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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen1471180158|title=Getting Away With It|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Julie Cohen's latest book is a different creature to her previous novels. It's not just that it's longer, although the length allows for more characterisation and trickier, complex plots than her ''Little Black Dress'' books, but it also feels different in style. There's the same quirky side that Julie writes so well - the heroine this time is a stunt woman, some bizarre ice cream flavours and there's some interesting crop-circle action! But the book feels more serious - more grown up somehow - yet just as readable and compelling as her previous stories have been.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535060X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Cathleen Schine|title=The Three Weissmanns of WestportPenny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=The novel begins Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with Joseph Weissmannall the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, or Josie as he is knownBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, deciding at the age of 78 more you'll suspect that he no longer wants to be married to Betty after 48 years together's on the autistic spectrum. In an attempt Sometimes Jamie needs to save Bettytake time off at short notice - she's feelings he cites irreconcilable differences, but a frequent flier in the truth is he has fallen head over heels in lovelocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Betty is devastated, her life 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 tatters, with even the beautiful Central Park apartment she adores soon lost wrong. It was going to come to hera head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015716</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon OwensLauren Bravo|title=A Winter's WeddingPreloved

|summary=Decluttering: it's Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a great thing to do, you know. You clear space and you give yourself emotional energy when you get rid of things which you don't need. Take stuff to big number that starts with a charity shop four and it's ends with an alloh-my-God-round winner for everyone. ThatI's what Emily did when she began to clear out her flatm-nearly-forty. Her friend Augusta had given her quite a few gadgets which she knew that she Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would never use. And it was at argue the charity shop that she met Dylantoss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. His sister ran a charity which rescued horses Catharsis is key and Dylan was helping out between jobs. Now, there's something which you need Gwen has decided now is the time to know about Dylan. Hetake back her life's perfect. He's thoughtful, considerate, loyal and honest. Yes – he's ''that'' perfect.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141028580</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brooke Morgan0008506337|title=TrappedThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Ellie Walters is 36, divorced The love affair between Margo Garnett and keen to start a new life away from her cheating and controlpoet Richard O'Leary was all-freak exconsuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-husbandone and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Fulfilling a life-long dream, she decides to Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her 15away from what they felt she could achieve -year-old songoing to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, Tim, to live with they eloped and Richard took her in away from the small town of Bourne. As she soon becomes good friends with her next-door neighbour, Louisa Amory, Ellie finally feels she is making a life Isle of her ownWight. She begins to feel a sense of freedom and independence but for how long? When strange events start occurring Ellie is forced Margo did go to face some painful Oxford and guilty memories connected went on to become a tragic accident nineteen years ago; memories which she would rather forget. It is clear that someone has discovered her well-kept secret and is reluctant to let her forget about itrespected journalist. As a campaign of terror against Ellie unfolds she must come to terms with what happened all those years ago The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and try to discover who her tormentor isSasha. Vulnerable Life was lived in London and afraidholidays were spent at Sandcove, she relies the family home on Louisa's friendship to help her through the ordealIsle of Wight. However, when a misunderstanding causes a rift between Ellie and Louisa Even then the doubts about Richard's son, Joe, the womendrinking were never far from Margo's friendship is threatened. Alone and afraid, mind: ''she suddenly finds herself trapped would never be able to leave him in a nightmare from which she must do all she can to escapecharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099536285</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Beth Pattillo|title=Jane Austen Ruined My Life|rating=3Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I blame Bridget Jones. Jane Austen's six novels have inspired a huge number of novels about the romantic dilemmas facing bright, educated middle class women. Does adding literary references to chicklit somehow make for better novels? I don't think so, but I do find these books fun, escapist reading, and the title of this one was irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857210106</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Immodesty Blaize|title=Ambition|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Las Vegas Showgirl Sienna Starr has got it made. Her career is set to flourish when she lands her dream role in Vegas' top show, she has great friends, a fabulous home, and a red hot sex life with her rich and gorgeous boyfriend Max. But as Sienna starts her new job at the Follies Casino under the eyes of Vegas' most powerful showgirl Brandy Alexander, she soon becomes surrounded by people who are not only envious of her, but are more ruthless and ambitious than she could ever be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091930073</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'FlanaganHadeer Elsbai|title=Stand by MeThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Many Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of us would love to Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be married to a successfulmore different, wealthy yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and attractive businessman and for Dominique Delahaye it becomes weavers – those with magical abilities - in a realitysociety pitted against them. Not only does she get to live in luxurious housesNehal, go on expensive holidays and wear glamorous clothesborn into the upper class, she also gets wishes to organise and attend wonderful charity events and has the Weaving Academy to learn to control her photo in nearly every magazine abilities and newspaper. Once a spotty and unpopular school girlthen join the military, but instead she is now forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the centre of everyone's attention. Her husband, Brendan Delahaye, starts out as other hand did not have a builder but soon has his own construction business, Delahaye Developments. The couple become known as the "Dazzling Delahayes" privileged upbringing like Nehal and whilst their lives seem perfect feels great pressure to the outside world, it hasn't always been that way. Brendan and Dominique, who gets given the nickname 'Domino' from provide for her husband, are quite literally forced to marry through unforeseen circumstances. Their marriage suffers a number of problems family and as the title "Stand by Me" suggestsmaintain their reputation, both whilst secretly attending meetings of them are faced with the decision Daughters of whether to stay or leave. However, their greatest challenge comes when the perfect life theyIzdihar – a group campaigning for women've built is destroyeds rights. Domino must face an uncertain future and take control of her life but first she has Giorgina also happens to make some heartbreaking decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343824</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Wilson|title=The Wrong Miss Richmond|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mr Richmond had been married twice. From his first marriage he had a daughter, Christina and another daughter, Jane from his second marriage. Christina is quiet, sensible, bookish and, be in her mid-twenties, love with no expectations of matrimonyNico. Jane, or the other hand, What follows is the heiress a story of her mother's fortunean unjust society, just a little wild filled with hypocrisy and loves the brightcruelty, society life. That's probably not unreasonable as she's not yet twenty from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and whilst the girls are chalk and cheese they love each other dearly. Christina is pleased when Jane makes a good match – she's to marry Lord St Clement – until she meets her lordship, when she realises that her heart might not be quite so hardened to emotion as she thoughtovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709090005</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Anne MorrisB0B575J99N|title=Vintage MagicBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=With the life she thought Elizabeth Miller was before her ruined by her fiancéthirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's cheating ways, Rose Taylor swiftly leaves her life school in London and seeks refuge with her mother Mimi and her sister Lily York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in the beautiful city of Bathlife. Reeling from her fiancéShe'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man''s deceptions, and now is as good a was the time as any for Rose to reinvent herself, although make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she is determined to win her fiancé backapplied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Having always had an eye for clothesAfter a telephone interview, starting a vintage dress shop seems like a perfect idea she was offered the position and soon it wasn'Vintage Magic' is openedt long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354419</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson Smith0241542405|title=Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not ForgetMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Poor Harriet GloverWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She's caught between her attraction d ''like'' to two men: in fact, she so nearly does. ThereHer outdoor clothes are on and she's Mark (coincidentally heeven considered which shoes to wear if she's a Glover too), her long-term partner and father of going to catch her two childrentrain. The girls are grown up now but he still hasnThen, she can't made up his mind about whether or not he and Hat should get married - and truth to tell Hat isn. She simply can't that certain eitherforce herself to leave the safety of her home. In theory it sounds like She's fortunate that she has a good idea friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and would regularise matters but sheMatilda. Sadie's utterly smitten by Joris Sandersona cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, the headmaster of the school where she's a teacherFred. There Groceries are times when she thinks that, joy of joys, heonline deliveries and there's attracted to heralso an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, but then there are so many other women you can guess what she does in his life that sheher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's far from certain whether heHolding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's going to seduce her or sack her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494067</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie Thomas0008441618|title=Lovers and Newcomers|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Friendship is precious and in this book six middle-aged friends put it to the test as they go to live with each other in an old country house. Each of them is eager to escape the outside world and cover up the cracks of strained relationships and unsuccessful lives. Afraid of growing old and leaving dreams unfulfilled, they do their best to feel young and free once more. However, far from being the wonderful and perfect solution they desired, living together means only more difficulties and new tensions emerge. They must battle with forbidden desires, heartbreak, broken relationships and the fear of old age. To make matters worse their isolated retreat is soon interrupted by an unexpected discovery from the past and with it the unwelcome attention of the outside world. Friendships are challenged, new ones are made and some are lost forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007285949</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Susan Lewis|title=The ChoiceSarah Stovell

|summary=The book tells Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the story new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of Nikki Grant who at the age of twenty one discovers that she is pregnanttown. Although this is unplanned, Nikki The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and her partner Spencer welcome the news and look forward funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to being the best parents that school. There was one difficulty, though - they possibly can be. However Nikkiwere 's parents are not so happy especially as they disapprove of Nikki's somewhat bohemian lifestyle and her relationship with Spencer. They virtually turn their backs on their daughter and dondevastatingly shockable't even visit baby Zak when he is born. Nikki enjoys being a mum though even without her parents' support and could not be happier. That is until one fateful day, with Zak only a few weeks oldtwo members, in particular, when some devastating news turns her whole world upside downcausing problems for the head. Life is never going Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to be Jo's restrictions on the same again and toys children could bring in fact things on Toy Day but that was just seem to get worse and worse a warm-up act for Nikki as the story unfoldstheir real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525690</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele GormanGiovanna Fletcher|title=Single In The CityWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=In a rather spontaneous decision to follow her dreams Right This SecondMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, Hannah has left Connecticut behind and moved to Londondied. She doesn't have a flatAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, she doesn't have a jobso are their best friends, Vicky and she doesnZaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules't have any friendsto follow, but knowing that she has more important things was dying and that they would need help to worry about carry on arrivalliving. Like how Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to deal take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with potential lovers who are too posh to wash their grief and how their own life troubles, decide to get the guy drop everything in the sandwich shop to understand her order. As she navigates her way through the highlights their own lives, and pitfalls of life on this side of the pond she chronicles all the little intricacies that we would never consider twicego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141048263</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nell DixonB09FS89KX9|title=Just Look At Fall On Me Now|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Big Barb, tub Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of lard, has turned her life aroundveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. No longer overweight Hollie had moved in with wonky teeth her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at Platinum magazinehe was doing well in his career. She has always kept Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her previous life secret, even from and most of all he wanted her best friends, but then Juliet Gold, the girl who tormented to leave her job at schoolthe diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, joins the magazine as Fashion Editor both to her and suddenly Tia's new life is threatenedto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354370</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Jenkin0008421714|title=Cold Enough To Freeze CowsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Lorraine Jenkin is The 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 well known for her wacky characters and outrageous plotlinesdone so. But taking Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on an archetypical boy next door romantic plot? I really thought that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she would be forced onto was wrapping the cliché-ridden path to a predictably happy ending. Well happy ending duly arrivedbread, ''but via isn't this the first time he's based a completely unpredictable route, one character on you?'' She mentioned that I could never have guessed in a month of SundaysJohanna, even by peeking at the last page before I startedprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. And she ticked all Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the writing boxes along fact that Johanna is the way!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784175</amazonuk>whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Sanders1473685745|title=Famous Last WordsUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4.5

|summary=The story centres When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on Lucy Streeter who is a very ordinary woman leading a very ordinary life. She is quite happy running opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her designer clothes shop and being mother best to her grown up apologise for having knocked Simon's son Nat. However, one evening her life is thrown into turmoil after meeting Micah, a fortune tellerJake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who kindly informs her that she only has a few more days to liveare not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. Normally When he was born, Lucy would dismiss this as absolute rubbish, but unfortunately too many the left side of his other predictions seem to be coming true so she has to sit up heart hadn't developed properly and take noticehe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. As she does So, she comes Simon has every right to the sad realisation that she has not made the most of her life and there are many things that she should or could have donebe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409112764</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth BuchanC J Carey|title=Separate BedsWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Annie It's April 1953, and Tom Nicholson looked like Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the sort state funeral of people you would envyJoseph 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. Both had rewarding jobsFor yes, Tom Britain caved in the lead-up to the World Service War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and Annie in hospital managementwe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. They had But this is most certainly a lovely home different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and three grownideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-up childrenbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. But all Female literacy is not as it seemsactively discouraged. For five years they have had separate existences after a family row when Tom caused his elder daughter And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to walk 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 hefty tweak towards the house and never returnparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. There hasn't been a catalyst which would have caused them That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to separate but Tom moved into his daughterspoil Hitler's vacated room and he and Annie have lived together - but apart. It could have gone on indefinitely but then Tom came home one day and dropped the bombshell which could well finish them offvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141019891</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca FarnworthRuth Hogan|title=A Funny Thing About LoveMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the reader first meets Carmen Miller she is struggling early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to cope with become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the breakup third generation of her marriage whilst not really enjoying her job as a comedy agent. Her boss always seems Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to find fault with her and she soon discovers that use her ex husbandfamily's girlfriend is pregnant which comes as quite devastating newssea-front booth. The only thing that lightens up her days is singer, the flirtatious banter that takes place between herself 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 colleague Willlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. The problem Just who is though that she is afraid of taking things further , and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and eventually being hurt as she knows too well what that is like.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099527189</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Henderson SmithJennifer Saint |title=A Question of AnswersAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Harriet Glover lives with her partner who's reluctant 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 commit himself its origins but also appealing to marriagea modern audience. ItSaint's not that he hasn't had time to make up his mind – their two children are at the stage where they might produce grandchildren. His excuse narrative is that he can't see told predominantly through the point as they already share a surname through chanceviewpoint of Ariadne, so what difference would marriage make? Mark's not ''entirely'' insensitive (wellspanning from her childhood to her death, some of allowing the time…) but he can't understand Harriet's need for that reassuring piece of paper. Until then she's going reader to be wondering if his eyes are wandering elsewhere. Harriet's not entirely immune either: she finds really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the headmaster heroics of the school where she teaches quite irresistibleTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845493281</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasmina PerryLucy Holland|title=Kiss Heaven GoodbyeSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=A group Sistersong is part of students were gathered on a private island in genre I particularly enjoy, the Bahamas in 1990modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. They'd just finished their exams – for some it was A Levels and These stories, for others it marked the end most of university – but after us, are a holiday cornerstone of indulgence in drugs childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and alcohol outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and with lots re-evaluating the role of sexual tension four friends found themselves on the beach on the final dark nightwomen. In front Sistersong is a perfect example of them was a bodymodern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but they took allowing the decision characters to let someone else make the discovery rather than getting involved. When come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they searched the beach the next day feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the body had gone – and pre-Saxon age they had no idea howlive in. They did have This is a suspicion that Miles might have been involved in the deathmasterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358406</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan ColemanB08NF79QXT|title=The Happy Home For Broken HeartsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Nearly a Thirty-one-year on from old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the death of her beloved husband Nick in a car crashCherry Blossom Boutique, Ellie is still not coping very wellfor just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She is overwhelmed by debts 's delighted and because the accident was a result of Nicktwo people she's own dangerous driving, brought with her to the insurance company wonevent couldn't pay upbe more pleased. How Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where 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 their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she keep the London house she lives misses having a man in with her son Charlie? Her bossy sister Hannah comes up with a solution – three very different lodgerslife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525224</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole MatthewsB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Only Way Is Up|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones were on holiday in Tuscany with their friends. Lily had enjoyed it but she had a nagging suspicion that Laurence's mind was elsewhere. Quite how bad his worries were didn't become apparent until they flew home to find that their house and car had been repossessed along with all their worldly goods. They were left with the contents of their suitcases, the clothes they stood up in and a mountain of debts. After a night in the cheapest motel they can find the family of four is moved into the only available accommodation – a very scruffy council house on a sink estate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755373782</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Leonie Fox|title=Up Close and Personal|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I had high hopes for a bright and breezy bonkbuster from Leonie Fox's third novel, having read some favourable reviews of her first two books. The title, cover art and blurb suggest a frothy, fun, flirty and sexy read, so I was very disappointed to find this is anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141037059</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Wiggs|title=Just Breathe|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah may be struggling to make a living off it, but she does enjoy her job as a cartoonist. She's been through a lot recently, including her husband's battle with cancer, and her alter ego Shirl provides an outlet for a lot of the emotions and confusion she's feeling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303543</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Hore|title=A Place Of SecretsLisette Boyd

|summary=A collection George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of 18th century books offers Jude an opportunity to combine work bad luck is being visited on her and she has a visit real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her family in Norfolk, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She works as only has to take her mother's dog out for a valuer at walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a London auction house, and photo being taken by someone who shares it has been a while since she went homearound the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391427</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra HeathB08CHJLNBS|title=Counterfeit KissesCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Stephen Holland was gullible He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and certainly no match for the Duke of Exton who was a proficient cheat partner at cards when there was something which he wantedWickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. In this instance what he wanted was She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the Holland Tiara and despite all heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that Sir Gareth Carew could do, Hollandwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, in his cups to the point something a little deeper. Charles is more of being unable to get a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself home, lost the tiarabut, 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. When Carew took the drunk home Holland blamed Carew for the loss and Susannah Holland swore And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she would regain the tiara and have her revenge on Carew. feel drawn to him? Such is the fate of those who do good turns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089961</amazonuk>The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary CarterHelly Acton|title=My Sister's VoiceThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Twenty-eight year old Lacey Gears is a fiercely independent deaf artist living in Philadelphia with her boyfriend Alan and her puggle Rookie. Lacey is proud to be deaf and has no desire to become hearing. When she finds a note in her mailbox telling her she has an identical twin called Monica, Lacey dismisses it as a joke but curiosity gets the better of her when she sees a picture of Monicawe meet Amy, and she soon finds herself confronting Margaret, her orphanage house mother who confirms Monica’s existence and their separation twenty-five years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348389</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Flynn|title=Heading Home|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Claudia is seven when this book opens, in Liverpool in 1926a relationship with Jamie. SheYou can's t really call it a careful girlpartnership, perhaps a little spoiltbecause things tend to get done on his terms, although clearly not wealthybut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. She enjoys the protection of thirteen-year-old Danny who comes from a poorer familyAh, and evidently has something of yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a crush on Claudiasurprise trip. Even in Could this first chapter, she comes across as somewhat self-centred, wanting people be it? Is he ''finally'' going to think well of her, but not naturally generous or empathic. get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099520265</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Samantha Scott-Jeffries|title=The Final Hitch|rating=3|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Following her first outing in Samantha Scott-Jeffries ''I Do I Do I Do'', Izzy Mistry is back and comfortably settled girlfriend comes into her life in Majorca as school with a wedding planner. Izzy loves her job and certainly isn’t expecting black eye, claiming he gave it to be planning her own wedding anytime soon, so her whole world is rather surprised when tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she finds herself being proposed to by two different men on 's the talk of the same nightschool. One of these men is Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her ex-boyfriend, Harrissoneveryone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and Izzy soon finds herself back in his armssome don't, planning to start a new life together on the island. But as they start to renovate their beautiful new home in the mountain town of Sollerbut one thing is for sure, the sheen on their relationship starts this isn't going to fade, and Izzy is left wondering whether she made the right decisionblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352831</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele ParksKatie Fforde|title=Men I've Loved BeforeA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and Neil are an average thirtythis was pretty much exactly what I was expecting -something aspirational couplea warm, living a comfortable life in West London. Having agreed before they married five years ago that they never want childrencosy read focused on romance, a chance remark from one of Neil's friends quickly changes his mind. Suddenly being a dad is all Neil can think about family and meeting severe resistance from Natalie he tries many methods to persuade herfriendships. Feeling under huge pressure, Natalie seeks refuge at her parents' house where she discovers her old address book, or little black book as it became known when she was single. Inside are This provided two romances for the old addresses price of Natalie's ex-boyfriends and as she reminisces Natalie starts to wonder if Neil is indeed the one, or whether but it was just good timing that resulted in them getting together. As Natalie decides meeting up with her exes is actually the best way family element as opposed to see if indeed ''the'' one slipped through her fingers, Neil embarks on a seedy new hobby and the two practically stop speaking to each otherromance that I really enjoyed. Will they be able to save their marriage?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755371259</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte MooreB07W4MNBSG|title=Grandmother's FootstepsBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Verity's husband has died suddenly and she decides It was coming up to sell Knighton, the house she has lived Halloween in for large parts of her life, where she was born and brought up and where she has lived for thirty years with her husband and daughter. She must sort out all the possessions and papers stored there, 1987 and this prompts her reflections on the past, including her not so happy marriage. She also realises that now Simeon is dead, she can reveal a family secret to her daughter Hester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140278311</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosy Thornton|title=The Tapestry group of Love|rating=4sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty.5|genre=Women When you's Fiction|summary=Catherine Parkstone has sold her home in England and movedre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, lock, stock and tomato plants, to a tiny hamlet in the Cevennes mountains in Francebut Liz was convinced that ''s Massif Central. Ityour entire life depends on who you marry's eight years since her divorce and her children are now grown and (reasonably) independent, so it's time for her to do what pleases her. Her aim is to set up a sewing business in the hamlet – doing upholstery, soft furnishings and tapestry – but she has to come to terms with the extremes of The only eligible boys were the weather, French bureaucracy Young Farmers and the understandable reserve idea of her neighbours who are not keen to see more tourism taking over the area. It's not long before Catherine falls living in love – with the landscape a farmhouse and having a way couple of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beverley Eikli|title=Lady Farquhar's Butterfly|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Olivia - Lady Farquhar - has recently been widowed. This does not upset her in the least; indeedchildren called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, as becomes clear through the novel, her husband or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was an unpleasant bully who subjected her determined to all kinds of abusemarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Unfortunately, however, The place to start their search was obviously the terms of his will have ensured Young Farmers' Halloween disco that her beloved toddler Julian has been taken away to live with his uncle Max until such time as Olivia marries someone considered to be above reproachweekend. For that reason, she is seriously considering marrying Nathaniel, a clergyman who has helped her for There was just one problem - there were too many yearsElizabeths in the class. The only problem with that is that she finds him increasingly repulsive...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090579</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Wendy Kremer|title=No Matter What|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Wealthy American Jason Tyler needs a wife fast to stop his cousin Calvin from taking over the family oil business. After responding to his advert English girl Amy Courtland meets Jason in London to discuss his proposal. Amy is desperate for the money Jason is offering her to be his wife so she can pay off the debts her father has left behind. Her feet barely touch the ground in Los Angeles before Amy finds herself with a new surname and new life as Jason's fake wife. But unlike the rest of Jason and Amy's families, Calvin is not convinced by the marriage and is determined to prove it is a sham. When Jason decides to take Amy into the Venezuelan jungle with him Move on a business field trip Amy soon finds her life in danger on more than one occasion, leaving Jason to wonder if someone is behind these strange events. [[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090757</amazonuk>}}the latest features]]