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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. <!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, ''Tarot- Remove Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re->telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}{{Frontpage|classauthor=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-"wikitable" cellpaddingevaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn="15" <!B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water -then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREand 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 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, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When 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 sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author= Alyssa Sheinmel|title= What Kind of Girl|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''

<!-- Butland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Butland_Curious.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/785764403/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole life, world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and just as now she 's the talk of the school. Mike was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart most popular boy in school who was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt always so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But in love with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her owneveryone knew that, and will her mother let her so why did he do thatwhat he did? [[The Curious Heart 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:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Annie had hit rock bottom. Her mother was suffering from early-onset dementia and Some people believe 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 didnsome don'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 her life. She's but one of those irritatingly happything is for sure, joyful people who simply wonthis isn't take no for an answer and she's determined going to make Annie happyblow over any time soon. Whether she likes it or not. [[How to be Happy by Eva Woods|Full Review]]isbn=0349003297}}<!-- Marilyn Bennett -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Katie Fforde[[image:B079LS2VKW.jpg|left|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079LS2VKW/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Springtime Affair| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett]]==rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womensummary= I'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 checkout operator ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for Fresh ages and Co and frankly it's not the best place to be if you're hoping to be the next big superstar. Her manager is her mother, but that's not ''quite'' as this was pretty much of exactly what I was expecting - a disadvantage as you might think as Natalie definitely has Lorraine's best interests at heart warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and she's street smartfriendships. But Lorraine (actuallyThis provided two romances for the price of one, but it's Lolly was actually the family element as opposed to her Mum) has one really big advantage too: she sounds just like the superstar she idolises and romance that lady has been indulging in some illegal substances and needs a body/voice double at pretty short notice. It's the perfect opportunity for LorraineI really enjoyed. [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Full Review]] <!-- James -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:James_Island.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1409159590?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1409159590]]1780897561}}{{Frontpage| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]]==isbn=B07W4MNBSG [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Much to the disgust of the village and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a new wife, the '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 and forgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, grief-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling together. [[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James|Full Review]] <!-- Moorcroft -->Be Careful Who You Marry|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Lizzy Mumfrey[[image:Moorcroft_Little.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/000826001X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=000826001X]] 4| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft]]==genre=General Fiction [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] 'Tis the season It was coming up to be jolly, eat too many mince pies Halloween in 1987 and read books with titles like ''The Little Village Christmas''. And so we come to this latest offering from the ever popular Sue Moorcroft. I am unashamed to admit that I have rather a penchant for ''Christmas'' books and look forward to indulging in them each year. This year being no different I was greatly looking forward to some literary Christmas magic - and frankly if you can take the romance group of Christmas and ramp up the nostalgia by inserting a village setting I am more than happy to leave my cynicism behind to wallow in some festive sentimentality. [[The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft|Full Review]] <!sixth-- Colgan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Colgan_Xmasform schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty.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 When you's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Pollyre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, 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. DonLiz was convinced that ''t be put off if your entire life depends on who you havenmarry't read the previous ones, it really won't matter particularly as the author provides a helpful little synopsis at the start to help those, like me, that are new to these stories. [[Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan|Full Review]] <!-- Swain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Swain_Sleigh.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164853]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at The only eligible boys were 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 Young Farmers and her series of novels featuring the residents idea of Wynbridge, I couldn't wait to read this book living in a farmhouse 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 having a couple of characters with a feel-good storyline children called Will and Olly appealed to create a totally compelling read. ButCharlotte, don't worry or perhaps William and Oliver 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 Elizabeth who was determined 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 Chrisrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The sort of guy with whom she would happily walk down place to start their search was obviously the aisle. Then Young Farmers' Halloween disco 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 There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in time for her wedding to Chris without Chris finding out about this little…errr..the class. glitch? Jenny's working on it! [[Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future by Melissa Pimentel|Full Review]]}}<!-- Jordan -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1473669588| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Falling Short[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Lex Coulton| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]==genre=Humour [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:WomenLex Coulton's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding daydebut novel is a story about mistakes, their marriage is overfailures, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedrelationships. IndeedThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague and is grappling with the awkwardness increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's fact 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 whoFrances's father disappeared at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]]sea when she was five years old.}}<!-- Hill -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008237034| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Love and Other Things to Live For[[image:Hill-Keep.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008217122/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Louise Leverett| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1===[[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] This summary=Jess is the story of two mothers and two daughterssingle, and the virus that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is a nurseagain. She has a daughter, Rosie's recently heartbroken, jobless 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 had to swallow her fingers pride and hope herd immunity would carry move back in with her throughbest friend. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' and tells the world, or at least the internet, the do's and do not's Jess looks to other areas of parenting. There's one thing she didn't doher life to lift her spirits, thoughher friends, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMR, she city and her husband decided to forgo the jabs passion for their childrenphotography. And now, like Rosie, she has measles. [[Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill|Full Review]]}}<!-- Manby -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1529014980| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Butterfly Room[[image:Manby_Worst.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473639778/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Lucinda Riley| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Womensummary=Paradise. That'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 what it was more a 'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships and day-seemed like tonine-day family relations providing the best laughs. [[The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club by Chrissie Manby|Full Review]] <!year-- Hepburn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hepburn_Pictureold Posy Anderson.jpg|link=http://www Her father delighted in indulging her and playing with her.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 Together they caught butterflies and examined them before her father took them off to a close, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romancelet them go free. In such a mood it Her mother was thenrather distant, but her father more than made up for that I came across the cover for . The Picture House by only blot on the Sea. Perfect blue skieshorizon was that her father was a spitfire pilot, glistening searecovering from an injury, a beautiful Art Deco building and it seemed likely that he would have to go back 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_Angelicawar.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 Everyone thought that Angelica Stone it was known as Angel drawing to her friendsa close, but she's not big on friendsmen still had to go and fight - and risk their lives. She has Posy was staying with her grandmother in Cornwall when the sort of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall news came through the cracks as escaped its clutches and then that her father had been killed in action. Her mother had travelled from Suffolk to learn how tell her what was going to cope. She's been told that she's tainted, that she ruins every relationship without intending happen 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 -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=147117946X| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|If You Could Go Anywhere[[image:Colins_Chasing.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008202192/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Paige Toon| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4.5===[[Chasing the Sun by Katy Colins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Author Katy Colins became Britainsummary=Angie is someone who always wanted to travel, but it's most famous jilted bride when the true story of taken her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viral, before becoming a romantic comedy book series with this 27 years to leave the latest one. [[Chasing small mining town in South Australia which has been the Sun by Katy Colins|Full Review]] <!-- Swain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Swain_Coming.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471147282/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Womenonly home she's Fiction|Womenever known. She doesn's Fiction]] I absolutely loved this book. It was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storylinet do things by half though, delightful characters and innocent romance. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy once she does feel able to pick up and put down go (following a family death) she leaves not that I wanted to) throughout only the town, the day. [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|Full Review]] <!-- Chance -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Chance_Killer.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447282914/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Rebecca Chance's much anticipated state 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 wasthe 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. [[Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage by Heidi Swain|Full Review]]}}<!-- Divry -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1471178471| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew[[image:Divry_Madame.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857054686/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Milly Johnson| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] ''It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling in, then reproducingsummary=I liked this book.'' Well, it actually starts Whilst not necessarily a lot before thenpage-turner, with this was 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 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. [[Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{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>

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|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>

{{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

|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>