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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - Remove -->she's a 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 put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingLauren Bravo|title=The Last PearlPreloved

|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'I always thinks 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, without they eloped and Richard took her away from the grit there would be no pearlIsle of Wight. Sorrows have Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a way 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 strengthening Wight. Even then the heart, doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never forget that, child.be able to leave him in charge''.

Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread on the tableThen Richard left them. She manages to find some joy in her work though, especially in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jew. The two become friends and he offers to take her on as his apprentice, stringing pearls. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie and his father can't contain their delight when they discover a magnificent, flawless freshwater pearl at the end of a long day of fishing. They call the pearl 'Queenie' and from that pivotal moment, the fates of Greta, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosie BlakeHadeer Elsbai|title= How to Find your (First) HusbandThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=3.54|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Isobel Graves hasnDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''t got explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the life she envisioned. She moved to LA to become a starrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities -soaked television presenter, instead she's dressing up everyday in a series of wacky promotional costumes on society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the streets. She thought she'd be married Weaving Academy to learn to a gentlemancontrol her abilities and then join the military, but instead she's fallen is forced into a lacklustre relationship an arranged marriage with a pilot, whose booty calls do Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not send her sky high. So when Isobel sees have a man from privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her past on TVfamily and maintain their reputation, someone she was once married whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to on the playground at school, she wonders what her life would be like if they were married nowin love with Nico. With everything to gain What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and nothing to losecruelty, Isobel attempts to find her first husband from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and take back control of her lifeovercoming their personal obstacles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paige ToonB0B575J99N|title= The One We Fell In Love WithBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= IElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl'm not sure whether it would be flattering or stressful to have 3 beautiful women lusting after yous school in York. In the case of Angus, it It was ''comfortable''s itchy footed Phoebe whobut she longed for something more in life. She'd rather be flitting around ''still not found the French Alps than stagnating in suburban Sale, boho musician Eliza whoright vocation nor met the right man''s still waiting for her big break, and former nurse Rose who is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend and a life in now was the city time to move back up north… and live with her mothermake a change. She needed challenges. It's There was a complicated situation, made only more complex by little trepidation when she applied for the fact that the girls know each otherprofessoressa job in Bologna. In the past they've shared After a roomtelephone interview, she was offered the position and a wombit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. Hello, triplets There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lambert0241542405|title=Kiss and KinMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=ItWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's six months since the death of Harriet CapelWednesday 14 November 2018 and she's husband Georgenot left her home for 1,214 days. Looking back sheShe's concluded that she was fond of, but probably not d ''in lovelike''to: in fact, with himshe so nearly does. They had two sons Her outdoor clothes are on and itshe's the elder of these, Roderick whoeven considered which shoes to wear if she's married going to Jennifercatch her train. They have three childrenThen, but thereshe can's been a rather silly feud between the Capels and Jennifert. She simply can's family, the Gaunts, which dates back t force herself to leave the couplesafety of her home. She's weddingfortunate that she has a good friend, when Clarissa GauntSadie, Jenniferwho visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one a cardiac nurse and full of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn'tsound common sense. Honours (or should In fact it be was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'dishonoursll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the brides from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's mother and was overheard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liz Fenwick0008441618|title= Under a Cornish SkyOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 3.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary=''Under a Cornish Sky'' is Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the story new head of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldnWest Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be more different, so expect fireworks along a house price slump in that part of the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and although she is the funds which they raised were a skilled architect, she is never able considerable benefit to succeed in her career because others take credit for her workthe school. In relationships There was one difficulty, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesnthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable''t always feel comfortable , with; a fact that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriendtwo members, Matt. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoriain particular, on causing problems for the other hand, simply oozes self confidencehead. Although she is in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman Laura Spence and has no trouble getting men Kate Monroe objected to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is Jo's restrictions on the family home of Boscawen, toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the seawarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Veronica HenryGiovanna Fletcher|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopWalking on Sunshine

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=It Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home to the pretty Cotswold town of Peasebrook. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacygrief, a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the communityso are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. Julius was loved by But Pia left them all: he always had time some 'rules' to listen to his customers follow, knowing that she was dying and share a recuperative cuppa in times of that they would needhelp to carry on living. HoweverWhilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, his finances were another matter entirely one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open Vicky and Zaza, struggling with an ever-mounting pile of debt. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only ''too'' happy their grief and their own life troubles, decide to help outdrop everything in their own lives, but can Emilia really give up on her father's dream?and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juliet AshtonB09FS89KX9|title= These Days of Ours|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Not everything that looks like love is love'. Kate and Charlie were childhood sweethearts, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying her wayward cousin and Kate marrying her wayward cousin's pretentious ex-boyfriend? How can they still be four friends? Follow Kate through her life where she experiences all kinds of love in all kinds of places and learns that not everything that looks like love is love, but that just sometimes what looks like love might be the real deal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFall On Me|author= Eliza Kennedy|title= I Take YouPenelope Potts|rating= 23.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= In a week from now, Lily and Will are getting married! This weekend, they'll be leaving New York and jetting down to Florida to spend Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the week with final year of her family, preparing for the big day, veterinary degree and it- three years later - was still working at BB's all brilliantly excitingdiner. They're quite Bob - the golden couple, owner - regarded her fondly: he was a lawyer at a big firm, him an archaeologist at a top museum, young, attractive, they bring the world to its kneesgood boss. And then sometimes Lily gets on Hollie had moved in with her kneesboyfriend, but, ooops, itMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn's just as likely t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to be in front of control her boss or a random from the bar as it is her fiancé. Lily, you see, is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type. Instead she likes to sleep around, drink, take drugs and breakdown in tears, most of all while keeping this a secret from the man she's supposed he wanted her to love and while holding down a substantial professional leave her job of course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)|title= Roxy|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of the book that her much older husband has been killed in a car accidentdiner. To add to the shock of this, Then there was the revelation fact that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on the hard shoulderwould be violent, is a further blow both to Roxy. I found this an interesting set-up for a story, her and wondered how this was going to goother people. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells us, ''she is looking for revenge'', I thought the book would be a development of the character of Roxy into a self-motivating, strong character. But this wasn't the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Beazley0008421714|title= Keep Me PostedMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March'Keep me Posted' is written in a light-hearteds 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. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, informal styleas she was wrapping the bread, narrated by ''but isn't this the first time he's based a young mother called Cassie who lives in New York. character on you?'' She and her husband Leo have twin toddlersmentioned that Johanna, and the principal character had 'her life is busy, full of technology and fast foodmannerisms''. Her older sister Sid Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is more laid back, and something the whore of Nantes - ''a technophobe; although they used to be closeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, they havenunloveable wretch.''t really been in touch much since Sid and her family moved to Singapore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elisa Albert1473685745|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhood. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months of motherhood, however, or a partner of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searing, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Kathryn Flett|title=OutstandingKatie Marsh

|summary=Ivy House is a preparatory school with 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 apologise for having knocked Simon'outstandings son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn' Ofsted reportt hurt but Jake has history. Eve Sturridge is He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the head teacher left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and she puts he 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.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and soul into making certain that itAdolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the best lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it can possibly be - , and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as far as shethe Germanic peoples on ''s allowed to by the ownermainland''. But it looks as though she's getting this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the big time when Stefan husbandless and Anette Sorensen (A-list billionaires) choose Ivy House 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 take all encouragement for their son female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and daughterso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. ThereThat is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's another bonus too: visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the Sorensens run early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a hedge fund bullied half-cast boy (as 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 EveClairvoyant'', to use her family's seventeensea-year-old daughter Zoe is keen to have front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a career revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in financethe family stall. What could be more natural than We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that some work experience could be on offerwill 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784298247</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica JamesJennifer Saint |title= Song of the SkylarkAriadne |rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary='Song This re-telling of the Skylark' has quite a cast myth of characters, Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and I found it unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a little difficult, at first, way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to keep track of everyonea modern audience. Lizzie Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the main protagonist; we meet viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her trying in vain childhood to apply for new jobs after losing her previous one. We quickly learn that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her boss, own right rather than just a married manprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel HoreLucy Holland|title= The House on Bellevue GardensSistersong|rating= 45|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Leonie was left Sistersong is part of a largegenre I particularly enjoy, somewhat run-down London house by a friendthe modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, some years previously. She's an artistfor most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and something of a bohemianfresh 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 lets out rooms at low price to people in needre-evaluating the role of women. There's PeterSistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, who occupies the basement and lives in squalorplot is handled with care, which - occasionally - she tries keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to clean up. There are also an elderly Indian couplelife, Hari to feel real and Belahuman, who have been there most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for some time, and the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a young masterpiece of storytelling and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelI was captivated from beginning to end. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny ColganB08NF79QXT|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever AfterCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 43|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I loved Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the introduction to this book. It explains that itCherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's a story nominated for readers who love books, - and outlines with light humour wins - the places where Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the author recommends settling down two people she's brought with a good book. I related strongly her to the idea of reading in bed, and forgetting who is who as I drop off to sleep; this is my usual modeevent couldn't be more pleased. Travelling is also Sonja, in my experienceher mother, is an excellent time to readex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. I donJessica't read in the bath s thirty- four and the authorLiberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's description of books drying out on radiators conjured up 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 depressing image - but I enjoyed all man in her other suggestionslife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G MettsB08GFSK2WZ|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, several of them of local interest absolutely gorgeous to South Carolina natives look at - and visitorssingle. This is his first novel, however, She's not had sex for eight months and you may be surprised to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/womenshe's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again stuck in Charleston; in their early forties, they're facing turning points in their professional the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and personal livesshe has a real talent for attracting drama. As they reminisce about summers spent together Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habit, they summon the courage bottom of the stairs to decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hanneke Hendrix absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and David Doherty (translator)|title= The Dyslexic Hearts Club|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelistleft her, Helle Hellestark naked, [[This Should be Written in staring at the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarpervy postman. It wasn't. ThatShe only has to take her mother's not totally dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a bad thing – many people will enjoy photo being taken by someone who shares it around the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' isoffice. It just wasn't exactly what I was expecting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane L GibsonB08CHJLNBS|title=The Gessami ResidenceCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Jenny Walker has been He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a widow for three yearspartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's had support from her parents (Dad's still a bit protective)Emilia, her two sons, who are at universitytwenty-nine, librarian and her three girl friendsarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The four women have had a meal together every week Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but now theyshe's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else've decided s philosophies, to go on holiday for something a fortnightlittle deeper. One Charles is more of the women - Rose - is in the business so shea [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's in charge of making the arrangements and she insists shocked that they have to turn up at the airport before they find out their destination. Ibiza wasnEmilia reads 't 'The Guardian'quite'. They' what they were expectingre obviously not at all compatible, but then three so why can Charles not get this woman out of the four women are unattached (Amanda is married - in an unenthusiastic sort of way) and they his mind? She's not his usual type at all like : it's obvious to drink and flirthis friends. What couldnAnd 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 go rightit?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda BrookeHelly Acton|title= The Child's SecretShelf

|summary= There are obvious suspects When we meet Amy, she's in any missing child case, a relationship with the parents often at the top of the listJamie. In the case of 8 year old JasmineYou can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, thoughbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally''s someone else who catches going to get down on one knee? Was the police's eye: local park worker Sam who has something of an unconventional relationship with work (and the girl.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane FallonAlyssa Sheinmel|title= Strictly Between UsWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary= Tamsin and Michelle have been friends for decades. Aside from parents, they'' Doing something when you're the longest relationship in the book, longer scared is braver than Michelle and Patrickdoing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's marriagegirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, longer than Bea claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has worked as Tamsinjust ended and now she's assistantthe talk of the school. All four characters feature heavilyMike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, thoughso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, in a story that but one thing is always moving and never boringfor sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara DelinskyKatie Fforde|title=BlueprintsA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Everyone - even Jamie MacAfee - thinks that her life is perfect. She's engaged to Brad, a lawyer with her family's building firm and is sure that she'll manage to set a wedding date as soon as work pressure eases up. She's employed by the family firm too, as an architect, and appears as one of the presenters on a television renovation show. Her best friend is her mother who's a master carpenter and the host on the same television show - and Caroline has managed to build up her confidence again after a messy divorce. What can go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: the voice of a stranger, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knows. She tries all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesn't work. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels to where she knows it will all begin and possibly end. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Sisters on Bread Street|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world war. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's son, Thomas. She's an apprentice milliner and beautiful, but both sisters have a disadvantage and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is German.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane McLoughlin|title= The Unfriended|rating= 3.5

|summary= The Unfriended lays its cards out on the table right from the first page: I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this is was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a novel all about feminism. It's going to have those conversationswarm, cosy read focused on romance, family and it's going to deliver some opinionsfriendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, and but it's not going was actually the family element as opposed to apologise for doing sothe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373947</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB07W4MNBSG|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Spoilers ahead for Book 1, ''Dark Witch''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.Life goes on for the O When you'Dwyer cousins re only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that doesn’t mean they've given up 'your entire life depends on Cabahn, the evil one who has stalked their family for centuries. He hasnyou marry''t given up on them either unfortunately. As The only eligible boys were the cousins' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors from when their powers – as well as their problems – originated. Meanwhile Young Farmers and the problem idea of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry by comparison but it's still living in a farmhouse and having a problemcouple 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-Botham. She's desperate not The place to fall in love with Connor Ostart their search was obviously the Young Farmers'DwyerHalloween disco that weekend. Good luck with that Meara!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.