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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Gibson1471180158|title=The Great Escape|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Hannah, Sadie and Lou have all known each other since their student days in Glasgow. That was thirteen years ago and since then, although they have kept in touch, they have not seen as much of each other as they would have liked. Sadie is married to Barney and is the mother of twin babies. She is trying to adjust to life in a country village and to fit in with all the other young mums who always appear to do things so much better than her. Lou lives in York with Spike, her boyfriend since college days. She has had to put her dreams of being a jewellery designer on hold while she supports herself and Spike (who does very little) by working in a soft play barn. She often thinks that there must be more to life but does not have the courage to break free. Hannah loves her fiancé, Ryan, but finds the open hostility from her future stepchildren hard to take and this is the reason why the imminent wedding is so daunting. They all need some time out which is why the others jump at Hannah's suggestion of a weekend away visiting their old student haunts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562604</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Marlene S Lewis|title=RuthPenny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=The late 1950s saw Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a lot of changes in society but they were late in coming to Ruthman who's home in a control freak with all the Owen Stanley range in Papua New Guineasubtlety of a half brick. RuthJamie's son, the only daughter of plantation owner John MadisonBo, was still in her late teens 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and away at boarding school for much of the yearmore you read, but when the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she returned home one of 's a frequent flier in the first people she wanted local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to see was her great friend Tommyschool. They'd grown Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up together but there was no possibility of from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the relationship being taken any further as Tommy - despite being light skinned - wrong. It was the son of one of the black plantation workers and certain 'standards' were expected of Ruthgoing to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766238</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabelle R CharbitLauren Bravo|title=A Life Lived RidiculouslyPreloved

|summary=Up in Yorkshire , Cath Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and Rich aren’t sure ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their future can include children following her major illness, which salt would be ok if she didn’t want argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a baby so badlymid-life crisis. In Brighton, Lou hasn’t had quite the same infertility issues but Catharsis is key and Gwen has problems of her own that might get in decided now is the way of the tick tock of time to take back her body clock. The two women don’t know each other, and in spite of what you might expect, don’t get to know each other, but their stories sit side by side in this tale of the trials and tribulations of fertility treatment.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330544098</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess Stimson0008506337|title=The Wife Who Ran Away|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Kate's life is far from easy. She earns a great deal more money than her husband Ned, and works long hours... but her boss seems to be trying to edge her out. She pays not just for their mortgage, but for her mother's too, and fees for their teenage children Guy and Agness who are in expensive private schools.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330522019</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGarnett Girls|author=Suzanne Bugler|title=The Child InsideGeorgina Moore|rating=4.5

|summary=Rachel Morgan feels that she does not fit The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in anywherelove. Certainly not with all of the other mums at her son Jono Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's posh schoolinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. Certainly not with all In the happy jolly families on event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the beaches when they are Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on holidayto become a well-respected journalist. And most of all The couple had three children: Rachel, she no longer feels that she fits Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in with her own little London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family. Nothing ever feels right and she continually feels isolated home on the outside looking inIsle of Wight. Of course, these feelings lead Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to an increasing sense of dissatisfaction which she can only deal with by dwelling on what she perceives as her happier pastleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510916</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Karen Harper|title=Shakespeare's Mistress|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The conceit of ''Shakespeare's Mistress'' is that Shakespeare was married to Anne Whateley the day before he was married to Anne Hathaway, and Anne W remained the love of his life, with an affair (if you can have an affair with your 'wife') continued in London where the same Anne was also the famed ''dark lady'' of his sonnetsThen Richard left them. There is some basis for this theory in that the parish records do show a mysterious entry into the register for just such a contract the day before the Hathaway marriage but although the author claims this is 'faction', it's very much at the fiction end of that scale and is really a 'what if?' piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091940427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Giselle Green|title=Falling for You|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rose is full of worries and insecurities. Her father is frail, her mother died some years previously. Rose is desperately hoping for a letter offering her a place at the university of her dreams... but has no idea how her father will survive without her there to look after him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006KHWSJ8</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer E SmithHadeer Elsbai|title=The Statistical Probability Daughters of Love at First SightIzdihar

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The story takes place over Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the course lives of only twenty four hours but so much happens during that small amount two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of timewomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. It starts when Nehal, born into the reader meets Hadley having missed upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her flight abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to London by a mere four minutes. As it turns outprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, those four minutes are some whilst secretly attending meetings of the most significant Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of her lifean unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, as they result in her booking from which blossoms a later flight group of admirable women fighting for their rights and consequently meeting Oliver with whom she is seated throughout the journey across the Atlanticovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392175</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Courtney SullivanB0B575J99N|title=Maine|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Kellehers' beach-front holiday home in Maine was built on a plot of land won in a bar-room bet at Beneath the end of World War II. It's not in the same league as the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port but there are a couple of substantial properties on the plot and there's still room to spare. It's a place of indulgence, secrets and the sort of burning cruelty which you only get in families who care for each other - some of the time. ''Maine'' is essentially the story of a summer at the property - but the seeds of what happens were, of course, planted long ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789496X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Monica Carly|title=The Golden Thread|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was a sad day when Claudia Hansom retired as headmistress of Kingdown School. The staff respected her, despite the fact that she was always somewhat distant and the children did well under her charge. She was a stickler for discipline and the pupils accepted this – but once again there was no ''love''. No, the sadness was all Claudia's, for what was she to do with the rest of her life as the ex-head teacher living alone with her cat? Her mother had died when she and her sister were teenagers and her father not long before she retired. There hadn't been any contact with her sister was forty years. She might imagine doing some writing, but the reality was that the life ahead of her was empty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780880162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Marsh|title=The House of Eliott|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Evangeline and Beatrice's father dies, the two sisters discover that he has left them with very little money and without any qualifications with which to support themselves. They struggle to find suitable employment before accidentally discovering their talents as seamstresses and fashion designers. The book follows their journey of independence after their father's death, and the new relationships they begin to build without him dominating their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720008X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stella Newman|title=Pear ShapedBrooke Adams

|summary=One night Sophie Elizabeth Miller was out with her friend Laura. They met thirty-four and a teacher at a couple of men and there was an immediate chemistry between Sophie and James Stephensprestigious girl's school in York. He It was good looking, charismatic, great fun and obviously attracted to Sophie. The fact that he was rich (complete with Maserati) didn't matter to her - 'comfortable'' but it didn't do any harm eithershe longed for something more in life. WhatShe's not to like? Well, thered 's nothing 'still not to likefound the right vocation nor met the right man'' but just and now was the odd thing that might give some pause for thoughttime to make a change. She needed challenges. He's forty five and never been married - and has There was a history of dating super-slim modelslittle trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. But - he is obviously very taken with Sophie After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she falls head-over-heels for himwas exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562701</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Beryl Kingston|title=Off the Rails|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A young girl from a Yorkshire village was weeping, begging her mother to be allowed just one more night at home, but the carter was waiting for her. The girl was fifteen, unmarried and pregnant. She was to go any stay with her aunt until the baby was born and she would be Mrs Smith whose husband had died at sea. The father of the baby was actually a village boy, George Hudson, who would prefer to pay a fine for bastardy than make an honest woman of the girl. He too ended up leaving home over the matter. In the years to come the paths of Jane, along with her daughter Milly, would cross and recross with Jane swearing that she would have vengeance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090951</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Gordon0241542405|title=Landfall|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary='Most people at one time or another of their lives get a feeling that they must kill themselves; as a rule they get over it in a day or two' ('How Girls Can Build Up The Empire: the handbook for Girl Guides' 1912) Excerpts from the handbook precede each section of ''Landfall'' and it is hard to know what to make of them – other than to take on board that women are not, by any stretch, the weaker sex, just the more emotional one 'They can even…shoot tigers, if they can keep cool'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490828</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Kerry Jamieson|title=The Forgotten LiesClaire Alexander

|summary=In the mid-thirtiesWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, the golden age of Hollywood214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, three aspiring starlets shared a studio house she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on Lantana Drive as they waited and she's even considered which shoes to hear wear if they were she's going to have a career in catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the movies – or notsafety of her home. Charlotte (soon to be Carlie for acting purposes)She's fortunate that she has a good friend, VerbenaSadie, known to who visits regularly with her friends (two children, James and Matilda. Sadie''only'' her friends) as Bee s a cardiac nurse and Ivy were desperate for the role full of a lifetime, which would put their name in lightssound common sense. There In fact it was an added appealSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Whoever won would star opposite Liam Malone – good looking, charismatic Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'very'' married with six childrenll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. It wasnHe't just s from Holding Hands, a case of being able to act. Their lives would be under intense scrutinycharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141026049</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniela Sacerdoti0008441618|title=Watch Over MeOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=Eilidh Lawson thought that life was finally looking up. She'd struggled through years of failed fertility treatments despite knowing that her husband was seeing someone else. Their marriage had crumbled around their feet – but then Eilidh found Jo Fairburn knew that she was pregnant. Despite being only ten weeks into under intense pressure as the pregnancy new head of West Burntridge First School: if she wore didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a maternity smock – and house price slump in that was part of the day she lost the babytown. Months of heartbreak, depression The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and hospitalisation followed until one day she decided that enough was enoughthe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. She There was leaving her homeone difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, her marriage and most of her possessions and she was returning to her childhood home in particular, causing problems for the Highlands of Scotlandhead. She was never going Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to risk Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that sort of hurt againwas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845023668</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel WolffGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Very Picture Of YouWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Ella Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is a portrait painterdealing with his grief, living in Londonso are their best friends, single but ok with itVicky and Zaza. She’s 35 years old – a fact wedged rather unsubtly into the first page of chapter one – But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and her younger sister is getting marriedthat they would need help to carry on living. It could be Whilst some of the start of something a bit sameyrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, or it could be the start another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of something a bit special. Lucky for ustheir trips away, it’s the second oneand Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and the story develops their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in an intriguing their own lives, and quite unusual directiongo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000724584X</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina CourtenayB09FS89KX9|title=Highland Storms|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The publisher, Choc Lit Limited, gives a fair idea of what kind of read this book is. Romance with a capital R. Courtenay decides to go back in time to a Scotland rather weary of battles but strong in image especially in terms of the countryside. Is the book's purple hue suggestive of the purple heather to be found all over this area of Scotland, I wonder. It all conjures up a deeply romantic setting for many, myself included. Add in the odd fairy-tale castle or two and it's even better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931712</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Jean Marsh|title=Fiennders AbbeyPenelope Potts

|summary=When we [[Ne ObliviscarisLife should have been good for Hollie: Do Not Forget by Margaret Henderson Smith|last saw ]] Harriet Glover she had She was just been stood up at going into the altar by final year of her longveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob -term partner, Mark but rescued and proposed to by the man she has lusted after for quite owner - regarded her fondly: he was a while – Joris Sandersongood boss. Harriet knows something else tooHollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. She knows that sheHollie wasn's pregnant t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and that the father most of the child is not the man she was going all he wanted her to marry, but leave her job at the man who has now proposeddiner. Complicated? Of course it is. This is Then there was the woman who could make Frank Spencer look like a miracle of organisation. She's going fact that he would be violent, both to have her and to do something quite spectacular this time aroundother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494687</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Duffy0008421714|title=The Generation GameMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Do you remember 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 done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, 'The Generation Game'but isn' TV show, with old Brucie and then Larry Grayson managing t this the mayhem? Where were first time he's based a character on you when Charles and Di got married? '' What about when Diana died? She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. There's plenty of reminiscing to be done in Perhaps this book as Sophie Duffy takes us from would not have mattered, except for the 1960's to 2006 through fact that Johanna is the life whore of her characterNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, Philippapathetic, in a book that fleets from funnyunloved, heartwarming moments to real sadnessunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248017</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Fallon1473685745|title=The Ugly Sister|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Abi hasn't really had much of a relationship with her sister Cleo since Cleo was discovered on the street and morphed into a successful and well known model. It's now more than 20 years later, and the sisters are hardly what you'd call close. But, with a summer to kill and nowhere really to kill it in, Abi takes up her sister's offer to move into her plush Primrose Hill pad and spend some 'quality time' with the family. Except...Cleo's idea of quality family time is to go to the gym. Or the spa. Or a comeback casting. Anywhere really, as long as it's away from them all. And with brother in law Jon at work during the day, Abi quickly starts feeling like the hired help, shuttling her nieces around town and seeing to their every need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047259</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Alan Titchmarsh|title=The HauntingKatie Marsh

|summary=We donWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't know whether or not Harry Flint was a good hurt but Jake has history teacher – but we do know . He has HLHS - that he's disenchanted Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with the job and determined to make a changeyour medical acronyms. His marriage to a lawyer only lasted a few months and Harry feels – rightly or wrongly – that When he needs a complete change. He buys a ramshackle cottagewas born, determined to spend some time restoring it as well as investigating his family history and the lives left side of the saints. Honestly – I know what youhis heart hadn're thinking – t developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he is rather more fun than all that soundswas a few days old. WellSo, he is Simon has every right to be over- some of the timeprotective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340936886</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet ArcherC J Carey|title=Persuade MeWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=A decade before we meet Anna Elliott she had fallen in love with Rick Wentworth when they were both working in France. Her fatherIt's April 1953, Sir Walter Elliott and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Kellynch and MintyJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a family friend persuaded her to give up the relationship and take up her place at Oxford. She now lectures about Russian literaturebit, but it still unmarried and largely at watching over the sanctioned return to the bidding throne of her father and her two elder sistersEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Rick Wentworth, meanwhileFor yes, has been Britain caved in Australiathe lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, but he's and we are now returned to the UK on a tour to promote his best-selling book. It's an academic work about sea lifeprotectorate – well, but the picture we share enough of a half-naked Rick on the cover and same blood as the title Germanic peoples on ''Sex in the Seamainland'' means that Rick – and his book. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi- are in demand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931216</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristin Hannah|title=Night Road|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lexi and Mia are best friendsstyled phrenology, and Mia and Zach are twinsideas of female purpose, and Lexi and Zach hardly hate each other either. They're not so much a couple has put all of friends or brother and sister as they are that gender into a circle that goes round and round and never endscaste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and despite mother Jude's initial reservationsbeyond those, their unconventional arrangement seems right on down to workthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. It's not like she's not got enough on her plate anyway Female literacy is actively discouraged. It's senior year of high school and And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the pressure task of college applications and future plans is driving them bowdlerising classical literature to take all crazy, but when an event on the eve encouragement for female emancipation out of graduation changes it – after all their lives forever, there's nothing not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they wouldn't give to return to those stress-filled days of just get a hefty tweak towards the ''party line beforethey'' re 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 escape the spoil Hitler''after'' that now torments thems visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330534971</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda GillardRuth Hogan|title=Untying the KnotMadame Burova

|summary=IThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the 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 become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, 've often wondered why it's not axiomatic that a man should stand by his woman – although perhaps it couldnTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant''t be set to music quite so easily – but Fay had failed , to stand by use her manfamily's sea-front booth. To make it worseThe singer, she was an army wife the scryer and they just donthe sufferer't desert – and Magnus was s mother will all become staff at a herorevamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. He'd been We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in bomb disposal possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and despite being blown up had briefed his number two who delivered the secrets about the bomb before he was taken off her to hospital. He was good-lookingImelda, charismatic – and divorced. Fay knew that marrying Magnus had been why did it have to remain a mistake – but she also admitted that the biggest mistake of secret all was divorcing him.this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005JTAMQO</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrika JonssonJennifer Saint |title=The Importance of Being MyrtleAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is lovely; it's good enough to frame interesting and along with unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the intriguing title will help to draw readers story in, I think. The blurb on the back cover suggests a cosy, domestic read. I was looking forward way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to ita modern audience. We initially get all the sorry details leading up to AustinSaint's untimely death. On narrative is told predominantly through the local busviewpoint of Ariadne, of all placesspanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as he made his way to work. A kindly Italian/Australian man called Gianni sees it all happening (a character in fact Austin dies her own right rather than just a prop in his arms). We also get a lot the heroics of background info on Gianni, right at the very beginning, which I thought slowed up the story somewhatTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043202</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann HoodLucy Holland|title=The Red ThreadSistersong

|summary=The Red Thread Adoption Agency Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has been successfully placing abandoned Chinese girls with loving American familieshad her shop, desperate for childrenthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, for many years just six months when we join themshe's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Named for She's delighted and the mythical Chinese belief that two people who are destined she's brought with her to the event couldn't be together are connected by an invisible red threadmore pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an immense amount of work goes in ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from both countries to make the process as smooth . Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and straightforward as possibleLiberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and to ensure the matches aretheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if not magical, then at least perfect. Maya, the agency’s owner, knows all the children it wasn't for one thing: she has placed and spends misses having a great deal of time with the prospective parents before they come anywhere near their potential daughtersman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393339769</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice PetersonB08GFSK2WZ|title=Monday to Friday ManThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Gilly (that's with a 'G'George Jackson is thirty-three years old, you notice) was engaged absolutely gorgeous to Ed, but a fortnight before their wedding look at - and with the gifts piling up, he changed his mindsingle. So Gilly was left on her own at She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the age karma trap: an awful lot of thirty four with a mortgage to pay bad luck is being visited on her house in Hammersmith and only she has a shop job to support herselfreal talent for attracting drama. She really didnHer life't know what s chaotic: she wanted to do dealt with her life but as a stop-gap she decided to take in a Monday-the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs toabsorb the water -Friday lodger. This would give her some income, company during the week and then the house to herself at weekends. It seemed like an added bonus when shower fell through the man roof whilst she finally settled on wasin it and left her, wellstark naked, rather tastystaring at the pervy postman. Jack Baker seemed She only has to have take her mother's dog out for a lot going walk for him – her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a job in reality televisionphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383248</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tara HylandB08CHJLNBS|title=Fallen AngelsCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=The front cover suggests romance with He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a capital 'R' along with partner at Wickham Jones, the rather sugary titleMayfair letting agents. The blurb on the back tells us weShe'll be travelling back s Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and forth between various parts of archivist in the globeheritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The story opens with the Prologue: San Francisco in 1958 and thereSecret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's a moved on from new-born baby girl taken age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a local orphanagelittle deeper. ItCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's a common occurrence sadly but shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this one stands woman outof his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. WeAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles're told s superficiality, why towards the end when all the pieces of the jigdoes she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-saw come together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377017</amazonuk>starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan LewisHelly Acton|title=StolenThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we meet Amy, she'Stolen' starts over thirty years ago s in a relationship with a harassed young mother and her three small children travelling on the tubeJamie. The children are messing about and You can't really call it's no wonder thata partnership, when it is time for them all because things tend to get offdone on his terms, things become difficultbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. This results in the eldest childAh, Alexandra, being left in the carriage while the mother frantically attempts yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to stop the trainpack for a surprise trip. A kindly looking man gestures that Could this be it? Is he will ''finally'' going to get off with down on one knee? Was the little girl at work (and the next stop and will wait for the mother. That is how ) worth it is left so the reader cannot be sure exactly what has happened although I definitely had my suspicions.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099550679</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Fiona Neill|title=What the Nanny Saw|rating=4|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Ali Sparrow girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is twenty-one and tipped upside down. Her relationship has just dropped out of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as ended and now she needs to earn some money, so becoming a nanny to a rich family seems ideal when she sees Bryony Skinner's advertthe talk of the school. Soon Ali finds herself central to Mike was the Skinner's vast home and life on the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent most popular boy in school who was always so in a house love with her, everyone knew that extends way beyond the usual two floors, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane LoveringKatie Fforde|title=Star StruckA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Skye Threppel had a year of memories wiped out in I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a car accident which cost the lives of her best friend and fiancé. The physical scars were healing – although they were still very visible – butwarm, eighteen months cosy read focused onromance, she struggled with meeting people family and being anywhere but friendships. This provided two romances for the cosy womb price of her little terrace house in York. She used to be an actress one, but the accident has ruined her career and her confidence. It it was a massive step when her friend Fe (that's short for Felix, by actually the way) persuaded her to go with him family element as opposed to the 'Fallen Skies' TV convention in Nevada - giving her a chance to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgan, the actor she idolisesromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931690</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor MoranB07W4MNBSG|title=Breakfast in BedBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=2.54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Amber is It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a chef in 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 who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the throes idea of living in a sticky divorce who has quite enough on her plate (farmhouse and the plates having a couple of her customers) without children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the terror of working for a wunderkindrather superior Patrick Shepley-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chefBotham. So, because this is chick lit and The place to start their search was obviously the inevitable is, well, inevitable, Young Farmers' Halloween disco that's weekend. There was just where she finds herself, landing a new job one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the kitchen of Oscar Retfordclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154549X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Anne Marsella|title=The Baby of Belleville|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jane de Rochefoucault, an expat living in Paris with her aristocratic husband, is just an ordinary mother fighting her way through the challenges of early parenthood from nursing to itsy-bitsy-spidering. However, Jane's life certainly isn't all about diaper-changing and Tupperware. Far from it. When three of her Muslim friends decide to organise a highly dangerous slave emancipation Jane is forced to rely Move on her family's history of law-breaking and dodgy contacts to make sure [[Features|the plan succeeds. And on top of all her maternal and culinary responsibilities Jane becomes the interpreter/secretary/personal shopper for a celebrity intellectual employer which isn't all it's cracked up to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846272246</amazonuk>}}latest features]]