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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Fforde1471180158|title=Recipe for LoveMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Zoe Harper arrives at SomerbyJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a lovely old mansion and the setting for man who's a control freak with all the latest televised cookery contest, she is full subtlety of excitementa half brick. Before long Jamie's son, she finds herself rescuing one of the judgesBo, Gideon Irving, from a ditch and realises that she is extremely attracted to him'has his problems'. Not long after, she meets her room mate He's asthmatic and fellow competitor, Cherthe more you read, for whom there is no immediate attraction as she comes across as shallow and devious. All the rest of the contestants are friendly though and they are soon all immersing themselves in the challenges of more you'll suspect that he's on the various roundsautistic spectrum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846056527</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Noble|title=Between a Mother and her Child|rating=3.5|genre=Women Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's Fiction|summary=Maggie and Bill had a wonderful, happy family until tragedy struck, nearly a year before frequent flier in the story opens. The blurb on the back of the book says exactly what this tragedy was, but itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not explained until several chapters into fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the bookneed to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It would have made more powerful reading had I not known what had caused the family was going to come to break upa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155378</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Polly WilliamsLauren Bravo|title=The Angel at No. 33Preloved

|summary=Sophie Gwen is the wife of disorganised Ollie (who watered pressing her middle-aged bosom on a plastic plant for big number that starts with a year before realising), mother of typical little boy Freddie four and sheends with an oh-my-God-I's deadm-nearly-forty. Yes, Sophie is very dead. During Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a wine-filled evening bit of moaning about her predictable lifestyle with her best friend Jenny, Sophie tries to stop a taxi in the worst way possiblemid-life crisis. The taxi stops but not quite soon enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358872</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christina Jones|title=Never Can Say Goodbye|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Frankie Catharsis is unexpectedly handed the reins to the shop where she currently works, she’s surprised to say the least. Current boss Rita key and Gwen has decided now is heading off for a new life (and love) in the sun, and leaving her home and business behind. It’s a swift learning curve time to go from shop assistant to business owner, but with take back her friends, and most of the village, behind her, Frankie’s going to give it a shot.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953322</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Fiona Gibson|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 GlasgowThen Richard left them. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlene S LewisHadeer Elsbai|title=RuthThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The late 1950s saw a lot Daughters of changes in society but they were late in coming to RuthIzdihar''s home in explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the Owen Stanley range rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in Papua New Guineaa society pitted against them. RuthNehal, born into the only daughter of plantation owner John Madisonupper class, was still in wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her late teens abilities and away at boarding school for much of then join the yearmilitary, but when instead she returned home one of is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the first people she wanted other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to see was provide for her great friend Tommy. They'd grown up together but there was no possibility family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the relationship being taken any further as Tommy - despite being light skinned - was the son Daughters of one Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of the black plantation workers an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and certain 'standards' were expected cruelty, from which blossoms a group of Ruthadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848766238</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annabelle R CharbitB0B575J99N|title=A Life Lived RidiculouslyBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Up in Yorkshire , Cath Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Rich aren’t sure their future can include children following her major illness, which would be ok if she didn’t want a baby so badlyteacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. In Brighton, Lou hasn’t had quite the same infertility issues It was ''comfortable'' but has problems of her own that might get she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the way of right vocation nor met the tick tock of her body clockright man'' and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. The two women don’t know each other, and There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in spite of what you might expectBologna. After a telephone interview, don’t get to know each other, but their stories sit side by side in this tale of she was offered the trials position and tribulations of fertility treatmentit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330544098</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess Stimson0241542405|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>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Suzanne Bugler|title=The Child InsideClaire Alexander

|summary=Rachel Morgan feels that When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she does 's not fit in anywhereleft her home for 1,214 days. Certainly not with all of the other mums at her son Jono She'd ''like''s posh schoolto: in fact, she so nearly does. Certainly not with all the happy jolly families on the beaches when they Her outdoor clothes are on holidayand she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. And most of all Then, she no longer feels can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she fits in has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her own little familytwo children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Nothing ever feels right Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she continually feels isolated on the outside looking does inher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. Of course He's from Holding Hands, these feelings lead to an increasing sense of dissatisfaction a charity which she can only deal supports people with by dwelling on what she perceives problems such as her happier pastMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510916</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Harper0008441618|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 sonnets. 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>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Giselle Green|title=Falling for YouSarah Stovell|rating=3.5

|summary=Rose is full Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of worries 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 town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and insecuritiesthe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. Her father is frail There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, her mother died some years previously. Rose is desperately hoping causing problems for a letter offering her a place at the university of her dreams..head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but has no idea how her father will survive without her there to look after himthat was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006KHWSJ8</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer E SmithGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Statistical Probability of Love at First SightWalking on Sunshine

|genre=TeensWomen's Fiction|summary=The story takes place over the course of only twenty four hours but Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so much happens during are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that small amount of time. It starts when the reader meets Hadley having missed her flight she was dying and that they would need help to London by a mere four minutescarry on living. As it turns out, those four minutes are Whilst some of the most significant rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of her their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own lifetroubles, as they result decide to drop everything in her booking a later flight their own lives, and consequently meeting Oliver go along with whom she is seated throughout the journey across the Atlantichim.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392175</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Courtney SullivanB09FS89KX9|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 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>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Monica Carly|title=The Golden ThreadPenelope Potts

|summary=It was a sad day when Claudia Hansom retired as headmistress of Kingdown School. Life should have been good for Hollie: The staff respected her, despite the fact that she She was always somewhat distant and just going into the children did well under final year of her charge. She was a stickler for discipline veterinary degree and the pupils accepted this – but once again there - three years later - was no ''love'still working at BB's diner. No, Bob - the sadness owner - regarded her fondly: he was all Claudia's, for what was she to do a good boss. Hollie had moved in with the rest of her life as the ex-head teacher living alone with boyfriend, Marcus: her cat? Her mother had died when she thought he was great and her sister were teenagers and her father not long before she retiredhe was doing well in his career. There hadnHollie wasn't been any contact with quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her sister was forty yearsjob at the diner. She might imagine doing some writing, but Then there was the reality was fact that the life ahead of he would be violent, both to her was emptyand to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780880162</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Marsh0008421714|title=The House of EliottMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Evangeline and BeatriceThe problem began just after the publication of George March's father dies, most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the two sisters discover that he has left them with very little money and without any qualifications with which last page) seemed to support themselveseither be reading it or had already done so. They struggle Every day Mrs March went to find suitable employment before accidentally discovering their talents the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as seamstresses and fashion designersshe was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. The book follows their journey Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of independence after their fatherNantes - ''s deatha weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, and the new relationships they begin to build without him dominating their livesunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720008X</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Newman1473685745|title=Pear ShapedUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=One night Sophie was out with her friend Laura. They When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met a couple they were on opposite ends of men and there an angry exchange - well, Simon was an immediate chemistry between Sophie angry and James Stephens. He Beth was good lookingdoing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, charismaticJake, great fun and obviously attracted to Sophieoff his bike. The fact that he was rich (complete with Maserati) didnHe wasn't matter to her - hurt but it didn't do any harm eitherJake has history. WhatHe has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not to like? Well, there's nothing 'not to likeau fait' but just the odd thing that might give some pause for thought. He's forty five and never been married - and has a history of dating super-slim modelswith your medical acronyms. But - When he is obviously very taken with Sophie and she falls head-over-heels for him.|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 weepingborn, begging her mother to be allowed just one more night at home, but the carter left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was waiting for hera few days old. The girl was fifteenSo, unmarried and pregnant. She was Simon has every right 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-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090951</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen GordonC J Carey|title=LandfallWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'Most people at one time or another s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of their lives get Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a feeling bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that they must kill themselves; certainly didn't happen as a rule they get over we know it in , and we are now a day or two' ('How Girls Can Build Up The Empire: protectorate – well, we share enough of the handbook for Girl Guides' 1912) Excerpts from same blood as the handbook precede each section of Germanic peoples on ''Landfallthe mainland'' . But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and it is hard ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to know what the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to make the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of them – other than bowdlerising classical literature to take on board that women are all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, notevery book can be banned, by any stretchand not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the weaker sexparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, just until the more emotional one 'They can even…shoot tigersfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, if they can keep coolwith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905490828</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kerry JamiesonRuth Hogan|title=The Forgotten LiesMadame Burova

|summary=In This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the mid-thirtiesearly 1970s, the golden age of Hollywood, three aspiring starlets shared all vaguely connected. So we have a studio house on Lantana Drive bullied half-cast boy (as they waited to hear if they were going to he would have been called then), a career girl in the movies – or not. Charlotte (soon a humdrum job wanting to be Carlie for acting purposes)become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, Verbenathe third generation of Madame Burova, known to her friends (and ''onlyTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' , to use her friends) as Bee family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and Ivy were desperate for the role of sufferer's mother will all become staff at a lifetimerevamped holiday camp, which would put their name but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in lightsthe family stall. There was an added appealWe also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Whoever won would star opposite Liam Malone – good lookingJust who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, charismatic and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint'very'' married s narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with six children. It wasn't Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a case prop in the heroics of being able to act. Their lives would be under intense scrutinyTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141026049</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniela SacerdotiLucy Holland|title=Watch Over MeSistersong|rating=45|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Eilidh Lawson thought that life was finally looking upSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. She'd struggled through years These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of failed fertility treatments despite knowing that her husband was childhood and I relish seeing someone elsethem retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Their marriage had crumbled around their feet – but then Eilidh found If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that she was pregnantare now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Despite being only ten weeks into the pregnancy she wore Sistersong is a perfect example of a maternity smock – and that was modern retelling done well, the day she lost plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the baby. Months of heartbreakcharacters to come to life, depression to feel real and hospitalisation followed until one day she decided that enough was enough. She was leaving her homehuman, her marriage and most of her possessions and she was returning to her childhood home importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the Highlands pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of Scotland. She storytelling and I was never going captivated from beginning to risk that sort of hurt againend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845023668</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel WolffB08NF79QXT|title=The Very Picture Of YouCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Ella is a portrait painterThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, living in Londonthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, single but ok for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with ither to the event couldn't be more pleased. She’s 35 years old – a fact wedged rather unsubtly into the first page of chapter one – Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her younger sister is getting marriedlooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. It could Life would be the start of something a bit samey, or perfect for Liberty if it could be the start of something a bit special. Lucky wasn't for us, it’s the second one, and the story develops thing: she misses having a man in an intriguing and quite unusual directionher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000724584X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina CourtenayB08GFSK2WZ|title=Highland StormsThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=The publisher, Choc Lit LimitedGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, gives a fair idea of what kind of read this book is. Romance with a capital R. Courtenay decides absolutely gorgeous to go back in time to a Scotland rather weary of battles but strong in image especially in terms of the countrysidelook at - and single. Is the bookShe's not had sex for eight months and she's purple hue suggestive of stuck in the purple heather to be found all over this area karma trap: an awful lot of Scotland, I wonder. It all conjures up bad luck is being visited on her and she has a deeply romantic setting real talent for many, myself includedattracting drama. Add in the odd fairy-tale castle or two and itHer life's even better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931712</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Marsh|title=Fiennders Abbey|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In was the end of chaotic: she dealt with the nineteenth century and leak from the family shower by putting something down at Fiennders Abbey might lead much more leisurely lives than the staff who kept bottom of the house running as it should, but their fortunes were inextricably linked. Mary Bowden was stairs to absorb the tweenie when we first met her – she did all water - then the dirty jobs which were beneath those higher up shower fell through the ladder – as well as being the daughter of the gamekeeper. She roof whilst she was also intelligent, ambitious in it and very attractive with left her straight, milk-blonde hairstark naked, staring at the pervy postman. As a child she'd always been very friendly with Richard, the son of the house, but itShe only has to take her mother's not dog out for a friendship which either of their mothers wishes walk for her to fosterend up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447200071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson SmithB08CHJLNBS|title=San Marco: The End of the RoadCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=When we He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not Forget The Secret by Margaret Henderson SmithRhonda Byrne|last saw The Secret]] Harriet Glover but she had just been stood up at the altar by her long-term partner's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, Mark but rescued and proposed to by the man she has lusted after for quite something a while – Joris Sandersonlittle deeper. Harriet knows something else too. She knows that she's pregnant and that the father Charles is more of the child is not the a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man she was going to marryhimself, but the man who has now proposed, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. ComplicatedThey're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? Of course She's not his usual type at all: it is's obvious to his friends. This is the woman who could make Frank Spencer look like a miracle of organisation. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? SheThe relationship's going to have to do something quite spectacular this time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494687</amazonuk>obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie DuffyHelly Acton|title=The Generation GameShelf|rating=4|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Do you remember When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can'The Generation Gamet really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven' TV show, with old Brucie and then Larry Grayson managing the mayhemt we all been there? Where were you Things are looking up when Charles and Di got marriedhe tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? What about when Diana died? ThereIs he ''finally''s plenty of reminiscing going to be done in this book as Sophie Duffy takes us from get down on one knee? Was the 1960's to 2006 through work (and the life of her character, Philippa, in a book that fleets from funny, heartwarming moments to real sadness.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908248017</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Jane Fallon|title=The Ugly Sister|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Abi hasn't really had much of a relationship girlfriend comes into school 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 laterblack eye, and the sisters are hardly what you'd call close. But, with a summer claiming he gave it to kill and nowhere really to kill it inher, Abi takes up her sisterwhole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's offer to move into her plush Primrose Hill pad and spend some 'quality time' with the family. Except...Cleo's idea talk of quality family time is to go to the gymschool. Or Mike was the spa. Or a comeback casting. Anywhere really, as long as it's away from them all. And most popular boy in school who was always so in love with brother in law Jon at work during the dayher, Abi quickly starts feeling like the hired helpeveryone knew that, shuttling so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her nieces around town and seeing some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to their every needblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141047259</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan TitchmarshKatie Fforde|title=The HauntingA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We donI't know whether or not Harry Flint ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a good history teacher – but we do know that he's disenchanted with the job warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and determined to make a change. His marriage to a lawyer only lasted a few months and Harry feels – rightly or wrongly – that he needs a complete changefriendships. He buys a ramshackle cottageThis provided two romances for the price of one, determined to spend some time restoring but it was actually the family element as well as investigating his family history and opposed to the lives of the saints. Honestly – romance that I know what you're thinking – he is rather more fun than all that sounds. Well, he is - some of the timereally enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340936886</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet ArcherB07W4MNBSG|title=Persuade MeBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=I've often It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered why it's not axiomatic that a man should stand by his woman – although perhaps it couldn't what they would be set to music quite so easily – but Fay had failed to stand by her man. To make it worse, she was an army wife and doing when they just don't desert – and Magnus was a herowere fifty. HeWhen you'd been in bomb disposal and despite being blown up had briefed his number two about the bomb before he was taken off to hospital. He was good-lookingre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, charismatic – and divorced. Fay knew that marrying Magnus had been a mistake – but she also admitted Liz was convinced that the biggest mistake of all was divorcing him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005JTAMQO</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ulrika Jonsson|title=The Importance of Being Myrtle|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover is lovely; it's good enough to frame and along with the intriguing title will help to draw readers in, I thinkyour entire life depends on who you marry''. The blurb on only eligible boys were the back cover suggests a cosy, domestic read. I was looking forward to it. We initially get all Young Farmers and the sorry details leading up to Austin's untimely death. On the local bus, idea of all places, as he made his way to work. A kindly Italian/Australian man called Gianni sees it all happening (living in fact Austin dies in his arms). We also get a lot farmhouse and having a couple of background info on Gianni, right at the very beginning, which I thought slowed up the story somewhat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ann Hood|title=The Red Thread|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The Red Thread Adoption Agency has been successfully placing abandoned Chinese girls with loving American families, desperate for children, for many years when we join them. Named for the mythical Chinese belief that people who are destined called Will and Olly appealed to be together are connected by an invisible red threadCharlotte, an immense amount of work goes in from both countries to make the process as smooth or perhaps William and straightforward as possible, and to ensure the matches are, Oliver if not magical, then at least perfect. Maya, the agency’s owner, knows all the children she has placed and spends a great deal of time with the prospective parents before they come anywhere near their potential daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393339769</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alice Peterson|title=Monday to Friday Man|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Gilly (that's with a 'G', you notice) were Elizabeth who was engaged determined to Ed, but a fortnight before their wedding and with marry the gifts piling up, he changed his mindrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. So Gilly The place to start their search was left on her own at obviously the age of thirty four with a mortgage to pay on her house in Hammersmith and only a shop job to support herselfYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. She really didn't know what she wanted to do with her life but as a stopThere was just one problem -gap she decided to take there were too many Elizabeths in a Monday-to-Friday lodger. This would give her some income, company during the week and the house to herself at weekends. It seemed like an added bonus when the man she finally settled on was, well, rather tasty. Jack Baker seemed to have a lot going for him – and a job in reality televisionclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383248</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Tara Hyland|title=Fallen Angels|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover suggests romance with a capital 'R' along with the rather sugary title. The blurb on the back tells us we'll be travelling back and forth between various parts of the globe. The story opens with the Prologue: San Francisco in 1958 and there's a new-born baby girl taken to a local orphanage. It's a common occurrence sadly but this one stands out. We're told why towards the end when all the pieces of the jig-saw come together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Lewis|title=Stolen|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary='Stolen' starts over thirty years ago with a harassed young mother and her three small children travelling on the tube. The children are messing about and it's no wonder that, when it is time for them all to get off, things become difficult. This results in the eldest child, Alexandra, being left in the carriage while the mother frantically attempts to stop the train. A kindly looking man gestures that he will get off with the little girl at the next stop and will wait for the mother. That is how it is left so the reader cannot be sure exactly what has happened although I definitely had my suspicions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099550679</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Neill|title=What the Nanny Saw|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Ali Sparrow is twenty-one and has just dropped out of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as she needs to earn some money, so becoming a nanny to a rich family seems ideal when she sees Bryony Skinner's advert. Soon Ali finds herself central to the Skinner's vast home and life on the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent in a house that extends way beyond the usual two floors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Lovering|title=Star Struck|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Skye Threppel had a year of memories wiped out in a car accident which cost the lives of her best friend and fiancé. The physical scars were healing – although they were still very visible – but, eighteen months Move on, she struggled with meeting people and being anywhere but the cosy womb of her little terrace house in York. She used to be an actress but the accident has ruined her career and her confidence. It was a massive step when her friend Fe (that's short for Felix, by the way) persuaded her to go with him to the 'Fallen Skies' TV convention in Nevada - giving her a chance to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgan, the actor she idolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931690</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Moran|title=Breakfast in Bed|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Amber is a chef in the throes of a sticky divorce who has quite enough on her plate (and the plates of her customers) without the terror of working for a wunderkind-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chef. So, because this is chick lit and the inevitable is, well, inevitable, that's just where she finds herself, landing a new job in the kitchen of Oscar Retford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154549X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Marsella|title=The Baby of Belleville|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction[[Features|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 on her family's history of law-breaking and dodgy contacts to make sure 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]]