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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dawn O'Porter1471180158|title= The CowsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Reading the blurb Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for this novel, a man who's a control freak with all the first novel for adults by author Dawn Osubtlety of a half brick. Jamie'Porters son, Bo, I got very excited'has his problems'. It talks about He's asthmatic and the cow being a piece of meatmore you read, born the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to breed, one of take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the herd, local A&E and compares this sometimes Bo's not fit enough to women, saying how they don't have go to fall into a stereotypeschool. I expected a slightly subversive novel about feminismMissed 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. What I found It was an easy going to come to read, enjoyable romp through three modern women's livesa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni JordanLauren Bravo|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsPreloved|rating=54

|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on Caroline a big number that starts with a four and Henryends with an oh-my-God-I's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedm-nearly-forty. Indeed, this is definitely not Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness bit of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighboursmid-life crisis. At least Janice Catharsis is well adjusted key and over Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess wholife's at the door?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>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 name's often abbreviated to Fatti: itright vocation nor met the right man's not meant unkindly, but she's well upholstered and at thirty she's unmarried. Even her mother doesn't seem now was the time to think that there's much point in trying to find make a husband for herchange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chrissie Manby|title= A Fairy Tale For Christmas|rating= 3 She needed challenges.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as There was a singer on a cruise ship. He is the impressive Director of Entertainment on board, and they fall into a relationship which Kirsty hopes will grow and develop into something special. 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 her own career with a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Diane Allen|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, little trepidation when she looks forward to applied for the day she can be married and have a family of her own. Her childhood sweetheart Archie has a place professoressa job 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 changeBologna. After a brief courtshiptelephone interview, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move in to she was offered the illustrious Windfell Manor, but things soon turn sour when one of Joseph's mill workers is found dead position and Charlotte starts to suspect that Joseph isnit wasn't long before she was exploring the man she beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first thought he wasclass but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wray Delaney0241542405|title=An Almond for a ParrotMeredith Alone|author=Claire 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 diedcornerstone 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 whose second husband ran off with their nannyre-evaluating the role of women. She Sistersong is left caring for her older teenage daughtera perfect example of a modern retelling done well, Lydiathe plot is handled with care, and her two little oneskeeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, Oscar to feel real and Irishuman, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst harbouring still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a secret that 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 feels she cannot share with anyone's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Her daughter Lydia is the second female character, She's delighted and as well as the usual teenage angst two people she is also dealing 's brought with grief, still, over her fatherto the event couldn's deatht be more pleased. Sonja, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her own very difficult secret that she is unable to talk to anyone aboutlooks from. Finally thereJessica's Honor who is Jothirty-four and Liberty's mother in law, the mother of Jobest friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's first husband, StephenCharles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Honor has Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move man in with Jo for a time as she has no one else who can help herlife. She too is hiding a secret from the world, and as you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any of them will ever start telling the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa JewellB08GFSK2WZ|title= I Found YouThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= A man George Jackson is missingthirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and his new wife is worriedsingle. Miles away, a man She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is found alone being visited on her and confused on she has a beach, and his new friend is concernedreal talent for attracting drama. Are Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the two 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 any way connected it and what events have occurredleft her, in stark naked, staring at the past 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 - and in a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the present, to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>office.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhona MartinB08CHJLNBS|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=HazelHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century has had a tough time to say Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the leastheritage library next door. Therefore when Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she comes across Black John's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, an outlaw about to be hanged she sees her chancesomething 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''. By proposing 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 him she'll save his life and, marrying him, her ownfriends. At least And given thatEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's Hazelsuperficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's theory but the fates will make obviously a non-starter, isn't it a bit more of a struggle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingHelly Acton|title=The Last PearlShelf|rating=4|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=When we meet Amy, she''I always think, without the grit there would be no pearl. Sorrows have s in a way of strengthening the heart, never forget that, childrelationship with Jamie.You can'' Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother and siblings and must work as t really call it a skivvy partnership, because things tend to put bread get done on the tablehis terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. She manages to find some joy in her work thoughAh, especially in yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her 'Sabbath' job working to pack for a kindly old widowed Jew. The two become friends and he offers to take her on as his apprentice, stringing pearlssurprise trip. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better lifeit? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie and his father canIs he ''t contain their delight when they discover a magnificent, flawless freshwater pearl at the end of a long day of fishing. They call the pearl finally'Queenie' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and from that pivotal moment, the fates of Greta, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosie BlakeAlyssa Sheinmel|title= How to Find your (First) HusbandWhat Kind of Girl|rating=3.54

|summary=Isobel Graves hasn't got the life she envisioned. She moved to LA to become a star-soaked television presenter, instead she's dressing up everyday in a series of wacky promotional costumes on the streets. She thought sheDoing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''d be married to a gentleman, instead she When Mike Parker's fallen girlfriend comes into a lacklustre relationship school with a pilotblack eye, claiming he gave it to her, whose booty calls do not send her sky highwhole world is tipped upside down. So when Isobel sees a man from her past on TV, someone Her relationship has just ended and now she 's the talk of the school. Mike was once married to on the playground at most popular boy in schoolwho was always so in love with her, she wonders everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her life would be like if they were married now. With everything to gain and nothing to losesome don't, but one thing is for sure, Isobel attempts this isn't going to find her first husband and take back control of her lifeblow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonKatie Fforde|title= The One We Fell In Love WithA Springtime Affair|rating= 4.5

|summary= I'm not sure whether it would be flattering or stressful ve wanted to have 3 beautiful women lusting after youread author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. In This provided two romances for the case price of Angusone, but it's itchy footed Phoebe who'd rather be flitting around the French Alps than stagnating in suburban Sale, boho musician Eliza who's still waiting for her big break, and former nurse Rose who is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend and a life in was actually the city family element as opposed to move back up north… and live with her mother. It's a complicated situation, made only more complex by the fact romance that the girls know each other. In the past they've shared a room, and a womb. Hello, tripletsI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela LambertB07W4MNBSG|title=Kiss and KinBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=It's six months since the death was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of Harriet Capel's husband Georgesixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Looking back sheWhen you's concluded re only seventeen that she was fond ofseems positively ancient, but probably not Liz was convinced that ''in loveyour entire life depends on who you marry'', with him. They had two sons The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and it's the elder idea of these, Roderick who's married to Jennifer. They have three children, but there's been living in a rather silly feud between the Capels farmhouse and Jennifer's family, the Gaunts, which dates back to the having a 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 children called Will 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 the story of two very different women who are forced Olly appealed to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't be more differentCharlotte, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse or perhaps William and although she is a skilled architect, she is never able Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined 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 that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, Matt. Lady-of-marry therather superior Patrick Shepley-Manor Victoria, on the other hand, simply oozes self confidenceBotham. Although she is in her sixties, she has The place to start their search was obviously the body of a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men to do exactly what she wantsYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her There was just one true love is the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the seaclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>