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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=Jenny ColganLauren Bravo|title=Spandex and the CityPreloved

|summary= Touted as Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a superbig number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-hero romantic comedy, ''Spandex and the City'' features a girlmy-nextGod-door Holly, a typically insecure 20I'm-something romnearly-com heroine, enjoying her life in Centerton (Colgan's stand in for Gotham)forty. When a handsome stranger she meets at a bar turns out to be Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the ''Ultimate Man'', toss - Gwen finds herself having a vigilante superhero straight from the Marvel or DC universe (the superpowers are more bit of a Marvel kind, but the character mid- both of life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the UM and of his adversary - reference Batman, among others), she cantime to take back her life't help falling for him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Isabella Davidson0008506337|title=The Beta Mum: Adventures in Alpha Land|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=To say that Sophie Bennett didn't want to move to London is something of an understatement. She's a shy person who doesn't make friends easily and the thought of losing all her support systems and having to start again fills her with dread. ''But'', husband Michael has been offered a big job on London's RailLink project and it's not a chance he can turn down - even if he wanted to, and he doesn't. So before long their three-year old daughter, Kaya, has been left with Sophie's parents and Michael and Sophie have found a flat in west London and they've even, against all the odds, managed to secure a place for Kaya at London's most exclusive nursery school. Well, when I say that ''they'' managed to secure the place, I actually mean that they required the services of a nursery consultant, who has a double-barrelled name and a friendship with the headmistress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGarnett Girls|author=Nora Roberts|title=The ObsessionGeorgina Moore

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Naomi Carson lives 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 New York but she hasn't always lived therelove. Actually her name hasnRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man't always been Naomi Carson. NaomiHer parents worried that Richard's life had influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to start again whenOxford and having a glittering career. In the event, aged 11, she sneakily followed they eloped and Richard took her father into away from the woods Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to see if he was hiding her birthday presentbecome a well-respected journalist. That night she saw something no child… no person... should seeThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. As an adult she's now putting her life back together Life was lived in London and even coping with holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the advances Isle of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksWight. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''shewould never be able to leave him in charge''s the target.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kaela CobleHadeer Elsbai|title=Friends and LiarsThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary= Kaela CobleDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's debut novel 'The Daughters of Izdihar'Friends and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells explores the tale lives of 'two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the crew', a group rights of friends who once made women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a pact society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to ''always be honest attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with eachother''Nico. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After Giorgina on the other hand did not being together have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for over ten years the crew are reunited at her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the wake Daughters of one Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of their ownan unjust society, Danny Deusofilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, who has left from which blossoms a haunting suicide note along with an envelope group of admirable women fighting for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal rights and overcoming their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the gravepersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paige ToonB0B575J99N|title= The Last Piece of my HeartBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 3.54|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Bridget is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a travel writer and blogger with dreams of writing teacher at a book, prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but so far that has remained just a dreamshe longed for something more in life. Then an opportunity arises: She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to write make a book of her own, but to ghost write someone else'schange. She needed challenges. Nicole died with There was a bestseller little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in print and plans for Bologna. After a sequeltelephone interview, she was offered the position and her publishers are keen that Bridget picks up where it wasn't long before she left offwas exploring the beautiful city. It's an unusual proposition, even more so because she will need to go and spend time with Nicole's husband and baby daughter as part of There were some natural doubts before her research, first class but it might be the foot in the door she needs to segway into that book she's been planningwent surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Falvey0241542405|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish SagaMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900When 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: Ennismore Housein fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's young heiress Victoria had hoped that going to catch her train. Then, she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forevercan't. Rosie soon comes She simply can't force herself to know better as thereleave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a social chasm between those good friend, Sadie, who live in the House visits regularly with her two children, James and those, like RosieMatilda. Sadie's familya cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, who have been brought up merely to serve themFred. The days of innocence Groceries are coming to online deliveries and there's also an end internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in many waysher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. SoonHe's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on societyMeredith's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Colleen Oakley0008441618|title= Close Enough to Touch|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=''One time, a boy kissed me and I almost died...My lips started tingling. My tongue swelled to fill my mouth. My throat closed; I couldn't breathe. Everything went black.'' So begins the tale of an unlikely romantic heroine: a girl who is allergic to other human beings. After the extreme humiliation suffered in the aftermath of the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse and hides herself away from the world for nine years. When her source of income suddenly dries up, Jubilee needs to overcome her fears, step out into the world and find a job. Working at the local library, she meets divorced dad Eric and his quirky adopted son, Aja and strikes up a friendship with them. As their mutual attraction starts to grow, can there be any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOther Parents|author=Nancy Revell|title=Shipyard Girls at War: (Shipyard Girls 2) Sarah Stovell

|summary=WarningJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: This review contains spoilers for [[The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell|Book 1]] if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the series from the beginningtown. The war bites deeper school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to contend with than a heavier workloadthe school. The Elliott household is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in AfricaThere was one difficulty, muting the celebrations when his twinthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', Joewith two members, comes homein particular, albeit injured. Rosie is getting over her horrendous episode with her murderous uncle but she's still not back to full healthcausing problems for the head. Working shifts at the yard during the day Laura Spence and secretly by night as a brothel manager Kate Monroe objected to afford her little sisterJo's school fees is a bit of a strain at times but the worst seems to be over. The complications in Rosie's life aren't over yet though. A complication of the heart is restrictions on the horizon: can she afford to fall toys children could bring in love with a police detective? Meanwhile Gloria attempts to move on from her abusive husband aren't Toy Day but that easy. The war is taking more than its share of casualties but then so is lifewas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeGiovanna Fletcher|title=The New NeighboursWalking on Sunshine

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Dartmouth Circle Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has always been the epitome of British middle class proprietydied. Manicured lawnsAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, well-kept house facades… All is where it should be Vicky and life is orderedZaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, with the disrupting influence knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the town's university students rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of sight their trips away, and Vicky and out of mind. ImagineZaza, thenstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, the horror when the good citizens of the Circle hear that one of decide to drop everything in their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationown lives, and go along with him. Will it be the harbinger of doom they expect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dinah JefferiesB09FS89KX9|title=Before the RainsFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that Life should have feed her desire to return. been good for Hollie: Therefore in 1930, following She was just going into the death final year of her husband, when veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the British government commission owner - regarded her to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chancefondly: he was a good boss. What she doesn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted Hollie had moved in with the ideaher boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Living within the SultanaHollie wasn's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza job at the real Indiadiner. HoweverThen there was the fact that he would be violent, attractions are sometimes dangerous both to her and even deadlyto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pam Jenoff0008421714|title=The Orphan's TaleMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Herr Neuroff's circus has a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source The problem began just after the publication of entertainment, itGeorge March's also refuge most successful novel to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fatesdate. One such person, Astrid, a trapeze and high wire artist, lives a precarious life in which Everyone but Mrs March (we know her possible discovery would first name only on the last page) seemed to either be more dangerous than her nightly actreading it or had already done so. SheEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn's an expert who has perfected her art over t this the first time and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, a non-circus family new comer, quickly. Therehe's based a reason behind character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the circus ownerprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''s demand though. Noa arrives at Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the circus endangered by an act whore of kindness: Nantes - ''a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlands. It was a spur of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their futureweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, no matter how long… or short… a time that may beunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Roberts1473685745|title=The Roots of the Tree|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can see, not from the trunk, the branches and the leaves, but from what you can't see - the roots. Disturbance to the roots can be devastating. It's similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 years, secure in the love of her parents, Elsie and Frank. She'd looked after them in her home in their final years and it was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until ''after'' her birth, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father and that her mother was married to him. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Marilyn Bennett|title=Granny with BenefitsKatie Marsh

|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for a woman, particularly if shehaving knocked Simon's not marriedson, Jake, off his bike. Has she given up on the idea of having a family? He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. Does her career mean everything to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for a man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought those of him). Sheyou who are not ''d volunteered to sort out her late grandmotherau fait's home, but she couldn't resist the opportunity to do a little dressing upwith your medical acronyms. SoWhen he was born, wearing her grandmotherthe left side of his heart hadn's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows t developed properly and heavyhe needed open-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose she met the man of her dreamsheart surgery when he was a few days old. OnlySo, rather than laughing and explaining what sheSimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they'd been doing, Grace carried on the pantomime - and called herself Louisere driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898736</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganC J Carey|title=The Summer Seaside KitchenWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= Colgan has It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a diverse portfolio bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of chick lit (and she also writes Dr Who novels) under her belt but starting Edward VIII with [[Meet me at his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the Cupcake Café]] in 2011World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, she has established herself as one we share enough of the queens of same blood as the chick-lit subgenre of Germanic peoples on '''comedy romance with food'the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, the Queen of Hearts and the queen ideas of fruit tartsfemale purpose, to an obvious benefit has put all of her popularity and presumably her bank balance and that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the sound of satisfied ahhhhs drudges, and mmmms from her growing fanbase. As you can see I do miss beyond those, right on down to the Old Jenny a little bitchildless, the brasher and swearier characters husbandless and the much more cutting humourwidows. But Female literacy is actively discouraged. There And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is something employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be said for a well written feelgood novel banned, and I did enjoy the sweetshopnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, the café, the bakery and now so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they''Summer Seaside Kitchen'' which has all re stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the tried, tested and well loved ingredients first emerging signs of a perfectly escapistfemale protest come to light, mostly but not totally predictable chick-lit romance with a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something of her house specialtheir potential to spoil Hitler's visit. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna BellRuth Hogan|title=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting EvenMadame Burova|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= We begin This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the story with Lexi and her boyfriendearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. Lexi is one of those women So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), who has a begrudging relationship with her mothergirl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, who is constantly pestering to get her down the aislethird generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, a father who has a spine missing Palmist and a boyfriend who leaves Clairvoyant'', to use her as a sports widowfamily's sea-front booth. The more I talk to my female friends about thissinger, 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 time in the luckier I realise I am to not havefamily 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. A partner Just who is entirely uninterested in sport but does fixate on Star Trekshe, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and guns.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn O'PorterJennifer Saint |title= The CowsAriadne |rating= 34.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= Reading This re-telling of the blurb for this novel, myth of Ariadne and the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'Porter, I got very excitedMinotaur is interesting and unusual. It talks about Jennifer Saint presents the cow being story in a piece way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of meatAriadne, born spanning from her childhood to breedher death, one of allowing the herd, and compares this reader to women, saying how they don't have to fall into really connect with Ariadne as a stereotype. I expected character in her own right rather than just a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was an easy to read, enjoyable romp through three modern women's livesprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni JordanLucy Holland|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsSistersong

|summary=As predicted by Caroline and JaniceThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's mother on Caroline nominated for - and Henrywins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years delighted and the two daughters further along than predictedpeople she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. IndeedSonja, her mother, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinean ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's house. Therethirty-four and Liberty's the split and the awkwardness of the girlsbest friend: they' schoolteacher being the ve known each other woman for a start. Then theresince university and Liberty adores Jessica's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted husband, Charles and over her extheir four-year-husband Alecold daughter, Ava. She still dreams of him, yes, but Life would be perfect for Liberty if itwasn's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>t for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy HoldenB08GFSK2WZ|title= Honeymoon SuiteThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=54

|summary= This George Jackson is an excellent readthirty-three years old, weaving together many stories. We have Nell who, yes, is left absolutely gorgeous to look at the altar after a whirlwind romance- and single. It She's horrible not had sex for eight months and horrifying she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she is, understandably, distraughthas a real talent for attracting drama. Her last modicum life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of selfthe stairs to absorb the water -respect vanishes when then the shower fell through the roof whilst she rings to cancel was in it and left her honeymoon, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to find it non-refundable. And so, in a rare show of gumption, she decides to go anyway, taking along take her friend Rachel and Rachelmother's daughter Juno for the ride. At the same time, bestselling novelist Dylan is having romantic woes of his own. An almighty fire has chased him dog out of town and he needs to disappear, at least for a bit. As luck, walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and artistic license, would have a photo being taken by someone who shares it, the two end up in around the same place. But this is not the first time they have crossed paths, and they are both in for an almighty shockoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rosie BlakeB08CHJLNBS|title=How to Get a Love LifeCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: thereHe's really no other way of putting itCharles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. TheyShe're of Bangladeshi origin s Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and they're the only Muslim family archivist in the small village of Wyvernageheritage library next door. On the surface they look 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 be happy, but actually each of the sisters is struggling in her own waysomething a little deeper. For the most part they're doing it quietlyCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but it, above all, he's not always the case. shocked that Emilia reads ''The eldest is FatimaGuardian''. Her nameThey's often abbreviated to Fatti: it's re obviously not meant unkindlyat all compatible, but sheso why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's well upholstered and not his usual type at thirty sheall: it's unmarriedobvious to his friends. Even her mother doesnAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles't seem s superficiality, why does she feel drawn to think that therehim? The relationship's much point in trying to find obviously a husband for her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>non-starter, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chrissie ManbyHelly Acton|title= A Fairy Tale For ChristmasThe Shelf|rating= 3.54

|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as When we meet Amy, she's in a singer on relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a cruise ship. He is the impressive Director of Entertainment partnership, because things tend to get done on boardhis terms, and they fall into a relationship which Kirsty but she's sticking around because she hopes will grow and develop into something specialshe can change him. Ah, yes. When Jon announces Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he wants tells her to return to England to his West Country seaside home, Kirsty is faced with pack for a difficult decision: whether surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to follow him get down on one knee? Was the work (and cement their flourishing relationship or pursue her own career with a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbean.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diane AllenAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The Mistress What Kind of Windfell ManorGirl

|summary= Charlotte Booth '' Doing something when you're scared is the beautiful daughter of braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a successful wool farmer and like any young Victorian womanblack eye, she looks forward claiming he gave it to the day she can be married and have a family of her own, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her childhood sweetheart Archie relationship has a place in Charlottejust ended and now she's heartthe talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, but he cannot provide her with the life she desireseveryone knew that, so when wealthy mill owner Joseph Dawson comes to town Charlotte sees why did he do what he did? Some people believe her luck begin to change. After a brief courtship, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move in to the illustrious Windfell Manorsome don't, but things soon turn sour when one of Joseph's mill workers thing is found dead and Charlotte starts to suspect that Joseph for sure, this isn't the man she first thought he wasgoing to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wray DelaneyKatie Fforde|title=An Almond for a Parrot|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that her education really started. That was the beginning of the road to discovery. The discovery that she can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape the cruelty of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generate. That, in turn, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nancy Revell|title=The Shipyard Girls|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=1940 and the workload of Thompsons, the Tyneside shipyard, increases so much they do the unthinkable: employ women to perform the roles traditionally taken by men. It's the bravest as well as the strongest women who accept the challenge and, under the expert tuition of Rosie, begin to take their places beside their male counterparts. It's not an easy ride for any of them. In fact, as they band together, there's one particular group that will face dangers in their daily lives as real - and more imminent - than any encountered on the slipway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lisa Dickenson|title= Mistletoe on 34th StreetA Springtime Affair

|summary= ItI's December, and Olivia is off ve wanted to New York. Sadly it's not read author Katie Fforde for the Christmas of ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a lifetimewarm, cosy read focused on romance, or even a pre-holiday shopping weekendfamily and friendships. She's going This provided two romances for work, in fact she's leading a team the price of colleaguesone, so but it's far from a relaxing trip. Luckily she'll be home in time for was actually the big day itself, and then she'll really be able to relax. Except, in a comedy of errors such family element as this, things don't exactly go opposed to plan. Fierce weather grounds flights and shatters dreams, and new Christmas plans come into playthe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751563099</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fionnuala KearneyB07W4MNBSG|title=The Day I Lost Be Careful Who YouMarry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Anna is missing; It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a difficult truth for her mother Jess to absorbgroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Anna went ski-ing with friendsWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, leaving Jess to look after Annabut Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry's daughter, Jess' granddaughter. Little Rose is now The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a comforting presence for Jess as she thinks about Annacouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, piecing together or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the person and life rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that Jess thought she knew aboutweekend. However, Anna has secrets, at least There was just one of which will have repercussions… and not just for Jessproblem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>