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==Women's Fiction==
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|author=Cathleen Schine
|title=The Three Weissmanns of Westport
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The novel begins with Joseph Weissmann, or Josie as he is known, deciding at the age of 78 that he no longer wants to be married to Betty after 48 years together. In an attempt to save Betty's feelings he cites irreconcilable differences, but the truth is he has fallen head over heels in love. Betty is devastated, her life in tatters, with even the beautiful Central Park apartment she adores soon lost to her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015716</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sharon Owens
|summary=Wealthy American Jason Tyler needs a wife fast to stop his cousin Calvin from taking over the family oil business. After responding to his advert English girl Amy Courtland meets Jason in London to discuss his proposal. Amy is desperate for the money Jason is offering her to be his wife so she can pay off the debts her father has left behind. Her feet barely touch the ground in Los Angeles before Amy finds herself with a new surname and new life as Jason's fake wife. But unlike the rest of Jason and Amy's families, Calvin is not convinced by the marriage and is determined to prove it is a sham. When Jason decides to take Amy into the Venezuelan jungle with him on a business field trip Amy soon finds her life in danger on more than one occasion, leaving Jason to wonder if someone is behind these strange events.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090757</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Duncan
|title=Kissing Mr Wrong
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Kissing Mr Wrong is the first book I have read by Sarah Duncan and it has definitely given me an appetite to read more. It tells an absorbing tale with many different threads that bind together well and with a main character that I loved. Indeed, it has all of the ingredients for a riveting read – one that I didn't want to put down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345959</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kirsty Robinson
|title=Grass Stains
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Being the editor of a style magazine has its perks: free tickets, free gigs, endless parties, alcohol and drugs. And that is what Louisa's life consists of – one continuous binge. Louisa spends her life going from one party to another, but it's not all it's cracked up to be and her life is starting to fall apart.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954119X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pamela Fudge
|title=A Change For The Better
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=
Jo Farrell had spent all her life caring for other people. After she lost her alcoholic husband and her demanding, hypochondriac mother she had time for herself, but when she looked in the mirror she wasn't particularly impressed by what she saw. The middle-aged, slightly plump woman with grey curls reminded her of her mother and the clothes she was wearing did little to help either. It was something odd which helped her to change. The very scruffy man from downstairs (the sort you would cross the road to avoid) came to borrow a newspaper and somehow they got talking about what needed to be done to change her life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090609</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cath Staincliffe
|title=The Kindest Thing
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Imagine that your partner of twenty or so years discovers that they are dying from a terminal disease. Now imagine that they've asked you to help them to die a little sooner, on their own terms. What would you do? This is the dilemma that faced Deborah and, after she went ahead and helped her husband Neil to die, she found herself charged and standing trial for murder with her own teenage daughter, Sophie, testifying against her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012083</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicola Cornick
|title=Confessions of a Duchess
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Dowager Duchess Laura Cole has come to the village of Fortune’s Folly to live a quiet life as a widow with her young daughter. But when the village squire decides to invoke the Dames’ Tax, a law requiring every unmarried woman to give up half her wealth to him, the town becomes a hotbed of men searching for heiresses now desperate to marry. Joining the men is Dexter Anstruther, sent to secure a rich wife and carry out a murder inquiry on behalf of Lord Liverpool. The last thing Laura and Dexter expect is to see each other again after their steamy encounter four years ago. But their passion for each other is reawakened and looks set to ruin them both.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303802</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Williams
|title=The Bridesmaid Pact
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I recently read [[Last Christmas by Julia Williams]] and enjoyed it so much that I was determined to read more by this fabulous author. The opportunity presented itself in the shape of 'The Bridesmaid Pact', a truly wonderful book that not only met but also exceeded all my expectations. In fact it was so good that I read the last 200 pages in just one day, totally ignoring my family whilst doing so.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560873</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Abby McDonald
|title=The Liberation of Alice Love
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=You can just picture Alice Love standing before the panel on Britain's Got Talent.
'And what do you do?' they like to ask.<br>
'I work in the film industry...'<br>
'Oooh, really?'<br>
'...as a lawyer.'<br>
'Oh.'
Like all those accountants they're always showing, you can imagine that Alice too would receive a rather luke-warm welcome on the show. And Alice would concur that her job isn't all that glam, even if her industry itself is a bit swish. But it's an appropriate job for her, since Alice is very sensible and by-the-book. She's certainly not the type of person to go overdrawn, or run into any kind of trouble financially, so when her card is declined one day she's pretty sure it's just a computer error.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533928</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lulu Taylor
|title=Midnight Girls
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Best friends Allegra McCorquodale, Imogen Heath and Romily de Lisle, known as the Midnight Girls, spend their nights at the exclusive Westfield Boarding School for Girls up in the attic rooms smoking and bitching. But when the girls are witness to a tragic accident, they become bound together forever by what they have seen and vow never to tell.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524929</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Holly McQueen
|title=Confetti Confidential
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=''Confetti Confidential'' is the third book in the Isabel series, but the first one I've read. Even without that grand claim on the front, you couldn't help but draw comparisons between Kinsella's series and this one from the very first page. The writing style is virtually identical – to the point where you do actually wonder if this is just a pseudonym – and while the chatty, chummy, conversational approach is not for everyone, if it's the sort of thing you like then this is the sort of book you'll love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099545756</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sabrina Broadbent
|title=You Don't Have To Be Good
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Bea Kemp has reached a crisis point in her life. She is in her forties, childless, enjoying a tedious job and a lacklustre marriage with Frank. She seems to have spent her entire life 'being good' and it really does not seem to have got her anywhere. Her only pleasure seems to come from the time she spends with her niece and nephew, Laura and Adrian, and as her successful sister Katharine has no qualms about using her as an unpaid childminder, that's quite a lot! However, all that looks set to change when Katharine announces that she is moving away with the children so she does not need Bea to look after them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535556</amazonuk>
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