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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debbie Macomber1471180158|title=The Inn at Rose HarborMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo MarieJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who was recently widowed, feels drawn to an inn in 's a small town called Cedar Grove, where she believes she can find healing. She renames it Rose Harbor Inn and gets ready to welcome her first two guests.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099564025</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Long|title=Ferney|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=History lecturer Michael Martin thought that control freak with all the chance subtlety of love and marriage had passed him bya half brick. Then GallyJamie's son, a history nut and lecture gate crasherBo, attended one of 'has his lectures and dared to contradict himproblems'. Contradiction led to courtship He's asthmatic and the marriage that had previously seemed so elusive but despite their love and accompanying emotional securitymore you read, Gally has a dark subconscious the more you'll suspect that haunts her. Shehe's unsettled by repeating nightmares and, worse, night terrors that can't be explained by counsellors' logicon the autistic spectrum. However when Mike and Gally find their (or rather, GallySometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's) ideal home in the shape of a derelict cottage frequent flier in the Somerset village of Penselwood, Gallylocal A&E and sometimes Bo's nightmares are augmented by a strong feeling of déjà vunot fit enough to go to school. Meanwhile Missed shifts or the Martins seem need to have developed a benevolent stalker be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the shape of aged local Ferney Millerwrong. Mike considers him a bit of a pain while for Gally he represents something else entirely; something that she can't explain nor understand but will become It was going to come to a threat to her marital happiness and Michael's peace of mindhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875304</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet EvanovichLauren Bravo|title=Wicked BusinessPreloved

|summary=Following Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]], pastry chef Lizzy a big number that starts with a four and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sinsends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. They're looking for Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the stone associated with lust and it becomes toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a treasure hunt as, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the illmid-mannered monkey) they have to work their way through a string of clues. However, they aren't the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, the baddies lurk alsolife crisis. The baddies in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir Catharsis is key and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let Gwen has decided now is the race time to the stone commence. take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Garvis Graves0008506337|title=On The IslandGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=High school teacher Anna has been hired as a tutor for the summerThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, helping 16 year old Tapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love.J Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. who has missed Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a fair amount of school due to illnessglittering career. Leaving In the USA behindevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from the two Isle of them head over Wight. Margo did go to the Maldives where his parents have hired Oxford and went on to become a holiday homewell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, but instead of gracefully descending into paradise, they crash land, quite literally, into a nightmareImogen and Sasha. Their pilot has a heart attack Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, their sea plane plummets into the ocean, and they wash up family home on a deserted desert islandthe Isle of Wight. The unlikely twosome has to band together to survive and wait out their rescue, but as weeks and Even then months pass, hope fades and they have the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to wonder what will happen if no one ever finds themleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910216</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lisa Kleypas|title=Dream Lake|rating=3Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=''Dream Lake'' is the third book in a series about three brothers who grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional home. This one focuses on Alex, youngest of the three, who is a brilliant designer and builder. Unfortunately, we’re told, he’s also angry at the world, arrogant, and aggressive. He’s a very heavy drinker, too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel OsmondHadeer Elsbai|title=The First Time I Saw Your FaceDaughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Mack Stone used to Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be a journalist on a tabloid paper and was not averse to dishing more different, yet find themselves fighting for the dirt on whoever he happened to be writing about. He has left that world behind though rights of women and is now attempting to work freelance and only write weavers – those with magical abilities - in a more ethical waysociety pitted against them. HoweverNehal, one day he receives a call from his old boss who has one last job for him to do. When Mack is not keenborn into the upper class, he reveals that he has information about Mack's mother – a sordid little secret that he would have no qualms about publicising wishes to attend the world if Mack does not agree. If Mack wants Weaving Academy to learn to protect his familycontrol her abilities and then join the military, it seems that he has little choice but to agree.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164193</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Renae Lucas-Hall|title=Tokyo Hearts - A Japanese Love Story|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Takashi instead she is a student in his final year at universityforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. He works pretty hard, but his heart belongs to Haruka, who was Giorgina on the other hand did not have a fellow student until she had privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to leave when provide for her father was taken ill. As family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a rule they meet once a week in a cafe - but Takashi fears that Haruka only sees him as a friend, particularly when he discovers that shegroup campaigning for women's seeing a wealthy ex-boyfriend on a regular basisrights. Jun's good-looking too and Takashi realises that he has little Giorgina also happens to offer, particularly as Haruka loves shopping for designer goodsbe in love with Nico. They're in fashionable Tokyo where styleWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, sophistication filled with hypocrisy and fashion are cruelty, from which blossoms a way group of lifeadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles. How will it work out, particularly when Haruka is planning on moving to Kyoto - which is also where the ex-boyfriend lives - and earthquakes seem to be happening regularly in the capital?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781487693</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clodagh MurphyB0B575J99N|title=Frisky BusinessBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Romy doesn’t have a clue who the father of her baby son, Luke, is. But it’s not like she’s an überElizabeth Miller was thirty-slut who sleeps around: in her defence his conception was a one off thing, it was dark (they were in a cupboard) four and the baby daddy had on a Darth Vader mask (it was teacher at a Halloween party)prestigious girl's school in York. That It was a year ago, and now Romy’s wondering whether ''comfortable'' but she should renew her efforts to find the mystery man, longed for Luke’s sake as much as anything. As the book starts she is throwing her own Halloween party, hoping to jog some memories as she recreates last year’s (not something more in every way of course…she’s far from ready for baby number 2)life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444726234</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Annie Sanders|title=Instructions For Bringing Up Scarlett|rating=3.5|genre=Women She'd ''s Fiction|summary=A lot of adults will be familiar with still not found the scenario where a close friend ventures right vocation nor met the thought right man'if anything happened to us would you look after the children?' and there will be few who do other than give assurances that of course they wouldnow was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There's an easy assumption that it was unlikely to come about - and it would seem churlish to refuse someone that reassurancea little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Alice gave her best friend Virginia that assuranceAfter a telephone interview, but when the unthinkable happened she was a travel guide writer, used to going hither offered the position and thither at a momentit wasn's noticet long before she was exploring the beautiful city. Scarlett was eleven years old and she didn't come with a user's manualThere were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409117197</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Sam Binnie|title=The Wedding Diaries|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Kiki and Thom are getting married! The proposal might not have been quite as fabulous as Thom would have liked (bad Kiki!) but that’s all sorted now and with barely a year to plan the shindig, Kiki needs to get cracking. With dresses to try on, venues to find, wedding cakes to taste test, there’s lots to be done, and so the sensible option is to start a diary, to chronicle this magical time in her life but also for her to keep track off all those little To Dos which will lead up to I Do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007477120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Neilson|title=A Strange Inheritance|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Meg had just lost her job when she received the letter from the Solicitor. It was all very mysterious but when she presented herself in his office she discovered that an Uncle she knew nothing about had left her an inheritance. It wasn't just any inheritance, either – in addition to a substantial sum of money she was now the proud owner of a mill in the Yorkshire Dales. Almost on a whim she decided that she wouldn't sell the property. The more that she saw of the mill, the more that she felt she wanted to live there. She loved the local town and it was a bonus when she made a friend – a fellow Scot – on her first day there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709099509</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Price0241542405|title=In the Name of Love|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Charlie Porter is a television sports presenter who's recently broken up with her footballer boyfriend. She and her friend Zoe now refer to him as TFB. The first letter is for 'total' and the last casts doubts on his parentage. I'm sure that you can work the rest out for yourself. On a holiday to Barbados (Zoe's footballer boyfriend forgot her birthday, you see...) she meets Felipe Castillo, a central figure in the Spanish Eventing team and hotly tipped for an Olympic medal. There's an almost immediate attraction - after Charlie has given him a piece of her mind because of his attitude to a waiter - but there are one or two difficulties in the way of their relationship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059615</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Wendy Wallace|title=The Painted Bridge|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Anna Palmer places her trust in all the wrong people. One choice that backfires spectacularly is her impulsive marriage to the Reverend Vincent Palmer. Less than a year after their marriage he tells her that they are going to visit some of his friends at a place called Lake House. But Lake House is a privately run asylum 'for genteel women of a delicate nature'. Once there Anna discovers that she is not allowed to leave without Vincent's approval.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Gideon|title=Wife 22Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Alice When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and William Buckle have been married she's not left her home for quite a few years and have two teenage children and a dog. With their busy lives1, they end up having little time for each other and rarely get the opportunity to talk about the things that matter214 days. In order She'd ''like'' to do something about her feelings of discontent: in fact, Alice googles she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she'happy marriage?s even considered which shoes to wear if she' and although there seem s going to be no magic secrets for successcatch her train. Then, a little later she is invited to take part in an online survey about modern marriagecan't. She is given simply can't force herself to leave the label, Wife 22, and is assigned to safety of her caseworkerhome. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Researcher 101Sadie, who sends visits regularly with her questions periodicallytwo children, James and is also available through email to answer any queriesMatilda. Alice soon enjoys being able to pour her heart out through the questions that she has to answer but also finds that she is becoming more than Sadie's a little attracted to her faceless caseworkercardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. They start chatting through facebook and Alice finds In fact it quite exciting to mildly flirt with was Sadie who gave Meredith her new friendcat, Fred. However Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, the more so you can guess what she does soin her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, the more disgruntled she becomes a charity which supports people with her own husbandproblems such as Meredith's. There comes a point though where Alice has to decide whether to take things further and if she does, what will become of her marriage?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481772</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kaye0008441618|title=Second Time AroundOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=4.5

|summary=When Jennifer and Ben first meet, they really like each other. It doesnJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't take long before they are dating and although live up to her retired predecessor there is over sixteen years difference could well be a house price slump in age, they get on so well that they can see that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they do have raised were a future togetherconsiderable benefit to the school. However There was one difficulty, as Ben is closer in age to Jenniferthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s children, Matt and Lucywith two members, in particular, she is worried about what they will thinkcausing problems for the head. Ben Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's parents are equally unhappy especially as they feel that if Ben stays with Jennifer, she is not likely to provide them with restrictions on the grandchildren they so desire. It seems toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that there's no way to keep everybody happywas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562027</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellen SussmanGiovanna Fletcher|title=French LessonsWalking on Sunshine|rating=3.54

|summary=There are six main characters in this book which is really three stories in one. NicoMike's wife, Pia, Philippe and Chantal know each otherwho he was with for seventeen years, and Nico knows Josiehas died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, and Philippe knows Rileyso are their best friends, Vicky and Chantal knows JeremyZaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, but Josie knowing that she was dying and Riley and Jeremy don’t know each other or anyone elsethat they would need help to carry on living. The first three are French tutors who have private lessons with their foreign students on the streets Whilst some of Paris, using the city rules are around practicalities such as a better backdrop for learning than a stuffy classroom. This week they each have Americans engaging their servicesclearing out her wardrobe, and over the course of another one that Mike discovers one day the lives encourages him to take one of students their trips away, and teachers all change Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in ways they never expectedtheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780333846</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley ConranB09FS89KX9|title=LaceFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Lili might be young but she's a superstar and she's used to getting what she wants. Life should have been good for Hollie: She's was just summoned Judy, Kate, Maxine going into the final year of her veterinary degree and Pagan to her suite in Manhattan- three years later - was still working at BB's most exclusive hoteldiner. They might be at Bob - the top of ''their'' professions owner - Fashion, PR and interior design but it's Lili who holds the whip hand here. She has regarded her fondly: he was a simple request: ''Which one of you bitches is my mother?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy 2)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Shadow of Night'' moves on from where [[A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness|A Discovery of Witches]] finishesgood boss. Matthew Claremont (vampire, intellectual and, even after centuries of life, still looking a pretty decent 37 years old) and Diana Bishop (historian and witch Hollie had moved in with a pedigree stretching back to the Salem witch trials) are married and have time-walked to 1591 to look for Ashmole 782her boyfriend, the ancient book that Diana let slip through Marcus: her fingers mother thought he was great and he was doing well in 2010his career. They also need Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to find Diana a tutor control her and most of all he wanted her to help leave her control job at the powers that she's chosen to ignore for a lifetimediner. There aren't just supernatural items on the agenda though; Diana thought she knew all Then there was to know about her new spouse but there are secrets to the fact that he would be discoveredviolent, his connection both to the historic 'School of the Night' being one of the less dangerous. Oh, her and another thing, they discover that the 16th century isn't, perhaps, the best time to visit if you're a witch, especially if you need to advertise for a tutorother people. (I think we could have told them that if they'd asked!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384733</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timeri N Murari0008421714|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=We all The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we knowher 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, or think we knowPatricia asked, how oppressive life as she was for Afghans, particularly Afghan women, under wrapping the Taliban regimebread, ''but when isn't this the first time he's based a character on you read ?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this novelwould not have mattered, boy do you get except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a sense of how tough it really wasweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas1473685745|title=In Her ShadowUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=54

|summary=Hannah has had one nervous breakdown due to unbearable guilt When Beth Carlyle and seems Simon Withers first met they were on course opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for a secondhaving knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. How else can she explain the fact He has HLHS - that 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the still dead Ellen seems left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be following her over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=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, parading around? a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. It For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all started two decades earlierof that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to 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 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 they'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 spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070216</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise CandlishRuth Hogan|title=The Day You Saved My LifeMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Holly, This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in her the early twenties1970s, is all vaguely connected. So we have a single mother who has had severe postbullied half-natal depression since cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the birth third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her son Mikeyfamily's sea-front booth. He is now a toddler The singer, the scryer and they live with Hollythe sufferer's mummother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, Joannabut just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. She has We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a somewhat sordid past pair of her own but has given letters that will change everything to raising Holly in for a loving environment; woman called Billie. Just who is she has also had to do most of , and who delivered the caring for secrets about her small grandson. to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasJennifer Saint |title=The Secrets Between UsAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah and Alexander meet at a time when both are looking for a fresh start following This re-telling of the demise myth of their previous relationships. She is vulnerable, he is needy, Ariadne and together they can support each other. Sarah the Minotaur is quickly employed as a live in housekeeper in his sprawling home, interesting and moves south from Manchester to join Alex and his young son Jamieunusual. Life Jennifer Saint presents the story in a small village takes some getting used way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to, especially given what has happeneda modern audience. GenevieveSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, Alex’s popular, pretty and wealthy wife, has disappeared. Some say of spanning from her own accord, others are sure something sinister has happened childhood to herdeath, but in any event she has not been heard from since she left town and allowing the locals are suspicious of Sarah’s motives. In their eyes she is moving reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in on the man who rightly belongs to the town sweetheart, taking over the role of mothering Jamie, and generally weaselling her way own right rather than just a prop in to become the lady heroics of the house before Genevieve’s bed is even cold. Protestations that she is simply an employee, not a lover, fall on deaf ears, and with Genevieve’s family being the most prominent in town, it’s hard to get anyone to be on Sarah and Alexander’s side when accusations start flyingTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552777331</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Mark Devine|title=Dragon of Life Book 2 Minor Gods|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Luke and Martha have been apart for some time as Luke's been in Valparaiso where one of the hotels which he sold to a consortium of employees has been having problems. When they meet again it's in Seattle, but they're on their way to the Far East in the hope of starting a new life free from the attentions of the FBI which they so tired of in the [[Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining Truth by Mark Devine|first book]] in the series. They had perhaps hoped that life would be simpler - but this is Luke Whittaker we're talking about and 'simple' is just never going to happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B008674NNO</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele ParksLucy Holland|title=Whatever It TakesSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Whatever it takes means giving up your excitingSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, settled life in the capital to move to Dartmouthmodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, if that’s what your husband wantsare a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Whatever it takes means being a constant shoulder If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to cry on for your best friend even when stories that nagging voice at are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the back role of your mind women. Sistersong is asking whether this is really a two-way friendship. Whatever it takes means prioritising the needs perfect example of others – your daughters, your in laws – ahead of your own needs. All day, every day. Whatever it takes means maintaining a calmmodern retelling done well, put-together demeanour in the face of event crashersplot is handled with care, party trasherskeeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, unfaithful spouses to feel real and lifehuman, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-changing secretsSaxon age they live in. Whatever it takes means keeping up appearances, no matter what. But if This is a relationship’s a sham, it’s only a matter masterpiece of time before the façade starts storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to crack and splinterend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755371348</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DevineB08NF79QXT|title=Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining Truth|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we first encounter Luke Whitaker he is - he tells us - a disembodied spirit placed in this part of the heavenly kingdom so that he can remember his life and emotions exactly as they were lived. I don't know about you, but I'd find that rather unpleasant and decidedly embarrassing. Luke Whitaker recognises that there are parts of his life which he'd rather remove from the record, but acknowledges that he can't. We join him in 1967 in Seattle and he's on his way to Honolulu. When he sets off he doesn't realise quite how momentous the trip is going to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>098501640X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Pamela Fudge|title=Turn Back TimeBrooke Adams

|summary=Charles and Tessa have managed reasonably well since their divorce. Both adore their daughter, Megan and would agree that the other is a good parent Thirty-one- that is if they ever year old Liberty Rossini has had any contact with each other other than the occasional text or email. Just before Megan is due to go to university Charles sends a message to Tessa via Megan. He has something which he needs to discuss with her and thinks that they should meet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098448</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fannie Flagg|title=I Still Dream About You|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At shop, the age of 60Cherry Blossom Boutique, Maggie Fortenbury's glory days seem to have passed her by. An ex-Miss Alabama, she headed for the fame just six months when she dreamt of in 'the Big Apple' and ended, instead, making disastrous life choices that took her along a different route. However she had made one good decision: to work s nominated for the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget - and founder of Red Mountain Realty. Now, as Hazel is dead, and despite her friendship with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems wins - the next logical stepRetail Best Newcomer Award. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes from an era when you wouldnShe't want to let anyone down or any commitment unfulfilled. Therefore picking her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get in the way, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona McGregor|title=Indelible Ink|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Once wealthy, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought she'd be starting a new life at 59 but here she is, divorced s delighted and having to sell the marital home. Unfortunately, attached to the marital home is the marital garden into which Marie didn't only give life but also pour her own life. However, Marie tries to be positive and decides that if two people she's going brought with her to be a new person, she may as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much to her offsprings' horror) and an unlikely friendship with tattooist Rhys. With that comes the realisation that the privileged suburb of Mossman isnevent couldn't all there is to Sydneybe more pleased. There's much more to the city, and indeed herselfSonja, than she first thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Trisha Ashley|title=Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Tansy was brought up by her great-aunt Nancymother, who is in her nineties at the start of this book. Tansy lives with her fiancé Justin, but time is racing by an ex-model and she is beginning to despair of ever getting married or having babies. Justin is under his demanding mother's thumb, and Tansy loves getting away to the village Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her great aunt owns a small shoe shop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562779</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen MacMahon|title=This Is How It Ends|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is an incredibly gentle (and gently funny) love story set in the winter of 2008 when the Irish economy was booming and the US were about to elect their first black presidentlooks from. Hugh (a deliciously grumpy surgeon) and his currently unemployed architect daughter Addie lived happily in an Irish seaside town. Ok, he'd broken both his wrists tripping over AddieJessica's dog thirty-four and Addie found it hard not to cry sometimes, but they were alright. Then one day, out of the blue, they receive a voicemail message from Bruno, a distant American relative whoLiberty's just popped over the ocean to say best friend: they'Hi!' Remembering the last US relative who came to visit (it didn't go well), Addie and Hugh decide to ignore the phone... ve known each other since university and the front door... and the occupant of the bench seat across the road... He's bound to go home eventually. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445462</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruth Saberton|title=Amber Scott is Starting Over|rating=4|genre=WomenLiberty adores Jessica's Fiction|summary=Amber Scott has been with her fiancé Ed for over ten years. Things may not be perfect in their relationship but they muddle along OK in their London homehusband, both going off to Charles and their separate jobs. However, one day, just as Amber is about to celebrate a promotion of her ownfour-year-old daughter, Ed announces that he has been offered a partnership in a law firmAva. This should Life would be fantastic news but the problem is that it is over two hundred miles away in Cornwall and would mean Amber having to give up everything that she has worked perfect for in order to go with him. And, of course, as Ed points out many times, Liberty if she really loves him she wouldnit wasn't even have to think about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409135500</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alice Peterson|title=Ten Years On|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The prologue of this book sees Becca with her student friends at a New Year's Eve party. Afterwards, for one thing: she and her boyfriend Ollie and their flatmate Joe hang out for misses having a while, talking about the future. They wonder what they might be doing man in ten years' time..her life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383256</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne AllenB08GFSK2WZ|title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of GuernseyThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Jeanne Le Page suffered a panic attack as the ferry neared GuernseyGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. It was a decade She's not had sex for eight months and a half since she'd left the island following s stuck in the deaths karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her parents in and she has a boating accidentreal talent for attracting drama. SheHer life'd been in s chaotic: she dealt with the boat with them but had no memory of what happened other than leak from the occasional flashback. It was shower by putting something down at the death bottom of her grandmother which brought her back the stairs to absorb the island, but she never intended to stay for long water - in fact just long enough to arrange for then the sale of shower fell through the cottage which her grandmother had roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. But somehow the island worked its magic on She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and she found herself making friends and developing more of a social life than she'd had back on photo being taken by someone who shares it around the mainlandoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780882300</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gwen KirkwoodB08CHJLNBS|title=Another Home, Another Love|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rosemary Palmer-Farr is nowhere near as grand as her name might lead you to expect. In fact she's a down-to-earth girl, fresh out of horticultural college who's taken over the gardens attached to her mother's hotel. It's her mother who has the social pretensions. She's determined that Rosemary Lavender (it's OK - everyone else calls her Rosie) is going to make a good marriage and that certainly doesn't include any of the tenant farmers (or their offspring) she's been so friendly with. And when push comes to shove she'll do ''whatever'' is necessary to keep her away from one particular man of the soil whilst pushing the suit of the local landowning family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096305</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Pamela Kavanagh|title=The Lonely FurrowBrooke Adams

|summary=The loss of the family business was no fault of the Drummond familyHe's Charles Devereaux, but by the time that they'd repaid what was owed they had no home thirty-eight and no means of making a livingpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. The elder sonShe's Emilia, Nathantwenty-nine, lost his fiancé librarian and there was little left for them to do archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but to she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave Glasgow and move you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a farm which had been in Florence Drummond[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's family for some timeshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They weren't farmersre obviously not at all compatible, but there was little choice but for them to buckle down and make the best so why can Charles not get this woman out of the situation presented his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to themhis friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Quinn And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway|title=why does she feel drawn to him? The Lady Most Likely|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hugh, the Earl of Briarly, has acknowledged his mortality after relationship's obviously a nasty accident, and has decided to take a wife. Not being a very sociable person - he likes horses better than people non- he asks his married sister Carolyn to produce a list of eligible young ladies. She does sostarter, and then invites them and various other friends to a house party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074995776X</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sinead MoriartyHelly Acton|title=Me and My SistersThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=LouiseWhen we meet Amy, Sophie and Julieshe's in a relationship with Jamie. Three women. Three sisters. One You can't really call it a successful business womanpartnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. One a successful trophy wifeAh, yes. One Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a successful mother of foursurprise trip. All of them seem Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the others to have wait) worth it all. All of them have more troubles than the others could ever imagine.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241950589</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Maria Goodin|title=Nutmeg|rating=4When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down.5|genre=WomenHer relationship has just ended and now she's Fiction|summary=Meg the talk of the school. Mike was rather underdone when she the most popular boy in school who was born. Her mother ate lots of eggs during pregnancyalways so in love with her, everyone knew that, in the hope of giving so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her a good glazeand some don't, but instead she came out clucking like a chickenone thing is for sure, and was fortuitously caught in a frying pan by the gas man..this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908248246</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy RobinsonKatie Fforde|title=The Greatest Love Story of All TimeA Springtime Affair|rating=2.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was the blurb pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on this one that had me interestedromance, mentioning Fran’s 30th birthday (mine’s a few months away) family and friendships. This provided two romances for the fact she’s bluffed her way into a very posh job (something some might say I’ve just done too). I thought we might be kindred spirits and even if we weren’tprice of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I thought I might be signing up for some fun, flirty chick lit which is never a bad thing. Until nowreally enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241952980</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosy ThorntonB07W4MNBSG|title=NinepinsBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Laura lives deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens with her daughter Beth and at the time that we meet them she's just It was coming up to her twelfth birthdayHalloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Her father has remarried and now has three young sonsWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but mother and father decided early Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on that they would have cordial relations for Bethwho you marry''s sake - and the habit has stuck. Money from Beth's father is a little hit The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and miss, so Laura has been in the habit idea of letting out the pumphouse - once living in a farmhouse and having a drainage station - couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to students, but this time its occupant is WillowCharlotte, who is seventeen years old or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who has been in carewas determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. It takes a while for her history The place to emerge, but her mother start their search was a hippy with no sense of responsibility and it ''seems'obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that Willow might have been guilty of arsonweekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905207859</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Lisa Kleypas|title=Rainshadow Road|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionMove on to [[Features|summary=It's sometimes said that bad luck comes in threes. It certainly happens that way for Lucy, the rather hapless heroine of this book. First her boyfriend of two years announces that he wants her to move out, because - of all things - he has decided that he likes her sister Alice better. Then Lucy's car breaks down. And then, just as she seems to be dealing with her circumstances fairly well, she is knocked over by a car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953888</amazonuk>}}latest features]]