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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Butland -->Ruth Hogan|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Madame Burova[[image:Butland_Curious.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon4.co.uk/dp/785764403/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"General Fiction|summary===[[The Curious Heart This book lets us discover several people in different stages of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4starlife in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeTarot-Reader, Palmist and just as she was edging closer Clairvoyant'', to death she finallyuse her family's sea-front booth. The singer, finally got the call that she neededscryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, that a heart was available but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for her to have a transplantthe first time in the family stall. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used We also see her blog to make decisions for on herlast day, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heartfifty years later, she has been given in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a new lifewoman called Billie. Can Ailsa manage to start Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to live on her ownImelda, and will her mother let her do thatwhy did it have to remain a secret all this time? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]isbn=152937331X}}<!-- Woods -->{{Frontpage|-author= Jennifer Saint | styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Ariadne [[image:0751568538.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]5   | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from earlysummary= This re-onset dementia telling of the myth of Ariadne and her marriage was well the Minotaur is interesting and truly overunusual. She lived Jennifer Saint presents the story in a damp and depressing tenth-floor ex-council flat and had way that is sympathetic to share with someone she didn't really know just its origins but also appealing to afford the renta modern audience. And letSaint's not get into narrative is told predominantly through the job with Lewisham Council and viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her colleagues there. Could it get any worse? Welldeath, it looked allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as though it might when Polly burst into a character in her life. She's one own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of those irritatingly happy, joyful people who simply won't take no for an answer and she's determined to make Annie happyTheseus. Whether she likes it or not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]]isbn=1472273869}}<!-- Marilyn Bennett -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lucy Holland| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Sistersong[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tagrating=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]===Literary Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lorraine has one Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of those voices which makes you stop whatever you're doing so that you can listen ''properly''folk and fairy tales. She has some disadvantages though. She's These stories, for most of us, are a checkout operator for Fresh cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and Co a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and frankly it's not the best place new meaning to be if you'stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re hoping to be -evaluating the next big superstarrole of women. Her manager Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is her motherhandled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel 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 she's street smart. But Lorraine (actuallyallowing the characters to come to life, it's Lolly to her Mum) has one really big advantage too: she sounds just like the superstar she idolises feel real and that lady has been indulging human, most importantly they feel relatable in some illegal substances and needs a body/voice double at pretty short noticemodern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. It's the perfect opportunity for LorraineThis is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Full Review]]isbn=1529039037}}<!-- James -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B08NF79QXT| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Cherry Blossom Boutique[[image:James_Island.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ieauthor=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]] Brooke Adams| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|3===[[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Much to the disgust of the village and his estranged children Jack Devereux summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has a new wifehad her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she'scarlet woman' Romily Temple. But, can his death and final demand that his children spend seven days together at childhood home, Island House, bring about a reconciliation s nominated for - and forgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, griefwins -consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling togetherRetail Best Newcomer Award. [[Coming Home to 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 She's Fiction|Womendelighted and the two people she's Fiction]] brought with her to the event couldn'Tis the season to t be jollymore pleased. Sonja, her mother, eat too many mince pies is an ex-model and read books with titles like ''The Little Village Christmas''. And so we come to this latest offering Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from the ever popular Sue Moorcroft. I am unashamed to admit that I have rather a penchant for Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty'Christmass best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica' books s husband, Charles and look forward to indulging in them each their four-year-old daughter, Ava. This year being no different I was greatly looking forward to some literary Christmas magic - and frankly Life would be perfect for Liberty if you can take the romance of Christmas and ramp up the nostalgia by inserting it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a village setting I am more than happy to leave my cynicism behind to wallow man in some festive sentimentalityher life. [[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft|Full Review]]}}<!-- Colgan -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B08GFSK2WZ| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Karma Trap[[image:Colgan_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/075156477X?ieauthor=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=075156477X]] Lisette Boyd| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan]]===4[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womensummary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's Fiction]] Polly, Huckle not had sex for eight months and Neil are back but she's stuck in what, sadly the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for fans of attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the Little Beach series, seems to be leak from the last of this trilogy. Never say never but shower by putting something down at the end bottom of this book, the author has certainly secured stairs to absorb the destiny of these three muchwater -loved characters. Don't be put off if you haven't read then the shower fell through the previous ones, roof whilst she was in it really won't matter particularly as the author provides a helpful little synopsis at the start to help thoseand left her, like mestark naked, 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 staring at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5starpervy postman.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women She only has to take her mother's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Having just discovered author Heidi Swain and dog out for a walk for her series of novels featuring the residents of Wynbridge, I couldn't wait to read this book end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and it certainly didn't disappoint a photo being every bit as good as the [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage taken 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 someone who shares it around the other instalments as each one focuses on a different lead character and story so it really won't matteroffice. [[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair by Heidi Swain|Full Review]]}}<!-- Pimentel -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B08CHJLNBS| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Capturing Emilia[[image:Pimentel_Jenny.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718186443?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718186443]] Brooke Adams| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel]]==rating=3 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womensummary=He's Fiction]]  Jenny Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight 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 partner at Wickham Jones, the year in which Jenny would marry the man of her dreamsMayfair letting agents. As luck would have it She's Emilia, as the predicted year arrives Jenny finds herself living with Chris – kindtwenty-nine, 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 librarian and voila, a sudden, very different husband. Can Jenny get a divorce archivist 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_Tinyheritage library next door.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== Emilia has read [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts The Secret by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpgRhonda Byrne|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsThe Secret]] [[:Category:Womenbut she's Fiction|Womenmoved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's Fiction]]philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[:Category:HumourPersonal by Lee Child|HumourJack Reacher]] As predicted by Caroline and Janiceman himself, but, above all, he's mother on Caroline and Henryshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''s wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this is definitely woman out of his mind? She's not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting his usual type at Carolineall: it's houseobvious to his friends. There And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's the split and the awkwardness of the girlssuperficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship' schoolteacher being the other woman for s obviously a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her exnon-husband Alec. She still dreams of himstarter, yes, but isn't it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]]  |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa HillHelly Acton|title= Keep You SafeThe Shelf
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|summary= This is the story of two mothers and two daughtersWhen we meet Amy, and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is a nurse. She has she's in a daughter, Rosie, and Rosie is ill relationship with measlesJamie. As You can't really call it a nursepartnership, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can bebecause things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because Rosie has a rare allergy that prevents vaccinationshe hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there was nothing she could do except cross ? Things are looking up when he tells her fingers and hope herd immunity would carry her throughto pack for a surprise trip. Married mum Madeleine is a Could this be it? Is he ''mummy bloggerfinally'' and tells the world, or at least the internet, the do's and do not's of parenting. There's going to get down on one thing she didn't do, though, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of knee? Was the MMR, she work (and her husband decided to forgo the jabs for their children. And now, like Rosie, she has measles. wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008217122</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chrissie ManbyAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The Worst Case Scenario Cookery ClubWhat Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= I love '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a good romcom black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and so was excited to read Chrissie Manbynow she's latest novelthe talk of the school. It certainly didn't disappoint on Mike was the comedy value most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and pleasingly it was more a some don'relationship comedyt, but one thing is for sure, this isn' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships and day-t going to-day family relations providing the best laughsblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473639778</amazonuk>0349003297
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Holly HepburnKatie Fforde|title= The Picture House by the SeaA Springtime Affair
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a closewarm, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine cosy read focused on romance, family and sea kissed romancefriendships. In such a mood This provided two romances for the price of one, but it was then, actually the family element as opposed to the romance 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 cartreally enjoyed. Consider me sold!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471161714</amazonuk>1780897561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susi OsborneB07W4MNBSG|title=Angelica StoneBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=IIt was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you'd say re only seventeen that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friendsseems positively ancient, but sheLiz was convinced that ''s not big your entire life depends on friendswho you marry''. She has The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the sort idea of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as living in a child, grabbed by the care system farmhouse and didn't so much fall through the cracks as escaped its clutches having a couple of children called Will and then had Olly appealed to learn how Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to copemarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She's been told that sheThe place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers's tainted, Halloween disco that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' peopleweekend. One of her jobs is working There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in a supermarket and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fishthe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katy Colins1473669588|title= Chasing the SunFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionHumour|summary= Author Katy Colins became BritainLex Coulton's most famous jilted bride when the true debut novel is a story of about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viralbest friend Jackson, before becoming a romantic comedy book series work colleague and is grappling with this the latest oneincreasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008237034|title=Love and Other Things to Live For|author=Louise Leverett|rating=1|amazonukgenre=Women's Fiction|summary=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>Jess is single, again. She's recently heartbroken, jobless and has had to swallow her pride and move back in with her best friend. Jess looks to other areas of her life to lift her spirits, her friends, her city and her passion for photography.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heidi Swain1529014980|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo CottageThe Butterfly Room|author=Lucinda Riley|rating= 54|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this bookParadise. That's what it seemed like to nine-year-old Posy Anderson. Her father delighted in indulging her and playing with her. It Together they caught butterflies and examined them before her father took them off to let them go free. Her mother was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storylinerather distant, delightful characters and innocent romancebut her father more than made up for that. It The only blot on the horizon was also that her father was a spitfire pilot, recovering from an easy read with short chapters making injury, and it seemed likely that he would have to go back to the war. Everyone thought that it easy was drawing to pick up a close, but men still had to go and fight - and put down (not risk their lives. Posy was staying with her grandmother in Cornwall when the news came through that I wanted her father had been killed in action. Her mother had travelled from Suffolk to tell her what was going to happen to) throughout the dayher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Chance147117946X|title= Killer AffairIf You Could Go Anywhere|author=Paige Toon|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Rebecca ChanceAngie is someone who always wanted to travel, but it's much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a taken her 27 years to leave the small mining town in South Australia which has been the only home she'chance' but for me it was a very mixed reads ever known. The cover blurb describes it as 'irresistibly readableShe doesn' t do things by half though, and 'once she does feel able to go (following a glittering page-turner' which it most certainly wasfamily death) she leaves not only the town, the state and the country, starting with a famed but as yet unidentified woman on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. The story then restarts from also the beginning setting the scenecontinent, characters and events that will eventually lead up finds herself following in her mother's footsteps and heading to the revengeful opening actItaly. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)1471178471|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsThe Magnificent Mrs Mayhew|author=Milly Johnson|rating=2.54|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=''It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling in, then reproducingI liked this book.'' Well, it actually starts a lot before then, with Whilst not necessarily 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 childhoodpage-turner, and pen letters to this was a best friend conveying her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised and affirmed by thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from the liberty Queen of university yearschick-lit, 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''Milly Johnson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Pentland034914365X|title=Wilde Like MeKeep Walking Rhona Beech|author=Kate Tough
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=World famous fashion Life has just hidden behind a corner and beauty vlogger Louise Pentland, also known stuck a foot out as Sprinkle of Glitter, takes on Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a new challenge job in the form of her touching debut novel, Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''Wilde Like Menot''. You will be transported into a world full bit of exasperating drama with the PSMs (Posh School Mums)sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Well, heart-warming mother daughter moments and self-righteous men who you realise arenshe wasn't the be all completely on her own: she had friends and end all. Now enters Robin Wildefamily, a single mum to Lyla and make-up artist living in her grannybut it's house simply just trying not the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a couple. So Rhona had to get by. The novel follows her journey of self discoverystart again, which even rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, left nine years ago - and shows you that only there'''you''' can make you happys a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy KoomsonICTYW|title=The FriendI Can't Tell You Why|author=Elaine Robertson North
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who When we first meet for coffee, wine, gossip and momentary escape from their respective livesDani she's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuse. Nothing unusual She's Alex Cambridge's agent and the indications are that he's about that until Yvonne is found battered and half-dead in to make the playgroundbig time. Three weeks later Cece moves into the areaHe's good looking, charismatic and appealing - well, her children starting he's an actor so that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into 's part of the orbit spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that he's got no intention of Maxie, Anaya leaving his wife and Hazel and hears what happened to the still comatose Yvonnethree children. Two questions still hang So, what's in the air though: who did it and whyfor Dani? The police believe No, there's no need to answer that . Dani understands the perpetrator is one of the three remaining friends situation all too well and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position to be intells him so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529102464|title=The Day We Met|author=Nora RobertsRoxie Cooper|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This is an epic love story spanning ten years of 'will they, won't they'. Stephanie and Jamie are 'meant to be'. When they meet on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are with other people. However, what I loved was that it's not a 'typical boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after' story. In fact far from it, without wanting to give too much away, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignant.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1503904954|title=Come SundownThe Coordinates of Loss|author=Amanda Prowse|rating=43.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Bodine Longbow's family has learnt to live with tragedy. A quarter of Rachel and James have made a century earlier Bodine's Aunt Alice disappeared without a tracenew home for themselves, and their son, Oscar, on Bermuda. Nothing has softened the pain but They have embraced island life goes on and , from the family business hired help (a ranchthe delightful Cee-style resortCee) certainly keeps them all busyto the sailing life. Bo is fully focussed as the resortIt's manager but distraction is on the horizon a long way from her former life 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. HoweverEngland, when a woman's body is found on resort land Callen but Rachel is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen and Bo shake themselves free of a lawman's prejudice in order to discover rather enjoying 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..way things are working out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1943826331|title=Spandex and the CityLandslide |author=Melissa Leet
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary= Touted as The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a super-hero romantic comedyyear older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''Spandex and the Cityher'' features a girl-next-door Hollymother, a typically insecure 20-something rom-com heroine, enjoying who dedicated herself to her life in Centerton (Colgangarden. Jill's stand in father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for Gotham)months on end. When a handsome stranger she meets at a bar turns out to be In reality, there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill'Ultimate Mans home. '', a vigilante superhero straight from Landslide'' is the Marvel or DC universe (the superpowers are more story of a Marvel kind, but how what happened determined the character - both course of the UM Jill's life and of his adversary - reference Batman, among others), she how great tragedy can't help falling for himbreed resilience and hope. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>
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