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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{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 feelclass-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"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <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 selfINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-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 halfProwse -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 - both of the UM and of his adversary - reference Batman, among others), she can't help falling for him. |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text- remove 28/6 -->align: center;"|author=Isabella Davidson|title=The Beta Mum[[image: Adventures in Alpha Land|rating=41503904954.5jpg|genrelink=Women's Fiction|summary=To say that Sophie Bennett didn't want to move to London is something of an understatement. She's a shy person who doesn't make friends easily and the thought of losing all her support systems and having to start again fills her with dread. ''But'', husband Michael has been offered a big job on London's RailLink project and it's not a chance he can turn down - even if he wanted to, and he doesn't. So before long their three-year old daughter, Kaya, has been left with Sophie's parents and Michael and Sophie have found a flat in west London and they've even, against all the odds, managed to secure a place for Kaya at London's most exclusive nursery school. Well, when I say that ''they'' managed to secure the place, I actually mean that they required the services of a nursery consultant, who has a double-barrelled name and a friendship with the headmistress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525<http://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 seewww. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksamazon. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find she's the targetco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789<uk/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<dp/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<1503904954/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorref=Patricia Falvey|titlenosim?tag=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heartthebookbag-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.''21]]

So begins the tale of an unlikely romantic heroine| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: a girl who is allergic to other human beings. After the extreme humiliation suffered in the aftermath left;"|===[[The Coordinates of the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse and hides herself away from the world for nine yearsLoss by Amanda Prowse]]=== [[image:3.5star. When her source of income suddenly dries up, Jubilee needs to overcome her fears, step out into the world jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Rachel and find James have made a job. Working at the local librarynew home for themselves, she meets divorced dad Eric and his quirky adopted their son, Aja and strikes up a friendship with themOscar, on Bermuda. As their mutual attraction starts to growThey have embraced island life, can there be any future for from the hired help (the delightful Cee-Cee) to the sailing life. It's a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>long way from her former life in England, but Rachel is rather enjoying the way things are working out. [[The Coordinates of Loss by Amanda Prowse|Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Melissa Leet -->|author=Nancy Revell-|titlestyle=Shipyard Girls at War"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: (Shipyard Girls 2) center;"|[[image:1943826331.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1943826331/ref=nosim?tag=5thebookbag-21]] |genre=Women's Fiction|summarystyle=Warning"vertical-align: top; text-align: This review contains spoilers for left;"|===[[The Shipyard Girls Landslide by Nancy Revell|Book 1Melissa Leet]] in the series from the beginning.=== The war bites deeper and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more to contend with than a heavier workload[[image:4star. The Elliott household is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in Africajpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], muting the celebrations when his twin, Joe, comes home, albeit injured. Rosie is getting over her horrendous episode with her murderous uncle but she[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's still not back to full health. Working shifts at the yard during the day Fiction]] The area where Jill and secretly by night as a brothel manager to afford her little sisterSusie lived wasn's school fees is t highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a bit of a strain at times but the worst seems year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to be overher garden. The complications in RosieJill's life aren't over yet thoughfather was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. A complication of In reality there was little difference between the heart is on the horizontwo families: can she afford to fall in love with a police detective? Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Meanwhile Gloria attempts to move on from her abusive husband arenJoy and tragedy would visit Jill't that easys home. The war ''Landslide'' is taking more than its share the story of casualties but then so is how what happened determined the course of Jill's lifeand how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope.[[Landslide by Melissa Leet|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk!-- Blake -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Diney Costeloe"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1409177122.jpg|titlelink=The New Neighbours|ratinghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1409177122/ref=4|genrenosim?tag=General Fictionthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Dartmouth Circle has always been the epitome of British middle class propriety. Manicured lawns, well"vertical-align: top; text-kept house facades… All is where it should be and life is ordered, with the disrupting influence of the town's university students out of sight and out of mindalign: left;"|===[[An Italian Summer by Fanny Blake]]=== [[image:4star. Imagine, then, jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Set against the horror when the good citizens backdrop of the Circle hear that one of their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationRome and Naples, ten very different people meet on a small 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing trip. This is a story of family, friendships and relationships – my favourite. Will However, it be was a departure from the harbinger of doom they expect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dinah Jefferies|title=Before usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirties. Here the Rains|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories characters are middle-aged with children in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of India that have feed her desire to return. Therefore in 1930maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, following and the death loss of her husband, when the British government commission her to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chanceloved ones. What she doesn't realise Essentially it is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the ideaa story of breaking out and new beginnings. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadly.[[An Italian Summer by Fanny Blake|amazonuk=Full Review]]<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk!-- Coulton -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Pam Jenoff"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Orphan's Tale[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=General Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Herr Neuroff's circus has a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source of entertainment, it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates==[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. One such person, Astrid, a trapeze and high wire artistjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly act. She[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's an expert who has perfected her art over time and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, a non-circus family new comer, quickly. ThereFiction|Women's a reason behind the circus ownerFiction]] Lex Coulton's demand thoughdebut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: a Jewish baby she stole from The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a Nazi train before leaving sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the Netherlandsincreasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. It was a spur of This relationship is complicated by the moment decision fact that will bind her to Astrid and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may beFrances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk!-- Fletcher -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751571229.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751571229/ref=nosim?tag=Amanda Robertsthebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle=The Roots of the Tree"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=4==[[When The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]===|genre=General Fiction[[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can seeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], not from the trunk[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], the branches [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] A thoroughly, magical and the leaves, but riveting story that hooks you in from what you can't see - the roots. Disturbance to first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards the roots can be devastatinglast. ItFletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit''s similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 years, secure in the love thrill of her parentsromance, Elsie (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and Frankan unpredictable ghost. She'd looked after them in The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of her very own show, to meet with the love of her home in their final years life and it was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effectsre-enact her death. They had not been married until ''after'' her birthA tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father and that her mother was married to him. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after allall laid bare on centre stage. <!-- Butland -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Marilyn Bennett"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Granny with Benefits[[image:Butland_Curious.jpg|ratinglink=4|genrehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/785764403/ref=nosim?tag=Women's Fictionthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Thirty nine is a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not married"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4star. Has she given up on the idea of having a family? Does her career mean everything to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking for a man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought of him). She'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmotherjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's home, but she couldnFiction|Women't resist the opportunity to do a little dressing up. So, wearing s Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her grandmother's clotheswhole life, wig resting and just above her eyebrows and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the end of her nose call that she met the man of needed, that a heart was available for her dreamsto have a transplant. Only, rather than laughing and explaining what Previously she'd been doinghad felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, Grace carried running polls amongst her readers to decide on the pantomime - and called herself Louiseher actions.But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898736</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- Woods -->|author=Jenny Colgan-|titlestyle=The Summer Seaside Kitchen"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:0751568538.jpg|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== 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 of [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women''comedy romance with food''', the Queen of Hearts s Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from early-onset dementia and the queen of fruit tarts, to an obvious benefit of her popularity marriage was well and presumably her bank balance truly over. She lived in a damp and to the sound of satisfied ahhhhs depressing tenth-floor ex-council flat and had to share with someone she didn't really know just to afford the rent. And let's not get into the job with Lewisham Council and mmmms from her growing fanbasecolleagues there. As you can see I do miss the Old Jenny a little bitCould it get any worse? Well, the brasher and swearier characters and the much more cutting humourit looked as though it might when Polly burst into her life. But. There is something to be said She's one of those irritatingly happy, joyful people who simply won't take no for a well written feelgood novel an answer and I did enjoy the sweetshop, the café, the bakery and now the she''Summer Seaside Kitchen'' which has all the tried, tested and well loved ingredients of a perfectly escapist, mostly but s determined to make Annie happy. Whether she likes it or not totally predictable chick-lit romance with a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something of her house special. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk!-- Marilyn Bennett -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Anna Bell"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|title=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Evenleft|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag= 3thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Women's Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= We begin the story with Lexi and her boyfriend==[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]=== [[image:4star. Lexi is one of those women, who has a begrudging relationship with her mother, who is constantly pestering to get her down the aisle, a father who jpg|link=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 ''properly''. She has some disadvantages though. She's a spine missing checkout operator for Fresh and a boyfriend who leaves her as a sports widow. The more I talk Co and frankly it's not the best place to be if you're hoping to my female friends about this, be the luckier I realise I am to not havenext big superstar. A partner who Her manager is entirely uninterested in sport her mother, but does fixate on Star Trek, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space and guns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dawn O'Porter|title= The Cows|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Reading the blurb for this novel, the first novel for adults by author Dawn Os not ''quite''Porter, I got very excitedas much of a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart and she's street smart. It talks about the cow being a piece of meatBut Lorraine (actually, born it's Lolly to breed, her Mum) has one of really big advantage too: she sounds just like the herd, superstar she idolises and that lady has been indulging in some illegal substances and compares this to women, saying how they don't have to fall into needs a stereotypebody/voice double at pretty short notice. I expected a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was an easy to read, enjoyable romp through three modern women'It's livesthe perfect opportunity for Lorraine.[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk!-- James -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts[[image:James_Island.jpg|rating=5left|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]]  |summarystyle=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"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]]=== [[image:4star. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's house. ThereFiction|Women's Fiction]] Much to the split and the awkwardness disgust of the girlsvillage and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a new wife, the ' schoolteacher being the other scarlet woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighboursRomily Temple. At least Janice is well adjusted But, can his death and final demand that his children spend seven days together at childhood home, Island House, bring about a reconciliation and over her exforgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, grief-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at then war is declared and the door?family find themselves pulling together. [[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Moorcroft -->}}{{newreview|author= Wendy Holden-|titlestyle= Honeymoon Suite|rating=5"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorcroft_Little.jpg|genre=Women's Fictionleft|summarylink= This is an excellent read, weaving together many storieshttps://www.amazon.co. We have Nell who, yes, is uk/gp/product/000826001X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=000826001X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left at the altar after a whirlwind romance. It's horrible and horrifying and she is, understandably, distraught;"|===[[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft]]=== [[image:4star. Her last modicum of self-respect vanishes when she rings jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 'Tis the season to cancel her honeymoonbe jolly, only to find it non-refundableeat too many mince pies and read books with titles like ''The Little Village Christmas''. And so, in a rare show of gumption, she decides we come to go anyway, taking along her friend Rachel and Rachel's daughter Juno for this latest offering from the rideever popular Sue Moorcroft. At the same time, bestselling novelist Dylan is having romantic woes of his own. An almighty fire has chased him out of town I am unashamed to admit that I have rather a penchant for ''Christmas'' books and he needs look forward to disappear, at least for a bitindulging in them each year. As luck, 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 artistic license, would have 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, the two end up in the same place. But this is not the first time they have crossed paths, and they are both in for an almighty shock.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. 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