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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny 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 - Remove -->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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienLauren Bravo|title=The King's SisterPreloved

|summary=It's England in 1380 and 17 year old Elizabeth of Lancaster has always dreamt of Gwen is pressing her betrothal 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 sort toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of love of which balladeers singa mid-life crisis. So when she meets Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the person time to take back her father has lined uplife'|isbn=1398510629}}{{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, her face drops to say the leastapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. The Earl of Pembroke is eight years old so sheRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's not pleasedmother as 'an older man'. However one day love will find Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and cruelly cause having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her to choose between away from the love Isle of her life 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 with fatal consequenceshome 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''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=One Step Closer To YouHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Alice PetersonThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Single mum Polly has a lot Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of baggage, but it all basically boils down to two thingswomen who could not be more different, boys yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and boozeweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. She’s been Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to hell learn to control her abilities and backthen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for right nowher family and maintain their reputation, she seems whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be doing ok, holding down a job in love with Nico. What follows is a caféstory of an unjust society, looking after son Louis filled with hypocrisy and staying off the sauce. She’s even in cruelty, from which blossoms a position to help those she meets, like her fellow AA-ers group of admirable women fighting for their rights and single dad Ben at school who is adjusting to his new roleovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061835</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=Indian SummerBeneath the Porticoes|author=Marcia WillettBrooke Adams|rating=4.5

|summary=Mungo is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a retired actor 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 director. His brother Archie is a landowner, struggling now was the time to make ends meeta change. She needed challenges. Kit is a good friend who comes to stay, wanting There was a safe place while little trepidation when she decides whether or not to get applied for the professoressa job in touch with a former boyfriendBologna. Neighbours include Emma, an army wife with two small children who is tempted to an affair with After a friend of her husband’stelephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the elderly brothers Philip and Billy who have a secret that’s been hidden for forty years.beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071530</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicci Gerrard0241542405|title=The Twilight HourMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Eleanor has been persuaded by When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her children home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to seriously consider sheltered accommodation: in fact, she so nearly does. At the age of 94 Her outdoor clothes are on and blindshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she isncan't considered safe rattling around a big old house. She doesnsimply can't surrender without conditions though: before force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she considers moving outhas a good friend, a stranger should be employed to sort Sadie, who visits regularly with her photos two children, James and papers before burning themMatilda. The family agree Sadie's a cardiac nurse and Peter is appointedfull of sound common sense. Gradually he realises why Eleanor doesn’t want In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her children to see the documents cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as the story of hidden lifeJIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, love and loss is revealeda charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405919833</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Geras0008441618|title=Cover Your EyesOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=For London fashion journalist Megan forbidden love ends suddenly and painfully, just when Jo Fairburn knew that she thinks it will blossom into something lasting and legitimate. Elsewhere, in was under intense pressure as the countryside, Eva Conway lives with new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her daughter, son-retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in-law that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and granddaughters in Salix House – the house that Eva used funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to call her own when she was a famous fashion designerthe school. Now she feels aloneThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, even in particular, causing problems for the heart of her familyhead. Not only this but she also faces the loss of the home that means so much Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to her. As Megan and EvaJo's paths cross they discover restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that each of them has was just a dark guilty secret eating away at them, but then Salix House has secrets toowarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Woman Who Stole My LifeGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Marian KeyesWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=Stella is an author working on her second book. Though now back in IrelandMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, she talks of a life in New York. It sounds fabulous. But something has changeddied. Whatever it And whilst he isdealing with his grief, we’re not sure. Maybe the mighty have fallenso are their best friends, the stars have stopped collidingVicky and Zaza. Either wayBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that adventure is over as the book startsthey would need help to carry on living. It’s not where Whilst some of the story startsrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, thoughanother one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and we’re soon plunged back into the pastVicky and Zaza, struggling with the events that have lead Stella their grief and their own life troubles, decide to this point. First on the list, a serious illness, without which nothing that followed would have happened, or at least not drop everything in the way it did. This may sound confusing but the book is anything buttheir own lives, and despite its great length, I sped through itgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155335</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=The Seafront Tea RoomsFall On Me|author=Vanessa GreenePenelope Potts

|summary=Charlie, Kat and Seraphine, are strangers brought together in Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the Seafront Tea Rooms by their mutual love final year of afternoon teaher veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Kat is Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a younggood boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, single mum struggling Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to get by while control her ex provides very little help, Charlie is a heartbroken journalist writing a tea feature for and most of all he wanted her magazine while visiting to leave her difficult sisterjob at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, and French Seraphine has come across the channel both to au pair, improve her English and get some perspective on a new, complicated relationshipto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552232</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=A Most Desirable MarriageMrs March|author=Hilary BoydVirginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jo and Lawrence have been married for nearly forty years. It has been a good marriage and they are both looking forward The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to spending more time together and pursuing new interests once Lawrence has retireddate. However, as Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the time approaches Jo notices that Lawrence appears more edgy and withdrawnlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She puts it down Every day Mrs March went to pre-retirement nerves; nothing the local patisserie to really worry about. Sobuy olive bread but on that particular morning, when Lawrence makes a confession to her immediately after his retirement partyPatricia asked, as she couldnwas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't have been more surprised. this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She realises mentioned that her husband has been living a secret life and that changes everything: instead of anticipating their rosy future togetherJohanna, shethe principal character had 's now looking forward to the prospect of life as a single woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067922</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Valerie Fitzgerald|title=Zemindar|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emilymannerisms's husband Charles to the exotic sub-continent for a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskine. Although none of the travellers Perhaps this would not have ever met Olivermattered, many of except for the people they encounter have heard of him and fact that Johanna is the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindar. These stories tantalise Laura as the information conflicts and she's unable to develop a mental picture whore of the man. ThatNantes - 's not all that's conflicting: there's an increasing feeling of unrest in this furthest outpost of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead to one of the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British history. Lauraa weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, Emily and Charles are naïveunloved, but that wonunloveable wretch.'t save them from what's to come – something beyond their worst nightmares. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly Peterson1473685745|title=The Idea of HimUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Allie Crawford seemed to have it made. She was married to Wade - the sort When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of man who made other women ''drool'', had a job in a highan angry exchange -profile Manhattan PR firm and two kids whom she adored. What could be better? What could go wrong? Wellwell, it looked as though something Simon was going wrong when Allie found Wade locked in their laundry room with a decidedly glamorous blonde. There had been a bit of a blip in their marriage whilst Allie angry and Beth was breastfeeding their younger child, but Allie thought that Wade had learned his lesson and would be careful about hurting doing her in future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=What I Love About You|author=Rachel Gibson|rating=3|genre=Womenbest to apologise for having knocked Simon's Fiction|summary=Natalie is the girl next door when Blake moves to town but it’s neither love nor even friendship at first sight. Sureson, her daughter might have taken a shine to the handsome stranger who likes to keep himself to himself but to Natalie he’s arrogant and obnoxious. StillJake, you can’t live next door to someone and never run into them, just as you can’t avoid your neighbours in a small town, and since Truly, Idaho fits the bill on both, they’re going to see each otheroff his bike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=Your Beautiful Lies|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married to William, a police superintendentHe wasn't hurt but Jake has history. Although she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike He has HLHS - that will become violent on both sides of the divide. It's either an illegal strike or assertion Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of rights depending on the side youwho are not ''au fait're on but unfortunately Annie isn't permitted to choosewith your medical acronyms. However this is only When he was born, the start left side of her problems. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriend, is back on the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter his heart hadn't developed properly and he has unfinished businessneeded open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with herSo, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=The Book of Life|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in the 21st century but now face the tragic news of Aunt Sarah's partner, Em's death. Hard-Simon has every right tobe over-get-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan and is making life dangerously difficult for Diana, Matthew and their unborn twins. If this protective particularly when someone isn't enough, looking where they still need to find and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Life're driving. However, they have very dangerous competition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen NobleC J Carey|title=The 49th DayWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=After escaping a disastrous marriageIt's April 1953, Katherine Walsh travels and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to an island retreat in Wales in order Moscow to pick up attend the pieces state funeral of her lifeJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, relax and decide future directionwatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. HoweverFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, rest and recreation isnwe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''t all she discovers. During therapy sessions her ancient past But this is unlocked most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and odd happenings ideas of female purpose, has put all of that have haunted her for years start gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to make sensethe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Katherine also realises that 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 may – after all, not every book can be to her benefit to learn how to trust banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a man again but hefty tweak towards the chance of love isnparty line before they't her biggest surprisere stamped ready for reprint. She appears to be pregnant so any decisions she makes about That is her future must include job, at least, until the new life within herfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782795936</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It Had to Be YouRuth Hogan|authortitle=Ellie AdamsMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well This book lets us discover several people in her different stages of life until it in the early 1970s, all goes startlingly wrongvaguely connected. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst she is dressed So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as Henry VIII at he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a thirtieth birthday party singer, and unfortunately chiefly, Imelda, the whole debacle is filmed third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and ends up on YouTube. She becomes known as Clairvoyant'head butt girl' as she is filmed demonstrating , to use her furyfamily's sea-front booth. Her PR job is also going nowhere as she finds herself having to try The singer, the scryer and promote some very strange conceptsthe sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. At least she has We also see her on her two best friends last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for solace a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and they can all be found, many eveningswho delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, drinking away their sorrows and putting the world why did it have to rights.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mill River RedemptionJennifer Saint |authortitle=Darcie ChanAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rose This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and Emily are sisters who co-exist rather than interact. In the past, a devastating event drove them apart, Minotaur is interesting and now they both have their own lives, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew upunusual. When their mother Josie dies, they are brought back together first Jennifer Saint presents the story in their mourning and then in their frustration at a message from beyond the grave: their mother way that is determined sympathetic to achieve in death what she couldnits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint't while still alives narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, a sisterly reconciliation. She has left spanning from her estate childhood to the girlsher death, but in order to access allowing the funds they will need reader to cooperate and coordinate efforts to unearth the clues she has left them. With neither really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a position to walk away from the potential gold mine, they have to put aside their differences, if only for prop in the summerheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Little LiesLucy Holland|authortitle=Liane MoriartySistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Death 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 kindergarten new meaning to stories that are not two things you would normally think went togethernow becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, but this time they haveexamining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Someone Sistersong is dead. A murder investigation has been launched. But why are a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the police finding it so hard characters to get answers? What actually went on that night? And can an incident come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the playground on the first day really have come pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to this?end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405918462</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Five Days LeftCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Julie Lawson TimmerBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Mara Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and Scott are both on a countdownwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Each has five days left She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. But when the weekend comes Sonja, who will be happyher mother, who will be mourningis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty 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 who will their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be out of the picture forever?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892136</amazonuk>perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Girls from Corona Del MarKarma Trap|author=Rufi ThorpeLisette Boyd

|summary=Exploring the friendship of Mia George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and Lorrie Ann, two girls who grew up together in 1980single. She's Corona Del Mar, this novel is unexpectedly tragic; definitely not just another trashy, girly work had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of fictionbad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Written Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the point of view shower by putting something down at the bottom of Mia, it tells the journeys of stairs to absorb the two friends and water - then the events which have led them to where they are now. ''The Girls from Corona Del Mar'' explores not only shower fell through the subjects of friendship, growing apart roof whilst she was in it and growing upleft her, but also those of deathstark naked, war, drugs, abortion and coping with staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a disabled child. And, in my opinion, Rufi Thorpe does this brilliantly; sometimes walk for her to end up with subtlety dog poo spattered across her face - and elegance but often through a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the frank, brutal honesty of the character's narrationoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954193</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Rock Chick RescueCapturing Emilia|author=Kristen AshleyBrooke Adams|rating=23

|summary=Jet McAlister is working two jobs to help pay for her motherHe's medical expensesCharles Devereaux, after thirty-eight and a stroke left her mostly paralysed on one sidepartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. It She's okay Emilia, twenty- Jet likes taking care nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of people - a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but , above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she canfeel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't deal with any more complications in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J4DPNN8</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Follow Me HomeHelly Acton|authortitle=Cathy WoodmanThe Shelf|rating=24|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cathy Woodman has written When we meet Amy, she's in a number of books about life in the Devon village of Taylton St Georgerelationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. These all tell the tale of the comings and goings of the different villagers as they go about their daily livesAh, yes. You donHaven't have we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to have read the earlier ones in order pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to enjoy get down on one knee? Was the stories although if you have read them you are more likely to appreciate work (and the bigger picture.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584921</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|title=Beautiful Day|author=Elin Hilderbrand|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Jenna girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is getting married tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and no one would be more excited than her mother Beth. But Beth passed away before now she could see 's the baby talk of the Carmichael family happily hitchedschool. Knowing she wouldnMike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't live to see the day, she drafted but one thing is for sure, this isn''The Notebook'', a guide t going to help Jenna plan her nuptials with wise, motherly advice on every aspectblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444724002</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paper SwansKatie Fforde|authortitle=Jessica ThompsonA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Ben Lawrence has I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a charmed life it would seem. There’s the highly successful and lucrative career in PRwarm, the fast carcosy read focused on romance, family and more girlfriends than he can possibly rememberfriendships. However, despite all this, Ben is sad and lonely. He is scared to commit to any woman because This provided two romances for the price of a tragic incident from his past. Even visiting his therapist does not seem to make a difference. Therefore, he is completely taken by surprise when, after meeting Effy Jonesone, but it was actually the founder of family element as opposed to the charity that Ben’s firm is sponsoring, he finds romance that he cannot stop thinking about herI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776525</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=The Art of Baking BlindBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Sarah VaughanLizzy Mumfrey|rating=54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Eaden It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and Son is looking for the next Mrs Eadena 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 life depends on who you marry''. The original Mrs Eaden, Kathleen, has recently died only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living 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 farmhouse and having a monthly magazine column; couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to front Eaden’s advertising campaign. It’s an extremely appealing prospect Charlotte, or perhaps William and attracts many willing contestants that are eventually whittled down Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to five who will take part in weekly bakemarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-offs in order Botham. The place to showcase start their talents search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in all aspects of bakingthe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792229</amazonuk>

{{newreviewMove on to [[Features|title=Any Other Mouth|author=Anneliese Mackintosh|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=With a title like ''Any Other Mouth'', you know from the outset that this is, shall we say, a rather niche book. It’s not all about orifices, though. Partially autobiographical, this is the messy, ludicrous, wildly entertaining story of a girl who’s just a little bit different. Ok, make that a lot different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754575</amazonuk>}}latest features]]