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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=It Had to Be YouMaybe Tomorrow|author=Ellie AdamsPenny Parkes
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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well Jamie Matson works in her life until it an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all goes startlingly wrongthe subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst she is dressed as Henry VIII at a thirtieth birthday party He's asthmatic and unfortunately the whole debacle is filmed and ends up more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on YouTubethe autistic spectrum. She becomes known as Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she'head butt girls a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo' as she is filmed demonstrating her furys not fit enough to go to school. Her PR job is also going nowhere as she finds herself having Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to try and promote some very strange concepts. At least she has her two best friends for solace and they pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can all be found, many evenings, drinking away their sorrows controlled and putting put in the world wrong. It was going to rightscome to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mill River RedemptionLauren Bravo|authortitle=Darcie ChanPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rose and Emily are sisters who coGwen is pressing her middle-exist rather than interact. In the past, aged bosom on a big number that starts with a devastating event drove them apart, four and now they both have their own lives, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew upends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. When Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their mother Josie dies, they are brought back together first in their mourning and then in their frustration at salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a message from beyond the grave: their mother is determined to achieve in death what she couldn't while still alive, bit of a sisterly reconciliationmid-life crisis. She has left her estate to the girls, but in order to access the funds they will need to cooperate Catharsis is key and coordinate efforts to unearth the clues she Gwen has left them. With neither in a position to walk away from decided now is the potential gold mine, they have time to put aside their differences, if only for the summer.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>1398510629
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|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=Little Lies|author=Liane Moriarty|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Death and kindergarten are not two things you would normally think went together, but this time they haveThen Richard left them. Someone is dead. A murder investigation has been launched. But why are the police finding it so hard to get answers? What actually went on that night? And can an incident in the playground on the first day really have come to this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Five Days LeftHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Julie Lawson TimmerThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Mara Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and Scott are both on weavers – those with magical abilities - in a countdownsociety pitted against them. Each has five days leftNehal, born into the upper class, wishes to 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 Nico. But when Giorgina on the weekend comesother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, who will whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be happyin love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, who will be mourningfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and who will be out of the picture forever?overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780892136</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=The Girls from Corona Del MarBeneath the Porticoes|author=Rufi ThorpeBrooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Exploring the friendship of Mia Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Lorrie Ann, two girls who grew up together in 1980a teacher at a prestigious girl's Corona Del Mar, this novel is unexpectedly tragic; definitely not just another trashy, girly work of fictionschool in York. Written from the point of view of Mia, it tells the journeys of the two friends and the events which have led them to where they are now It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd 'The Girls from Corona Del Mar'' explores still not only found the subjects of friendship, growing apart right vocation nor met the right man'' and growing up, but also those of death, war, drugs, abortion and coping with now was the time to make a disabled childchange. And, She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in my opinionBologna. After a telephone interview, Rufi Thorpe does this brilliantly; sometimes with subtlety she was offered the position and elegance it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but often through the frank, brutal honesty of the character's narrationit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954193</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Rock Chick RescueMeredith Alone|author=Kristen AshleyClaire Alexander|rating=24.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jet McAlister is working two jobs When 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: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to help pay for leave the safety of her motherhome. She's medical expensesfortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, after James and Matilda. Sadie's a stroke left cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her mostly paralysed on one sidecat, Fred. It Groceries are online deliveries and there's okay also an internet- Jet likes taking care of people - but based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she candoes in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He't deal s from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with any more complications in her lifeproblems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J4DPNN8</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Follow Me Home|author=Cathy WoodmanFrontpage|ratingisbn=2|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cathy Woodman has written a number of books about life in the Devon village of Taylton St George. These all tell the tale of the comings and goings of the different villagers as they go about their daily lives. You don't have to have read the earlier ones in order to enjoy the stories although if you have read them you are more likely to appreciate the bigger picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584921</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0008441618|title=Beautiful DayOther Parents|author=Elin HilderbrandSarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jenna is getting married and no one would be more excited than her mother Beth. But Beth passed away before Jo Fairburn knew that she could see was under intense pressure as the baby new head of the Carmichael family happily hitched. Knowing West Burntridge First School: if she wouldndidn't live up to see her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the daytown. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, she drafted though - they were ''The Notebookdevastatingly shockable'', a guide to help Jenna plan her nuptials with wisetwo members, in particular, motherly advice causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on every aspectthe toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724002</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paper SwansGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Jessica ThompsonWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ben Lawrence Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has a charmed life it would seemdied. There’s the highly successful and lucrative career in PRAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, the fast carso are their best friends, Vicky and more girlfriends than he can possibly rememberZaza. However, despite But Pia left them all thissome 'rules' to follow, Ben is sad knowing that she was dying and lonelythat they would need help to carry on living. He is scared to commit Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to any woman because take one of a tragic incident from his past. Even visiting his therapist does not seem to make a difference. Thereforetheir trips away, he is completely taken by surprise whenand Vicky and Zaza, after meeting Effy Jonesstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, the founder of the charity that Ben’s firm is sponsoringdecide to drop everything in their own lives, he finds that he cannot stop thinking about herand go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776525</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=The Art of Baking BlindFall On Me|author=Sarah VaughanPenelope Potts|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Eaden and Son is looking Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the next Mrs Eadenfinal year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. The original Mrs Eaden Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Kathleen, has recently died 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 control her and most of all he wanted her honour the upmarket grocery store is running a baking competition to find someone to advise leave her job at the store on its baking products; to write a monthly magazine column; and to front Eaden’s advertising campaigndiner. It’s an extremely appealing prospect and attracts many willing contestants Then there was the fact that are eventually whittled down he would be violent, both to five who will take part in weekly bake-offs in order her and to showcase their talents in all aspects of bakingother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792229</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Any Other MouthMrs March|author=Anneliese MackintoshVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=With The problem began just after 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. Every 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't this the first time he's based a title like character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'Any Other Mouthher mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, you know from except for the outset fact that this Johanna is, shall we say, the whore of Nantes - ''a rather niche book. It’s not all about orificesweak, though. Partially autobiographicalplain, this is the messydetestable, ludicrouspathetic, wildly entertaining story of a girl who’s just a little bit different. Okunloved, make that a lot differentunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754575</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Jenkin1473685745|title=Jam TomorrowUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Joss Jeffries is a farmerWhen 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 having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. Not a farmerHe wasn's wife and general help on the farm t hurt but the one who Jake has to get out there and make it workhistory. Her husband departed a while ago leaving her He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with their young son your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a mountain few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of debtJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, so what she needs is money coming inparading around a bit, and preferably as quickly as possiblewatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. She and her fatherFor yes, MickBritain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, come up with what seems like and we are now a good idea: walking holidays in protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the magical mid-Wales countryside. It Germanic peoples on ''looksthe mainland'' to be quite a sound plan too. They'll take wellBut this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-payingstyled phrenology, decent people on great walks and let them experience ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the joy of camping drudges, and living close beyond those, right on down to naturethe childless, the husbandless and the widows. OnlyFemale 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 potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099288490X</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=W Scott BeavenRuth Hogan|title=Train That Carried The Girl: 2 (Riccarton Junction)Madame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=A few years have passed since we last met Kikarin, the then teenager growing up This book lets us discover several people in the wilds different stages of life in the Scottish borders surrounded by some pretty wild peopleearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. Her parents So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have gone back been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to live in Japan while her brother has fled abroad as become a result singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of the Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's near fatal brush with the criminal underworldsea-front booth. This leaves Kiri to continue her life with her friends Ainslie The singer, the scryer and Melanie filling the voidsufferer'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. Although disappointed to have missed out We also see her on her honours degree last day, fifty years later, in archaeology, Kiri finds alternative employment selling double glazing possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for commercial premisesa woman called Billie. Some things change but Kiri Just who is still scarred by she, and who delivered the past. She wants secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to settle down but will remain a secret all this past let hertime?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494874601</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harriet EvansJennifer Saint |title=A Place For Us (Part 1)Ariadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Martha This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and David Winter live at Winterfold. David Winter the Minotaur is a famous cartoonist but he and his wife are getting on a bit interesting and life isn’t quite as easy as it used to be, or, indeed for their children and grandchildrenunusual. As we meet them Jennifer Saint presents the story in August 2012 Martha a way that is sending out invitations for her eightieth birthday and she makes it clear that she’d like them all sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to be therea modern audience. Son Bill Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the local GP and he’s struggling in his second marriage viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the much younger Karen, but he’s still close reader to his daughter Lucy. The girls are much further away. Florence lives really connect with Ariadne as a character in Florence, her own right rather than just to confuse matters. She’s a Professor, ferociously intelligent and emotionally naive. Daisy is prop in India. Her childhood was ‘’difficult’’ but she’s now doing charitable work - which isn’t a lot the heroics of consolation for her daughter Cat whom she abandoned when she was a few weeks oldTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00KIPSM98</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Proper Family HolidayLucy Holland|authortitle=Chrissie ManbySistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Chelsea can think Sistersong is part of few things worse than a family holidaygenre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. Except maybe These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a family holiday fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to a cheap hotel in ''Lanzastories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-grotty''evaluating the role of women. Or Sistersong is a family holiday where she’ll be constantly ridiculed for her ‘posh London ways’ 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 her inability to manage the human, most obvious things importantly they feel relatable in life like holding down a boyfriend or starting modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a family masterpiece of her own. It’s going storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to be a long weekend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444742736</amazonuk>1529039037
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Two Weddings and a BabyCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Scarlett BaileyBrooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Tamsyn Thorne was not looking forward to returning to Cornwall Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for her brother Ruanjust six months when she's weddingnominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. They had fallen out years ago She's delighted and had not spoken since. However, for the sake of two people she's brought with her to the familyevent couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, she had agreed to attendher mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and even be a bridesmaidLiberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, but as far as she was concernedCharles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she would leave the little Cornish village at the first opportunitymisses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953553</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cynthia Harrod-EaglesB08GFSK2WZ|title=Goodbye PiccadillyThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=ItGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's July 1914 not had sex for eight months and the world is becoming unsettled. Thereshe's fierce unrest brewing stuck in Ireland and Sarajevo the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being put visited on the map her and she has a real talent for all the wrong reasonsattracting drama. Back Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in England life is continuing as usual – it and left her, stark naked, staring at the momentpervy postman. Viscount Dene, Charles Wroughton wants She only has to marry for love rather than materialism. Laura Hunter is fighting for womentake her mother's suffrage. As dog out for a walk for Beattie Cazalet, her main worry is the rumour concerning the manner in which to end up with dog poo spattered across her servant Ethel is carrying on in public. All fears are about to deepen and worries put in sharp relief though: war is coming face - and a war like none photo being taken by someone who shares it around the world has fought beforeoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556262</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maeve HaranB08CHJLNBS|title=The Time of Their LivesCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The four women had been friends for over forty yearsHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. ClaudiaShe's Emilia, Ellatwenty-nine, Laura librarian and Sal had met at university and they know each other well - or think they doarchivist in the heritage library next door. They - Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like me - are what I call that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''upper middle aged. They' - those people who are technically oldre obviously not at all compatible, but so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not yet prepared his usual type at all: it's obvious to accept ithis friends. TheyAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles'd gone their separate ways in life but still lived close enough s superficiality, why does she feel drawn to meet up each month for drinks and to catch up with what was happening. him? To the women it was one of their strongest relationships The relationship's obviously a non- although some of their families thought of the group as starter, isn'the coven'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447253892</amazonuk>t it?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FalloutHelly Acton|authortitle=Sadie JonesThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Have you ever been When we meet Amy, she's in love? Truly, madly, deeply (as the cliché has a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it) in love? Sincerelya partnership, selfishlybecause things tend to get done on his terms, selflesslybut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, in loveyes. Haven't we all been there?  With the wrong personThings are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be itIf you havenIs he 't then you'll find finally''Fallout'' an exploration of how it happens, going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and how we deal with the wait) worth it, or not.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701188502</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|title=You're the One that I Want|author=Giovanna Fletcher|rating=4|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Maddygirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, Rob her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and Ben have been friends forevernow she's the talk of the school. There’s nothing unusual about that Mike was the most popular boy in general, but it’s less common school who was always so in literaturelove with her, perhapseveryone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and I can’t think of another book where two boys and a girl are the trio at the centre of a friendship. As the book startssome don't, but one thing is for sure, Maddy and Rob are about this isn't going to marry, and Ben stands proudly by as their best manblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405909978</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys BrayKatie Fforde|title=A Song for Issy BradleySpringtime Affair|rating=4|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on seven-year-old Jacob's birthday. His elder sisterromance, Zippy family and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but his little sister isn't feeling wellfriendships. Four-year-old Issy has retreated to bed and she's rather hoping that her mother will come and make her betterThis provided two romances for the price of one, but Claire is trying to cope with Jacob's birthday party and it's quite a while before was actually the family realise that Issy is very ill. She has meningitis and element as opposed to the romance that night she dies in hospitalI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen ChandlerB07W4MNBSG|title=To Have and to HoldBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=We're looking at a few months in the lives of three women. On the face of it Ella has it all. She's got a happy marriage and two gorgeous children along with a home in the village-y part of Walthamstow. But she ''wants'' something more - and her husband doesn't agree that another child is the answer. Her friend Imogen and partner Pete used to have a fun relationship but after the birth of Indigo things changed, with Imogen needing to focus on the baby and Pete becoming more distant and less involved. Then there's Phoebe. She's just fifteen years old and bullied at school: she's that unfortunate girl in the class who is overweight and under cool. She and her mother simply don't get on - Liz is a model and a size eight - but she's close to her father, but round about the time of her GCSEs her parents split up and that closeness was lost.
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{{newreview
|title=No-one Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday
|author=Tracy Bloom
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Matthew and Katy were together as teenagers but now years later both are with other significant others, and both Katy and Matthew’s wife, Alison are pregnant. Oh, and they’re in the same antenatal class. And, oh yes, Katy’s not 100% sure who the father of her baby is, current boyfriend Ben or, you’ve guessed it, long lost flame Matthew. Cue a comedy of errors, misunderstandings, fisticuffs and emotional outbursts, not all triggered by swarming hormones.
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{{newreview
|author=Nicole Mary Kelby
|title=The Pink Suit
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In November 1963 the world It was shocked by the assassination coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of President John F Kennedysixth-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 only eligible boys were the picture which brought home to us Young Farmers and the horror idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of what had happened children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was not of JFK but of his wife in determined to marry the iconic pink suit, soaked with her husband's bloodrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers'Let them see what they have done', she saidHalloween disco that weekend. I've always assumed that the suit There was new for the occasion just one problem - but it had a back story there were too and it's told many Elizabeths in ''The Pink Suit'', a work of historical fiction based on factsthe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=After The Honeymoon|author=Janey Fraser|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A TV star and his make-up artist wife, and a dinner lady and her husband are not two couples you would expect to end up honeymooning at the same place, but through a twist of fate (ok, a teacher at the school one works at and the other sends her kids to) both women and their new husbands end up Move on the same secluded Greek island at the same time. It’s run by a British woman who left for the continent 15 years ago, and it’s the perfect spot to get away from it all, be it your toddler's safely left with grandma, or [[Features|the paparazzi who are desperate for an exclusive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580845</amazonuk>}}latest features]]