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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katy Regan1471180158|title=How We MetMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=At the start of 'How We Met'Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a group of friends - Fraser, Mia, Anna, Melody and Norm - are all meeting up in order to celebrate their friendman who's birthday. There would be nothing unusual about this apart from the fact that the friend is dead. Liv died tragically after falling from a balcony when they were control freak with all on holiday in Ibiza. The remaining friends feel that they need to honour her birthday but of course it is going to be a poignant occasion. As they are remembering their friend, Norm produces something that he found in the pocket subtlety of a coat he once lent Livhalf brick. It Jamie's a list of all of the things that she wanted to do before she was thirtyson, such asBo, learn a foreign language, swim naked in the sea at dawn and go to an airport and pick a random destination to travel to! As it would have been Liv'has his problems'. He's thirtieth asthmatic and the following yearmore you read, the group decide to share out and complete all the activities on the list as a tribute to their friend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007237448</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Virginia Ironside|title=No! I Donmore you't Need Reading Glasses!|rating=5|genre=Womenll suspect that he's Fiction|summary= Marie is enjoying on the sort of hectic retirement that makes her wonder how she found the time to workautistic spectrum. However, not everything is rosy. Her son and daughterSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -in-law are thinking about moving abroad, taking Marieshe's beloved grandson, Gene. Meanwhile Marie's partner, Archie, is becoming worryingly forgetful. On top of this, a frequent flier in the derelict patch of 'park' at the top of the road may be replaced by a hotel. Itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's amazing how attractive it's seemed not fit enough to go to become once it's under threatschool. But 'attractive' isn't Missed shifts or the word that comes need to be away on time to mind pick Bo up from school are occasions when describing Jamie can be controlled and put in the resulting action groupwrong. Thank goodness there are always wine and good friendsIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878583</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen SwanLauren Bravo|title=The Perfect PresentPreloved

|summary=What do you buy for Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the woman who has everything? Rob Blake thinks he has it cracked when he commissions toss - Gwen finds herself having a piece bit of jewellery for his wife Cat’s birthdaya mid-life crisis. But this Catharsis is no ordinary necklace. The bespoke bling will be like nothing she’s seen before, because he key and Gwen has decided now is paying the designer, Laura, a small fortune time to dedicate all take back her time to it. She will interview Cat’s nearest and dearest, and design a charm that tells the story of each relationship.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330532731</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreview|author=Clare Dowling|title=Would I Lie To You?|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Hannah, Ellen and Barbara have been friends ever since they shared a house at university. They are now in their late thirties and over the years have always been there for each other. This year though, as both Hannah and Ellen prepare to celebrate their thirty eighth birthdays, they all seem to have a bit more stress in their lives than usual. Hannah’s partner, Ollie, has left her and their seven year old daughter, Cleo; Barbara is preparing to adopt a Russian baby on her own; and Ellen and her husband Mark are struggling to ‘live the dream’ that was theirs when they moved to France a few years earlier. Added to this, when Hannah and Barbara spend a couple of weeks with Ellen and her family, something happens that shocks Hannah. If she tells Ellen, it could wreck their friendship. However, if she keeps quiet, she runs the risk of Ellen finding out anyway which could make things even worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535981X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mhairi McFarlane0008506337|title=You Had Me At Hello|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Who hasn’t got a ‘one that got away’? Or maybe several? Rachel and Ben meet at university in Manchester, but she’s got a boyfriend back home, and he’s a bit of a ladies man, so rather than settle down together (which is arguably what at least one of them thinks they should have done), they pad through a few years as fellow students and then go their separate ways. After a while Rachel heads back to Manchester and some time well after that, Ben finds himself back up north too. They bump into each other and it’s like nothing has changed. Except everything has changed. Rachel is hot off a broken engagement, while Ben is married to a hotshot lawyer from Lan-dan. Will their past stay in the past, and do they want it to? Told from Rachel’s point of view, this is a story that sets out to answer those, and other questions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000748805X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Garnett Girls|author=Julia Williams|title=A Merry Little ChristmasGeorgina Moore

|genre=women's General Fiction|summary=Cat Tinsall, Pippa Holliday The love affair between Margo Garnett and Marianne North poet Richard O'Leary was all live -consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the lovely village of Hope Christmas love. Richard was twenty-one and have formed very close described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and supportive friendships over having a glittering career. In the four years event, they have known each other. The story starts with Christmas just over eloped and follows Richard took her away from the three friends through the entire year leading up to the next ChristmasIsle of Wight. It’s not going Margo did go to be an easy year for any of them though Oxford and they’re definitely going went on to need each other’s helpbecome a well-respected journalist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756089X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Juliet Ashton|title= The Valentine's Card|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Orlacouple had three children: Rachel, a primary school teacher, is still at home in Ireland while actor boyfriend Sim works over Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in Londonand holidays were spent at Sandcove, but although it’s hard to be apart, there are some benefits to doing the long distance thing, not least Sim’s awesome card writing skills. So when Valentine’s day comes around, Orla is excited for what family home on the day might bringIsle of Wight. She’s expecting a little something in Even then the post, but she’s not expecting the phone call that comes, nor the news that comes with it. Sim has died, suddenly. And it’s not just his life that is over. On the verge of a proposal, Orla feels her life is finished too. She flees doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to London to recover some of Sim’s possessions, taking with her the as yet unopened Valentine’s card he sent, with its unfulfilled promisesleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544272</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Vanessa Greene|title=The Vintage Teacup Club|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny, Maggie and Alison meet at a car boot sale. Jenny is looking for vintage tea sets to serve tea at her wedding to Dan in a few month's time. She spots four cups and saucers that would be ideal but at the same time, the cups are also spotted by Maggie and Alison who also want them. Over a cup of tea, they realise that each of them needs them at a different time so it could be possible to buy them and then share them. Jenny will have them first at her wedding, then Maggie will use them in the 'Alice in Wonderland' garden she is creating, before finally passing them on to Alison who will use them as scented candle holders. It's a good solution and one that will lead to a strong and lasting friendship between the three of Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751548502</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftHadeer Elsbai|title=Dream a Little DreamThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Liza Reece works as reflexologist at The StablesDrawing inspiration from Egypt, a therapy centre attached to a hotel. It ''should'' be doing quite well. It The Daughters of Izdihar''explores the lives of two women who could'' not be doing quite wellmore different, but yet find themselves fighting for the manager rights of women and leaseholder is Nicholas, who's weavers – those with magical abilities - in a waste of rather a lot of spacesociety pitted against them. Liza reckons that she could take over the leaseNehal, reorganise born into the finances and make a success of itupper class, but she has wishes to raise attend the money Weaving Academy to buy learn to control her abilities and then join the lease. Dominic Christy has a plan too. He used to be an Air Traffic Controllermilitary, but he developed a rare sleep disorder and falling asleep instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on ''that'' job is the other hand did not have a good idea. He's just split up with his girlfriend privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and has money from maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the sale Daughters of their house. He has plans Izdihar – a group campaigning for The Stables - and he wouldnwomen't need a reflexologists rights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931909</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ann Cliff|title=Poacher's Moon|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Back Giorgina also happens to be in the middle of the nineteenth century it was village gossip when Judith Weaver 'took up' love with Will ThorpeNico. Such matters are always talked about in What follows is a village but Judith's parents ran a successful bakerystory of an unjust society, whilst Will had little to recommend him. As time went on Judith left the village filled with hypocrisy and Will suffered the consequences cruelty, from which blossoms a group of his actions (it was, he said, only the one pheasant...) admirable women fighting for their rights and when he returned to Kirkby he met and married someone elseovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719805791</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly HopkinsB0B575J99N|title=It Happened In VeniceBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Evie is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a tour guide who leads groups around Europe, teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when we first meet her she applied for the professoressa job in Barbados she’s there for pleasure, not workBologna. She’s back with Rob After a telephone interview, her boyfriend who also works on she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the tour circuitbeautiful city. She’s just about forgiven him for cheating on There were some natural doubts before her and this holiday and their subsequent moving in together with be a fresh startfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan Coleman0241542405|title=Dearest RoseMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=Rose has finally escapedWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. For years Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she has put up with 's going to catch her bullying husband and lived with train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the sadness safety of her motherhome. She's suicide after her father left when fortunate that she was has a young girl. Only oncegood friend, Sadie, when she was heavily pregnant who visits regularly with her daughter Maddietwo children, did anyone show her any warmth James and kindness Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and treat her like a human being in her own rightfull of sound common sense. That person In fact it was Frasier McCleodSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an art dealer who had been trying to trace Roseinternet-based support group where you's fatherll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artistso you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. Although she couldn He't help hims from Holding Hands, Frasier sent a postcard to thank her and it is the village pictured on that postcard that she makes her way to nine years later when she can put up charity which supports people with her husbandproblems such as Meredith's cruelty no more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551276</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian Keyes0008441618|title=The Mystery of Mercy CloseOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=Helen Walsh is a Private Investigator. She's also back home living with her elderly parents (you've heard about Mammy Walsh, right?) because Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she candidn't keep live up the mortgage or to her (very small) flat retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in Dublin and she hasn't got an office either, for much that part of the same reasontown. Work is decidedly thin on The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the ground and funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to make matters even worse some of her old demons have bubbled upthe school. SheThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s suffered from depression before and she knows the signs: those vultures , with two members, in particular, causing problems for the sky were a bit of a giveawayhead. An old boyfriend resurfaces too. Jay Parker was always charming but too dodgy to be a keeper. It's a difficult choice when he wants Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to employ Helen but Jay has cash and heJo's putting restrictions on three gigs the toys children could bring in Dublin. The trouble is on Toy Day but that one of the members of former boyband Laddz, whose comeback starts the following week, has gone missing and without Wayne Diffney was just a lot of money is going to have to be repaid to the punterswarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155319</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cecelia AhernGiovanna Fletcher|title=One Hundred NamesWalking on Sunshine|rating=3.54

|summary=Kitty LoganMike's career had looked to be going well until she made a life changing mistake in a story she coveredwife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. It changed the life of the person whom she accused of doing something And whilst he didn't do is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and it changed her life tooZaza. The network suspended her. As if her life couldnBut Pia left them all some 'rules't get any worse she had to face losing a close friend - the woman who taught her all follow, knowing that she knew - who was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of cancer. At the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her bedside for what was wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to be the last time (welltake one of their trips away, actuallyand Vicky and Zaza, it was the first too - it's not just her research Kitty's been neglecting) Constance was asked if she would tell Kitty about the one story she always wanted struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to writedrop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007350465</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carmen ReidB09FS89KX9|title=Shopping With The EnemyFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Annie is a well known fashionista, but she’s more friendly fashion guru than scary fashion diva. Life should have been good for Hollie: She has various things was just going on, like into the final year of her makeover show on veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the tellyowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and between he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and the kids she’s just about ticking alongto other people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552163198</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammara Webber0008421714|title=EasyMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jacqueline gave up her dreams The problem began just after the publication of becoming a classical musician George March's most successful novel to follow date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her boyfriend Kennedy first name only on the last page) seemed to college. When he dumps her, either be reading it hits her hard – or had already done so hard she starts skipping classes and, as a result, failing economics. Dragged out Every day Mrs March went to a party by her friend to help her get over the break-up, instead she faces terror as her ex’s friend Buck tries local patisserie to rape her. A mysterious strangerbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, LucasPatricia asked, intervenes to save her, and when as she realises they share economicswas wrapping the bread, she starts to wonder whether ''but isn't this the first time he could take 's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mind off Kennedymannerisms''. She’s also receiving e Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes -mail tuition from an older student she’s never met''a weak, who seems to be flirting with her. Soonplain, detestable, thoughpathetic, she realises that Buck hasn’t forgiven her for escaping his attentionsunloved, and she’s forced to try to find the courage to take a stand against himunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347449</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Hartshorne1473685745|title=Time's Echo|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of her godmother, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live life to the full and plans more travelling once Lucy'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, that's not the only thing she needs to avoid. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep and vivid daydreams start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine though; it's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of the past is just a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drew. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Rose Petal BeachKatie Marsh

|summary=Tamia When Beth Carlyle and Scott Simon Withers first met at school and they were friends before they were anything else although it on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't to the liking of either familyhurt but Jake has history. ScottHe has HLHS - that's brother referred to Tamia as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''thatau fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open- heart surgery when he was a reference few days old. So, Simon has every right to the colour of her skinbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. Tamia}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's family werenApril 1953, and Adolf Hitler't racially prejudiced but they knew s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the Challey family state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and their reputation for criminalitywatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. It wasnFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't what they wanted for their daughter: they saw happen as we know it, and we are now a university educationprotectorate – well, but were to be disappointed we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on both counts''the mainland''. It looked But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to be working well: the marriage seemed stable drudges, and they had two beautiful daughtersbeyond those, right on down to the childless, but then one night it all fell apartthe husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Scott was arrested And in front this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of his wife 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 children so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for a dreadful crimereprint. As if this wasn't bad enoughThat is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, Tamiwith their potential to spoil Hitler's world disintegrated even further when she discovered that Scott's accuser was someone whom she regarded as a close friendvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780874960</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie MacomberRuth Hogan|title=The Inn at Rose HarborMadame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo MarieThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, who was recently widowedall vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), feels drawn a girl in a humdrum job wanting to an inn in become a small town called Cedar Grovesinger, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, where she believes she can find healing. She renames it Rose Harbor Inn Palmist and gets ready Clairvoyant'', to welcome use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first two gueststime in the family stall. We 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. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099564025</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LongJennifer Saint |title=FerneyAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=History lecturer Michael Martin thought that This re-telling of the chance myth of love Ariadne and marriage had passed him by. Then Gally, a history nut the Minotaur is interesting and lecture gate crasher, attended one of his lectures and dared to contradict himunusual. Contradiction led to courtship and Jennifer Saint presents the marriage story in a way that had previously seemed so elusive is sympathetic to its origins but despite their love and accompanying emotional security, Gally has also appealing to a dark subconscious that haunts hermodern audience. SheSaint'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 narrative is told predominantly through the shape viewpoint of a derelict cottage in the Somerset village of PenselwoodAriadne, 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 spanning from her childhood to her marital happiness and Michael's peace of mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875304</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Evanovich|title=Wicked Business|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Following on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]]death, pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek allowing the seven powerful stones linked reader to the seven deadly sins. They're looking for the stone associated really connect with lust and it becomes a bit of a treasure hunt Ariadne as, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the ill-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 also. The baddies character in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not her own right rather than just a lot of family love prop in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commenceheroics of Theseus. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey Garvis GravesLucy Holland|title=On The IslandSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=High school teacher Anna has been hired as Sistersong is part of a tutor genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for the summermost of us, helping 16 year old T.J. who has missed are a fair amount cornerstone of school due childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to illness. Leaving the USA behindstories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the two role of them head over to the Maldives where his parents have hired women. Sistersong is a holiday home, but instead perfect example of gracefully descending into paradise, they crash land, quite literally, into a nightmare. Their pilot has a heart attackmodern retelling done well, their sea plane plummets into the oceanplot is handled with care, and they wash up on a deserted desert island. The unlikely twosome has keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to band together come to survive and wait out their rescuelife, but as weeks to feel real and then months passhuman, hope fades most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and they have I was captivated from beginning to wonder what will happen if no one ever finds themend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405910216</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa KleypasB08NF79QXT|title=Dream Lake|rating=3.5|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>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|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 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 StoryBrooke Adams

|summary=Takashi is a student in his final Thirty-one-year at university. He works pretty hard, but his heart belongs to Haruka, who was a fellow student until she old Liberty Rossini has 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 friendshop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, particularly for just six months when he discovers that she's seeing a wealthy exnominated for - and wins -boyfriend on a regular basisthe Retail Best Newcomer Award. JunShe's good-looking too delighted and Takashi realises that he has little the two people she's brought with her to offer, particularly as Haruka loves shopping for designer goodsthe event couldn't be more pleased. They're in fashionable Tokyo where styleSonja, sophistication and fashion are a way of life. How will it work outher mother, particularly when Haruka is planning on moving to Kyoto an ex- which is also model and Brazilian: you can see where the exLiberty got her looks 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-boyfriend lives year- and earthquakes seem to old daughter, Ava. Life would be happening regularly perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in the capital?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781487693</amazonuk>her life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clodagh MurphyB08GFSK2WZ|title=Frisky BusinessThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Romy doesn’t have a clue who the father of her baby sonGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, Luke, isabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. But it’s She's not like she’s had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an über-slut who sleeps around: in awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her defence his conception was a one off thing, it was dark (they were in a cupboard) and the baby daddy had on she has a Darth Vader mask (it was a Halloween party)real talent for attracting drama. That was a year ago, and now Romy’s wondering whether Her life's chaotic: she should renew her efforts dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to find absorb the mystery man, for Luke’s sake as much as anything. As water - then the shower fell through the book starts roof whilst she is throwing was in it and left her own Halloween party, hoping stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to jog some memories as she recreates last year’s (not in every way of course…she’s far from ready take her mother's dog out for a walk for baby number 2)her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444726234</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Annie Sanders|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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam BinnieB08CHJLNBS|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>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Mark Neilson|title=A Strange InheritanceBrooke Adams

|summary=Meg had just lost her job when she received the letter from He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the SolicitorMayfair letting agents. 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 wasnShe't just any inheritances Emilia, twenty-nine, either – in addition to a substantial sum of money she was now the proud owner of a mill librarian and archivist in the Yorkshire Dalesheritage library next door. Almost Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on a whim she decided from new age books like that she wouldn, which leave you dependent on someone else't sell the propertys philosophies, to something a little deeper. The Charles is 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.[[Personal by Lee Child|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709099509</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Price|title=In the Name of Love|rating=3.5|genre=WomenJack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's Fiction|summary=Charlie Porter is a television sports presenter whoshocked that Emilia reads ''s recently broken up with her footballer boyfriend. She and her friend Zoe now refer to him as TFB. The first letter is for Guardian'total' and the last casts doubts on his parentage. IThey'm sure that you re obviously not at all compatible, so why can work the rest Charles not get this woman out for yourself. of his mind? On a holiday to Barbados (ZoeShe'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. Therenot his usual type at all: it's an almost immediate attraction - after Charlie has given him a piece of her mind because of his attitude obvious to a waiter - but there are one or two difficulties in the way of their relationship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059615</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 And given that she is not allowed to leave without VincentEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's approval.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Gideon|title=Wife 22|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Alice and William Buckle have been married for quite a few years and have two teenage children and a dog. With their busy livessuperficiality, they end up having little time for each other and rarely get the opportunity why does she feel drawn to talk about the things that matter. In order to do something about her feelings of discontent, Alice googles 'happy marriagehim? The relationship' and although there seem to be no magic secrets for success, s obviously a little later she is invited to take part in an online survey about modern marriage. She is given the labelnon-starter, Wife 22, and is assigned to her caseworker, Researcher 101, who sends her questions periodically, and is also available through email to answer any queries. 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 a little attracted to her faceless caseworker. They start chatting through facebook and Alice finds isn't it quite exciting to mildly flirt with her new friend. However, the more she does so, the more disgruntled she becomes with her own husband. 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|author=Erin KayeHelly Acton|title=Second Time AroundThe Shelf|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Jennifer and Ben first we meetAmy, they really like each othershe's in a relationship with Jamie. It doesnYou can't take long before they are dating and although there is over sixteen years difference in agereally call it a partnership, they because things tend to get done on so well that they can see that they do have a future together. Howeverhis terms, as Ben is closer in age to Jenniferbut she's children, Matt and Lucysticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, she is worried about what they will thinkyes. BenHaven's parents t we all been there? Things are equally unhappy especially as they feel that if Ben stays with Jennifer, she is not likely looking up when he tells her to provide them with the grandchildren they so desirepack for a surprise trip. It seems that thereCould this be it? Is he ''finally''s no way going to keep everybody happy.get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847562027</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Ellen Sussman|title=French Lessons|rating=3When 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=There are six main characters the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in this book which is really three stories school who was always so in one. Nicolove with her, Philippe and Chantal know each othereveryone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and Nico knows Josie, and Philippe knows Riley, and Chantal knows Jeremysome don't, but Josie and Riley and Jeremy don’t know each other or anyone else. The first three are French tutors who have private lessons with their foreign students on the streets of Paris, using the city as a better backdrop one thing is for learning than a stuffy classroom. This week they each have Americans engaging their servicessure, and this isn't going to blow over the course of one day the lives of students and teachers all change in ways they never expectedany time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780333846</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley ConranKatie Fforde|title=LaceA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lili might be young but sheI's a superstar ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and she's used to getting this was pretty much exactly what she wants. She's just summoned JudyI was expecting - a warm, Katecosy read focused on romance, Maxine family and Pagan to her suite in Manhattan's most exclusive hotelfriendships. They might be at This provided two romances for the top price of ''their'' professions - Fashionone, PR and interior design but it's Lili who holds was actually the family element as opposed to the whip hand hereromance that I really enjoyed. She has a simple request: ''Which one of you bitches is my mother?''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857863908</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah HarknessB07W4MNBSG|title=Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy 2)Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=54|genre=Historical General 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 It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and, even after centuries a group 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 timesixth-walked to 1591 to look for Ashmole 782, the ancient book that Diana let slip through her fingers in 2010form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. They also need to find Diana a tutor to help her control the powers When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that she's chosen to ignore for a lifetime. There aren't just supernatural items your entire life depends 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 who you marry'School of the Night' being one of the less dangerous. Oh, The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and another thing, they discover that the 16th century isn'tidea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps, the best time to visit William and Oliver if you're a witch, especially if you need were Elizabeth who was determined to advertise for a tutormarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. (I think we could have told them that if they'd asked!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384733</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Timeri N Murari|title=The Taliban Cricket Club|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We all know, or think we know, how oppressive life place to start their search was for Afghans, particularly Afghan women, under obviously the Taliban regime, but when you read this novel, boy do you get a sense of how tough it really was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=In Her Shadow|rating=5|genre=WomenYoung Farmers's Fiction|summary=Hannah has had one nervous breakdown due to unbearable guilt and seems on course for a secondHalloween disco that weekend. How else can she explain the fact that There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the still dead Ellen seems to be following her around? It all started two decades earlier..class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewMove on to [[Features|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Day You Saved My Life|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Holly, in her early twenties, is a single mother who has had severe post-natal depression since the birth of her son Mikey. He is now a toddler, and they live with Holly's mum, Joanna. She has a somewhat sordid past of her own but has given everything to raising Holly in a loving environment; she has also had to do most of the caring for her small grandson. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>}}latest features]]