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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Monk1471180158|title=Taking the LeadMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Theodora English had left her home Jamie Matson works in London to move to an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a tiny Cornish village control freak with her boyfriend Michael, only for him to dump her soon afterwardsall the subtlety of a half brick. YouJamie'd expect her to head straight back to Londons son, Bo, but you'd be wronghas his problems'. She buys the cottage next door, moves in He's asthmatic and starts getting to know the locals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345142</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christina Courtenay|title=Trade Winds|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It is 1731 and Killian Kinrossmore you read, disgraced heir to the estate is making his way as best more you'll suspect that he can through the gambling dens of Edinburgh, trading 's on his skill, ability to hold his drink and the smiling fickle fortunes of lady luckautistic spectrum. The Lady is smiling Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at the moment, although short notice - she hasn't always done so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali McNamara|title=From Notting Hill with Love... Actually|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Scarlett loves the movies; a frequent flier in fact that you could easily say that she is obsessed with them, much to the exasperation of her father, her fiancé David local A&E and her friends. She cansometimes Bo't help dreaming and wishing that her life was more like the films that she lovess not fit enough to go to school. So, when Missed shifts or the opportunity arises need to be away on time to house sit for a month pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in Notting Hill (the setting of her favourite film), she grabs itwrong. It's a chance was going to prove come to all those sceptics that life can be like the movies and also for her to examine her feelings about her forthcoming marriage to Davida head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544957</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucinda RileyLauren Bravo|title=Hothouse FlowerPreloved

|summary=In the London Season of 1939 Olivia met the Honourable Harry Crawford, heir to the Wharton country estate in Norfolk Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and he seemed like the perfect catchends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. It looked even better when his mother invited her to spend Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the summer at the estate and before long they were marriedtoss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. There were problems even before Harry went Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to fight in the Far East, but Olivia was determined that the marriage would work.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141049375</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Lucy Dawson|title=The One That Got Away|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lucy Dawson's latest novel is a cut above run-of-the-mill chick-lit papThen Richard left them. Molly Greene is happily married to Dan, and they live a normal twenty-first century life in a small town. She is a successful salesperson for a medical supplier. The couple struggle with the bills and hope to buy their own place. She spends time with two old girlfriends whose situations are different from hers, but who know our heroine inside out and will always be there for her for long, boozy heart-to-hearts. So far, so predictable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542520</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christine StovellHadeer Elsbai|title=Turning the TideThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=WeDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''re in the seaside location The Daughters of Spitmarsh. ItIzdihar's seen better days, frankly. And that's putting it mildly. It has ' ... a local economy so depressed it was almost suicidal'. Ms Harry Watling loves her town in spite explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the negative vibes. She wouldn't change rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a thingsociety pitted against them. You can tell that she's an optimist because even although she's having difficulty keeping her business afloatNehal, born into the upper class, she's still happy with her lot. She's not afraid of hard work and seems wishes to work almost round attend the clock and in all weathers Weaving Academy to learn to carry out control her boat-building abilities and repairs business. But it's a constant battle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931259</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bernadette Strachan|title=Why DO We Have to Live then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Men?|rating=3Nico.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cat and her friends often meet up for a drink and a chat, and regularly fantasise about giving up Giorgina on men, sharing a house and looking after each the other. Then one night Germaine calls their bluff – she’s found hand did not have a house, privileged upbringing like Nehal and wants feels great pressure to know who is going to join provide for her in it. Initiallyfamily and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the answer is no one. Shortly afterwards, though, Cat’s life as she has known it falls apart, as her landlord gives her notice to leave her flat and she loses her job. There is nothing now to keep her in London and moving into Germaine’s commune doesn’t seem like such Daughters of Izdihar – a mad option.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Dunn|title=Secrets to Happiness|rating=3|genre=Womengroup campaigning for women's Fiction|summary=Holly Frick is 35, single and living in New York Cityrights. She still thinks she's Giorgina also happens to be in love with her ex husband, her career as a TV writer Nico. What follows is on a steady downward spiral and she's had limited success as a novelist. She may be having amazing no strings sex with toy boy Lucas, but Holly is unfulfilled and unhappy. Plus, she's surrounded by equally dysfunctional friends, including best friend Amanda, who has no qualms embarking on story of an extramarital affairunjust society, filled with hypocrisy and writing partner Leonardcruelty, who is more than happy to self-medicate and find his thrills through the Internet. Plus Spence, the ex before the ex husband has resurfaced in Holly's life from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and thanks to his new girlfriend Cathleen, Holly finds herself reliving overcoming their relationship as Cathleen interrogates her on Spence's pastpersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751538302</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda DickinsonB0B575J99N|title=Welcome to My WorldBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Light, romantic fiction (or that dreadful phrase Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but which is apt, chick-lit) is she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not, I have found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to say, my preferred genremake a change. She needed challenges. I wouldn't buy it from There was a bookshop nor borrow it from little trepidation when she applied for the local libraryprofessoressa job in Bologna. But, having said all thatAfter a telephone interview, would you believe she was offered the coincidence that chatting with two female friends recently (fortysomething position and fiftysomething) they both told me that they wouldnit wasn't read anything elselong before she was exploring the beautiful city. So, There were some natural doubts before her first class but it just goes to show, horses for courses and all thatwent surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561667</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Pamela Evans|title=Harvest Nights|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It is 1920 and London is struggling to deal with the consequences of the Great War. Unemployment is high and money is scarce. Clara Tripp, a former Land Girl has been forced to return to the city to work as a waitress, leaving behind the countryside which she loves so much. When Charlie Fenner, an acquaintance from Clara's Land Army days, comes in to the teashop where she works, Clara can't help but feel overjoyed. He offers her temporary work on his parents' orchard in Kent and she gladly accepts. Yet a serious accident forces Clara to stay longer than expected and it is then that she makes a shocking discovery which threatens to destroy the Fenner family. Back in London Clara struggles with her confused emotions and the looming prospect of her marriage to local boy Arnold. When devastating news comes from Kent, Clara realises she can no longer keep her discovery a secret. But coming face-to-face with Charlie again means Clara must acknowledge her buried feelings and make a decision between doing the right thing and following her heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345452</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Moorcroft0241542405|title=Want to Know a Secret?|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When you get a couple of policemen in your kitchen telling you that your husband has been badly injured in a helicopter crash you can be forgiven for being upset. On the other hand, if your family has the sort of income which means that your husband was as likely to be in a spaceship as a helicopter then it's quite permissible to say that the policemen have come to the wrong place and this is what Diane Jenner did. Unfortunately it also means that when they prove that it was your husband you've got quite a big adjustment to make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931267</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Amy Silver|title=All I Want For ChristmasClaire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In Amy SilverWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she'All I Want s not left her home for Christmas1,214 days. She'd ''like''to: in fact, the reader meets three very different womenshe so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Bea, who runs the local delicatessen, The Honey Pot Then, is facing Christmas alone with her young son Luca but is determined to make it as good as she possibly can't. Olivia has somewhat rashly offered She simply can't force herself to host all leave the safety of her fiancéhome. She's family from Ireland and it looks like it will be chaotic. On the other handfortunate that she has a good friend, Chloe will be celebrating aloneSadie, as who visits regularly with her boyfriend will be sitting down to Christmas dinner with his wife two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and familyfull of sound common sense. Although on the surface In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, the three women appear to have little so you can guess what she does in commonher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Christmas approaches they start to form a bond that is likely to last well beyond the festive seasonMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553228</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Moorcroft0008441618|title=All That Mullarkey|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cleo and Gav seemed to have the perfect marriage. Neither of them wanted children and their lives seemed to be full of fun, enjoyment and love. But sometimes all is not as it seems as Cleo discovered the night that she'd made up her mind to go to a reunion and Gav said that she shouldn't go. She set off, but wondered if it really was worth causing so much heartache when she wasn't all that keen on going and turned back. When she got home she found that the writing was on the wall for their marriage – quite literally. It said, in marker pen on the bedroom wall 'This Marriage is Over' and Gav had gone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931240</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Julie Cohen|title=Getting Away With ItSarah Stovell

|summary=Julie CohenJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn's latest book is a different creature t live up to her previous novelsretired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. It's not just that it's longer, although The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the length allows for more characterisation and trickierschool. There was one difficulty, complex plots than her though - they were ''Little Black Dressdevastatingly shockable'' books, but it also feels different with two members, in styleparticular, causing problems for the head. ThereLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the same quirky side toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that Julie writes so well - the heroine this time is was just a stunt woman, some bizarre ice cream flavours and there's some interesting crop-circle action! But the book feels more serious warm- more grown up somehow - yet just as readable and compelling as her previous stories have beenact for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535060X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Cathleen Schine|title=The Three Weissmanns of Westport|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The novel begins with Joseph Weissmann, or Josie as he is known, deciding at the age of 78 that he no longer wants to be married to Betty after 48 years together. In an attempt to save Betty's feelings he cites irreconcilable differences, but the truth is he has fallen head over heels in love. Betty is devastated, her life in tatters, with even the beautiful Central Park apartment she adores soon lost to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015716</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon OwensGiovanna Fletcher|title=A Winter's WeddingWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Decluttering: itMike's a great thing to dowife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, you knowhas died. You clear space And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and you give yourself emotional energy when you get rid of things which you don't needZaza. Take stuff to a charity shop and itBut Pia left them all some 's an all-round winner for everyone. Thatrules's what Emily did when she began to clear out her flat. Her friend Augusta had given her quite a few gadgets which follow, knowing that she knew was dying and that she they would never useneed help to carry on living. And it was at Whilst some of the charity shop rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that she met Dylan. His sister ran a charity which rescued horses Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and Dylan was helping out between jobs. Nowtheir own life troubles, there's something which you need decide to know about Dylan. He's perfect. He's thoughtful, consideratedrop everything in their own lives, loyal and honest. Yes – he's ''that'' perfectgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141028580</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brooke MorganB09FS89KX9|title=Trapped|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Ellie Walters is 36, divorced and keen to start a new life away from her cheating and control-freak ex-husband. Fulfilling a life-long dream, she decides to take her 15-year-old son, Tim, to live with her in 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 of her own. She begins to feel a sense of freedom and independence but for how long? When strange events start occurring Ellie is forced to face some painful and guilty memories connected to 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 it. As a campaign of terror against Ellie unfolds she must come to terms with what happened all those years ago and try to discover who her tormentor is. Vulnerable and afraid, she relies on Louisa's friendship to help her through the ordeal. However, when a misunderstanding causes a rift between Ellie and Louisa's son, Joe, the women's friendship is threatened. Alone and afraid, she suddenly finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which she must do all she can to escape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099536285</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Beth Pattillo|title=Jane Austen Ruined My LifePenelope Potts

|summary=I blame Bridget Jones. Jane AustenLife 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 six novels have inspired diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a huge number of novels about the romantic dilemmas facing brightgood boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, educated middle class womenMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Does adding literary references to chicklit somehow make for better novels? I don Hollie wasn't think quite so, but I do find these books fun, escapist reading, certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the title of this one diner. Then there was irresistiblethe fact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857210106</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Immodesty Blaize0008421714|title=AmbitionMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Las Vegas Showgirl Sienna Starr has got 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 madeor had already done so. Her career is set Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to flourish when she lands her dream role in Vegas' top showbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she has great friendswas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a fabulous homecharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, and a red hot sex life with the principal character had 'her rich and gorgeous boyfriend Maxmannerisms''. But as Sienna starts her new job at Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the Follies Casino under fact that Johanna is the eyes whore of VegasNantes - '' most powerful showgirl Brandy Alexandera weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, she soon becomes surrounded by people who are not only envious of herunloved, but are more ruthless and ambitious than she could ever beunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091930073</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila O'Flanagan1473685745|title=Stand by MeUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Many of us would love to be married to a successful, wealthy When Beth Carlyle and attractive businessman and for Dominique Delahaye it becomes a reality. Not only does she get to live in luxurious houses, go Simon Withers first met they were on expensive holidays and wear glamorous clothesopposite ends of an angry exchange - well, she also gets to organise and attend wonderful charity events Simon was angry and has Beth was doing her photo in nearly every magazine and newspaper. Once a spotty and unpopular school girl, she is now the centre of everyonebest to apologise for having knocked Simon's attention. Her husbandson, Brendan DelahayeJake, starts out as a builder but soon has off his own construction business, Delahaye Developmentsbike. The couple become known as the "Dazzling Delahayes" and whilst their lives seem perfect to the outside world, it hasn He wasn't always been hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that way. Brendan and Dominique, 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who gets given the nickname are not ''au fait'Domino' from her husband, are quite literally forced to marry through unforeseen circumstanceswith your medical acronyms. Their marriage suffers a number of problems and as the title "Stand by Me" suggests When he was born, both of them are faced with the decision left side of whether to stay or leave. However, their greatest challenge comes when the perfect life theyhis heart hadn've built is destroyed. Domino must face an uncertain future t developed properly and take control of her life but first she has 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 needed open-heart surgery when he was a daughter, Christina and another daughter, Jane from his second marriagefew days old. Christina is quietSo, sensible, bookish and, in her midSimon has every right to be over-twenties, with no expectations of matrimony. Jane, or the other hand, is the heiress of her motherprotective particularly when someone isn's fortune, just a little wild and loves the bright, society life. That's probably not unreasonable as she's not yet twenty and whilst the girls are chalk and cheese t looking where 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 thoughtre driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090005</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Anne MorrisC J Carey|title=Vintage MagicWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=With the life she thought was before her ruined by her fiancéIt's cheating waysApril 1953, Rose Taylor swiftly leaves her life in 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 bit, and seeks refuge with her mother Mimi and her sister Lily in watching over the sanctioned return to the beautiful city throne of BathEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Reeling from her fiancéFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn's deceptionst happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is as good most certainly a time as any different Britain, for Rose 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 reinvent herselfthe childless, although she the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is determined to win her fiancé backactively discouraged. Having always had an eye And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for clothesfemale emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, starting and so they just get a vintage dress shop seems like a perfect idea and soon hefty tweak towards the party line before they'Vintage Magicre stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler' is openeds visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755354419</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Henderson SmithRuth Hogan|title=Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not ForgetMadame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Poor Harriet GloverThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. She's caught between her attraction to two men. There's Mark So we have a bullied half-cast boy (coincidentally as he's would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a Glover too)singer, her long-term partner and father chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of her two children. The girls are grown up now but he still hasnMadame Burova, ''t made up his mind about whether or not he and Hat should get married Tarot- Reader, Palmist and truth Clairvoyant'', to tell Hat isnuse her family't that certain eithers sea-front booth. In theory it sounds like a good idea The singer, the scryer and would regularise matters but shethe sufferer's utterly smitten by Joris Sandersonmother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the headmaster first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of the school where she's letters that will change everything for a teacherwoman called Billie. There are times when Just who is she thinks that, joy of joys, he's attracted and who delivered the secrets about her to herImelda, but then there are so many other women in his life that she's far from certain whether he's going and why did it have to seduce her or sack her.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845494067</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie ThomasJennifer Saint |title=Lovers and NewcomersAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Friendship This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is precious interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in this book six middle-aged friends put it a way that is sympathetic to the test as they go its origins but also appealing to live with each other in an old country housea modern audience. Each of them Saint's narrative is eager to escape told predominantly through the outside world and cover up the cracks of strained relationships and unsuccessful lives. Afraid viewpoint of growing old and leaving dreams unfulfilledAriadne, they do their best spanning from her childhood to feel young and free once more. Howeverher death, far from being allowing the wonderful and perfect solution they desired, living together means only more difficulties and new tensions emerge. They must battle reader to really connect with forbidden desires, heartbreak, broken relationships and Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the fear heroics 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 foreverTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007285949</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan LewisLucy Holland|title=The ChoiceSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The book tells the story Sistersong is part of Nikki Grant who at a genre I particularly enjoy, the age modern retelling of twenty one discovers that she is pregnantfolk and fairy tales. Although this is unplannedThese stories, for most of us, Nikki are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and her partner Spencer welcome the news a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and look forward new meaning to being the best parents stories that they possibly can be. However Nikki's parents are not so happy especially as they disapprove now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of Nikki's somewhat bohemian lifestyle and her relationship with Spencerwomen. They virtually turn their backs on their daughter and don't even visit baby Zak when he Sistersong is born. Nikki enjoys being a mum though even without her parents' support perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and could not be happier. That is until one fateful dayhuman, with Zak only most importantly they feel relatable in a few weeks old, when some devastating news turns her whole modern world upside downwhilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. Life This is never going to be the same again a masterpiece of storytelling and in fact things just seem I was captivated from beginning to get worse and worse for Nikki as the story unfoldsend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099525690</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michele GormanB08NF79QXT|title=Single In The CityCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=In a rather spontaneous decision to follow Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her dreams Right This Secondshop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, Hannah has left Connecticut behind for just six months when she's nominated for - and moved to Londonwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She doesn't have a flat, s delighted and the two people she doesn's brought with her to the event couldn't have a jobbe more pleased. 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 she doesnLiberty adores Jessica't have any friendss husband, but she has more important things to worry about on arrival. Like how to deal with potential lovers who are too posh to wash Charles and how to get the guy in the sandwich shop to understand her ordertheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. As Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she navigates misses having a man in her way through the highlights and pitfalls of life on this side of the pond she chronicles all the little intricacies that we would never consider twice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048263</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nell DixonB08GFSK2WZ|title=Just Look At Me NowThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54

|summary=Big BarbGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, tub 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 lard, has turned bad luck is being visited on her life around. No longer overweight with wonky teeth and frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at Platinum magazinea real talent for attracting drama. She has always kept her previous Her life secret, even '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 best friends, but then Juliet Goldstark naked, staring at the girl who tormented pervy postman. She only has to take her at school, joins the magazine as Fashion Editor and suddenly Tiamother's new life is threateneddog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354370</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine JenkinB08CHJLNBS|title=Cold Enough To Freeze CowsCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Lorraine Jenkin is already well known for her wacky characters He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and outrageous plotlinesa partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. But taking on an archetypical boy She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door romantic plot? I really thought . Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that she would be forced onto the cliché-ridden path , which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a predictably happy endinglittle deeper. Well happy ending duly arrived Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but via a completely unpredictable route, one above all, he's shocked that I could never have guessed in a month Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of Sundays, even by peeking his mind? She's not his usual type at the last page before I startedall: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she ticked all the writing boxes along the way!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784175</amazonuk>feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annie SandersHelly Acton|title=Famous Last WordsThe Shelf|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The story centres on Lucy Streeter who is When we meet Amy, she's in a very ordinary woman leading a very ordinary liferelationship with Jamie. She is quite happy running her designer clothes shop and being mother to her grown up son Nat. However, one evening her life is thrown into turmoil after meeting Micah, You can't really call it a fortune tellerpartnership, who kindly informs her that she only has a few more days because things tend to live. Normally, Lucy would dismiss this as absolute rubbishget done on his terms, but unfortunately too many of his other predictions seem to be coming true so she has to sit up and take notice. As 's sticking around because she does, she comes to the sad realisation that she has not made the most of her life and there are many things that hopes she should or could have donecan change him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409112764</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Buchan|title=Separate Beds|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Annie and Tom Nicholson looked like the sort of people you would envy. Both had rewarding jobsAh, Tom in the World Service and Annie in hospital managementyes. They had a lovely home and three grown-Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up children. But all is not as it seems. For five years they have had separate existences after a family row when Tom caused his elder daughter he tells her to walk out of the house and never returnpack for a surprise trip. There hasnCould this be it? Is he ''finally''t been a catalyst which would have caused them going to separate but Tom moved into his daughter's vacated room and he and Annie have lived together - but apart. It could have gone get down on indefinitely but then Tom came home one day knee? Was the work (and dropped the bombshell which could well finish them off.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141019891</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Rebecca Farnworth|title=A Funny Thing About Love|rating=4.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=When the reader first meets Carmen Miller she is struggling girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to cope with the breakup of her marriage whilst not really enjoying , her job as a comedy agentwhole world is tipped upside down. Her boss always seems to find fault with her relationship has just ended and now she soon discovers that her ex husband's girlfriend is pregnant which comes as quite devastating newsthe talk of the school. The only thing that lightens up Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her days is the flirtatious banter , everyone knew that takes place between herself and , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her colleague Will. The problem is though that she is afraid of taking things further and eventually being hurt as she knows too well what that some don't, but one thing is likefor sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099527189</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Henderson SmithKatie Fforde|title=A Question of AnswersSpringtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Harriet Glover lives with her partner whoI's reluctant ve wanted to commit himself to marriageread author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. It's not that he hasn't had time to make up his mind – their This provided two children are at romances for the stage where they might produce grandchildren. His excuse is that he can't see price of one, but it was actually the point family element as they already share a surname through chance, so what difference would marriage make? Mark's not ''entirely'' insensitive (well, some of opposed to the time…) but he can't understand Harriet's need for romance that reassuring piece of paper. Until then she's going to be wondering if his eyes are wandering elsewhere. Harriet's not entirely immune either: she finds the headmaster of the school where she teaches quite irresistibleI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845493281</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tasmina PerryB07W4MNBSG|title=Kiss Heaven Goodbye|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A group of students were gathered on a private island in the Bahamas in 1990. They'd just finished their exams – for some it was A Levels and for others it marked the end of university – but after a holiday of indulgence in drugs and alcohol and with lots of sexual tension four friends found themselves on the beach on the final dark night. In front of them was a body, but they took the decision to let someone else make the discovery rather than getting involved. When they searched the beach the next day the body had gone – and they had no idea how. They did have a suspicion that Miles might have been involved in the death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358406</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Rowan Coleman|title=The Happy Home For Broken HeartsLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Nearly It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a year group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on from who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the death Young Farmers and the idea of her beloved husband Nick living in a car crashfarmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, Ellie is still not coping very well. She is overwhelmed by debts or perhaps William and because Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the accident rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was a result of Nick's own dangerous driving, obviously the insurance company wonYoung Farmers't pay upHalloween disco that weekend. How can she keep There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the London house she lives in with her son Charlie? Her bossy sister Hannah comes up with a solution – three very different lodgersclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525224</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Carole Matthews|title=The Only Way Is Up|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones were Move 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 [[Features|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>}} {{newreview|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>}}latest features]]