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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carmen Reid1471180158|title=Shopping With The Enemy|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Annie is a well known fashionista, but she’s more friendly fashion guru than scary fashion diva. She has various things going on, like her makeover show on the telly, and between that and the kids she’s just about ticking along. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552163198</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Tammara Webber|title=EasyPenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jacqueline gave up her dreams of becoming a classical musician to follow her boyfriend Kennedy to college. When he dumps herJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, it hits her hard – so hard she starts skipping classes and, as for a result, failing economics. Dragged out to man who's a party by her friend to help her get over the break-up, instead she faces terror as her ex’s friend Buck tries to rape her. A mysterious stranger, Lucas, intervenes to save her, and when she realises they share economics, she starts to wonder whether he could take her mind off Kennedy. She’s also receiving e-mail tuition from an older student she’s never met, who seems to be flirting control freak with her. Soon, though, she realises that Buck hasn’t forgiven her for escaping his attentions, and she’s forced to try to find all the courage to take subtlety of a stand against himhalf brick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Hartshorne|title=Time Jamie's Echo|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of her godmotherson, LucyBo, who died suddenly'has his problems'. After surviving He's asthmatic and the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmasmore you read, Grace has decided to live life to the full and plans more travelling once Lucyyou's house is sold. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the world, as long as she doesn't remember little Lucas back on that Christmas beach. As it turns out, ll suspect thathe's not on the only thing she needs to avoidautistic spectrum. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep and vivid daydreams start Sometimes Jamie needs to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine though; ittake time off at short notice - she's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of a frequent flier in the past is just a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian local A&E and single father Drew. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Rose Petal Beach|rating=4|genre=Womensometimes Bo's Fiction|summary=Tamia and Scott met at school and they were friends before they were anything else although it wasn't not fit enough to the liking of either family. Scott's brother referred go to Tamia as ''that'' - a reference to the colour of her skinschool. Tamia's family weren't racially prejudiced but they knew Missed shifts or the Challey family and their reputation for criminality. It wasn't what they wanted for their daughter: they saw a university education, but were need to be disappointed away on both counts. It looked time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be working well: the marriage seemed stable controlled and they had two beautiful daughters, but then one night it all fell apart. Scott was arrested put in front of his wife and children for a dreadful crimethe wrong. As if this wasn't bad enough, Tami's world disintegrated even further when she discovered that Scott's accuser It was someone whom she regarded as a close friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874960</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Debbie Macomber|title=The Inn at Rose Harbor|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Marie, who was recently widowed, feels drawn going to come to an inn in a small town called Cedar Grove, where she believes she can find healinghead. 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 the chance of love and marriage had passed him by. Then Gally, a history nut and lecture gate crasher, attended one of his lectures and dared to contradict him. Contradiction led to courtship and the marriage that had previously seemed so elusive but despite their love and accompanying emotional security, Gally has a dark subconscious that haunts her. She's unsettled by repeating nightmares and, worse, night terrors that can't be explained by counsellors' logic. However when Mike and Gally find their (or rather, Gally's) ideal home in the shape of a derelict cottage in the Somerset village of Penselwood, Gally's nightmares are augmented by a strong feeling of déjà vu. Meanwhile the Martins seem to have developed a benevolent stalker in the shape of aged local Ferney Miller. 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 a threat to her marital happiness and Michael's peace of mind.|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.J Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. 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 a holiday home, but instead of gracefully descending into paradise, they crash land, quite literally, into a nightmare. Their pilot has a heart attack, their sea plane plummets into the ocean, Oxford and they wash up went on to become a deserted desert islandwell-respected journalist. The unlikely twosome has to band together to survive couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and wait out their rescue, but as weeks Sasha. Life was lived in London and then months passholidays were spent at Sandcove, hope fades and they have to wonder what will happen if no one ever finds themthe family home on the Isle of Wight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910216</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Kleypas|title=Dream Lake|rating=3.5|genre=Women Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's Fiction|summary=mind: ''Dream Lakeshe would never be able to leave him in charge'' 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>}}

{{newreview|author=Hazel Osmond|title=The First Time I Saw Your Face|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mack Stone used to be a journalist on a tabloid paper and was not averse to dishing the dirt on whoever he happened to be writing about. He has Then Richard left that world behind though and is now attempting to work freelance and only write in a more ethical way. However, one day he receives a call from his old boss who has one last job for him to do. When Mack is not keen, he reveals that he has information about Mack's mother – a sordid little secret that he would have no qualms about publicising to the world if Mack does not agree. If Mack wants to protect his family, 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 is a student in his final year at university. He works pretty hard, but his heart belongs to Haruka, who was a fellow student until she had to leave when her father was taken ill. As 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 she's seeing a wealthy ex-boyfriend on a regular basis. Jun's good-looking too and Takashi realises that he has little to offer, particularly as Haruka loves shopping for designer goods. They're in fashionable Tokyo where style, sophistication and fashion are a way of lifethem. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781487693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clodagh MurphyHadeer Elsbai|title=Frisky BusinessThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Romy doesn’t have a clue Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the father rights of her baby son, Luke, is. But it’s not like she’s an überwomen and weavers – those with magical abilities -slut who sleeps around: in her defence his conception was a one off thingsociety pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, it was dark (they were in a cupboard) wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the baby daddy had military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a Darth Vader mask (it was a Halloween party). That was a year ago, privileged upbringing like Nehal and now Romy’s wondering whether she should renew feels great pressure to provide for her efforts to find family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the mystery man, Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for Luke’s sake as much as anythingwomen's rights. As the book starts she is throwing her own Halloween party, hoping Giorgina also happens to jog some memories as she recreates last year’s (not be in every way love with Nico. What follows is a story of course…she’s far an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from ready which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for baby number 2)their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444726234</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie SandersB0B575J99N|title=Instructions For Bringing Up Scarlett|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A lot of adults will be familiar with the scenario where a close friend ventures the thought '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 would. There's an easy assumption that it was unlikely to come about - and it would seem churlish to refuse someone that reassurance. Alice gave her best friend Virginia that assurance, but when Beneath the unthinkable happened she was a travel guide writer, used to going hither and thither at a moment's notice. Scarlett was eleven years old and she didn't come with a user's manual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409117197</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Sam Binnie|title=The Wedding DiariesBrooke Adams

|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 Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four 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 teacher at 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=Womenprestigious girl's Fiction|summary=Meg had just lost her job when she received the letter from the Solicitorschool in York. It was all very mysterious ''comfortable'' but when she presented herself longed for something more in his office she discovered that an Uncle she knew nothing about had left her an inheritancelife. It wasnShe'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man''t just any inheritance, either – in addition to a substantial sum of money she and now was now the proud owner of time to make a mill in the Yorkshire Daleschange. She needed challenges. Almost on There was a whim little trepidation when she decided that she wouldn't sell applied for the propertyprofessoressa job in Bologna. The more that she saw of the millAfter a telephone interview, the more that she felt she wanted to live there. She loved was offered the local town position and it wasn't long before she was a bonus when she made a friend – a fellow Scot – on exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first day thereclass but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709099509</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Katie Price|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wendy Wallace0241542405|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>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|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 sheLife should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a superstar good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and she's used to getting what she wantshe was doing well in his career. SheHollie wasn's just summoned Judy, Kate, Maxine t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and Pagan most of all he wanted her to leave her suite in Manhattan's most exclusive hoteljob at the diner. They might Then there was the fact that he would be at the top of ''their'' professions - Fashionviolent, PR both to her and interior design but it's Lili who holds the whip hand hereto other people. She has a simple request: ''Which one of you bitches is my mother?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Harkness0008421714|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]] finishes. Matthew Claremont (vampire, intellectual and, even after centuries of life, still looking a pretty decent 37 years old) and Diana Bishop (historian and witch with a pedigree stretching back to the Salem witch trials) are married and have time-walked to 1591 to look for Ashmole 782, the ancient book that Diana let slip through her fingers in 2010. They also need to find Diana a tutor to help her control the powers that she's chosen to ignore for a lifetime. There aren't just supernatural items on the agenda though; Diana thought she knew all there was to know about her new spouse but there are secrets to be discovered, his connection to the historic 'School of the Night' being one of the less dangerous. Oh, 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 tutor. (I think we could have told them that if they'd asked!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384733</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=Timeri N Murari|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubVirginia 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 letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her own but has given everything to raising Holly Imelda, 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 loving environment; she has way that is sympathetic to its origins but also had appealing to do most a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the caring for reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her small grandsonown right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasLucy Holland|title=The Secrets Between UsSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Sarah and Alexander meet at Sistersong is part of a time when both are looking for a fresh start following genre I particularly enjoy, the demise modern retelling of their previous relationshipsfolk and fairy tales. She is vulnerableThese stories, he is needyfor most of us, and together they can support each other. Sarah is quickly employed as are a live in housekeeper in his sprawling home, cornerstone of childhood and moves south from Manchester to join Alex I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and his young son Jamiea fresh perspective. Life in a small village takes some getting used If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to, especially given what has happened. Genevieve, Alex’s popular, pretty stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and wealthy wifeoutdated, has disappeared. Some say of her own accordfleshing out characters, others are sure something sinister has happened to her, but in any event she has not been heard from since she left town examining relationships and re-evaluating the locals are suspicious role of Sarah’s motiveswomen. In their eyes she Sistersong is moving in on a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the man who rightly belongs to the town sweetheartplot is handled with care, taking over keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the role of mothering Jamiecharacters to come to life, to feel real and generally weaselling her way human, most importantly they feel relatable in to become a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the lady of the house before Genevieve’s bed is even coldpre-Saxon age they live in. Protestations that she This is simply an employee, not a lover, fall on deaf ears, masterpiece of storytelling and with Genevieve’s family being the most prominent in town, it’s hard I was captivated from beginning to get anyone to be on Sarah and Alexander’s side when accusations start flyingend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552777331</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DevineB08NF79QXT|title=Dragon of Life Book 2 Minor GodsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=Luke and Martha have been apart Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for some time as Lukejust six months when she's been in Valparaiso where one of nominated for - and wins - the hotels which he sold to a consortium of employees has been having problemsRetail Best Newcomer Award. When they meet again itShe's in Seattle, but theydelighted and the two people she're on their way s brought with her to the Far East in the hope of starting a new life free event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from the attentions of the FBI which . Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they so tired of in the [[Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining Truth by Mark Devine|first book]] in the series've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. They had perhaps hoped that life Life would be simpler - but this is Luke Whittaker weperfect for Liberty if it wasn're talking about and 'simple' is just never going to happent for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B008674NNO</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele ParksB08GFSK2WZ|title=Whatever It TakesThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=54

|summary=Whatever it takes means giving up your excitingGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, settled life absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the capital to move to Dartmouth, if that’s what your husband wants. Whatever it takes means karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a constant shoulder to cry on real talent for your best friend even when that nagging voice attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the back bottom of your mind is asking whether this is really a twothe stairs to absorb the water -way friendship. Whatever it takes means prioritising then the shower fell through the needs of others – your daughters, your roof whilst she was in laws – ahead of your own needs. All dayit and left her, every day. Whatever it takes means maintaining a calmstark naked, put-together demeanour in staring at the face of event crashers, party trashers, unfaithful spouses and life-changing secretspervy postman. Whatever it takes means keeping up appearances, no matter what. But if a relationship’s a sham, it’s She only has to take her mother's dog out for a matter of time before the façade starts walk for her to crack end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and splintera photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371348</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DevineB08CHJLNBS|title=Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining TruthCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=When we first encounter Luke Whitaker he is - he tells us He's Charles Devereaux, thirty- eight and a disembodied spirit placed in this part of partner at Wickham Jones, the heavenly kingdom so that he can remember his life and emotions exactly as they were livedMayfair letting agents. I donShe't know about yous Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but Ishe'd find s moved on from new age books like that rather unpleasant and decidedly embarrassing, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Luke Whitaker recognises that there are parts Charles is more of his life which a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he'd rather remove from the record, but acknowledges s shocked that he canEmilia reads ''The Guardian''t. We join him in 1967 in Seattle and heThey're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's on not his way usual type at all: it's obvious to Honoluluhis friends. When he sets off he doesnAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't realise quite how momentous the trip is going to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>098501640X</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FudgeHelly Acton|title=Turn Back TimeThe Shelf|rating=34|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Charles and Tessa have managed reasonably well since their divorce. Both adore their daughterWhen we meet Amy, Megan and would agree that the other is she's in a good parent - that is if they ever had any contact relationship with each other other than the occasional text or emailJamie. Just before Megan is due You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to go get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to university Charles sends pack for a message to Tessa via Megansurprise trip. He has something which Could this be it? Is he needs ''finally'' going to discuss with her get down on one knee? Was the work (and thinks that they should meet.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709098448</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Fannie Flagg|title=I Still Dream About You|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At the age of 60, Maggie FortenburyWhen Mike Parker's glory days seem girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to have passed her by, her whole world is tipped upside down. An ex-Miss Alabama, Her relationship has just ended and now she headed for 's the fame she dreamt talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in 'the Big Apple' and endedschool who was always so in love with her, insteadeveryone knew that, making disastrous life choices that took so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her along a different route. However she had made one good decision: to work for the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget and founder of Red Mountain Realty. Nowsome don't, as Hazel but one thing is deadfor sure, and despite her friendship with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems the next logical step. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes from an era when you wouldnthis isn't want going to let anyone down or blow over any commitment unfulfilled. Therefore picking her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get in the way, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishestime soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona McGregorKatie Fforde|title=Indelible InkA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Literary Women's Fiction|summary=Once wealthy, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought sheI'd be starting ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a new life at 59 but here she iswarm, cosy read focused on romance, divorced family and having to sell the marital homefriendships. UnfortunatelyThis provided two romances for the price of one, attached to but it was actually 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 she's going to be a new person, she may family element as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much opposed to her offsprings' horror) and an unlikely friendship with tattooist Rhys. With that comes the realisation romance that the privileged suburb of Mossman isn't all there is to Sydney. There's much more to the city, and indeed herself, than she first thoughtI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB07W4MNBSG|title=Chocolate Shoes and Wedding BluesBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Tansy It was brought coming up by her great-aunt Nancy, who is to Halloween in her nineties at the start 1987 and a group of this booksixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Tansy lives with her fiancé Justin When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but time is racing by and she is beginning to despair of ever getting married or having babiesLiz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. Justin is under his demanding mother's thumb, The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and Tansy loves getting away to the village where her great aunt owns idea of living in 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 (farmhouse and gently funny) love story set in the winter having a couple of 2008 when the Irish economy was booming children called Will and the US were about Olly appealed to elect their first black president. Hugh (a deliciously grumpy surgeon) and his currently unemployed architect daughter Addie lived happily in an Irish seaside town. OkCharlotte, he'd broken both his wrists tripping over Addie's dog or perhaps William and Addie found it hard not to cry sometimes, but they Oliver if you were alright. Then one day, out of the blue, they receive a voicemail message from Bruno, a distant American relative Elizabeth who's just popped over was determined to marry the ocean rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to say 'Hi!' Remembering start their search was obviously the last US relative who came to visit (it didnYoung Farmers't go well), Addie and Hugh decide to ignore the phoneHalloween disco that weekend... and There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the front doorclass... 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=4Move on to [[Features|genre=Women'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 home, both going off to their separate jobs. However, one day, just as Amber is about to celebrate a promotion of her own, Ed announces that he has been offered a partnership in a law firm. This should 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 for in order to go with him. And, of course, as Ed points out many times, if she really loves him she wouldn't even have to think about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409135500</amazonuk>}}latest features]]