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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren Bravo|title=Preloved|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - Remove any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss -Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid->life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy Holden0008506337|title= Honeymoon SuiteThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= This is an excellent readThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, weaving together many storiesapparently on both sides. We have Nell who, yes, is left at the alter after a whirlwind romance Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. It Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's horrible and horrifying and she is, understandably, distraughtmother as 'an older man'. Her last modicum of self-respect vanishes when parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she rings to cancel her honeymoon, only to find it noncould achieve -refundable. And so, in a rare show of gumption, she decides going to go anyway, taking along her friend Rachel Oxford and Rachel's daughter Juno for the ridehaving a glittering career. At In the same timeevent, bestselling novelist Dylan is having romantic woes they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of his ownWight. An almighty fire has chased him out of town Margo did go to Oxford and he needs went on to disappear, at least for become a bitwell-respected journalist. As luck The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and artistic license, would have itholidays were spent at Sandcove, the two end up in family home on the same placeIsle of Wight. But this is not Even then the first time they have crossed paths, and they are both doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in for an almighty shockcharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385357</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosie BlakeHadeer Elsbai|title=How to Get a Love LifeThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=34|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= Nicola is Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the sort lives of girl two women who knows what's could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for dinner based on what day the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the week it is. Meticulously tidyupper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she employs a cleaner as well just to make doubly sure nothing is out of placeforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. And you can set your watch by Giorgina on the time she eats other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her daily treat of a Mini Roll. Not all of this is bad. I believe in scheduled relaxation, family and felt my heart skip a beat whenmaintain their reputation, on whilst secretly attending meetings of the first day Daughters of my honeymoon, we received Izdihar – a schedule group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with our activities for the weekNico. But the point What follows is, Nicola is at the far end a story of the spectruman unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and she certainly does not seem the kind to have cruelty, from which blossoms a messy, chaotic love lifegroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398643</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadiya HussainB0B575J99N|title=The Secret Lives of Beneath the Amir SistersPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: thereElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's really no other way of putting itschool in York. TheyIt was ''comfortable're of Bangladeshi origin and they're the only Muslim family in the small village of Wyvernage. On the surface they look to be happy, but actually each of the sisters is struggling she longed for something more in her own waylife. For the most part theyShe'd 're doing it quietly, but it's still not always found the case. The eldest is Fatima. Her nameright vocation nor met the right man's often abbreviated to Fatti: it's not meant unkindly, but she's well upholstered and at thirty she's unmarriednow was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. Even her mother doesn't seem to think that there's much point in trying to find There was a husband little trepidation when she applied for herthe professoressa job in Bologna.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chrissie Manby|title= A Fairy Tale For Christmas|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as After a singer on a cruise ship. He is telephone interview, she was offered the impressive Director of Entertainment on board, position and they fall into a relationship which Kirsty hopes will grow and develop into something specialit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. When Jon announces he wants to return to England to his West Country seaside home, Kirsty is faced with a difficult decision: whether to follow him and cement their flourishing relationship or pursue There were some natural doubts before her own career with a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbeanfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diane Allen0241542405|title= The Mistress of Windfell Manor|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Charlotte Booth is the beautiful daughter of a successful wool farmer and like any young Victorian woman, she looks forward to the day she can be married and have a family of her own. Her childhood sweetheart Archie has a place in Charlotte's heart, but he cannot provide her with the life she desires, so when wealthy mill owner Joseph Dawson comes to town Charlotte sees her luck begin to change. After a brief courtship, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move in to the illustrious Windfell Manor, but things soon turn sour when one of Joseph's mill workers is found dead and Charlotte starts to suspect that Joseph isn't the man she first thought he was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond for a ParrotClaire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her education really startedhome for 1,214 days. That was the beginning of the road She'd ''like'' to discovery: in fact, she so nearly does. The discovery that Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she can realise ghosts for others's going to catch her train. Then, that she can escape 't. She simply can't force herself to leave the cruelty safety of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generatehome. ThatShe's fortunate that she has a good friend, in turnSadie, who visits regularly with her two children, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse andfull of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, nowFred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, the condemned cell so you can guess what she does in Newgate Prisonher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. As she awaits her fateHe's from Holding Hands, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrotcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'' and allows us to read over her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nancy Revell0008441618|title=The Shipyard GirlsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=1940 and Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the workload new head of Thompsons, the Tyneside shipyard, increases so much they do the unthinkableWest Burntridge First School: employ women if she didn't live up to perform her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the roles traditionally taken by mentown. It's the bravest as well as the strongest women who accept the challenge The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and, under the expert tuition of Rosie, begin funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to take their places beside their male counterpartsthe school. ItThere was one difficulty, though - they were 's not an easy ride 'devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for any of themthe head. In fact, as they band together, thereLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's one particular group restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that will face dangers in was just a warm-up act for their daily lives as real - and more imminent - than any encountered on the slipwaygripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754633</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa DickensonGiovanna Fletcher|title= Mistletoe Walking on 34th StreetSunshine|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= It's December, and Olivia is off to New York. Sadly it's not for the Christmas of a lifetime, or even a pre-holiday shopping weekend. She's going for work, in fact she's leading a team of colleagues, so it's far from a relaxing trip. Luckily she'll be home in time for the big day itself, and then she'll really be able to relax. Except, in a comedy of errors such as this, things don't exactly go to plan. Fierce weather grounds flights and shatters dreams, and new Christmas plans come into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751563099</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fionnuala Kearney|title=The Day I Lost You|rating=4.5

|summary=Anna is missing; a difficult truth Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for her mother Jess to absorbseventeen years, has died. Anna went ski-ing And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, leaving Jess Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to look after Anna's daughterfollow, Jess' granddaughterknowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Little Rose is now a comforting presence for Jess Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as she thinks about Annaclearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, piecing together the person struggling with their grief and their own life that Jess thought she knew about. Howevertroubles, Anna has secretsdecide to drop everything in their own lives, at least one of which will have repercussions… and not just for Jessgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney CosteloeB09FS89KX9|title=The Sisters of St CroixFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=On Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasn't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt in a French convent veterinary degree and a father who died in WWI rather than Richard - her motherthree years later - was still working at BB's husband and diner. Bob - the man who raised owner - regarded herfondly: he was a good boss. Adeline decides to go to France for a short holiday Hollie had moved in order to learn more from with her aunt that boyfriend, Marcus: her family knew as Sarah Huntmother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Both Sarah Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and Adelaide part, hoping that they will see each other again soon and they will, but in circumstances that neither most of them envisagedall he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. As Then there was the Second World War begins fact that he would be violent, both to her and Germany captures France, there's danger ahead for each of themto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa Pimentel0008421714|title= The One That Got AwayMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= When youThe problem began just after the publication of George March're Americans most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, and planning a weddingPatricia asked, you want that wedding to be in a properas she was wrapping the bread, English castle. Of course you do. It's 'but isn't this the only thing that matters. Itfirst time he's far more important than based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the hassle of shipping in your whole family from the States, forcing your sister to spend a week in a foreign country with principal character had 'her ex or anything elsemannerisms''. This is Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the situation Ruby finds herself in. Her ex, Ethan, fact that Johanna is the best man and she's Maid whore of Honour. It canNantes - 't be avoided. And it's going to be a disasterweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405923733</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vanessa Greene1473685745|title= The Little Pieces of You and Me|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Sometimes you know exactly what you want in life, can list it all quite easily. At the end of their first year of uni, Isla and Sophie make lists. Just one list each, but with a number of items on. Things they want to accomplish in their lives. Lofty goals and easier wins. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751563765</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author= Penelope Jacobs|title= Playing FTSEKatie Marsh|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Melanie is something of a ''wunderkind'', a graduate at an investment bank with brains to match her body. In a male dominated environment she's finding that one gets in the way of the other, but she's a smart girl and can learn to play this to her advantage. With her friend Jenny keen to lead her astray, Mel must learn the give and take of life in the City, and how far to push the limits to get ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781324611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Titchmarsh|title=Mr Gandy's Grand Tour|rating=3.5

|summary=Timothy Gandy lost When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his wife unexpectedlybike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. One minute she When he was reaching up for born, the perfect serve left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and the next she he needed open-heart surgery when he was lying dead of a massive heart attack on the tennis courtfew days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It hadn't been s April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the perfect marriage: sanctioned return to the two had little in common, but Tim had stayed throne of Edward VIII with his wife firstly for , Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the sake World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the childrensame blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, then eventually for Isobel's sake Nazi-styled phrenology, and eventually because he realised ideas of female purpose, has put all of that he would feel guilty if he left her. After gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the shock of her death came drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the realisation that he was 55childless, retired the husbandless and could now do what he likedthe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And that was where in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the idea task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the grand tour came fromparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. He was going to take a leisurely trip around That is her job, at least, until the cultural sights first emerging signs of western Europe and indulge himselffemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340953071</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Georgia ClarkRuth Hogan|title= The RegularsMadame Burova|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= If offered This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the chance to immensely upgrade your beautyearly 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 the very definition of gorgeousa singer, to have a face and body chiefly, Imelda, the likes third generation of which are only ever seen on magazine covers and catwalksMadame Burova, would you take it? This is the question posed to best friends Evie''Tarot-Reader, Krista Palmist and Willow, when they are presented with Clairvoyant''Pretty, 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, an enchanted solution fifty years later, in possession of which a single drop guarantees a stunning physical appearance pair of letters that will change everything for a weekwoman called Billie. Before the ''Pretty'', the girls had regular faces, faced regular problems Just who is she, and found themselves regularly disappointed by the dating world. But this bottle has who delivered the potential secrets about her to change everything. The adventure that ensues takes all three young women on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery as dreams are fulfilled, hearts are brokenImelda, and the addiction why did it have to such remain a lifestyle proves to be far more sinister than they ever imagined.secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160181</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Talulah RileyJennifer Saint |title= Acts of LoveAriadne |rating= 4.5

|summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face This re-telling of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention myth of Ariadne and the public. For Bernadette Minotaur is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest interesting and most powerful men of unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the world, exposing them with controversial distaste story in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a deep insecuritymodern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, and a desperate longing spanning from her childhood to be loved by her death, allowing the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such reader to really connect with Ariadne as a position character in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is own right rather than just a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon prop in the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale heroics of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put downTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenLucy Holland|title=FallingSistersong

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Here Sistersong is the story part of three womena genre I particularly enjoy, from three generations within the same familymodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. There is JoThese stories, for most of us, are a forty year old single mother whose first husband died, cornerstone of childhood and whose second husband ran off I relish seeing them retold with their nannyfresh eyes and a fresh perspective. She is left caring for her older teenage daughterIf handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, Lydiafleshing out characters, examining relationships and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyonere-evaluating the role of women. Her daughter Lydia Sistersong is the second female charactera perfect example of a modern retelling done well, and as well as the usual teenage angst she plot is also dealing handled with griefcare, still, over her father's death, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret that she is unable keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to talk come to anyone about. Finally there's Honor who is Jo's mother in lawlife, the mother of Jo's first husbandto feel real and human, Stephen. Honor has most importantly they feel relatable in a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in with Jo for a time as she has no one else who can help her. She too This is hiding a secret masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from the world, and as you read the story you begin beginning to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any of them will ever start telling the truthend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa JewellB08NF79QXT|title= I Found YouCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4.53|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= A man is missingThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and his new wife is worriedwins - 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. Miles away Sonja, her mother, a man is found alone an ex-model and confused on a beach, Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and his new Liberty's best friend is concerned. Are the two in any way connected : they've known each other since university and what events have occurredLiberty adores Jessica's husband, in the past 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 the present, to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>her life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhona MartinB08GFSK2WZ|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=54|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=HazelGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century has had a tough time absolutely gorgeous to say the leastlook at - and single. Therefore when She's not had sex for eight months and she comes across Black John, 's stuck in the karma trap: an outlaw about to be hanged awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she sees her chancehas a real talent for attracting drama. By proposing Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to him absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she'll save his life was in it andleft her, marrying himstark naked, her ownstaring at the pervy postman. At least that's HazelShe only has to take her mother's theory but the fates will make it dog out for a bit more of walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a strugglephoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah FlemingB08CHJLNBS|title=The Last PearlCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=He''I always thinks Charles Devereaux, without the grit there would be no pearl. Sorrows have thirty-eight and a way of strengthening the heartpartner at Wickham Jones, never forget that, child.'' Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread on the tableMayfair letting agents. She manages to find some joy in her work though's Emilia, twenty-nine, especially librarian and archivist in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jewthe heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The two become friends and he offers to take her Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on as his apprenticesomeone else's philosophies, stringing pearlsto something a little deeper. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to Charles is more of a better life? At the same time[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, many miles away in Scotlandabove all, Jem Baillie and his father canhe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They't contain their delight when they discover a magnificentre obviously not at all compatible, flawless freshwater pearl at the end so why can Charles not get this woman out of a long day of fishing. They call the pearl his mind? She'Queenies not his usual type at all: it' and from s obvious to his friends. And given that pivotal momentEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, the fates of Gretawhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosie BlakeHelly Acton|title= How to Find your (First) HusbandThe Shelf|rating=3.54

|summary=Isobel Graves hasn't got the life she envisioned. She moved to LA to become a star-soaked television presenterWhen we meet Amy, instead she's dressing up everyday in a series of wacky promotional costumes on the streetsrelationship with Jamie. She thought sheYou can'd be married t really call it a partnership, because things tend to a gentlemanget done on his terms, instead but she's fallen into a lacklustre relationship with a pilotsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, whose booty calls do not send her sky highyes. So Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when Isobel sees he tells her to pack for a man from her past on TV, someone she was once married surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the playground at school, she wonders what her life would be like if they were married now. With everything to gain work (and nothing to lose, Isobel attempts to find her first husband and take back control of her life. the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The One We Fell In Love WithWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary= I'm ' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not sure whether it would be flattering or stressful to have 3 beautiful women lusting after you. In the case of Angus, it's itchy footed Phoebe who'd rather be flitting around the French Alps than stagnating in suburban Sale, boho musician Eliza who When Mike Parker's still waiting for girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her big break, and former nurse Rose who her whole world is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and a life in the city to move back up north… and live with her mother. Itnow she's a complicated situation, made only more complex by the fact that talk of the girls know each otherschool. In Mike was the past theymost 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 some don've shared a roomt, and a womb. Hellobut one thing is for sure, tripletsthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela LambertKatie Fforde|title=Kiss and KinA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=ItI's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband George. Looking back she's concluded that she ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was fond ofexpecting - a warm, but probably not ''in love''cosy read focused on romance, with himfamily and friendships. They had This provided two sons and it's romances for the elder price of these, Roderick who's married to Jennifer. They have three childrenone, but there's been a rather silly feud between the Capels and Jennifer's family, the Gaunts, which dates back to the couple's wedding, when Clarissa Gaunt, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn't. Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother and was overheard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Liz Fenwick|title= Under a Cornish Sky|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Under a Cornish Sky'' is actually the story of two very different women who are forced family element as opposed to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't be more different, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse and although she is a skilled architect, she is never able to succeed in her career because others take credit for her work. In relationships, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable with; a fact romance that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matt. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoria, on the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wants. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the seaI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronica HenryB07W4MNBSG|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=It is with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns home to the pretty Cotswold town of Peasebrook. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacy, a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the community. Julius was loved by all: he always had time coming up to listen to his customers Halloween in 1987 and share a recuperative cuppa in times group of need. However, his finances were another matter entirely and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with an eversixth-mounting pile of debt. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''too'' happy to help out, but can Emilia really give up your entire life depends on her father's dream?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Juliet Ashton|title= These Days of Ours|rating= 4.5|genre= Womenwho you marry's Fiction|summary=Not everything that looks like love is love'. Kate and Charlie The only eligible boys were childhood sweethearts, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying her wayward cousin the Young Farmers and Kate marrying her wayward cousin's pretentious ex-boyfriend? How can they still be four friends? Follow Kate through her life where she experiences all kinds the idea of love living in all kinds a farmhouse and having a couple of places children called Will and learns that not everything that looks like love is loveOlly appealed to Charlotte, but or 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 sometimes what looks like love might be one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the real dealclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>