesnmore you't feel like a house ll suspect thathe's seen much happinesson the autistic spectrum. The stones are drenched Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in tragedy the local A&E and secrets that have remained locked away since thensometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. What sort of secrets? Will Alice be too nosey for her own good Missed shifts or will the secrets remain just that, with need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the added threat of history repeating itself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>wrong. It was going to come to a head.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentLauren Bravo|title=The Crooked HousePreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Many years ago, Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a tragedy shook four and ends with an English villageoh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. A whole family wiped out with no warning, Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a whole family, that is, except for one bit of the daughters who was, unbeknown to the assailant, upstairs at the timea mid-life crisis. Esme was that girl, but she Catharsis is no more. She key and Gwen has a new name, a new identity, a new life, far away from that terrible place. As Alison she flies under decided now is the radar, not attracting any attention, with a menial job time to fill take back her days. And she has every intention of staying that way, no intention of ever stepping foot in Saltleigh again.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557501</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=Shelley Harris|title=Vigilante|rating=4Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny Pepper is a forty-something wife and mother who is stuck wondering where her life has gone. Privately, Jenny is jealous of her husband, he has a wonderful creative career that people can’t wait to hear more about, while Jenny’s work as a mother and her job at a charity bookshop seems to put a stopper on conversation. Jenny envies her daughter, with her youthful figure and a whole life stretched out in front of her. When tidying up one night, Jenny discovers her husband’s secret and just like that her life changes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297864610</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KiemHadeer Elsbai|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=I was caught up by this novel Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the first pages rights of women and read it weavers – those with absorption magical abilities - in a single sittingsociety pitted against them. The young heroineNehal, born into the upper class, Lana Dukovskayawishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is a third generation ballerina forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the Bolshoi Ballet but other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the experiences Daughters of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmotherIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's namerights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, we discoverfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, has been erased from the records and her mother is which blossoms a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion group of a ballerina: she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes admirable women fighting for their rights and most of all she wants to experiment with the repertoireovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela FudgeB0B575J99N|title=It's In The CardsBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ellen Carson Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was just ''slightlycomfortable'' put out that her family arranged a surprise birthday party but she longed for her fortieth, but something more annoyed that they wouldnin life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man't accept that she ' and now was quite happy being single and unattachedthe time to make a change. She had needed challenges. There was a successful career as little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a card designertelephone interview, a home she loved was offered the position and no intentions of getting into any it wasn't long-term relationshipbefore she was exploring the beautiful city. What did make her wonder was why her brothers and sisters There were so keen to get some natural doubts before her involved with any remotely eligible male when their own relationships were so dysfunctional. She had no interest in the two men from her past who have come back into her life - or the one who has been hovering round the edges more in hope than expectationfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719813697</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=RS Meyers0241542405|title=Accidents of MarriageMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=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 ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it 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 charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008441618
|title=Other Parents
|author=Sarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=What if your marriage is crumbling? What if you are living on borrowed time? What 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 terrible accident occurs house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and your role in the family has funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to change from absent father to man about the house? Would you rise school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the challenge or add this to toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a long list of things you don’t do well?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114044X</amazonuk>warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Christmas SurpriseWalking on Sunshine
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I do like Jenny Colgan’s books. At leastMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, that’s my impression although I’m surprised to discover that I had only previously read two of themhas died. Her titles seem to feature food-related topics, and this particular one And whilst he is third in a series about a young woman called Rosie Hopkins. She lives in a small village in Derbyshire dealing with her boyfriend Stephenhis grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and runs a sweet shopZaza.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751553956</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Delia Franklin|title=Almost Perfect|rating=2.5|genre=WomenBut Pia left them all some 'rules's Fiction|summary=Almost Perfect is the debut novel for Delia Franklinto follow, knowing that she was dying and comes with a delightfully quirky front cover, which is part of what attracted me that they would need help to itcarry on living. It starts wellWhilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, too. Gloriaanother one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, who works as housekeeper for a late middle-aged farmer called Willand Vicky and Zaza, is happily surveying her vegetable patch. The tractor approaches struggling with their grief and as Will climbs downtheir own life troubles, his mobile phone alerts him decide to the fact that his only granddaughter Lucy has had a falldrop everything in their own lives, and is in a serious state in hospitalgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992886309</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin KnightleyB09FS89KX9|title=The Baron Next DoorFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts
|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.
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{{newreview
|title=The Year I Met You
|author=Cecelia Ahern
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jasmine is Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the main protagonist final year of this bookher veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and also the narratorhe was doing well in his career. She’s single Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and has just lost most of all he wanted her job, much to leave her dismayjob at the diner. She’s Then there was the kind of person who likes to fact that he would be busy and violent, both to have a purpose in life, but the conditions of her former employment mean that she’s on a year’s ‘gardening leave’: she receives a full salary but is not allowed and to start another job for a full yearother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501765</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=The Last AnniversaryMrs March|author=Liane MoriartyVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=For years, Scribbly Gum has been a tourist trap, with crowds flocking from The problem began just after the mainland publication of George March's most successful novel to visit date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the untouched site of last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the Munro Baby mysterylocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, when a newborn Patricia asked, as she was found abandoned on wrapping the island, her parents vanished. The baby is now a grandmother herselfbread, ''but isn't this the mystery lingers first time he's based a character onyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, andthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, well, it’s quite a good business except for the residents. Silver linings and all fact that. But now ConnieJohanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, one of two sisters who found the babyplain, has passed awaydetestable, and left her house to a strangerpathetic, an outsiderunloved, someone who doesnunloveable wretch.''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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918519</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hall1473685745|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 them and, indeed, to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The King's SisterKatie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's England in 1380 When Beth Carlyle and 17 year old Elizabeth of Lancaster has always dreamt Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her betrothal and the sort of love of which balladeers singbest to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. So when she meets the person her father He wasn't hurt but Jake has lined up, her face drops to say the leasthistory. The Earl of Pembroke is eight years old so sheHe has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not pleased''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. However one day love will find her and cruelly cause her to choose between When he was born, the love left side of her life his heart hadn't developed properly and family with fatal consequenceshe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=One Step Closer To YouC J Carey|authortitle=Alice PetersonWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Single mum Polly has 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 lot bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of baggageEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, but Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it all basically boils down to two things, boys and boozewe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. She’s been to hell But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and backideas of female purpose, but for right nowhas put all of that gender into a caste system, she seems ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to be doing okthe drudges, and beyond those, holding right on down a job in a caféto the childless, looking after son Louis the husbandless and staying off the saucewidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. She’s even And in a position this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to help those she meetstake 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, like and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her fellow AA-ers and single dad Ben job, at school who is adjusting least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to his new rolespoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061835</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Indian SummerRuth Hogan|authortitle=Marcia WillettMadame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mungo is a retired actor and directorThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. His brother Archie is So we have a landownerbullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), struggling a girl in a humdrum job wanting to make ends meet. Kit is become a good friend who comes singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to stayuse her family's sea-front booth. The singer, wanting the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a safe place while she decides whether or not to get revamped holiday camp, but just 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 touch with possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a former boyfriendwoman called Billie. Neighbours include Emma, an army wife with two small children Just who is tempted to an affair with a friend of her husband’sshe, and who delivered the elderly brothers Philip secrets about her to Imelda, and Billy who why did it have to remain a secret that’s been hidden for forty years...all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593071530</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicci GerrardJennifer Saint |title=The Twilight HourAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Eleanor has been persuaded by her children to seriously consider sheltered accommodation. At This re-telling of the age myth of 94 Ariadne and blind, she isn't considered safe rattling around a big old housethe Minotaur is interesting and unusual. She doesn't surrender without conditions though: before she considers moving out, Jennifer Saint presents the story in a stranger should be employed way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to sort her photos and papers before burning thema modern audience. The family agree and Peter Saint's narrative is appointed. Gradually he realises why Eleanor doesn’t want told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her children childhood to see her death, allowing the documents reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the story heroics of hidden life, love and loss is revealedTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405919833</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele GerasLucy Holland|title=Cover Your EyesSistersong
|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=For London fashion journalist Megan forbidden love ends suddenly and painfullyThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she thinks it will blossom into something lasting 's nominated for - and legitimatewins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Elsewhere, in She's delighted and the countryside, Eva Conway lives two people she's brought with her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughters in Salix House – to the house that Eva used to call her own when she was a famous fashion designerevent couldn't be more pleased. Now she feels aloneSonja, even in the heart of her family. Not only this but she also faces the loss of the home that means so much to mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got herlooks from. As Megan Jessica's thirty-four and EvaLiberty's paths cross best friend: they discover that 've known each of them has other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a dark guilty secret eating away at them, but then Salix House has secrets tooman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066071</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Woman Who Stole My LifeKarma Trap|author=Marian KeyesLisette Boyd|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Stella 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 the karma trap: an author working awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her second book. Though now back in Ireland, and she talks of has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life in New York. It sounds fabulous. But something has changed. Whatever it is, we’re not sure. Maybe 's chaotic: she dealt with the mighty have fallen, leak from the stars have stopped colliding. Either way, that adventure is over as shower by putting something down at the book starts. It’s not where bottom of the story starts, though, and we’re soon plunged back into stairs to absorb the past, with water - then the events that have lead Stella to this point. First on shower fell through the list, a serious illnessroof whilst she was in it and left her, without which nothing that followed would have happenedstark naked, or staring at least not in the way it didpervy postman. This may sound confusing but the book is anything but, She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and despite its great length, I sped through a photo being taken by someone who shares itaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155335</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=The Seafront Tea RoomsCapturing Emilia|author=Vanessa GreeneBrooke Adams|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=CharlieHe's Charles Devereaux, Kat thirty-eight and Seraphinea partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, are strangers brought together twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the Seafront Tea Rooms heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by their mutual love of afternoon teaRhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Kat Charles is more of a young[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, single mum struggling so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to get his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by while her ex provides very little helpCharles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, Charlie is she's in a heartbroken journalist writing relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a tea feature for her magazine while visiting her difficult sisterpartnership, and French Seraphine has come across the channel because things tend to au pairget done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, improve yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her English and to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get some perspective down on a new, complicated relationship.one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552232</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|title=A Most Desirable Marriage|author=Hilary Boyd|rating=4.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Jo and Lawrence have been married for nearly forty years. It has been girlfriend comes into school with a good marriage and they are both looking forward to spending more time together and pursuing new interests once Lawrence has retired. Howeverblack eye, as the time approaches Jo notices that Lawrence appears more edgy and withdrawn. She puts claiming he gave it down to pre-retirement nerves; nothing to really worry about. Soher, when Lawrence makes a confession to her immediately after his retirement party, whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she couldn't have been more surpriseds the talk of the school. She realises Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her husband has been living a secret life and that changes everything: instead of anticipating their rosy future togethersome don't, but one thing is for sure, shethis isn's now looking forward t going to the prospect of life as a single womanblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067922</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie FitzgeraldKatie Fforde|title=ZemindarA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and EmilyI's husband Charles ve wanted to the exotic subread author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting -continent for a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskine. Although none of the travellers have ever met Oliverwarm, cosy read focused on romance, many of the people they encounter have heard of him family and the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindarfriendships. These stories tantalise Laura as the information conflicts and she's unable to develop a mental picture of This provided two romances for the man. That's not all that's conflicting: there's an increasing feeling of unrest in this furthest outpost price 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 it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that won't save them from what's to come – something beyond their worst nightmaresI really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly PetersonB07W4MNBSG|title=The Idea of HimBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Allie Crawford seemed It was coming up to have it madeHalloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. She When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was married to Wade - the sort of man who made other women convinced that ''droolyour entire life depends on who you marry'', had . The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a job in farmhouse and having a highcouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-profile Manhattan PR firm and two kids whom she adoredBotham. What could be better? What could go wrong? Well, it looked as though something The place to start their search was going wrong when Allie found Wade locked in their laundry room with a decidedly glamorous blondeobviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There had been a bit of a blip in their marriage whilst Allie was breastfeeding their younger child, but Allie thought that Wade had learned his lesson and would be careful about hurting her just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in futurethe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=What I Love About You|author=Rachel Gibson|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie is the girl next door when Blake moves to town but it’s neither love nor even friendship at first sight. Sure, her daughter might have taken a shine to the handsome stranger who likes to keep himself to himself but to Natalie he’s arrogant and obnoxious. Still, you can’t live next door to someone and never run into them, just as you can’t avoid your neighbours in a small town, and since Truly, Idaho fits the bill Move on both, they’re going to see each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=Your Beautiful Lies|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers[[Features|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married to William, a police superintendent. Although she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides of the divide. It'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 is only the start of her problems. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriend, is back on the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>}}latest features]]

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