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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=WomenMaybe 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 Fiction==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.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Felicity EverettLauren Bravo|title=The Story of UsPreloved

|summary=Back in 1982 there were five girls sharing Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a house in Brightonfour and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Their course works takes second place to demos, parties and noHaving been made unexpectedly redundant -strings sex for Stella, Bridget, Vinnie, Maxine and Nell but it's against any HR officer worth their salt would argue the background toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of Greenham Common and the miners' strike that the girls realise that a mid-life is not quite as straight forward as they imaginedcrisis. They will forge friendships in Albacore Street which might occasionally be stretched Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to the limit, but they'll never be completely forgotten. Having met them take back in the eighties we meet them again two decades later when theyher life're struggling to cope with all that life throws at them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099553694</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Jessica Ruston|title=To Touch the Stars|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cavalley's creates the most luxurious hats in the world along with a host of other items without which the rich cannot surviveThen Richard left them. At the company's head is Violet Cavalley, now celebrating her sixtieth birthday with her family about her. She looks as though she could go on forever, but Violet and one or two others know differently. There are a few other people who know that Violet isn't who she says she is and that he background wouldn't stand a lot of close examination. From the villa in Capri, to the London homes of the family and the private jet, it's all good living, but there are plenty of secrets which are going to be aired.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755370325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane LoveringHadeer Elsbai|title=Please Don't Stop the MusicThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Jemima Hutton makes jewelled belt buckles and sheDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''s determined to make a success explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the business rights of women and weavers – and to keep those with magical abilities - in a dark secret which she's shared with no onesociety pitted against them. She's camping out in Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her friend's spare room abilities and another friend then join the military, but instead she is allowing her workshop spaceforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. It is ''just'' working until Giorgina on the woman she supplies exclusively decides that she's other hand did not going to stock her any more. Jemima is down have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to walking the streets of York looking provide for someone who will stock her buckles. She's all but given up when she meets Ben who says that he'll stock the buckles in his guitar shop. But Ben has secrets too – family and he's determined thatmaintain their reputation, come what may, he's not going to share them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931275</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Bohnet|title=Rendezvous in Cannes|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's whilst secretly attending meetings of the beginning Daughters of the Cannes Film Festival and Izdihar – a group campaigning for two women life is going 's rights. Giorgina also happens to change completely be in the coming weeks. Anna Carson has found the love that she thought would always elude her and can't quite believe her happinesswith Nico. DaisyWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, here to cover the Festival as a journalist is coming to terms filled with being single. It's time for her to make some decisionshypocrisy and cruelty, but what will she decide? The hurly-burly from which blossoms a group of the Festival is not the most peaceful time to make big decisionsadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709091400</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian KeyesB0B575J99N|title=The Brightest Star in the Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Marian Keyes can usually be relied upon for a funny, moving story full of life-like, likeable characters. I was eager to read her latest novel, although somewhat daunted by Beneath the 600 odd pages! Here she takes us to an old, multi-storey house in Dublin that is the home of a variety of different characters. An unknown, magical narrator takes us through the house as we meet each tenant and discover what's happening in their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014102867X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Allison Pearson|title=I Think I Love You|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's the 70s, and 13 year old Petra is in love, and not with a silly boy at school, but with a man. He's not from Wales like she is, or even from Britain. He's much more mysterious and alluring. He comes from across the pond and his name is David Cassidy. ''The'' David Cassidy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946859X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Pearse|title=BelleBrooke Adams

|summary=BelleElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's story begins school in London York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in 1910life. She is fifteen years old and lives an innocent life in her mother's brothel, with no understanding of what really takes place there. Her mother has encouraged her to read and write, wanting her kept away from d ''still not found the harsh realities of right vocation nor met the brothel right man'' and now was the rough streets of London that surround hertime to make a change. She needed challenges. But Belle's innocence is shattered There was a little trepidation when she witnesses applied for the murder of one of professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the brothelposition and it wasn's most popular girls, and is subsequently grabbed from t long before she was exploring the street and trafficked to Paris as a prostitutebeautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718157028</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jan Jones0241542405|title=The Kydd Inheritance|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Nell's Kydd's father died in a hunting accident and her brother, Kit was uncontactable, seemingly lost, on his way back from India. This left her uncle, Jasper Kydd in charge of the family estate and he appeared to be doing all in his power to wreck Kydd Court and make Nell's life a misery. Her mother coped with it all by retreating into her own world, where she couldn't be reached either. When an unwelcome offer of marriage is forced upon her, Nell knows that she has to take action and that's when the very unsettling Captain Hugo Derringer arrives. He's an old friend of Kitt's, but what exactly is he doing in the area and can Nell trust him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091710</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Allegra Goodman|title=The Cookbook CollectorClaire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=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 ''The Cookbook Collectorlike'' is all about emotionsto: in fact, she so nearly does. Concentrating Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her twochildren, youngJames and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, American women who Fred. Groceries are vastly different in many areas of their lives online deliveries and there's also on their outlook on lifean internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, Goodman digs deeper to find out what makes them tick - so you can guess what makes them get up she does in the morningher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848875398</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lulu Taylor0008441618|title=Beautiful CreaturesOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=Everyone has heard Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the Beaufort twins Octavia town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and Flora, but few have ever seen them, and on the night of their twenty-first birthday party the girls are finally launched into society amongst funds which they raised were a crowd anxious considerable benefit to see the two girls who are about to inherit a vast fortuneschool. Octavia and Flora have been kept out of There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the public eye for their entire young lives by their aunt Frances after their father died and their mother seemingly abandoned themhead. Now that Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the girls have come of age Frances has no choice toys children could bring in on Toy Day but to hand over the girls' vast inheritance from their father and take that was just a step back from running warm-up act for their livesreal gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099550458</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rekha WaheedGiovanna Fletcher|title=My Bollywood WeddingWalking on Sunshine|rating=3.54

|summary=Maya Malik set her heart on a bigMike's wife, Pia, glamorous wedding to Jhanghir Khan but organising it who he was difficult as the groom-to-be was working as a doctor in New York with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Maya was arranging the wedding in LondonZaza. MayaBut Pia left them all some 's family are richrules' to follow, but Jhanghir's family are – seriously so – knowing that she was dying and this is only part of the tensions which looked that they would need help to be carry on track to derail living. Whilst some of the wedding. There's a sister-in-law who's determined rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take over all the arrangements – without disguising her dislike one of Maya – their trips away, and a George-Clooney-lookalike cousin whom Maya finds far too attractive for her Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own good. And Jhanghir? Welllives, he's a man. He's busy and he's not that good at communicatinggo along with him. Is there any wonder that Maya begins to wonder if she's doing the right thing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755356144</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret LeroyB09FS89KX9|title=The River HouseFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Ginnie Holmes is a child-psychologist, working to help children and young people damaged by what they Life should have experienced or what they have seen. been good for Hollie: She is also was just going into the mother final year of two typical, happy teenage daughters – one just about to leave for university the other, trying hard not to work for her GCSEveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB'sdiner. Her life is outwardly as near perfect as it gets Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Her husband is a successful academicHollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. She has a solid circle Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of friends old and newall he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. The cottage by Then there was the river might fact that he would be whimsical rather than elegant but it suits violent, both to her and in the right light and the right company it is charmingto other people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Highmore0008421714|title=The Birthday|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=4 November 2008: That's the date of the US presidential election, and Fran's 60th birthday. Fran is nervous about her milestone birthday – she doesn't feel that old. She is worried about her husband, Duncan, who has become rather down and forgetful. As it turns out though, her planned party will be less a celebration than the catalyst for the revelation of a lifetime of secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343042</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Kate Lace|title=A Class ActVirginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Tilly de Liege (thatThe problem began just after the publication of George March's pronounced 'de Lee', by most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the waylast page) met Ainsley Driver quite by accident and they just seemed to get on with each other really welleither be reading it or had already done so. Both were about Every day Mrs March went to do A levels and were hoping the local patisserie to go buy olive bread but on to universitythat particular morning, Patricia asked, but there was a snag. Tilly as she was from wrapping the wrong side of the tracks. She wasnbread, ''but isn't in this the least bit worried about the fact that Ainsley lived in first time he's based a council house character on quite the worst estate in town but when he found out you?'' She mentioned that she lived in Johanna, the local manor house and went to a private school something snappedprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. It didn't seem to be about money – as the de Lieges really didn't Perhaps this would not have any - more about mattered, except for the fact that she hadnJohanna is the whore of Nantes - ''t saida weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347943</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Monk1473685745|title=Taking the LeadUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Theodora English had left When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her home in London to move best to a tiny Cornish village with her boyfriend Michael, only apologise for him to dump her soon afterwards. Youhaving knocked Simon'd expect her to head straight back to London, but you'd be wrong. She buys the cottage next door, moves in 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 Kinrosss son, disgraced heir to the estate is making his way as best he can through the gambling dens of EdinburghJake, trading on off his skill, ability to hold his drink and the smiling fickle fortunes of lady luckbike. The Lady is smiling at the moment, although she hasnHe wasn't always done sohurt but Jake has history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali McNamara|title=From Notting Hill with Love... Actually|rating=3.5|genre=Women He has HLHS - that's Fiction|summary=Scarlett loves the movies; in fact that Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you could easily say that she is obsessed who are not ''au fait'' with themyour medical acronyms. When he was born, much to the exasperation left side of her father, her fiancé David and her friends. She canhis heart hadn't help dreaming developed properly and wishing that her life he needed open-heart surgery when he was more like the films that she lovesa few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when the opportunity arises to house sit for a month in Notting Hill (the setting of her favourite film), she grabs it. Itsomeone isn't looking where they's a chance to prove to all those sceptics that life can be like the movies and also for her to examine her feelings about her forthcoming marriage to Davidre driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544957</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucinda RileyC J Carey|title=Hothouse FlowerWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In 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 Season , parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of 1939 Olivia met Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the Honourable Harry Crawford, heir lead-up to the Wharton country estate in Norfolk World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and he seemed like we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the perfect catchGermanic peoples on ''the mainland''. It looked even better when his mother invited her But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to spend the summer at childless, the estate husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for 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 party line before long they were married're stamped ready for reprint. There were problems even before Harry went That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to fight in the Far Eastlight, but Olivia was determined that the marriage would workwith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141049375</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy DawsonRuth Hogan|title=The One That Got AwayMadame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Lucy Dawson's latest novel is This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a cut above runbullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation ofMadame Burova, ''Tarot-the-mill chickReader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-lit papfront booth. Molly Greene is happily married to DanThe singer, the scryer and they live the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a normal twenty-revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first century life time in a small townthe family stall. She is We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a successful salesperson pair of letters that will change everything for a medical supplierwoman called Billie. The couple struggle with Just who is she, and who delivered the bills and hope secrets about her to buy their own place. She spends time with two old girlfriends whose situations are different from hersImelda, but who know our heroine inside out and will always be there for her for long, boozy heart-why did it have to-hearts. So far, so predictable. remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751542520</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christine StovellJennifer Saint |title=Turning the TideAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We'This re in -telling of the seaside location myth of SpitmarshAriadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. It's seen better days, frankly. And Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that's putting it mildly. It has ' ... a local economy so depressed it was almost suicidal'. Ms Harry Watling loves her town in spite of the negative vibes. She wouldn't change is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a thingmodern audience. You can tell that sheSaint's an optimist because even although she's having difficulty keeping her business afloatnarrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, she's still happy with spanning from her lot. She's not afraid of hard work and seems childhood to work almost round her death, allowing the clock and reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in all weathers to carry out her boat-building and repairs business. But it's own right rather than just a constant battleprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931259</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernadette StrachanLucy Holland|title=Why DO We Have to Live with Men?Sistersong|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Cat Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and her friends often meet up fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a drink cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a chatfresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, and regularly fantasise about giving up on menfleshing out characters, sharing a house examining relationships and looking after each otherre-evaluating the role of women. Then one night Germaine calls their bluff – she’s found Sistersong is a perfect example of a housemodern retelling done well, and wants to know who the plot is going to join her in it. Initiallyhandled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the answer is no one. Shortly afterwards, though, Cat’s characters to come to life as she has known it falls apart, as her landlord gives her notice to leave her flat feel real and she loses her jobhuman, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. There This is nothing now a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to keep her in London and moving into Germaine’s commune doesn’t seem like such a mad optionend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751542296</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah DunnB08NF79QXT|title=Secrets to HappinessCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Holly Frick is 35Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, single for just six months when she's nominated for - and living in New York Citywins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She still thinks 's delighted and the two people she's in love brought with her ex husbandto the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her career as a TV writer mother, is on a steady downward spiral an ex-model and sheBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's had limited success as a novelist. She may be having amazing no strings sex with toy boy Lucas, but Holly is unfulfilled thirty-four and unhappy. Plus, sheLiberty's surrounded by equally dysfunctional friends, including best friend Amanda, who has no qualms embarking on an extramarital affair: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and writing partner Leonardtheir four-year-old daughter, who is more than happy to self-medicate and find his thrills through the InternetAva. Plus Spence, the ex before the ex husband has resurfaced Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in Holly's her life and thanks to his new girlfriend Cathleen, Holly finds herself reliving their relationship as Cathleen interrogates her on Spence's past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538302</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda DickinsonB08GFSK2WZ|title=Welcome to My WorldThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Light, romantic fiction (or that dreadful phrase but which George Jackson is apt, chickthirty-lit) is notthree years old, I have absolutely gorgeous to say, my preferred genrelook at - and single. I wouldnShe't buy it from s not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a bookshop nor borrow it real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the local library. Butshower 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, having said all thatstark naked, would you believe staring at the coincidence that chatting with two female friends recently (fortysomething and fiftysomething) they both told me that they wouldn't read anything elsepervy postman. So, it just goes She only has to show, horses take her mother's dog out for a walk for courses her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and all thata photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561667</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela EvansB08CHJLNBS|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>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Sue Moorcroft|title=Want to Know a Secret?Brooke Adams|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>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Silver|title=All I Want For Christmas|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=In Amy Silver's 'All I Want for Christmas', the reader meets three very different women. Bea, who runs the local delicatessen, The Honey Pot, is facing Christmas alone with her young son Luca but is determined to make it as good as she possibly can. Olivia has somewhat rashly offered to host all of her fiancé's family from Ireland and it looks like it will be chaotic. On the other hand, Chloe will be celebrating alone, as her boyfriend will be sitting down to Christmas dinner with his wife and family. Although on the surface, the three women appear to have little in common, as Christmas approaches they start to form a bond that is likely to last well beyond the festive season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Moorcroft|title=All That Mullarkey|rating=43

|summary=Cleo He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and Gav seemed to have a partner at Wickham Jones, the perfect marriageMayfair letting agents. Neither of them wanted children and their lives seemed to be full of funShe's Emilia, twenty-nine, enjoyment librarian and lovearchivist in the heritage library next door. But sometimes all is not as it seems as Cleo discovered the night Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that she, which leave you dependent on someone else'd made up her mind to go s philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a reunion and Gav said [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that she shouldnEmilia reads ''The Guardian''t go. She set offThey're obviously not at all compatible, but wondered if it really was worth causing so much heartache when she wasnwhy can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She't s not his usual type at all that keen on going and turned back: it's obvious to his friends. When And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she got home she found that the writing was on the wall for their marriage – quite literally. feel drawn to him? It saidThe relationship's obviously a non-starter, in marker pen on the bedroom wall isn'This Marriage is Over' and Gav had gone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931240</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenHelly Acton|title=Getting Away With ItThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Julie CohenWhen we meet Amy, she's latest book is in a different creature to her previous novelsrelationship with Jamie. ItYou can's not just that t really call ita partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's longersticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, although the length allows yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for more characterisation and trickier, complex plots than her a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''Little Black Dressfinally'' books, but it also feels different in style. There's the same quirky side that Julie writes so well - going to get down on one knee? Was the heroine this time is a stunt woman, some bizarre ice cream flavours work (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.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075535060X</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Cathleen Schine|title=The Three Weissmanns of Westport|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The novel begins When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with Joseph Weissmanna black eye, or Josie as claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is known, deciding at tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's the age talk of 78 the 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 no longer wants to be married to Betty after 48 years together. In an attempt to save Bettydid? Some people believe her and some don's feelings he cites irreconcilable differencest, but the truth one thing is he has fallen head for sure, this isn't going to blow over heels in love. Betty is devastated, her life in tatters, with even the beautiful Central Park apartment she adores any time soon lost to her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015716</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon OwensKatie Fforde|title=A Winter's WeddingSpringtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Decluttering: itI's ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a great thing to dowarm, cosy read focused on romance, you know. You clear space family and you give yourself emotional energy when you get rid of things which you don't needfriendships. Take stuff to a charity shop and it's an all-round winner This provided two romances for everyone. That's what Emily did when she began to clear out her flat. Her friend Augusta had given her quite a few gadgets which she knew that she would never use. And the price of one, but it was at actually the charity shop that she met Dylan. His sister ran a charity which rescued horses and Dylan was helping out between jobs. Now, there's something which you need family element as opposed to know about Dylan. He's perfect. He's thoughtful, considerate, loyal and honest. Yes – he's ''the romance that'' perfectI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141028580</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brooke MorganB07W4MNBSG|title=TrappedBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Ellie Walters is 36, divorced and keen It was coming up to start a new life away from her cheating Halloween in 1987 and control-freak ex-husband. Fulfilling a lifegroup of sixth-long dream, she decides to take her 15-year-old son, Tim, to live with her in the small town of Bourneform schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. As she soon becomes good friends with her next-door neighbour When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, Louisa Amory, Ellie finally feels she is making a but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life of her owndepends on who you marry''. She begins to feel a sense The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea 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 living in a tragic accident nineteen years ago; memories which she would rather forget. It is clear that someone has discovered her well-kept secret farmhouse and is reluctant to let her forget about it. As having a campaign couple of terror against Ellie unfolds she must come children called Will and Olly appealed to terms with what happened all those years ago Charlotte, or perhaps William and try to discover Oliver if you were Elizabeth who her tormentor is. Vulnerable and afraid, she relies on Louisa's friendship was determined to help her through marry the ordealrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. However, when a misunderstanding causes a rift between Ellie and Louisa's son, Joe, The place to start their search was obviously the womenYoung Farmers's friendship is threatenedHalloween disco that weekend. Alone and afraid, she suddenly finds herself trapped There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in a nightmare from which she must do all she can to escapethe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099536285</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Beth Pattillo|title=Jane Austen Ruined My Life|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionMove on to [[Features|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>}}latest features]]