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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Wish Upon a StarMaybe Tomorrow|author=Trisha AshleyPenny Parkes|rating=34.5|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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren Bravo|title=Preloved|rating=4
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|summary=Cally Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a single mother. The novel begins big number that starts with the birth of her daughter Stella, a four and the discovery that her baby has a serious heart conditionends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Stella’s first few years are taken up with hospitals and medical procedures but eventually Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the NHS can provide nothing further. Then Cally learns that a doctor in Boston is able to do toss - Gwen finds herself having a new kind bit of operation, one that could potentially give Stella a totally normal mid-lifecrisis. The only problem Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the enormous cost of surgery in the US, not time to mention the need for flights and accommodation.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847562787</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=Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop|author=Jenny Colgan|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rosie Hopkins lives with her boyfriend Stephen in the village of Lipton, and we meet Then Richard left them first on a winter’s evening, with snow gently falling on the picturesque buildings around their cottage. Or, rather, Rosie’s great aunt Lilian’s cottage. For Rosie is a town girl who came to look after Lilian some time previously. Lilian has moved to a lovely care home, and Rosie runs her traditional sweet shop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551805</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela JacksonHadeer Elsbai|title=The Emergence Daughters of Judy TaylorIzdihar
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=JudyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 's life had been the stuff which many others might envy: she'd grown up with friends about her whom sheThe Daughters of Izdihar''d known since primary school and married explores the first man lives of two women who asked her could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - but he did seem to be doing rather well. Then one day she discovered in a lumpsociety pitted against them. A hard lump. In Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her right breast. Nerve-racking test followed nerve-racking testabilities and then join the military, but eventually instead she was told that everything was absolutely normalis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Husband Oli wanted Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to celebrate. So did provide for her friendsfamily and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. The problem was JudyGiorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Missing the bus home after her hospital appointment she sat in What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a cafe group of admirable women fighting for their rights and thought. She realised that ''normal'' was not what she wanted. She wanted something moreovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472101650</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB0B575J99N|title=Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=American Iona Sheehan moves to Ireland Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in order to discover her ancestorsYork. It was ''comfortable'' roots and oh so much but she longed for something morein life. Her ancestors were witches and her cousins Branna She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and Conor O'Dwyer have acquired now was the family talenttime to make a change. She needed challenges. Under their care and tutelage Iona has her own skills honed as There was a little trepidation when she develops applied for the magick passed down to her professoressa job in between her work at Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the local stables. Unfortunately magick isnposition and it wasn't long before she was exploring the only thing to have survived the centuriesbeautiful city. Cabahn, the nemesis of Sorcha, the There were some natural doubts before her first O'Dwyer dark witch, has unfinished business with the cousins and not in a good wayclass but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958588</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Michele Forbes|title=Ghost MothFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Belfast 1949: Katherine is about to become engaged to fireman George Bedford when she meets Tom McKinley. He's bright fun and makes her feel more alive than dependable, boring George ever could. The weight of the decision Katherine eventually makes will haunt her for a lifetime. We fast forward to Belfast 1969 and as the troubles in Northern Ireland exacerbate, as do the cracks in Katherine's marriage. In fact 20 years and four children later, they've become chasms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0241542405|title=Leaving HavenMeredith Alone|author=Kathleen McClearyClaire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=After years of trying When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for a second child1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, Georgia is over the moon she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to conceive using an egg donated by catch her best friend Alicetrain. The pregnancy progresses well and everything is looking rosy for Georgia and husband John until Then, with mere weeks she can't. She simply can't force herself to go, leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she uncovers has a devastating secret that changes everythinggood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, including James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her ability to love 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 her new babyspare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, Havena charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062106260</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Is This Love?|author=Sue Moorcroft|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sue Moorcroft is not a typical ‘chick lit’ writer, despite the pink and purple cover of this novel, and the fact that her publisher is ‘Choc Lit’. Certainly there’s a romantic element to the book, but there’s a great deal more besides. Love, in the title, does not simply refer to romance and adult relationships, but also includes strong family ties.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890552</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0008441618|title=The Gravity Between UsOther Parents|author=Kristen ZimmerSarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Kendall Bettencourt, at Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the age new head of just 19, has become one of HollywoodWest Burntridge First School: if she didn's hottest properties, but is missing t live up to her best friend Paytonretired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Flying The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the other girl out funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to keep her company the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in LA particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and help teach her music seems like a sensible thing Kate Monroe objected to do. But PaytonJo's realised she thinks of Kendall as more than restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a friend warm- does Kendall feel the same way about her, and can up act for their feelings survive the craziness of Hollywood life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190949013X</amazonuk>real gripe: LGBTQ education.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FracturedGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Dani AtkinsWalking on Sunshine
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rachel is not living a life most people would covetMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. Her job And whilst he is dulldealing with his grief, she lives alone in a grotty flatso are their best friends, she has a scarred face that makes people stop Vicky and squirmZaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and she still hasn’t come that they would need help to terms with carry on living. Whilst some of the death of rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her best friend – who lost his life saving hers. She has wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to drag herself out take one of London their trips away, and Vicky and back to her hometown for the wedding of a close friendZaza, struggling with their grief and she goes so reluctantly because it’s the first time the whole gang will have been back together since the accidenttheir own life troubles, five years ago. It’s really not a life to hold on decide todrop everything in their own lives, and go along with him. Surely she’d rather anything else?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781857113</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=When You Walked Back into My Life Fall On Me|author=Hilary BoydPenelope Potts|rating=43.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Hilary Boyd wrote best-selling 'Thursdays in the Park', which I enjoyed immensely, so I Life should have been good for Hollie: She was delighted to be given just going into the opportunity to read final year of her latest novelveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. With the stalwarts of a white Bob -coat hospital romance as the major characters, and a subowner -plot involving regarded her fondly: he was a dying old lady and good boss. Hollie had moved in with her money-grabbing nephewboyfriend, thereMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn's plenty t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to hook lovers control her and most of an easy-read romantic novelall he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Hilary Boyd writes straightforwardly Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and the story flies across the pagesto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782060936</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=An Englishwoman in New YorkMrs March|author=Anne-Marie CaseyVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=I The problem began just love that feelingafter the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. I’m in Every day Mrs March went to the hands of an writer who knows local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the business of writing inside outbread, and I can relax and enjoy ''but isn't this the first time he's based a surprise ride with plenty of laughs along character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the wayprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. No, I’m Perhaps this would not related to veteran scriptwriter and producer Anne-Marie Casey: in a literary world awash with good readshave mattered, this except for the fact that Johanna is the highestwhore of Nantes -calibre popular novel I’ve read in ''a whileweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548338</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Allen1473685745|title=Finding MotherUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Nicole Oxford knew that 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 marriage was over when she discovered that Tom had been unfaithful - againbest to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. TheyHe wasn'd seemed like the golden couple of television t hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that and their gorgeous home suddenly seemed as insubstantial as dust's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. Taking When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a break from work Nicole flew out to stay with her parents in Spainfew days old. ActuallySo, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they were her adoptive parents - 're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Nicole wondered if the bond between them all was Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to be strong enough Moscow to stand attend the weight state funeral of what she was going Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to ask the throne of themEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Nicole had stopped liking herself For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and she felt that she needed to go back to her rootswe are now a protectorate – well, discover who we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''shethe mainland'' was . But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high- brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and she wanted 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, not every 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 help potential to trace her birth motherspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992711207</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreview|title=Step Back In TimeFrontpage|author=Ali McNamara|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Career girl Jo-Jo gets hit by a car, but the accident leaves her not in hospital, but transported back to 1963. Another such accident leaves her in the 70s, a third in the 80s, and a fourth in the 90s. With a different life each time, and fashion and music being very different from what she's used to, can she find her way home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075155023X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRuth Hogan|title=The Flavours of Love|author=Dorothy KoomsonMadame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Saffron's husbandThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, Joelall vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), was stabbed a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the street eighteen months ago third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and no one has ever been arrested for his murderClairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. It The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's hard mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for Saffron and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her two childrenlast day, Pheobe and Zanefifty years later, to live with what happened but somehow they have to find in possession of a way pair of getting on with their lives; lives letters that no longer have Joel in them. It's hardly surprising that they struggle on will change everything for a daily basis and it all culminates when Saffron is woman called into school to discuss fourteen year old PheobeBillie. Saffron doesn't know how to deal with Just who is she, and who delivered the situation especially as secrets about her daughter won't talk to her. On top of all thatImelda, Joel's killer is still out there somewhere and that makes her scared for why did it have to remain a secret all her family's safety.this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780875002</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr PerfectJennifer Saint |authortitle=Joanna DaviesAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This book made me feel old. Old, and a bit boring. From the blurb I'd expected a lightre-hearted chick-lit style story telling of finding the perfect man, or perhaps realising that myth of Ariadne and the perfect man doesn't exist Minotaur is interesting and finding, instead, unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the man you love has been living right under your nose all along! It is, story in part, a way that sort of storyis sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. But itSaint's also narrative is told predominantly through the story viewpoint of two people who spend an awful lot of their lives having sex Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with entirely Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the wrong people and occasionally running into each other (literally at one point!) but missing the fact that they like each other for many, many yearsheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784671</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bridget Jones: Mad About The BoyLucy Holland|authortitle=Helen FieldingSistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=BridgetSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, as you might have heardthe modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, is backfor most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Some things have changed (she’s If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now a mother! And in herbecoming increasingly narrow and outdated, ahemfleshing out characters, 50s) and some things haven’t (she still has dating disasters examining relationships and drinks wine as if it were water) but re-evaluating the most important thing role of all women. Sistersong is that she’s still Bridgeta 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 she’s human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still journaling her life feeling appropriate for our amusementthe pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224098098</amazonuk>1529039037
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Amelia Grey's Fireside DreamCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Abby ClementsBrooke Adams|rating=4.53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Amelia Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and Jack live in a cramped flat in Hackney where they hardly have room to swing a catwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. They canShe's delighted and the two people she't afford s brought with her to upgrade in London but maybe a small cottage away from the city could event couldn't be affordablemore pleased. When Amelia Sonja, her mother, is overlooked 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 their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for a promotion at the school she teaches in Liberty if it feels that the time is right wasn't for one thing: she misses having a change. After their dream cottage is sold to another buyer, they discover Brambledown Cottageman in her life. It looks to be just what they are after; however, do they really know just how much work they are taking on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064303</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=A Heart Bent Out of ShapeThe Karma Trap|author=Emylia HallLisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Hadley Dunn George Jackson is quite a fancy name for a girl like her. She has lived quite a nondescript life up until nowthirty-three years old, and even her university years absolutely gorgeous to look like they’ll be quite uneventful since she’s decided to live at home rather than move away- and single. Then, out of She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the blue, karma trap: an opportunity arises, awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and Hadley finds herself spending she has a year abroad in Switzerlandreal talent for attracting drama. Away Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the responsibilities shower by putting something down at the bottom of homethe stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, and surrounded by exciting new friendsstark naked, Hadley becomes a much more appealing characterstaring at the pervy postman. She is especially close only has to Danish student Kristina who is also there take her mother's dog out for a year in Lausanne, walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the two soon grow close, even if each has secrets they keep to themselves and cannot share with even their closest of friendsoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390881</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly PetersonB08CHJLNBS|title=The MannyCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jamie Whitfield is married to Phillip He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and has three children a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty- although, if truth be toldnine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she has four children's moved on from new age books like that, but shares a bed with one of themwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, who also happens to have something a highly paid joblittle deeper. Well, most people would think that he has Charles is more of a highly-paid job[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but Phillip is resentful that , above all, he's not one of the super-richshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. Just nicely getting into seven figures is simply They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not enough. get this woman out of his mind? Living in New YorkShe's Grid is not enough - he wants one of the massive apartmentshis usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. Jamie works tooAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, but why does shefeel drawn to him? The relationship's only obviously a partnon-time television news producerstarter, so obviously her needs - and rights - are going to be secondary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007233035</amazonuk>isn't it?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Husband Next DoorHelly Acton|authortitle=Catherine AlliottThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=EllaWhen we meet Amy, she's marriage to the artist Sebastian Monclair has gone downhill just as quickly as Sebastian's once-stellar career did. With him living in an outhouse and her seeking comfort a relationship with charming gardener LudoJamie. You can't really call it a partnership, who because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's not quite ready to have an affair withsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, their children yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are caught in the falloutlooking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. When EllaCould this be it? Is he ''finally''s parents go through their own marital problems going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and her overbearing mum moves in with her, will the wait) worth it give Ella the push she needs to take action?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141047801</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=Deborah Schwartz|title=Woman on Top|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Kate and Jake had one of those brilliant marriages that looks set to last forever along When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with two wonderful children. But Fate is always hiding around the corner with its foot stuck outa black eye, waiting claiming he gave it to trip you up her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and Jake was diagnosed with cancer. They both fought to do everything that they could to find a cure but within two years Kate was a widow. For nearly a decade now she dedicated herself to 's the children and to making a career as a healthcare lawyer so that she could support talk of the familyschool. When she Mike was the most popular boy in school who was ready to look for another relationship she met Len. It wasn't his looks always so in love with her, everyone knew that attracted , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her or his stature (sheand some don'd hastily searched out her flat shoes)t, but he did seem one thing is for sure, this isn't going to have something about himblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00D3WHBJK</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas SparksKatie Fforde|title=The Longest RideA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=An elderly man set off on a car journey when the weather I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was so bad that he really shouldn't have taken the risk. He couldn't ''quite'' remember pretty much exactly what caused him to skid off the road, but he I was trapped in the car which had slithered down expecting - a steep embankmentwarm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. The weather was worsening and he wasn't optimistic about This provided two romances for the chances price of being found. For ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson his only comfort and hope was the presence of his adored wife, Ruth, who'd been dead for nine years. Some way away Sophia Danko's life but it was complicated. She'd been dating Brian for two years but finished actually the relationship when he cheated on her for family element as opposed to the second time - only Brian couldn't accept romance that it was over. That was how Sophia met Luke - he stepped in when Brian's attentions became just a little ''too'' pressingI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751549940</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Tempting FateBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Jane GreenLizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Sometimes people make mistakes. It only takes a moment was coming up to do something wrong Halloween in 1987 and if you’re lucky, it only takes a moment to put it right. Or it can take months or yearsgroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Some mistakes When you just have to live with're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, forever. Gabby has made one of but Liz was convinced that ''thoseyour entire life depends on who you marry'' mistakes. The sort only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you can never really come back fromwere Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718157583</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title= The Husbandplace to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers's Secret|author=Liane Moriarty|rating=4Halloween disco that weekend.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cecelia, Tess and Rachel are three women spread across the generations, and spread across Australia. At first glance they have little There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in common, but as this book progresses, their lives move closer and staggering links appear between the threesomeclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405911662</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=A Private View|author=Crystalle Valentino|rating=2|genre=Women's FictionMove on to [[Features|summary=Jemma is a model who thinks nothing of photographers taking an interest in her. In fact, she rather likes it. After all, that’s the sort of thing that leads to more work. But when the renowned Dominic Vane comes after her, the works he has in mind is something a little different. As an erotic romance, you can imagine what he wants her body for. Hint: it’s not just as a clothes horse. And so, thanks to a helpfully understanding boyfriend with whom she’s in an open relationship, Jemma decides to welcome Dominic into her life… and her bed. Except for some reason, he’s playing hard to get. The more he eludes her, the more she wants him, and their initial relationship turns on its head as she becomes the one now pursuing him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0352347562</amazonuk>}}latest features]]