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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 - 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren Bravo|title=Preloved|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh- Remove my-God->I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary="15" <!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- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREone 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''.

{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Hadeer Elsbai|==title=[[The Curious Heart Daughters of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===Izdihar [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Woods -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:0751568538.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:WomenDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from early-onset dementia and her marriage was well and truly over. She lived in a damp and depressing tenth-floor ex-council flat and had to share with someone she didnThe Daughters of Izdihar't really know just to afford the rent. And let's not get into explores the job with Lewisham Council and her colleagues there. Could it get any worse? Well, it looked as though it might when Polly burst into her life. She's one lives of those irritatingly happy, joyful people two women who simply won't take no for an answer and she's determined to make Annie happy. Whether she likes it or could not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]] <!-- Marilyn Bennett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lorraine has one more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those voices which makes you stop whatever you're doing so that you can listen ''properly''. She has some disadvantages though. She's with magical abilities - in a checkout operator for Fresh and Co and frankly it's not the best place to be if you're hoping to be the next big superstarsociety pitted against them. Her manager is her motherNehal, but that's not ''quite'' as much of a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart and she's street smart. But Lorraine (actuallyborn into the upper class, it's Lolly wishes to her Mum) has one really big advantage too: she sounds just like the superstar she idolises and that lady has been indulging in some illegal substances and needs a body/voice double at pretty short notice. It's attend the perfect opportunity for Lorraine. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Full Review]] <!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:James_Island.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home Weaving Academy to Island House by Erica James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Much learn to the disgust of the village control her abilities and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a new wife, then join the 'scarlet woman' Romily Temple. Butmilitary, can his death and final demand that his children spend seven days together at childhood home, Island House, bring about a reconciliation and forgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, grief-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war instead she is declared and the family find themselves pulling together. [[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James|Full Review]] <!-- Moorcroft -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorcroft_Little.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/000826001X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=000826001X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 'Tis the season to be jolly, eat too many mince pies and read books forced into an arranged marriage with titles like ''The Little Village Christmas''Nico. And so we come to this latest offering from Giorgina on the ever popular Sue Moorcroft. I am unashamed to admit that I other hand did not have rather a penchant for ''Christmas'' books privileged upbringing like Nehal and look forward feels great pressure to indulging in them each year. This year being no different I was greatly looking forward to some literary Christmas magic - provide for her family and frankly if you can take the romance of Christmas and ramp up the nostalgia by inserting a village setting I am more than happy to leave my cynicism behind to wallow in some festive sentimentality. [[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft|Full Review]] <!-- Colgan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colgan_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/075156477X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=075156477X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Polly, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the Little Beach seriesmaintain their reputation, seems to be the last whilst secretly attending meetings of this trilogy. Never say never but by the end Daughters of this book, the author has certainly secured the destiny of these three much-loved characters. Don't be put off if you haven't read the previous ones, it really won't matter particularly as the author provides Izdihar – a helpful little synopsis at the start to help those, like me, that are new to these stories. [[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan|Full Review]] <!-- Swain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Swain_Sleigh.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164853]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womengroup campaigning for women's Fiction]] Having just discovered author Heidi Swain and her series of novels featuring the residents of Wynbridge, I couldn't wait to read this book and it certainly didn't disappoint being every bit as good as the [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|previous book]]rights. Yet again Heidi Swain has managed Giorgina also happens to combine an original mix of characters be in love with a feel-good storyline to create a totally compelling readNico. But, don't worry if you haven't read any of the other instalments as each one focuses on What follows is a different lead character and story so it really won't matter. [[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain|Full Review]] <!-- Pimentel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pimentel_Jenny.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718186443?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718186443]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]  Jenny and Isla were focused teenagers. So much so in fact that they decided to write a life plan for their futures right down to predicting the year in which Jenny would marry the man of her dreams. As luck would have it, as the predicted year arrives Jenny finds herself living with Chris – kindan unjust society, dependable Chris. The sort of guy filled with whom she would happily walk down the aisle. Then that fateful long girly weekend with Isla happens in Vegas. A cocktail or two hypocrisy and voilacruelty, from which blossoms a sudden, very different husband. Can Jenny get a divorce in time group of admirable women fighting for her wedding to Chris without Chris finding out about this little…errrtheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles... glitch? Jenny's working on it! [[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel|Full Review]]isbn=0356520471 |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa HillB0B575J99N|title= Keep You SafeBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= This is the story of two mothers and two daughters, Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is a nurse. She has teacher at a daughter, Rosie, and Rosie is ill with measlesprestigious girl's school in York. As a nurse, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can be, It was ''comfortable'' but because Rosie has a rare allergy that prevents vaccination, there was nothing she could do except cross her fingers and hope herd immunity would carry her throughlonged for something more in life. Married mum Madeleine is a She'd 'mummy blogger'' and tells still not found the world, or at least right vocation nor met the internet, the doright man''s and do not's of parentingnow was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There's one thing was a little trepidation when she didn't do, though, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinatedapplied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Dubious of the MMR After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and her husband decided to forgo it wasn't long before she was exploring the jabs for their childrenbeautiful city. And now, like Rosie, she has measles There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008217122</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chrissie Manby0241542405|title= The Worst Case Scenario Cookery ClubMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= I love a good romcom 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 was excited nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to read Chrissie Manbywear if she's latest novelgoing to catch her train. It certainly didnThen, she can't disappoint on . She simply can't force herself to leave the comedy value safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and pleasingly Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was more a Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'relationship comedyll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He' than just s from Holding Hands, a romcom charity which supports people with unlikely friendships and day-to-day family relations providing the best laughsproblems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639778</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly Hepburn0008441618|title= The Picture House by the SeaOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 45|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=So Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as another typically dreary British summer is drawing the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a close, I found myself craving a fix house price slump in that part of literary sunshine the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and sea kissed romancethe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. In such a mood it There was thenone difficulty, that I came across the cover for though - they were ''The Picture House by the Seadevastatingly shockable''. Perfect blue skies, glistening seawith two members, in particular, a beautiful Art Deco building causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to top it off an old fashioned iceJo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-cream cartup act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471161714</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susi OsborneGiovanna Fletcher|title=Angelica StoneWalking on Sunshine

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=IMike'd say that Angelica Stone s wife, Pia, who he was known as Angel to her friendswith for seventeen years, but she's not big on friendshas died. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a childAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall through the cracks as escaped its clutches are their best friends, Vicky and then had to learn how to copeZaza. SheBut Pia left them all some 's been told that sherules's taintedto follow, knowing that she ruins every relationship without intending to was dying and that she's best staying away from 'decent' peoplethey would need help to carry on living. One Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her jobs is working wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in a supermarket their own lives, and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fishgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katy ColinsB09FS89KX9|title= Chasing the SunFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Author Katy Colins became BritainLife should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's most famous jilted bride when diner. Bob - the true story of owner - regarded her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viral, before becoming fondly: he was a romantic comedy book series good boss. Hollie had moved in with this her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the latest onefact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heidi Swain0008421714|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo CottageMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this bookThe 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. It Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storylinewrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, delightful characters and innocent romancethe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy to pick up and put down ( Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that I wanted to) throughout Johanna is the daywhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Chance1473685745|title= Killer AffairUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating= 34|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Rebecca ChanceWhen 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's much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn'chancet hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that' but s Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for me it 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 very mixed readfew days old. The cover blurb describes it as So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they'irresistibly readablere driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It' s April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a glittering pagebit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-turnerup to the World War Two that certainly didn' which t happen as we know it most certainly was, starting with and we are now a famed but protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as yet unidentified woman the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a revengeful warpath against different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a second glamorous mystery womancaste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. The And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story then restarts excised immediately from the beginning setting the sceneBritish civilisation, characters and events that will eventually lead up to so they just get a hefty tweak towards the revengeful opening actparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. It's not That is her job, at least, until the end first emerging signs of the book that this mystery betrayal is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite a long bookfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsBurova|rating=24.5

|summary=''It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life inthe early 1970s, then reproducingall vaguely connected.'' Well, it actually starts So we have a lot before bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), with a set girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of fractured memories of our heroineMadame Burova, ''s childhood – things she recalls her parents Tarot-Reader, Palmist and relatives saying both Clairvoyant'', to and about use herfamily's sea-front booth. It goes through her childhoodThe singer, the scryer and pen letters to the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a best friend conveying revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her wishes for on her lifelast day, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty of university fifty yearslater, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out in possession of a pair of letters that you should be careful what you wish will change everything fora woman called Billie. Just who is she, but not even our wiseand who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''.and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise PentlandJennifer Saint |title=Wilde Like MeAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=World famous fashion and beauty vlogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle This re-telling of Glitter, takes on a new challenge in the form of her touching debut novel, ''Wilde Like Me''. You will be transported into a world full myth of exasperating drama with the PSMs (Posh School Mums), heart-warming mother daughter moments Ariadne and self-righteous men who you realise aren't the be all Minotaur is interesting and end allunusual. Now enters Robin Wilde, Jennifer Saint presents the story in a single mum way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to Lyla and make-up artist living in her grannya modern audience. Saint's house simply just trying narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to get by. The novel follows really connect with Ariadne as a character in her journey own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of self discovery, which even she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, and shows you that only '''you''' can make you happyTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonLucy Holland|title=The FriendSistersong

|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and schoolThirty-gateone-mums who meet for coffeeyear old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, winethe Cherry Blossom Boutique, gossip for just six months when she's nominated for - and momentary escape from their respective liveswins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne is found battered She's delighted and half-dead in the playgroundtwo people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Three weeks later Cece moves into the areaSonja, her children starting that same schoolmother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Gradually she finds herself falling into the orbit of MaxieJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Anaya Charles and Hazel and hears what happened to the still comatose Yvonnetheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did Life would be perfect for Liberty if it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is wasn't for one of the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… thing: she misses having a very dangerous position to be man inher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB08GFSK2WZ|title=Come SundownThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Bodine Longbow's family has learnt George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to live with tragedylook at - and single. A quarter of a century earlier BodineShe's Aunt Alice disappeared without a trace. Nothing has softened the pain but life goes on not had sex for eight months and the family business (a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps them all busy. Bo is fully focussed as the resortshe's manager but distraction is on the horizon stuck in the form karma trap: an awful lot of Callen Skinner. Local lad Callen comes home with a successful Hollywood film career bad luck is being visited on his CV her and an eye she has a real talent for a certain Longbow ladyattracting drama. However, when a womanHer life's body is found on resort land Callen is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen and Bo shake themselves free chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of a lawman's prejudice the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in order to discover it and left her, stark naked, staring at the truth? pervy postman. The clockShe only has to take her mother's ticking as Bo dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and Callen try to solve a mystery while putting themselves in photo being taken by someone who shares it around the firing line and then Aunt Alice returns..office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB08CHJLNBS|title=Spandex and the CityCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary= Touted as He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a superpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-hero romantic comedynine, ''Spandex librarian and archivist in the Cityheritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else' features s philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a girl-next-door Holly[[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, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a typically insecure 20non-something rom-com heroinestarter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, enjoying her life in Centerton (Colganshe's stand in for Gotham)a relationship with Jamie. When You can't really call it a handsome stranger partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she meets at 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 bar turns out to surprise trip. Could this be the it? Is he ''Ultimate Manfinally'', a vigilante superhero straight from going to get down on one knee? Was the Marvel or DC universe work (and the superpowers are more wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{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'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a Marvel kindblack eye, claiming he gave it to her, but her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's the character - both talk of the UM school. 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 and of his adversary - reference Batmansome don't, among others)but one thing is for sure, she canthis isn't help falling going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297}}{{Frontpage|author= Katie Fforde|title= A Springtime Affair|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for himages and this was 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 was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Isabella DavidsonB07W4MNBSG|title=The Beta Mum: Adventures in Alpha LandBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=To say that Sophie Bennett didn't want It was coming up to move to London is something Halloween in 1987 and a group of an understatementsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. SheWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''s a shy person your entire life depends on who doesnyou marry't make friends easily '. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the thought idea of losing all her support systems living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to start again fills her with dread. ''But''Charlotte, husband Michael has been offered a big job on London's RailLink project or perhaps William and it's not a chance he can turn down - even Oliver if he wanted you were Elizabeth who was determined to, and he doesn'tmarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. So before long The place to start their three-year old daughter, Kaya, has been left with Sophie's parents and Michael and Sophie have found a flat in west London and they've even, against all search was obviously the odds, managed to secure a place for Kaya at LondonYoung Farmers's most exclusive nursery schoolHalloween disco that weekend. Well, when I say that ''they'' managed to secure the place, I actually mean that they required the services of a nursery consultant, who has a doubleThere was just one problem -barrelled name and a friendship with there were too many Elizabeths in the headmistressclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525</amazonuk>