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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author= Melissa Hill|title= Keep You Safe|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= This is the story of two mothers and two daughters, and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is a nurse. She has a daughter, Rosie, and Rosie is ill with measles. As a nurse, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can be, but because Rosie has a rare allergy that prevents vaccination, there was nothing she could do except cross her fingers and hope herd immunity would carry her through. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' and tells the world, or at least the internet, the do's and do not's of parenting. There's one thing she didn't do, though, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMR, she and her husband decided to forgo the jabs for their children. And now, like Rosie, she has measles. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008217122</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chrissie Manby|title= The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I love a good romcom and so was excited to read Chrissie Manby's latest novel. It certainly didn't disappoint on the comedy value and pleasingly it was more a 'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships and day-to-day family relations providing the best laughs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639778</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Holly Hepburn|title= The Picture House by the Sea|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to a close, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romance. In such a mood it was then, that I came across the cover for ''The Picture House by the Sea''. Perfect blue skies, glistening sea, a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cart. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471161714</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susi Osborne|title=Angelica Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friends, but she's not big on friends. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall through the cracks as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to cope. She's been told that she's tainted, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' people. One of her jobs is working in a supermarket and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katy Colins|title= Chasing the Sun|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Author Katy Colins became Britain's most famous jilted bride when the true story of her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viral, before becoming a romantic comedy book series with this the latest one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Heidi Swain|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this book. It was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storyline, delightful characters and innocent romance. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy to pick up and put down (not that I wanted to) throughout the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rebecca Chance|title= Killer Affair|rating= 3|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Rebecca Chance's much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a 'chance' but for me it was a very mixed read. The cover blurb describes it as 'irresistibly readable' and 'a glittering page-turner' which it most certainly was, starting with a famed but as yet unidentified woman on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. The story then restarts from the beginning setting the scene, characters and events that will eventually lead up to the revengeful opening act. It's not until the end of the book that this mystery betrayal is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite a long book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)|title=Madame Bovary of the Suburbs|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling in, then reproducing.'' Well, it actually starts a lot before then, with a set of fractured memories of our heroine's childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and about her. It goes through her childhood, and pen letters to a best friend conveying her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty of university years, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you should be careful what you wish for, but not even our wise, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Louise Pentland|title=Wilde Like Me|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=World famous fashion and beauty vlogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle of Glitter, takes on a new challenge in the form of her touching debut novel, ''Wilde Like Me''. You will be transported into a world full of exasperating drama with the PSMs (Posh School Mums), heart-warming mother daughter moments and self-righteous men who you realise aren't the be all and end all. Now enters Robin Wilde, a single mum to Lyla and make-up artist living in her granny's house simply just trying to get by. The novel follows her journey of self discovery, which even she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, and shows you that only '''you''' can make you happy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Friend|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffee, wine, gossip and momentary escape from their respective lives. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne is found battered and half-dead in the playground. Three weeks later Cece moves into the area, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into the orbit of Maxie, Anaya and Hazel and hears what happened to the still comatose Yvonne. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is one of the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position to be in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Come Sundown|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Bodine Longbow's family has learnt to live with tragedy. A quarter of a century earlier Bodine's Aunt Alice disappeared without a trace. Nothing has softened the pain but life goes on and the family business (a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps them all busy. Bo is fully focussed as the resort's manager but distraction is on the horizon in the form of Callen Skinner. Local lad Callen comes home with a successful Hollywood film career on his CV and an eye for a certain Longbow lady. However, when a woman's body is found on resort land Callen is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen and Bo shake themselves free of a lawman's prejudice in order to discover the truth? The clock's ticking as Bo and Callen try to solve a mystery while putting themselves in the firing line and then Aunt Alice returns...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny Colgan|title=Spandex and the City|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Touted as a super-hero romantic comedy, ''Spandex and the City'' features a girl-next-door Holly, a typically insecure 20-something rom-com heroine, enjoying her life in Centerton (Colgan's stand in for Gotham). When a handsome stranger she meets at a bar turns out to be the ''Ultimate Man'', a vigilante superhero straight from the Marvel or DC universe (the superpowers are more of a Marvel kind, but the character class- both of the UM and of his adversary - reference Batman, among others), she can't help falling for him. |amazonuk"wikitable" cellpadding=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview "15" <!-- remove 28/6 -->|author=Isabella Davidson|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 doubleINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-barrelled name and a friendship with the headmistress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=The Obsession|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. Naomi's life had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday present. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurks. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find she's the target.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kaela Coble|title=Friends and Liars|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Kaela Coble's debut novel ''Friends and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells the tale of 'the crew', a group of friends who once made a pact to ''always be honest with eachother''. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at the wake of one of their own, Danny Deuso, who has left a haunting suicide note along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the grave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= The Last Piece of my Heart|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Bridget is a travel writer and blogger with dreams of writing a book, but so far that has remained just a dream. Then an opportunity arises: not to write a book of her own, but to ghost write someone else's. Nicole died with a bestseller in print and plans for a sequel, and her publishers are keen that Bridget picks up where she left off. 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 her research, but it might be the foot in the door she needs to segway into that book she's been planning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162559</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Falvey|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in the House and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely to serve them. The days of innocence are coming to an end in many ways. Soon, as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society'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>}}{{newreview|author= Colleen Oakley|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<!-- Blake -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: a girl who is allergic to other human beings1409177122. 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 yearsjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. 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 themuk/dp/1409177122/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Italian Summer by Fanny Blake]]=== [[image:4star. As their mutual attraction starts to grow, can there be any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?|amazonukjpg|link=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author=Nancy Revell|title=Shipyard Girls at WarStar Reviews]] [[:Category: (Shipyard Girls 2) Women's Fiction|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Warning: This review contains spoilers for [[The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell|Book 1]] in  Set against the series from the beginning.The war bites deeper backdrop of Rome and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more to contend with than Naples, ten very different people meet on a heavier workloadsmall 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing trip. The Elliott household This is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in Africaa story of family, friendships and relationships – my favourite. However, muting it was a departure from the celebrations when his twin, Joe, comes home, albeit injuredusual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirties. Rosie is getting over her horrendous episode Here the characters are middle-aged with her murderous uncle but she's still not back to full health. Working shifts at the yard during the day children in their twenties and secretly by night as a brothel manager to afford her little sister's school fees rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, and the loss of loved ones. Essentially it is a bit story of a strain at times but the worst seems to be overbreaking out and new beginnings. The complications in Rosie's life aren't over yet though. A complication of the heart is on the horizon[[An Italian Summer by Fanny Blake|Full Review]]<!-- Coulton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: can she afford to fall in love with a police detective? Meanwhile Gloria attempts to move on from her abusive husband aren't that easy1473669588. The war is taking more than its share of casualties but then so is lifejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{newreview|author=Diney Costeloe|title=The New Neighbours|rating=4|genre[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===General Fiction|summary[[image:4star.jpg|link=Dartmouth Circle has always been the epitome of British middle class propriety. Manicured lawns, well-kept house facades… All is where it should be and life is orderedCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], with the disrupting influence of the town[[:Category:Women's university students out of sight Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and out of mindrelationships. ImagineThe main protagonist, thenFrances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the horror when the good citizens of the Circle hear that one increasingly eccentric behaviour of their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationher mother. Will it be This relationship is complicated by the harbinger of doom they expect?|amazonuk=fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk!-- Fletcher -->}}{{newreview|author=Dinah Jefferies-|titlestyle=Before the Rains"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751571229.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/0751571229/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Historical Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire to return==[[When The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star. Therefore in 1930, following the death of her husbandjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], when the British government commission her to photograph scenes of Indian life[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], she jumps at the chance. What she doesn[[:Category:Women't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the idea. Living within the Sultanas Fiction|Women's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for herFiction]] A thoroughly, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous first page and even deadlytakes you on a roller coaster ride towards the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pam Jenoff|title=The OrphanFletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit''s Tale|rating=4the thrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Herr Neuroff's circus has The ghost appears once a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source year, the principal star of entertainmenther very own show, it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fatesmeet with the love of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. One such personLove, joy, care, Astridfriendship, a trapeze and high wire artistjealousy, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly act. She's an expert who has perfected her art over time and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noapossessiveness, selfishness, a non-circus family new comercold ambition, quicklyall laid bare on centre stage. There's a reason behind the circus owner's demand though. Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness <!-- Butland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlandstop; text-align: center;"|[[image:Butland_Curious.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. It was a spur of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may be.|amazonukuk/dp/785764403/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Amanda Roberts"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title===[[The Roots Curious Heart of the Tree|ratingAilsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===4|genre=General Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can seeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, not from the trunk, the branches and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the leavescall that she needed, but from what you can't see - the roots. Disturbance that a heart was available for her to the roots can be devastatinghave a transplant. It's similar in human beings. Annie Previously she had felt so helpless that she had lived used her blog to make decisions for 63 yearsher, secure in the love of running polls amongst her readers to decide on her parents, Elsie and Frankactions. She'd looked after them in But with 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 effectsnew heart, she has been given a new life. They had not been married until ''after'' Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her birthown, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father and that will her mother was married to him. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as let her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after all.do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk!-- Woods -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Marilyn Bennett"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Granny with Benefits[[image:0751568538.jpg|ratinglink=4|genrehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=Women's Fictionnosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=Thirty nine is a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not married==[[How to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star. Has she given up on the idea of having a family? Does jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from early-onset dementia and her career mean everything to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking for a man? Grace found herself marriage was well and truly over. She lived in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs damp and depressing tenth- HoL floor ex- as council flat and had to share with someone she thought of him). Shedidn'd volunteered t really know just to sort out her late grandmother's home, but she couldn't resist afford the opportunity to do a little dressing uprent. So, wearing her grandmotherAnd let's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows not get into the job with Lewisham Council and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose she met the man of her dreamscolleagues there. OnlyCould it get any worse? Well, rather than laughing and explaining what sheit looked as though it might when Polly burst into her life. She'd been doings one of those irritatingly happy, Grace carried on the pantomime - joyful people who simply won't take no for an answer and called herself Louiseshe's determined to make Annie happy.Whether she likes it or not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785898736</amazonuk!-- Marilyn Bennett -->}}{{newreview|author=Jenny Colgan-|titlestyle=The Summer Seaside Kitchen"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Women's Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= Colgan has a diverse portfolio of chick lit (and she also writes Dr Who novels) under her belt but starting with Meet me at the Cupcake Café in 2011, she has established herself as one of the queens of the chick-lit subgenre Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lorraine has one of those voices which makes you stop whatever you're doing so that you can listen ''comedy romance with foodproperly''. She has some disadvantages though. She', the Queen of Hearts s a checkout operator for Fresh and Co and frankly it's not the queen of fruit tarts, best place to an obvious benefit of her popularity and presumably her bank balance and be if you're hoping to be the sound of satisfied ahhhhs and mmmms from next big superstar. Her manager is her growing fanbase. As you can see I do miss the Old Jenny a little bitmother, the brasher but that's not ''quite'' as much of a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart and swearier characters and the much more cutting humourshe's street smart. But. There is something Lorraine (actually, it's Lolly to be said for a well written feelgood novel and I did enjoy her Mum) has one really big advantage too: she sounds just like the sweetshop, the café, the bakery superstar she idolises and now the ''Summer Seaside Kitchen'' which that lady has all the tried, tested been indulging in some illegal substances and well loved ingredients of needs a perfectly escapist, mostly but not totally predictable chick-lit romance with a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something of her house specialbody/voice double at pretty short notice. It's the perfect opportunity for Lorraine. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk!-- James -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Anna Bell"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:James_Island.jpg|left|titlelink=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Even|ratinghttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN= 31409159590]]  |genrestyle= Women's Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= We begin the story with Lexi and her boyfriend==[[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]]=== [[image:4star. Lexi is one of those women, who has a begrudging relationship with her mother, who is constantly pestering jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Much to get her down the aisle, a father who disgust of the village and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a spine missing new wife, the 'scarlet woman' Romily Temple. But, can his death and a boyfriend who leaves her as a sports widow. The more I talk final demand that his children spend seven days together at childhood home, Island House, bring about a reconciliation and forgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, grief-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling together. [[Coming Home to my female friends about this, the luckier I realise I am to not have. A partner who is entirely uninterested in sport but does fixate on Star Trek, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space and guns.Island House by Erica James|Full Review]] <!-- Moorcroft -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorcroft_Little.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/000826001X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=000826001X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 'Tis the season to be jolly, eat too many mince pies and read books with titles like ''The Little Village Christmas''. And so we come to this latest offering from the ever popular Sue Moorcroft. I am unashamed to admit that I have rather a penchant for ''Christmas'' books and look forward to indulging in them each year. This year being no different I was greatly looking forward to some literary Christmas magic - and frankly if you can take the romance of Christmas and ramp up the nostalgia by inserting a village setting I am more than happy to leave my cynicism behind to wallow in some festive sentimentality. [[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft|Full Review]] <!-- Colgan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colgan_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/075156477X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=075156477X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Polly, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the Little Beach series, seems to be the last of this trilogy. Never say never but by the end of this book, the author has certainly secured the destiny of these three much-loved characters. Don't be put off if you haven't read the previous ones, it really won't matter particularly as the author provides a helpful little synopsis at the start to help those, like me, that are new to these stories. [[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan|Full Review]] <!-- Swain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Swain_Sleigh.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164853]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Having just discovered author Heidi Swain and her series of novels featuring the residents of Wynbridge, I couldn't wait to read this book and it certainly didn't disappoint being every bit as good as the [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|previous book]]. Yet again Heidi Swain has managed to combine an original mix of characters with a feel-good storyline to create a totally compelling read. But, don't worry if you haven't read any of the other instalments as each one focuses on a different lead character and story so it really won't matter. [[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain|Full Review]] <!-- Pimentel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pimentel_Jenny.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718186443?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718186443]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]  Jenny and Isla were focused teenagers. So much so in fact that they decided to write a life plan for their futures right down to predicting the year in which Jenny would marry the man of her dreams. As luck would have it, as the predicted year arrives Jenny finds herself living with Chris – kind, dependable Chris. The sort of guy with whom she would happily walk down the aisle. Then that fateful long girly weekend with Isla happens in Vegas. A cocktail or two and voila, a sudden, very different husband. Can Jenny get a divorce in time for her wedding to Chris without Chris finding out about this little…errr... glitch? Jenny's working on it! [[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill-Keep.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008217122/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] This is the story of two mothers and two daughters, and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is a nurse. She has a daughter, Rosie, and Rosie is ill with measles. As a nurse, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can be, but because Rosie has a rare allergy that prevents vaccination, there was nothing she could do except cross her fingers and hope herd immunity would carry her through. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' and tells the world, or at least the internet, the do's and do not's of parenting. There's one thing she didn't do, though, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMR, she and her husband decided to forgo the jabs for their children. And now, like Rosie, she has measles. [[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Manby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Manby_Worst.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473639778/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] I love a good romcom and so was excited to read Chrissie Manby's latest novel. It certainly didn't disappoint on the comedy value and pleasingly it was more a 'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships and day-to-day family relations providing the best laughs. [[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby|Full Review]] <!-- Hepburn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hepburn_Picture.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471161714/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Picture House by the Sea by Holly Hepburn]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to a close, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romance. In such a mood it was then, that I came across the cover for The Picture House by the Sea. Perfect blue skies, glistening sea, a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cart. Consider me sold! [[The Picture House by the Sea by Holly Hepburn|Full Review]] <!-- Osborne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Osborne_Angelica.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911320947/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Angelica Stone by Susi Osborne]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friends, but she's not big on friends. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall through the cracks as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to cope. She's been told that she's tainted, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' people. One of her jobs is working in a supermarket and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fish. [[Angelica Stone by Susi Osborne|Full Review]] <!-- Colins -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colins_Chasing.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008202192/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Chasing the Sun by Katy Colins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Author Katy Colins became Britain's most famous jilted bride when the true story of her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viral, before becoming a romantic comedy book series with this the latest one. [[Chasing the Sun by Katy Colins|Full Review]] <!-- Swain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Swain_Coming.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471147282/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] I absolutely loved this book. It was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storyline, delightful characters and innocent romance. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy to pick up and put down (not that I wanted to) throughout the day. [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|Full Review]] <!-- Chance -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Chance_Killer.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447282914/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Rebecca Chance's much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a 'chance' but for me it was a very mixed read. The cover blurb describes it as 'irresistibly readable' and 'a glittering page-turner' which it most certainly was, starting with a famed but as yet unidentified woman on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. The story then restarts from the beginning setting the scene, characters and events that will eventually lead up to the revengeful opening act. It's not until the end of the book that this mystery betrayal is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite a long book. [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>}}