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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Paper SwansMaybe Tomorrow|author=Jessica ThompsonPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.
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|author=Lauren Bravo
|title=Preloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ben Lawrence has Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a charmed life it would seem. There’s the highly successful four and lucrative career in PR, the fast car, and more girlfriends than he can possibly rememberends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. However, despite all this, Ben is sad and lonely. He is scared to commit to Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any woman because HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a tragic incident from his pastmid-life crisis. Even visiting his therapist does not seem to make a difference. Therefore, he Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is completely taken by surprise when, after meeting Effy Jones, the founder of the charity that Ben’s firm is sponsoring, he finds that he cannot stop thinking about time to take back her.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776525</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and 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 having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.
{{newreview|title=The Art of Baking Blind|author=Sarah Vaughan|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Eaden and Son is looking for the next Mrs EadenThen Richard left them. The original Mrs Eaden, Kathleen, has recently died and in her honour the upmarket grocery store is running a baking competition to find someone to advise the store on its baking products; to write a monthly magazine column; and to front Eaden’s advertising campaign. It’s an extremely appealing prospect and attracts many willing contestants that are eventually whittled down to five who will take part in weekly bake-offs in order to showcase their talents in all aspects of baking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792229</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Any Other MouthHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Anneliese MackintoshThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=With a title like Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''Any Other MouthThe Daughters of Izdihar''explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, you know from yet find themselves fighting for the outset that this is, shall we say, rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a rather niche booksociety pitted against them. It’s not all about orificesNehal, born into the upper class, though. Partially autobiographicalwishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, this but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the messyother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, ludicrous, wildly entertaining story whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a girl who’s just group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a little bit different. Okstory of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, make that from which blossoms a lot differentgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908754575</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine JenkinB0B575J99N|title=Jam TomorrowBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Joss Jeffries is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a farmer. Not teacher at a farmerprestigious girl's wife and general help on the farm but the one who has to get out there and make it workschool in York. Her husband departed a while ago leaving her with their young son and a mountain of debt, so what It was ''comfortable'' but she needs is money coming longed for something more in, and preferably as quickly as possiblelife. She and her father, Mick, come up with what seems like a good idea: walking holidays in the magical mid-Wales countryside. It 'd ''looksstill not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to be quite make a sound plan toochange. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. They'll take well-payingAfter a telephone interview, decent people on great walks she was offered the position and let them experience it wasn't long before she was exploring the joy of camping and living close to naturebeautiful city. Only..There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099288490X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W Scott Beaven0241542405|title=Train That Carried The Girl: 2 (Riccarton Junction)Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=A few years have passed since When we last met Kikarinfirst meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, the then teenager growing up 214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in the wilds of the Scottish borders surrounded by some pretty wild peoplefact, she so nearly does. Her parents have gone back outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to live in Japan while catch her brother has fled abroad as a result of the familytrain. Then, she can's near fatal brush with the criminal underworldt. This leaves Kiri She simply can't force herself to continue leave the safety of her life home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her friends Ainslie two children, James and Melanie filling the voidMatilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. Although disappointed to have missed out on In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her honours degree cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in archaeology, Kiri finds alternative employment selling double glazing for commercial premisesher spare time. Some things change but Kiri is still scarred by the pastThen Tom McDermott arrives. She wants to settle down but will this past let her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494874601</amazonuk>He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Evans0008441618|title=A Place For Us (Part 1)Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Martha and David Winter Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live at Winterfold. David Winter is a famous cartoonist but he and his wife are getting on a bit and life isn’t quite as easy as it used up to her retired predecessor there could well be, or, indeed for their children and grandchildren. As we meet them a house price slump in August 2012 Martha is sending out invitations for her eightieth birthday and she makes it clear that she’d like them all to be therepart of the town. Son Bill is The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the local GP and he’s struggling in his second marriage funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the much younger Karen, but he’s still close to his daughter Lucyschool. The girls are much further away. Florence lives There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in Florenceparticular, just to confuse matterscausing problems for the head. She’s a Professor, ferociously intelligent Laura Spence and emotionally naive. Daisy is Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in India. Her childhood on Toy Day but that was ‘’difficult’’ but she’s now doing charitable work just a warm- which isn’t a lot of consolation up act for her daughter Cat whom she abandoned when she was a few weeks oldtheir real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KIPSM98</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Proper Family HolidayGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Chrissie ManbyWalking on Sunshine|rating=54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Chelsea can think of few things worse than a family holidayMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. Except maybe a family holiday to a cheap hotel in ''Lanza-grottyBut Pia left them all some 'rules'to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Or a family holiday where she’ll be constantly ridiculed for Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her ‘posh London ways’ wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and her inability Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to manage the most obvious things drop everything in life like holding down a boyfriend or starting a family of her their own. It’s going to be a long weeklives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444742736</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Two Weddings and a BabyFall On Me|author=Scarlett BaileyPenelope Potts|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Tamsyn Thorne Life should have been good for Hollie: She was not looking forward to returning to Cornwall for just going into the final year of her brother Ruanveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's weddingdiner. They Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had fallen out years ago moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and had not spoken sincehe was doing well in his career. However, for 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 sake of diner. Then there was the familyfact that he would be violent, she had agreed both to attend, her and even be a bridesmaid, but as far as she was concerned, she would leave the little Cornish village at the first opportunityto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953553</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles0008421714|title=Goodbye PiccadillyMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=ItThe problem began just after the publication of George March's July 1914 and the world is becoming unsettledmost successful novel to date. There's fierce unrest brewing in Ireland and Sarajevo is being put Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the map for all the wrong reasonslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Back in England life is continuing Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as usual – at she was wrapping the moment. Viscount Denebread, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialism. Laura Hunter is fighting for women''but isn't this the first time he's suffrage. based a character on you?'' As for Beattie CazaletShe mentioned that Johanna, her main worry is the rumour concerning the manner in which principal character had 'her servant Ethel is carrying on in publicmannerisms''. All fears are about to deepen and worries put in sharp relief though: war Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is coming and the whore of Nantes - ''a war like none the world has fought beforeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556262</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maeve Haran1473685745|title=The Time of Their LivesUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The four women had been friends for over forty years. Claudia, Ella, Laura When Beth Carlyle and Sal had Simon Withers first met at university and they know each other were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well - or think they do, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. They - like me He has HLHS - are what I call that'upper middle aged' - s Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those people of you who are technically old, but not yet prepared to accept it''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. TheyWhen he was born, the left side of his heart hadn'd gone their separate ways in life but still lived close enough to meet up each month for drinks t developed properly and to catch up with what he needed open-heart surgery when he was happeninga few days old. To the women it was one of their strongest relationships So, Simon has every right to be over- although some of their families thought of the group as protective particularly when someone isn'the covent looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447253892</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FalloutC J Carey|authortitle=Sadie JonesWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Have you ever been in love? TrulyIt'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, madlyparading around a bit, deeply (as and watching over the sanctioned return to the cliché has it) in love? Sincerelythrone of Edward VIII with his wife, selfishly, selflesslyQueen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in love?  With the wrong person? If you havenlead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't then youhappen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on 'll find 'the mainland'Fallout'' an exploration . But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of how it happensthat 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 how we deal 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, or notevery 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>0701188502</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreview|title=You're the One that I Want|author=Giovanna Fletcher|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Maddy, Rob and Ben have been friends forever. There’s nothing unusual about that in general, but it’s less common in literature, perhaps, and I can’t think of another book where two boys and a girl are the trio at the centre of a friendship. As the book starts, Maddy and Rob are about to marry, and Ben stands proudly by as their best man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405909978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys BrayRuth Hogan|title=A Song for Issy BradleyMadame Burova|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-year-old Jacob's birthdayThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. His elder sisterSo we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but his little sister isnchiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''t feeling well. FourTarot-year-old Issy has retreated to bed Reader, Palmist and sheClairvoyant''s rather hoping that her mother will come and make her better, but Claire is trying to cope with Jacobuse her family's birthday party sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and itthe sufferer's quite mother will all become staff at a while revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family realise stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that Issy is very illwill change everything for a woman called Billie. She has meningitis Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and that night she dies in hospital.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen ChandlerJennifer Saint |title=To Have and to HoldAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We'This re looking at a few months in the lives -telling of three women. On the face myth of it Ella has it all. She's got a happy marriage Ariadne and two gorgeous children along with a home in the village-y part of WalthamstowMinotaur is interesting and unusual. But she ''wants'' something more - and her husband doesn't agree Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that another child is the answer. Her friend Imogen and partner Pete used sympathetic to have a fun relationship its origins but after the birth of Indigo things changed, with Imogen needing also appealing to focus on the baby and Pete becoming more distant and less involveda modern audience. Then thereSaint's Phoebe. She's just fifteen years old and bullied at school: she's that unfortunate girl in narrative is told predominantly through the class who is overweight and under cool. She and viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her mother simply don't get on - Liz is a model and a size eight - but she's close childhood to her fatherdeath, but round about allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the time heroics of her GCSEs her parents split up and that closeness was lostTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444786776</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No-one Ever Has Sex on a TuesdayLucy Holland|authortitle=Tracy BloomSistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of 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 stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, 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 I was captivated from beginning to end.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B08NF79QXT
|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique
|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Matthew and Katy were together as teenagers but now years later both are with other significant othersThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and both Katy and Matthew’s wife, Alison are pregnantwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Oh, She's delighted and they’re in the same antenatal classtwo people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. And Sonja, oh yesher mother, Katy’s not 100% sure who the father of is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her baby islooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, current boyfriend Ben orCharles and their four-year-old daughter, you’ve guessed Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it, long lost flame Matthew. Cue wasn't for one thing: she misses having a comedy of errors, misunderstandings, fisticuffs and emotional outbursts, not all triggered by swarming hormonesman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594757</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole Mary KelbyB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Pink SuitKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=In November 1963 George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the world was shocked karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the assassination bottom of President John F Kennedy, but the picture which brought home stairs to us absorb the water - then the horror of what had happened shower fell through the roof whilst she was not of JFK but of his wife in the iconic pink suitit and left her, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let them see what they have done'stark naked, she saidstaring at the pervy postman. IShe only has to take her mother've always assumed that the suit was new s dog out for a walk for the occasion her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - but it had and a back story too and photo being taken by someone who shares it's told in ''The Pink Suit'', a work of historical fiction based on factsaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=After The HoneymoonCapturing Emilia|author=Janey FraserBrooke Adams|rating=53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=A TV star and his makeHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-up artist wife, eight and a dinner lady and her husband are not two couples you would expect to end up honeymooning partner at Wickham Jones, the same placeMayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, but through a twist of fate (oktwenty-nine, a teacher at the school one works at librarian and archivist in the other sends her kids to) both women and their heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new husbands end up age books like that, which leave you dependent on the same secluded Greek island at the same timesomeone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. It’s run Charles is more of a [[Personal by a British woman who left for the continent 15 years agoLee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, and it’s the perfect spot to get away from it above all, be it your toddlerhe's safely left with grandmashocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, or the paparazzi who are desperate for an exclusive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sinead Crowley|title=Can Anybody Help Meso why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind?|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parents. However, as theyShe's not his usual type at all: it've only recently moved s obvious to Gerryhis friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's native Dublinsuperficiality, Yvonne mourns the lack of a support network. This all changes when why does she turns feel drawn to Mammynet, him? The relationship's obviously a webnon-based online forum and chat room for new and soon-to-be mums. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then the friend disappears without warning. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of a young woman. There may be a connection but will Claire discover starter, isn't it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=TaraShea NesbitHelly Acton|title=The Wives of Los AlamosShelf|rating=54|genre=Literary Women's Fiction|summary=1943: In the US a group of menWhen we meet Amy, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn to total secrecy. Their destination is a hastily knocked up, unfinished small town she's in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside down for nearly 3 yearsrelationship with Jamie. This isnYou can't mass abduction by really call it a malevolent power partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but the US governmentshe's plan 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 end WWIIpack for a surprise trip. The men Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and some of the womenwait) are scientists, the place is Los Alamos, the site of the project that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating ''Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wives.worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
{{newreview|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know , herwhole world is tipped upside down. Anna Her relationship has just happened to walk past ended and ask to buy now she's the talk of the house decades earlierschool. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always remembered the young ladyso in love with her, walking past with the baby in the pram. The babyeveryone knew that, Marthaso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through the belongings that Elizabeth left with itfor sure, Martha sees glimpses of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before itisn's too late and while she still has a mind t going to take her back to the good timesblow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanora BennettKatie Fforde|title=Midnight in St PetersburgA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Inna Feldman is in the Kiev theatre the night that Prime Minister Stolypin is assassinated in front of the Tsar. Fearing the retribution against the Jews in general I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and being picked out as this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a suspect in particularwarm, Inna flees to St Petersburg cosy read focused on romance, family and her landlord's cousin Yashafriendships. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected This provided two romances for the price of one, but Yasha is a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation in Russia during 1911. The it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that Yasha is living with takes her in anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of themI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie ThomasB07W4MNBSG|title=The IllusionistsBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Devil Wix is a great Victorian illusionist. Admittedly Lady Luck hasn’t been too good to him lately and he may look a little ragged but he's talented and repeatedly tells himself so. One particular night as he's reassuring himself over a drink or three, he runs into Carlo Boldoni. (Or rather Carlo runs into him as he's picking Devil's pocket at the time.) Formerly Charlie Morris and a dwarf to the Victorians/person of restricted growth to us, Carlo was part of a performing troupe but now finds himself alone due to tragic circumstances. They join forces but little do they know the future nor the part that a certain young lady will play in it.
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{{newreview
|title=A Single Breath
|author=Lucy Clarke
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eva is blissfully content with It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire lifedepends on who you marry''. She has a fulfilling career The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in her job as a midwife farmhouse and having a happy marriage couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the man of her dreams who clearly adores herrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil when, early one morning, her beloved husband Jackson is swept out The place to sea whilst fishing on start their search was obviously the Dorset coastYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. It seems that There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in one fell swoop, all of her hopes and dreams have been washed away into the cold, white waterclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481365</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=Loxley|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Harry, the eleventh Duke of Loxley, fell in love with Bronwyn and they married. It wasn't the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn was, after all, nothing more than the daughter of the local doctor and even Harry and Bronwyn wondered whether or not they'd done the right thing as they struggled to come to terms with married life. Katherine, the dowager Duchess, didn't make Bronwyn's life any easier - I mean, the girl wasn't above starting to clear the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''that'' sort of thing. And - Move on to cap it all - she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was of paramount importance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skeletons|author=Jane Fallon|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction[[Features|summary=Jen doesn’t have the happiest of families, so she’s immediately drawn to her husband Jason’s. Luckily they welcome her with open arms and she’s soon like a fourth child to Charles and Amelia. So when she discovers a secret that could tear lives apart, it’s as devastating to her as if it were her own parents. She has a choice to make: share the burden and ruin relationships in the process, or keep it to herself and shoulder it all alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047267</amazonuk>}}latest features]]