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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.amazon.co4.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:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifein the early 1970s, and just all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as she was edging closer to death she finallyhe would have been called then), finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her girl in a humdrum job wanting to have become a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for hersinger, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heartand chiefly, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her ownImelda, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart the third generation of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Woods -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568538.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568538/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be Happy by Eva Woods]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:WomenMadame Burova, 's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from earlyTarot-onset dementia Reader, Palmist and her marriage was well and truly over. She lived in a damp and depressing tenth-floor ex-council flat and had to share with someone she didnClairvoyant't really know just to afford the rent. And let's not get into the job with Lewisham Council and her colleagues there. Could it get any worse? Well, it looked as though it might when Polly burst into to use her life. Shefamily's one of those irritatingly happy, joyful people who simply won't take no for an answer and she's determined to make Annie happy. Whether she likes it or not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]] <!-- Marilyn Bennett -sea->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]=== [[image:4star.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''front booth. She has some disadvantages though. SheThe singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a checkout operator revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for Fresh and Co and frankly it's not the best place to be if you're hoping to be first time in the next big superstarfamily stall. Her manager is We also see her on her motherlast day, fifty years later, but in possession of a pair of letters that's not ''quite'' as much of will change everything for a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart and she's street smartwoman called Billie. But Lorraine (actuallyJust who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it's Lolly have to her Mum) has one really big advantage too: she sounds just like the superstar she idolises and that lady has been indulging in some illegal substances and needs remain a body/voice double at pretty short notice. It's the perfect opportunity for Lorraine. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennettsecret all this time?|Full Review]]isbn=152937331X}}<!-- James -->{{Frontpage|-author= Jennifer Saint | styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Ariadne [[image:James_Island.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]] 5 | stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Much to summary= This re-telling of the disgust myth of Ariadne and the village Minotaur is interesting and his estranged children Jack Devereux has unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a new wife, the 'scarlet woman' Romily Temple. But, can his death and final demand way 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 is sympathetic to its origins but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling together. [[Coming Home also appealing 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://wwwa modern audience.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:WomenSaint's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 'Tis narrative is told predominantly through the season viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to be jollyher death, eat too many mince pies and read books with titles like ''The Little Village Christmas''. And so we come to this latest offering from allowing the ever popular Sue Moorcroft. I am unashamed reader to admit that I have really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a penchant for ''Christmas'' books and look forward to indulging prop 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 heroics 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 sentimentalityTheseus. [[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft|Full Review]]isbn=1472273869}}<!-- Colgan -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lucy Holland| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Sistersong[[image:Colgan_Xmas.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/075156477X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=075156477X]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Literary Fiction===[[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] PollySistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Huckle the modern retelling of folk and Neil are back but in whatfairy tales. These stories, sadly for fans most of the Little Beach seriesus, seems to be the last are a cornerstone of this trilogychildhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Never say never but by the end of this book, the author has certainly secured the destiny of If handled well 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 retellings give new life and new meaning to help those, like me, stories 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 now becoming increasingly narrow and her series of novels featuring the residents of Wynbridgeoutdated, 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 fleshing out 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 examining relationships 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=thebookbagre-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718186443]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jenny Sparrow Knows evaluating the Future by Melissa Pimentel]]=== [[image:4role of women.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 Sistersong is a life plan for their futures right down to predicting the year in which Jenny would marry the man perfect example of her dreams. As luck would have ita modern retelling done well, as the predicted year arrives Jenny finds herself living plot is handled with Chris – kindcare, dependable Chris. The sort of guy with whom she would happily walk down keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the aisle. Then that fateful long girly weekend with Isla happens in Vegas. A cocktail or two characters to come to life, to feel real and voilahuman, most importantly they feel relatable in a sudden, very different husband. Can Jenny get a divorce in time modern world whilst still feeling appropriate 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]] <!pre-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_TinySaxon age they live in.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coThis is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1529039037===[[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]]Frontpage 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 -->isbn=B08NF79QXT|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Cherry Blossom Boutique[[image:Hill-Keep.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008217122/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Brooke Adams| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|3===[[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=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 summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini 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 had her through. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' and tells the worldshop, or at least the internetCherry Blossom Boutique, the dofor just six months when she's nominated for - and do not's of parentingwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. There She's one thing she didn't do, though, delighted and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMR, two people she and 's brought with her husband decided to forgo the jabs for their childrenevent couldn't be more pleased. And now Sonja, like Rosieher mother, she has measles. [[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill|Full Review]] <!is an ex-- Manby -->|-| style="widthmodel and Brazilian: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Manby_Worstyou can see where Liberty got her looks from.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:WomenJessica's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] I love a good romcom thirty-four and so was excited to read Chrissie ManbyLiberty's latest novel. It certainly didnbest friend: they't disappoint on the comedy value ve known each other since university and pleasingly it was more a Liberty adores Jessica'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships s husband, Charles and daytheir four-toyear-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 closeold daughter, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romanceAva. In such a mood Life would be perfect for Liberty if it was then, that I came across the cover wasn't for The Picture House by the Sea. Perfect blue skies, glistening sea, one thing: she misses having a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartman in her life. Consider me sold! [[The Picture House by the Sea by Holly Hepburn|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susi OsborneB08GFSK2WZ|title=Angelica StoneThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=IGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friends, but s not had sex for eight months and she's not big stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on friendsher and she has a real talent for attracting drama. She has Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the sort bottom of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the cracks as escaped its clutches roof whilst she was in it and then had left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to learn how take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to copeend up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's been told Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that she, which leave you dependent on someone else's taintedphilosophies, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that sheEmilia reads ''s best staying away from The Guardian'decent' people. One They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of her jobs is working in a supermarket and his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's there obvious to his friends. And given that she meets Lola Moriarty and 'Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does shefeel drawn to him? The relationship'sobviously a non-starter, isn'' a completely different kettle of fish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katy ColinsHelly Acton|title= Chasing the SunThe Shelf

|summary= Author Katy Colins became BritainWhen we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's most famous jilted bride sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when the true story of he tells her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking to pack for a surprise trip went viral, before becoming a romantic comedy book series with . Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the latest one. work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Heidi SwainAlyssa Sheinmel|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo CottageWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 54

|summary= I absolutely loved this book. It was utterly enchanting '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with its charming feel-good storylinea black eye, claiming he gave it to her, delightful characters her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and innocent romancenow she's the talk of the school. It Mike was also an easy read the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with short chapters making it easy to pick up her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and put down (not that I wanted some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to) throughout the dayblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rebecca ChanceKatie Fforde|title= Killer A Springtime Affair|rating= 34

|summary=Rebecca ChanceI's ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a 'chance' but for me it exactly what I was expecting - a very mixed warm, cosy 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 focused on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. The story then restarts from the beginning setting the sceneromance, characters family and events that will eventually lead up to the revengeful opening actfriendships. It's not until This provided two romances for the end price of one, but it was actually the book family element as opposed to the romance that this mystery betrayal is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite a long bookI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)B07W4MNBSG|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=2.54

|summary=''It starts with becoming was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a homeownergroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, then settling but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living ina farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, then reproducingor perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers''Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473669588|title=Falling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating=4 |genre=HumourWell|summary=Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, it actually starts failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a lot before thensixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague and is grappling with a set the increasingly eccentric behaviour of fractured memories of our heroineher mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's childhood – things father disappeared at sea when she recalls was five years old.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008237034|title=Love and Other Things to Live For|author=Louise Leverett|rating=1|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jess is single, again. She's recently heartbroken, jobless and has had to swallow her parents pride and relatives saying both move back in with her best friend. Jess looks to other areas of her life to lift her spirits, her friends, her city and about herpassion for photography.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529014980|title=The Butterfly Room|author=Lucinda Riley|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Paradise. It goes through That's what it seemed like to nine-year-old Posy Anderson. Her father delighted in indulging her and playing with her childhood, . Together they caught butterflies and pen letters examined them before her father took them off to a best friend conveying let them go free. Her mother was rather distant, but her wishes father more than made up for that. The only blot on the horizon was that her lifefather was a spitfire pilot, recovering from an injury, those wishes being revised and affirmed by it seemed likely that he would have to go back to the liberty of university yearswar. Everyone thought that it was drawing to a close, those wishes being met but men still had to go and fight - and risk their lives. Posy was staying with or denied by married life… her grandmother in Cornwall when the news came through that her father had been killed in action. Someone archly could point out that you should be careful Her mother had travelled from Suffolk to tell her what you wish forwas going to happen to her.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=147117946X|title=If You Could Go Anywhere|author=Paige Toon|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Angie is someone who always wanted to travel, but it's taken her 27 years to leave the small mining town in South Australia which has been the only home she's ever known. She doesn't do things by half though, and once she does feel able to go (following a family death) she leaves not even our wiseonly the town, modern woman could not see the next step after state and the reproducing – ''standing disappointed country, but also the continent, and finds herself following in front of the refrigeratorher mother's footsteps and heading to Italy.s}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471178471|title=The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew|author=Milly Johnson|rating=4|genre=Women'.s Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>I liked this book. Whilst not necessarily a page-turner, this was a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from the Queen of chick-lit, Milly Johnson.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Pentland034914365X|title=Wilde Like MeKeep Walking Rhona Beech|author=Kate Tough

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy KoomsonICTYW|title=The FriendI Can't Tell You Why|author=Elaine Robertson North

|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 situation all too well and tells him so.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529102464|title=The Day We Met|author=Roxie Cooper|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This is one an epic love story spanning ten years of the three remaining friends 'will they, won't they'. Stephanie and that Cece is in the perfect position Jamie are 'meant to help them be'. When they meet on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are with their enquiries… other people. However, what I loved was that it's not a very dangerous position 'typical boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after' story. In fact far from it, without wanting to be ingive too much away, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts1503904954|title=Come SundownThe Coordinates of Loss|author=Amanda Prowse|rating=43.5

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1943826331|title=Spandex and the CityLandslide |author=Melissa Leet

|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>