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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Beazley1471180158|title= Keep Me PostedMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary='Keep me Posted' is written Jamie Matson works in a lightan upper-heartedclass grocery store, informal style, narrated by for a young mother called Cassie man who lives in New York's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. She and her husband Leo have twin toddlers Jamie's son, and her life is busyBo, full of technology and fast food'has his problems'. Her older sister Sid is He's asthmatic and the more laid backyou read, and something of a technophobe; although they used the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to be close, they haventake time off at short notice - she't really been s a frequent flier in touch much since Sid the local A&E and her family moved sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to Singapore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elisa Albert|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhoodschool. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are contemplating giving birth occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the near futurewrong. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months of motherhood, however, or a partner of somebody who is It was going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory read. Never before have I read to come to a more searing, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birthhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn FlettLauren Bravo|title=OutstandingPreloved

|summary=Ivy House Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a preparatory school big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'outstanding' Ofsted reportm-nearly-forty. Eve Sturridge is Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the head teacher and she puts heart and soul into making certain that it's the best that it can possibly be toss - well, as far as she's allowed to by the owner. But it looks as though she's getting into the big time when Stefan and Anette Sorensen (AGwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-list billionaires) choose Ivy House for their son and daughterlife crisis. There's another bonus too: the Sorensens run a hedge fund Catharsis is key and Eve's seventeen-year-old daughter Zoe Gwen has decided now is keen the time to have a career in finance. What could be more natural than that some work experience could be on offer?take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784298247</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erica James0008506337|title= Song of the SkylarkThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's 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'Song of the Skylark. Her parents worried that Richard' has quite s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a cast glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of characters, Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and I found it went on to become a little difficultwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at firstSandcove, to keep track the family home on the Isle of everyoneWight. Lizzie is Even then the main protagonist; we meet her trying doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in vain to apply for new jobs after losing her previous onecharge''. We quickly learn that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour with her boss, a married man Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel HoreHadeer Elsbai|title= The House on Bellevue GardensDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= Leonie was left a largeDrawing inspiration from Egypt, somewhat run-down London house by a friend, some years previously. She's an artist'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, and something yet find themselves fighting for the rights of a bohemian, women and lets out rooms at low price to people weavers – those with magical abilities - in needa society pitted against them. There's PeterNehal, born into the upper class, who occupies wishes to attend the basement Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and lives in squalorthen join the military, which - occasionally - but instead she tries is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to clean upprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. There are Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an elderly Indian coupleunjust society, Hari filled with hypocrisy and Belacruelty, who have been there from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for some time, their rights and a young and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelovercoming their personal obstacles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny ColganB0B575J99N|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever AfterBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I loved the introduction to this bookElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It explains that itwas ''comfortable''s a story but she longed for readers who love books, something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and outlines with light humour now was the places where the author recommends settling down with time to make a good bookchange. I related strongly to She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the idea of reading professoressa job in bedBologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and forgetting who is who as I drop off to sleep; this is my usual mode. Travelling is also, in my experience, an excellent time to read. I donit wasn't read in long before she was exploring the bath - and the author's description of books drying out on radiators conjured up a depressing image - beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but I enjoyed all her other suggestionsit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G Metts0241542405|title=Waltzing in ViennaMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, several of them of local interest 214 days. She'd ''like'' to South Carolina natives : in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and visitorsshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. This is his first novel She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, howeverwho visits regularly with her two children, James and you may be surprised to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/womenMatilda. Sadie's fiction rompa cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. Three girlfriends meet up again in Charleston; in their early forties In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, they're facing turning points in their professional and personal livesFred. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college Groceries are online deliveries and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitthere's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, they summon the courage to decide so you can guess what they want she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from middle age and refresh their sex livesHolding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)0008441618|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 3.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed 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 novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written house price slump in that part of the Present Tense by Helle Helle town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to be very similarthe school. It wasn't. That's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fastThere was one difficulty, though -paced, dialogue driven novel that they were ''The Dyslexic Hearts Clubdevastatingly shockable'' is, with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. It just wasnLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo't exactly what I s restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was expectingjust a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane L GibsonGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Gessami ResidenceWalking on Sunshine|rating=34

|summary=Jenny Walker has been a widow for three years. She's had support from her parents (DadMike's still a bit protective)wife, her two sonsPia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are at universitytheir best friends, Vicky and her three girl friendsZaza. The four women have had a meal together every week but now theyBut Pia left them all some 'rules've decided to go on holiday for a fortnight. One of the women - Rose - is in the business so follow, knowing that she's in charge of making the arrangements was dying and she insists that they have would need help to turn up at the airport before they find out their destinationcarry on living. Ibiza wasn't ''quite'' what they were expecting, but then three Whilst some of the four women rules are unattached (Amanda is married - in an unenthusiastic sort around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of way) their trips away, and Vicky and they all like Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drink drop everything in their own lives, and flirtgo along with him. What couldn't go right?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amanda BrookeB09FS89KX9|title= The Child's SecretFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= There are obvious suspects in any missing child case, with Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the parents often final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the top of the listowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. In the case of 8 year old Jasmine Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though, there's someone else who catches the police's eye: local park worker Sam who has something Marcus wanted to control her and most of an unconventional relationship with all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the girlfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Fallon0008421714|title= Strictly Between UsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Tamsin and Michelle have been friends for decadesThe problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Aside from parents Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, they're the longest relationship in 'but isn't this the book, longer than Michelle and Patrickfirst time he's marriagebased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, longer than Bea has worked as Tamsinthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''s assistant. All four characters feature heavily Perhaps this would not have mattered, though, in a story except for the fact that Johanna is always moving and never boringthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Delinsky1473685745|title=BlueprintsUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Everyone When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - even Jamie MacAfee - thinks that well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her life is perfectbest to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. SheHe has HLHS - that's engaged to BradHypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a lawyer with her familyfew 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 building firm April 1953, and is sure that sheAdolf Hitler'll manage s schedule includes going to Moscow to set attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a wedding date as soon as work pressure eases upbit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. SheFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn's employed by the family firm too, t happen as an architectwe know it, and appears we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as one of the presenters Germanic peoples on a television renovation show''the mainland''. Her best friend But this is her mother who's most certainly a master carpenter different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the host drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the same television show - childless, the husbandless and Caroline has managed the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to build up her confidence again take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a messy divorcehefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. What can go wrong?That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405042</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsRuth Hogan|title=Stars Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of Fortune life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (Guardians Trilogyas he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a 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 possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong

|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the voice of a strangerCherry Blossom Boutique, the presence of evil for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knowsRetail Best Newcomer Award. She tries all 's delighted and the two people she can 's brought with her to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesnevent couldn't workbe more pleased. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and travels to Brazilian: you can see where she knows it will all begin Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and possibly endtheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons agoLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances BrodyB08GFSK2WZ|title=Sisters on Bread StreetThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sistersGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, struggling absolutely gorgeous to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in Leeds just before the outbreak karma trap: an awful lot of the first world war. Well, Julia bad luck is strugglingbeing visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragetteHer life's sonchaotic: 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 was in it and left her, stark naked, Thomasstaring at the pervy postman. Sheonly has to take her mother's an apprentice milliner dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and beautiful, but both sisters have a disadvantage and photo being taken by someone who shares it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is Germanaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane McLoughlinB08CHJLNBS|title= The Unfriended|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= The Unfriended lays its cards out on the table right from the first page: this is a novel all about feminism. It's going to have those conversations, and it's going to deliver some opinions, and it's not going to apologise for doing so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373947</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Nora Roberts|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Spoilers ahead for Book 1He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, ''Dark Witch''the Mayfair letting agents.Life goes on for the O She'Dwyer cousins but that doesn’t mean they've given up on Cabahns Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the evil one who has stalked their family for centuriesheritage library next door. He hasnEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she't given up s moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on them either unfortunately. As the cousinssomeone else' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors from when their powers – as well as their problems – originateds philosophies, to something a little deeper. Meanwhile the problem Charles is more of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry a [[Personal by comparison Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but it, above all, he's still a problemshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's desperate not his usual type at all: it's obvious to fall in love with Connor O'Dwyerhis friends. Good luck with And given that Meara!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>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|author= Jenny StallardHelly Acton|title= Boyfriend by ChristmasThe Shelf|rating= 4.5

|summary= Genie works as When we meet Amy, she's in a writer for an online womenrelationship with Jamie. You can's lifestyle sitet really call it a partnership, the sort that tells you because things tend to eat at the cereal café down the street (before everyone starts rioting outside), advises you get done on where to get the best seasonal homewareshis terms, reviews getaways from cottages in the Cotswolds to mansions in Miami, and throws in interviews with important/influential/IT women for good measurebut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. GenieAh, though, has a rather niche roleyes. She writes on dating and love and being single in the city. But since sheHaven's t we all been single a while, her editor is getting fed there? Things are looking up with it and sets when he tells her to pack for a challenge: find a boyfriend by Christmas, surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and blog about the process.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405922486</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica SpindlerAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The First WifeWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary= I should have guessed from their names (''Bailey'' and ''LoganDoing something when you'') that this story was set in the States, but initially I was too busy identifying with the blurb on the back to notice. 10 year age gap? Check. Magnificent estate? Check. First wife? Check. Even if that doesn't make you feel as if you are reading about your own life, which re scared is of course how it made me feel, there's a lot to drag braver than doing something when you in to this one immediately and I was utterly delighted that my initial eagerness to read this one was sustained to the very last page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pamela Hart|title=The Soldier's Wife|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''...none of it was real, until the last moment when his hand, the tips of his fingers, left the tips of hers and he was gone.'' ''Turned into just another soldier.re not''

Ruby and Jimmy are newly-weds full of big dreams and plans for the futureWhen Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, but all of that will have claiming he gave it to wait. It is 1915 and the her, her whole world is in the grip Great War, sweeping Jimmy away to fight battles in far-off Gallipolitipped upside down. Ruby feels like Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in limbo; no longer an innocent child but not quite a fully-fledged married lady. Not wanting to return home, she decides to stay school who was always so in Sydneylove with her, to keep herself occupied as she waits out the wareveryone knew that, longing for the return of so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her beloved husband. She rents a room from a local landlady and finds a job as a bookkeeper at a Timber Merchant. Although she initially takes the job some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to keep herself occupied and earn a little money, she blow over any time soon falls into a comfortable routine and starts to enjoy her new-found independence and responsibility.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410186</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marianne KavanaghKatie Fforde|title= Don't Get Me WrongA Springtime Affair|rating= 34

|summary=DonI't get me wrong, ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was an enjoyable pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, but it's not one you'll rush and tell your friends aboutwas actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240606</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina WarnerB07W4MNBSG|title=Fly Away Home|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=How would you subvert a fairy tale? Be Careful Who You know enough of them and enough about them to do it, so think on it. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop stars, and perhaps let them be witness to the Schadenfreude caused by a cave that's sacred to native Canadians? Would you, in the light of their characters usually being routine, interchangeable tropes, give them a closely-observed personality – as seen here in a teacher's interior thoughts when faced with a piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take the exoticism of the east, and Egypt in particular, and see it in the light of a musical teacher on a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering to himself, directing traffic in the middle of the road, or from the remove of an elderly man with ''swollen feet in orthopaedic sandals'' with a message from the past? Certainly these two are not the standard Arabian Nights-styled pieces…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMarry|author=Jojo Moyes|title=After YouLizzy Mumfrey

|summary=After writing the massively popular It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that 'Me Before You'your entire life depends on who you marry', all of Jojo Moyes' readers were clamouring for more. Having been on The only eligible boys were the edge of our armchairs during the story, we all wanted to know what happened to Lou next. Would she be okay? Would she live her life with passion? Where would she go next? So the arrival of this story is a special treat, as it continues Young Farmers and the tale idea of Lou, although perhaps not living in the way we had imagined…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718179617</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Menna Van Praag|title=The Dress Shop Of Dreams|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Cambridge is a city of winding streets farmhouse and cobbled alleyways and in such a street you will find A Stich In Time, having a tiny dress shop filled to bursting with dresses that will take your breath away. Etta Sparks spends her days crafting gowns from jewel-coloured velvets and beaded silks that are unlike any dresses you have seen before; once you try one couple of Etta's creations on - children called Will and with a few stitches from her expert and rather magical needle - these incredible, amazing garments have the power to reach within your soul and extract your deepest desire and hidden-away dreams.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie Kinsella|title= Shopaholic Olly appealed to the Rescue|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=After a year of waiting (and somewhat frantic googling for the release date), Becky returns with the latest in the Shopaholic seriesCharlotte, or perhaps William and guess what? It Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was completely worth determined to marry the wait. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593074629</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jill Thrussell|title=I'll Meet You In Heaven|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Rebecca and Gideon were made for each otherrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. They've been married for 10 years and, apart from The place to start their unfulfilled desire for children, all is perfect, love remaining at search was obviously the centre of their relationshipYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. Well, all There was perfect until their 10th anniversary dinner and that fatal a fatal car crash. The next thing they know, they arrive just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in a garden to be told that they'll be sent back to Earth for 3 months to live separately as a testthe class. Why? More importantly, would they be able to find each other again afterwards?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957113285</amazonuk>