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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 - Remove -->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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganLauren Bravo|title=The Summer Seaside KitchenPreloved

|summary= Colgan has Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a diverse portfolio of chick lit (four and she also writes Dr Who novels) under her belt but starting ends with [[Meet me at the Cupcake Café]] in 2011, she has established herself as one of the queens of the chickan oh-my-God-lit subgenre of I'''comedy romance with food''', the Queen of Hearts and the queen of fruit tarts, to an obvious benefit of her popularity and presumably her bank balance and to the sound of satisfied ahhhhs and mmmms from her growing fanbasem-nearly-forty. As you can see I do miss Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the Old Jenny toss - Gwen finds herself having a little bit, the brasher and swearier characters and the much more cutting humour. Butof a mid-life crisis. There Catharsis is something to be said for a well written feelgood novel and I did enjoy the sweetshop, the café, the bakery key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life''Summer Seaside Kitchen'' which has all the tried, tested and well loved ingredients of a perfectly escapist, mostly but not totally predictable chick-lit romance with a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something of her house special. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Bell0008506337|title=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting EvenGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 35|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= We begin the story with Lexi The love affair between Margo Garnett and her boyfriendpoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Lexi is Richard was twenty-one of those women, who has a begrudging relationship with and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her mother, who is constantly pestering away from what they felt she could achieve - going to get her down Oxford and having a glittering career. In the aisleevent, a father who has a spine missing they eloped and a boyfriend who leaves Richard took her as away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a sports widowwell-respected journalist. The more I talk to my female friends about thiscouple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the luckier I realise I am family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to not have. A partner who is entirely uninterested leave him in sport but does fixate on Star Trek, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space and gunscharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn O'PorterHadeer Elsbai|title= The CowsDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionFantasy|summary= Reading Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the blurb lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for this novelthe rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'PorterWeaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, I got very excitedbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. It talks about Giorgina on the cow being other hand did not have a piece of meat, born privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to breedprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, one whilst secretly attending meetings of the herd, and compares this to Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women, saying how they don't have s rights. Giorgina also happens to fall into a stereotypebe in love with Nico. I expected What follows is a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was story of an easy to readunjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, enjoyable romp through three modern from which blossoms a group of admirable women's livesfighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toni JordanB0B575J99N|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=54

|summary=As predicted by Caroline Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Janicea teacher at a prestigious girl's mother on Caroline and Henryschool in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man''s wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictednow was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. Indeed, this is definitely not There was a good weekend little trepidation when she applied for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinethe professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn's houset long before she was exploring the beautiful city. Therewere some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's the split Wednesday 14 November 2018 and the awkwardness of the girlsshe' schoolteacher being the other woman s not left her home for a start1,214 days. Then thereShe'd ''like''s that mistaken identity moment involving the neighboursto: in fact, she so nearly does. At least Janice is well adjusted Her outdoor clothes are on and over she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her ex-husband Alectrain. Then, she can't. She still dreams simply can't force herself to leave the safety of himher home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, yesSadie, who visits regularly with her two children, but James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact itwas Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so over! you can guess what she does in her spare time. Just Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as well really… guess whoMeredith's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy Holden0008441618|title= Honeymoon SuiteOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary= This is an excellent read, weaving together many stories. We have Nell who, yes, is left at Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the alter after a whirlwind romance. It's horrible and horrifying and she is, understandably, distraught. Her last modicum new head of self-respect vanishes when West Burntridge First School: if she rings didn't live up to cancel her honeymoon, only to find it non-refundable. And so, retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in a rare show that part of gumption, she decides to go anyway, taking along her friend Rachel and Rachel's daughter Juno for the ridetown. At The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the same time, bestselling novelist Dylan is having romantic woes of his own. An almighty fire has chased him out of town and he needs funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to disappear, at least for a bitthe school. As luck There was one difficulty, and artistic licensethough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', would have itwith two members, the two end up in particular, causing problems for the same placehead. But this is not Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the first time they have crossed paths, and they are both toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for an almighty shocktheir real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosie BlakeGiovanna Fletcher|title=How to Get a Love LifeWalking on Sunshine|rating=34|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Nicola is the sort of girl who knows whatMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for dinner based on what day of the week it seventeen years, has died. And whilst he isdealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. Meticulously tidyBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she employs a cleaner as well just was dying and that they would need help to make doubly sure nothing is out carry on living. Whilst some of place. And you can set your watch by the time she eats rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her daily treat wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of a Mini Roll. Not all of this is bad. I believe in scheduled relaxationtheir trips away, and felt my heart skip a beat whenVicky and Zaza, on the first day of my honeymoon, we received a schedule struggling with our activities for the week. But the point istheir grief and their own life troubles, Nicola is at the far end of the spectrumdecide to drop everything in their own lives, and she certainly does not seem the kind to have a messy, chaotic love lifego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398643</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadiya HussainB09FS89KX9|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctionalLife should have been good for Hollie: there's really no other way of putting it. They're She was just going into the final year of Bangladeshi origin her veterinary degree and they- three years later - was still working at BB're the only Muslim family in the small village of Wyvernages diner. On the surface they look to be happy, but actually each of Bob - the sisters is struggling in owner - regarded her own wayfondly: he was a good boss. For the most part they're Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing it quietly, but it's not always the casewell in his career. The eldest is Fatima. Her nameHollie wasn's often abbreviated t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to Fatti: it's not meant unkindly, but she's well upholstered control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at thirty she's unmarriedthe diner. Even her mother doesn't seem to think Then there was the fact that there's much point in trying he would be violent, both to find a husband for herand to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chrissie Manby0008421714|title= A Fairy Tale For ChristmasMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as a singer The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on a cruise shipthe last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. He is Every day Mrs March went to the impressive Director of Entertainment local patisserie to buy olive bread but on boardthat particular morning, Patricia asked, and they fall into as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a relationship which Kirsty hopes will grow and develop into something specialcharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. When Jon announces he wants to return to England to his West Country seaside home Perhaps this would not have mattered, Kirsty except for the fact that Johanna is faced with the whore of Nantes - ''a difficult decision: whether to follow him and cement their flourishing relationship or pursue her own career with a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbeanweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Diane Allen1473685745|title= The Mistress of Windfell ManorUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Charlotte Booth is the beautiful daughter When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of a successful wool farmer an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and like any young Victorian womanBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. 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. When he was born, she looks forward to the day she can be married left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and have he needed open-heart surgery when he was a family of her ownfew days old. Her childhood sweetheart Archie So, Simon has a place in Charlotteevery 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's heartApril 1953, but he cannot provide her with and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the life she desires, so when wealthy mill owner state funeral of Joseph Dawson comes Stalin then within weeks coming to town Charlotte sees her luck begin London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to changethe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. After a brief courtship For yes, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move Britain caved in the lead-up to the illustrious Windfell ManorWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, but things soon turn sour when one and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of Josephthe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''s mill workers . But this is found dead most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and Charlotte starts ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to suspect that Joseph isnthe drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the 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 party line before they't re stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the man she first thought he wasemerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wray DelaneyRuth Hogan|title=An Almond for a ParrotMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained 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 stepsinger, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-mother that Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her education really startedfamily's sea-front booth. That was 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 beginning of first time in the road to discoveryfamily stall. The discovery 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 can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape and who delivered the cruelty 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 an alcoholic father and the discovery myth of Ariadne and the income Minotaur is interesting and pleasure her body can generateunusual. That, Jennifer Saint presents the story in turn, leads a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the rather classy Fairy House brothel andviewpoint of Ariadne, nowspanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the condemned cell reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for own right rather than just a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulderprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy RevellLucy Holland|title=The Shipyard GirlsSistersong

|summary=1940 and the workload of ThompsonsThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Tyneside shipyardCherry Blossom Boutique, increases so much they do the unthinkable: employ women to perform for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the roles traditionally taken by menRetail Best Newcomer Award. ItShe's delighted and the bravest as well as two people she's brought with her to the strongest women who accept the challenge andevent couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, under the expert tuition of Rosieher mother, begin to take their places beside their male counterpartsis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. ItJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's not an easy ride for any of them. In fact, as best friend: they band together, there've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's one particular group that will face dangers in husband, Charles and their daily lives as real four- and more imminent year- than any encountered on the slipwayold daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754633</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa DickensonB08GFSK2WZ|title= Mistletoe on 34th Street|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>}}{{newreviewThe Karma Trap|author=Fionnuala Kearney|title=The Day I Lost YouLisette Boyd|rating=4.5

|summary=Anna George Jackson is missing; a difficult truth for her mother Jess to absorb. Anna went skithirty-ing with friendsthree years old, leaving Jess absolutely gorgeous to look after Annaat - and single. She's daughter, Jessnot had sex for eight months and she' granddaughter. Little Rose s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is now being visited on her and she has a comforting presence real talent for Jess as attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she thinks about Annadealt 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, piecing together stark naked, staring at the person and life that Jess thought she knew aboutpervy postman. However, Anna She only has secrets, at least one of which will have repercussions… to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and not just for Jessa photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney CosteloeB08CHJLNBS|title=The Sisters of St CroixCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasnHe't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt in a French convent s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a father who died in WWI rather than Richard - her motherpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's husband Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the man who raised herheritage library next door. Adeline decides 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 go to France for something a short holiday in order to learn little deeper. Charles is more from her aunt of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that her family knew as Sarah HuntEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. Both Sarah and Adelaide part, hoping that they will see each other again soon and they willThey're obviously not at all compatible, but in circumstances that neither so why can Charles not get this woman out of them envisagedhis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. As the Second World War begins and Germany captures FranceAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, therewhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's danger ahead for each of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa PimentelHelly Acton|title= The One That Got AwayShelf

|summary= When you're Americanwe meet Amy, and planning a wedding, you want that wedding to be in a proper, English castle. Of course you do. It's the only thing that matters. Itshe's far more important than the hassle of shipping in your whole family from the States, forcing your sister to spend a week in a foreign country relationship with her ex or anything elseJamie. This is the situation Ruby finds herself in. Her exYou can't really call it a partnership, Ethanbecause things tend to get done on his terms, is the best man and but she's Maid of Honoursticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. It canHaven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be avoided. And it? Is he ''finally''s going to be a disaster.get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405923733</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vanessa GreeneAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The Little Pieces What Kind of You and MeGirl

|summary= Sometimes '' Doing something when you know exactly what 're scared is braver than doing something when you want in life're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, can list claiming he gave it all quite easilyto her, her whole world is tipped upside down. At Her relationship has just ended and now she's the end talk of their first year of unithe school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, Isla so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and Sophie make lists. Just some don't, but one list eachthing is for sure, but with a number of items on. Things they want this isn't going to accomplish in their lives. Lofty goals and easier winsblow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751563765</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Penelope JacobsKatie Fforde|title= Playing FTSEA Springtime Affair|rating= 4.5

|summary= Melanie is something of a I''wunderkind'', a graduate at an investment bank with brains ve wanted to match her body. In read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a male dominated environment she's finding that one gets in the way of the otherwarm, cosy read focused on romance, but she's a smart girl family and can learn to play this to her advantagefriendships. With her friend Jenny keen to lead her astray, Mel must learn This provided two romances for the give and take price of life in one, but it was actually the City, and how far family element as opposed to push the limits to get aheadromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781324611</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan TitchmarshB07W4MNBSG|title=Mr Gandy's Grand Tour|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Timothy Gandy lost his wife unexpectedly. One minute she was reaching up for the perfect serve and the next she was lying dead of a massive heart attack on the tennis court. It hadn't been the perfect marriage: the two had little in common, but Tim had stayed with his wife firstly for the sake of the children, then eventually for Isobel's sake and eventually because he realised that he would feel guilty if he left her. After the shock of her death came the realisation that he was 55, retired and could now do what he liked. And that was where the idea of the grand tour came from. He was going to take a leisurely trip around the cultural sights of western Europe and indulge himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340953071</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Georgia Clark|title= The Regulars|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= If offered the chance to immensely upgrade your beauty, to become the very definition of gorgeous, to have a face and body the likes of which are only ever seen on magazine covers and catwalks, would you take it? This is the question posed to best friends Evie, Krista and Willow, when they are presented with ''Pretty'', an enchanted solution of which a single drop guarantees a stunning physical appearance for a week. Before the ''Pretty'', the girls had regular faces, faced regular problems, and found themselves regularly disappointed by the dating world. But this bottle has the potential 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 broken, and the addiction to such a lifestyle proves to be far more sinister than they ever imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160181</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author= Talulah Riley|title= Acts of LoveLizzy Mumfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention of the public. For Bernadette is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest and most powerful men of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, is a deep insecurity, and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such a position in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julie Cohen|title=Falling|rating=5

|summary=Here is the story of three women, from three generations within the same family. There is Jo, a forty year old single mother whose first husband died, It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and whose second husband ran off with their nanny. She is left caring for her older teenage daughter, Lydia, and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyonegroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Her daughter Lydia is the second female character, and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over her fatherWhen you's deathre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret but Liz was convinced that she is unable to talk to anyone about. Finally there's Honor 'your entire life depends on who is Joyou marry's mother in law, the mother of Jo's first husband, Stephen. Honor has a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move in with Jo for a time as she has no one else who can help her. She too is hiding a secret from The only eligible boys were the world, Young Farmers and as you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any idea of them will ever start telling the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lisa Jewell|title= I Found You|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= A man is missing, and his new wife is worried. Miles away, living in a man is found alone farmhouse and confused on having a beach, couple of children called Will and his new friend is concerned. Are the two in any way connected and what events have occurredOlly appealed to Charlotte, in the past or perhaps William and in the present, Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rhona Martin|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against marry the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's times|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hazel, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century has had a tough time to say the leastrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Therefore when she comes across Black John, an outlaw about The place to be hanged she sees her chance. By proposing to him shestart their search was obviously the Young Farmers'll save his life and, marrying him, her ownHalloween disco that weekend. At least that's Hazel's theory but There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the fates will make it a bit more of a struggleclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>

Greta Costello lives in in poverty with her mother and siblings and must work as a skivvy to put bread on the table. She manages to find some joy in her work though, especially in her 'Sabbath' job working for a kindly old widowed Jew. The two become friends and he offers to take her on as his apprentice, stringing pearls. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie and his father can'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 'Queenie' and from that pivotal moment, the fates of Greta, Jem and Queenie will be inextricably linked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140970</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosie Blake|title= How to Find your (First) Husband|rating=3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|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 she'd be married to a gentleman, instead she's fallen into a lacklustre relationship with a pilot, whose booty calls do not send her sky high. So when Isobel sees a man from her past Move on TV, someone she was once married to on the playground at school, she wonders what her life would be like if they were married now. With everything to gain and nothing to lose, Isobel attempts to find her first husband and take back control of her life. [[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= The One We Fell In Love With|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I'm 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's still waiting for her big break, and former nurse Rose who is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend and a life in the city to move back up north… and live with her mother. It's a complicated situation, made only more complex by the fact that the girls know each other. In the past they've shared a room, and a womb. Hello, triplets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>}}latest features]]