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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)1471180158|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=24.5

|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who''It starts s a control freak with becoming all the subtlety of a homeownerhalf brick. Jamie's son, then settling inBo, then reproducing.'has his problems'. WellHe's asthmatic and the more you read, it actually starts a lot before then, with a set of fractured memories of our heroinethe more you'll suspect that he's childhood – things on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she recalls her parents 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and relatives saying both 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 about herput in the wrong. It goes through her childhood, and pen letters was going to come to a best friend conveying her wishes for her life, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty of university years, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out that you should be careful what you wish for, but not even our wise, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise PentlandLauren Bravo|title=Wilde Like MePreloved|rating=4.5

|summary=World famous fashion and beauty vlogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle of Glitter, takes Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a new challenge in the form of her touching debut novel, ''Wilde Like Me''. You will be transported into big number that starts with a world full of exasperating drama four and ends with the PSMs (Posh School Mums), heartan oh-my-warming mother daughter moments and selfGod-righteous men who you realise arenI't m-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the be all and end alltoss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. Now enters Robin Wilde, a single mum to Lyla Catharsis is key and make-up artist living in her granny's house simply just trying Gwen has decided now is the time to get by. The novel follows take back her journey of self discovery, which even she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, and shows you that only life'''you''' can make you happy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson0008506337|title=The FriendGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel The love affair between Margo Garnett and Yvonne – four friends and schoolpoet Richard O'Leary was all-gateconsuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-mums who meet for coffee, wine, gossip one and momentary escape from their respective livesdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Nothing unusual about Her parents worried that until Yvonne is found battered Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and half-dead in the playgroundhaving a glittering career. Three weeks later Cece moves into In the areaevent, they eloped and Richard took her children starting that same schoolaway from the Isle of Wight. Gradually she finds herself falling into the orbit of Maxie, Anaya and Hazel Margo did go to Oxford and hears what happened went on to the still comatose Yvonnebecome a well-respected journalist. Two questions still hang in the air thoughThe couple had three children: who did it Rachel, Imogen and why? Sasha. The police believe that Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the perpetrator is one Isle of Wight. Even then the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to be leave him incharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsHadeer Elsbai|title=Come SundownThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Bodine LongbowDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''s family has learnt to live with tragedy. A quarter The Daughters of a century earlier BodineIzdihar''s Aunt Alice disappeared without a trace. Nothing has softened explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the pain but life goes on rights of women and the family business (weavers – those with magical abilities - in a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps society pitted against them all busy. Bo is fully focussed as Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the resort's manager military, but distraction instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the horizon in the form of Callen Skinner. Local lad Callen comes home with other hand did not have a successful Hollywood film career on his CV privileged upbringing like Nehal and an eye feels great pressure to provide for a certain Longbow lady. Howeverher family and maintain their reputation, when whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a womangroup campaigning for women's body rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is found on resort land Callen is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen and Bo shake themselves free a story of a lawman's prejudice in order to discover the truth? The clock's ticking as Bo an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and Callen try to solve cruelty, from which blossoms a mystery while putting themselves in the firing line group of admirable women fighting for their rights and then Aunt Alice returns..overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB0B575J99N|title=Spandex and Beneath the CityPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary= Touted as a superElizabeth Miller was thirty-hero romantic comedy, ''Spandex four and the City'' features a teacher at a prestigious girl-next-door Holly, a typically insecure 20-something rom-com heroine, enjoying her life in Centerton (Colgan's stand school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for Gotham)something more in life. When a handsome stranger she meets at a bar turns out to be the She'd ''Ultimate Manstill not found the right vocation nor met the right man'', and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a vigilante superhero straight from little trepidation when she applied for the Marvel or DC universe (the superpowers are more of professoressa job in Bologna. After a Marvel kindtelephone interview, but the character - both of she was offered the UM position and of his adversary - reference Batman, among others), she canit wasn't help falling for himlong before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Isabella Davidson0241542405|title=The Beta Mum: Adventures in Alpha LandMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=To say that Sophie Bennett didnWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it't want to move to London is something of an understatement. Shes Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's a shy person who doesn't make friends easily and the thought of losing all not left her support systems and having to start again fills her with dreadhome for 1,214 days. She'd ''Butlike''to: in fact, husband Michael has been offered a big job she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on London's RailLink project and itshe's not a chance he can turn down - even considered which shoes to wear if he wanted she's going tocatch her train. Then, and he doesnshe can't. She simply can'tforce herself to leave the safety of her home. So before long their three-year old daughterShe's fortunate that she has a good friend, KayaSadie, has been left who visits regularly with Sophieher two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's parents and Michael and Sophie have found a flat in west London cardiac nurse and they've evenfull of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, against all the odds, managed to secure a place for Kaya at LondonFred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's most exclusive nursery schoolalso an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. Well, when I say that He''they'' managed to secure the place, I actually mean that they required the services of a nursery consultants from Holding Hands, who has a double-barrelled name and a friendship charity which supports people with the headmistressproblems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts0008441618|title=The ObsessionOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|genre=CrimeWomen's Fiction|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she hasndidn't always lived live up to her retired predecessor therecould well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. Naomi's life The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday presentschool. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult sheThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s now putting her life back together and even coping , with two members, in particular, causing problems for the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurkshead. The past will one day repeat itself Laura Spence and this time Naomi will find sheKate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the targettoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kaela CobleGiovanna Fletcher|title=Friends and LiarsWalking on Sunshine|rating=54|genre=ThrillersWomen's Fiction|summary= Kaela CobleMike's debut novel wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules'Friends to follow, knowing that she was dying and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells the tale of 'the crew', a group of friends who once made a pact they would need help to ''always be honest with eachother''carry on living. So what happens when none Whilst some of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew rules are reunited at the wake of around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their ownlife troubles, Danny Deusodecide to drop everything in their own lives, who has left a haunting suicide note and go along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the gravehim.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paige ToonB09FS89KX9|title= The Last Piece of my HeartFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Bridget is a travel writer and blogger with dreams of writing a book, but so far that has remained Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just a dream. Then an opportunity arises: not to write a book going into the final year of her own, but to ghost write someone elseveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB'sdiner. Nicole died with Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a bestseller good boss. Hollie had moved in print and plans for a sequelwith her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and her publishers are keen that Bridget picks up where she left offhe was doing well in his career. It Hollie wasn's an unusual proposition, even more t quite so because she will need certain though: Marcus wanted to go control her and spend time with Nicole's husband and baby daughter as part most of all he wanted her to leave her research, but it might be job at the foot in diner. Then there was the door she needs fact that he would be violent, both to her and to segway into that book she's been planningother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Falvey0008421714|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish SagaMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore HouseThe problem began just after the publication of George March's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forevermost successful novel to date. Rosie soon comes to Everyone but Mrs March (we know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in her first name only on the House and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely last page) seemed to serve themeither be reading it or had already done so. The days of innocence are coming Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to an end in many ways. Soonbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louderbread, there'll be more than steps on society'but isn't this the first time he's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in based a nation character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that will never be Johanna is the same againwhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Colleen Oakley1473685745|title= Close Enough to Touch|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=''One time, a boy kissed me and I almost died...My lips started tingling. My tongue swelled to fill my mouth. My throat closed; I couldn't breathe. Everything went black.'' So begins the tale of an unlikely romantic heroine: a girl who is allergic to other human beings. After the extreme humiliation suffered in the aftermath of the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse and hides herself away from the world for nine years. When her source of income suddenly dries up, Jubilee needs to overcome her fears, step out into the world and find a job. Working at the local library, she meets divorced dad Eric and his quirky adopted son, Aja and strikes up a friendship with them. As their mutual attraction starts to grow, can there be any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Nancy Revell|title=Shipyard Girls at War: (Shipyard Girls 2) Katie Marsh|rating=54

|summary=Warning: This review contains spoilers for [[The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell|Book 1]] in the series from the beginning.The war bites deeper When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more Beth was doing her best to contend with than a heavier workload. The Elliott household is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in Africaapologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, muting the celebrations when off his twin, Joe, comes home, albeit injuredbike. Rosie is getting over her horrendous episode with her murderous uncle He wasn't hurt but she's still not back to full healthJake has history. Working shifts at the yard during the day and secretly by night as a brothel manager to afford her little sisterHe has HLHS - that's school fees is a bit Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of a strain at times but the worst seems to be over. The complications in Rosieyou who are not ''au fait's life aren't over yet thoughwith your medical acronyms. A complication When he was born, the left side of the his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart is on the horizon: can she afford to fall in love with surgery when he was a police detective? few days old. Meanwhile Gloria attempts So, Simon has every right to move on from her abusive husband arenbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't that easylooking where they're driving. The war is taking more than its share of casualties but then so is life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeC J Carey|title=The New NeighboursWidowland

|summary=Dartmouth Circle has always been It'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 sanctioned return to the epitome throne of British middle class proprietyEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Manicured lawnsFor yes, wellBritain caved in the lead-kept house facades… All is where up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it should be , and life is orderedwe are now a protectorate – well, with we share enough of the same blood as the disrupting influence of Germanic peoples on ''the townmainland''s university students out . But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of sight that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and out of mindbeyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. ImagineAnd in this puritanical existence, thenour heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the horror when the good citizens 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 Circle hear that one of their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodationparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Will it be That is her job, at least, until the harbinger first emerging signs of doom they expect?female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dinah JefferiesRuth Hogan|title=Before the RainsMadame Burova

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories This book lets us discover several people in different stages of India that have feed her desire to returnlife in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. Therefore So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in 1930a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, following the death third generation of her husbandMadame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', when the British government commission to use her to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chancefamily's sea-front booth. What she doesn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with The singer, the idea. Living within scryer and the Sultanasufferer's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction 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 herlast day, as fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is Jayshe, an Indian price and who shows Eliza delivered the real India. Howeversecrets about her to Imelda, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadly.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam JenoffJennifer Saint |title=The Orphan's TaleAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Herr Neuroff's circus has This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source of entertainment, it's way that is sympathetic to its origins but also refuge appealing to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates. One such person, Astrid, a trapeze and high wire artist, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly actmodern audience. SheSaint's an expert who has perfected narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her art over time and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, a non-circus family new comerchildhood to her death, quickly. There's a reason behind allowing the circus owner's demand though. Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: reader to really connect with Ariadne as a Jewish baby she stole from character in her own right rather than just a Nazi train before leaving prop in the Netherlands. It was a spur heroics of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may beTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda RobertsLucy Holland|title=The Roots of the TreeSistersong|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The strength Sistersong is part of a tree comes not from what you can seegenre I particularly enjoy, not from the trunkmodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, the branches for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and the leavesoutdated, fleshing out characters, but from what you can't see examining relationships and re- evaluating the rootsrole of women. Disturbance to Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the roots can be devastating. It's similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 yearsplot is handled with care, secure in keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the love of her parentscharacters to come to life, Elsie to feel real and Frank. She'd looked after them human, most importantly they feel relatable in her home a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in their final years and it was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until ''after'' her birth, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father This is a masterpiece of storytelling and that her mother I was married captivated from beginning to him. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after allend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marilyn BennettB08NF79QXT|title=Granny with BenefitsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age -one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for a woman, particularly if just six months when she's not married. Has she given up on the idea of having a family? Does her career mean everything to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking nominated for a man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL and wins - as she thought of him)the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmothers delighted and the two people she's home, but she brought with her to the event couldn't resist the opportunity to do a little dressing upbe more pleased. SoSonja, her mother, wearing is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her grandmotherlooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's clotheshusband, wig resting just above her eyebrows Charles and heavytheir four-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she met the misses having a man of in her dreams. Only, rather than laughing and explaining what she'd been doing, Grace carried on the pantomime - and called herself Louiselife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898736</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Summer Seaside KitchenKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary= Colgan has a diverse portfolio of chick lit (and she also writes Dr Who novels) under her belt but starting with [[Meet me George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at the Cupcake Café]] in 2011, she has established herself as one of the queens of the chick-lit subgenre of and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she''comedy romance with food''', s stuck in the Queen of Hearts and the queen of fruit tarts, to karma trap: an obvious benefit awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her popularity and presumably her bank balance and to she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the sound of satisfied ahhhhs and mmmms leak from her growing fanbase. As you can see I do miss the Old Jenny a little bit, shower by putting something down at the brasher and swearier characters and bottom of the much more cutting humour. But. There is something stairs to be said for a well written feelgood novel and I did enjoy absorb the sweetshop, water - then the café, shower fell through the bakery roof whilst she was in it and now left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother''Summer Seaside Kitchen'' which has all the tried, tested and well loved ingredients of s dog out for a perfectly escapist, mostly but not totally predictable chickwalk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face -lit romance with and a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something of her house specialphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna BellB08CHJLNBS|title=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting Even|rating= 3|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= We begin the story with Lexi and her boyfriend. Lexi is one of those women, who has a begrudging relationship with her mother, who is constantly pestering to get her down the aisle, a father who has a spine missing and a boyfriend who leaves her as a sports widow. The more I talk to my female friends about this, the luckier I realise I am to not have. A partner who is entirely uninterested in sport but does fixate on Star Trek, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space and guns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author= Dawn O'Porter|title= The CowsBrooke Adams|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Reading the blurb for this novel, the first novel for adults by author Dawn O'Porter, I got very excited. It talks about the cow being a piece of meat, born to breed, one of the herd, and compares this to women, saying how they don't have to fall into a stereotype. I expected a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was an easy to read, enjoyable romp through three modern women's lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008126038</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=5

|summary=As predicted by Caroline and JaniceHe's mother on Caroline Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and Henrya partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's wedding dayEmilia, their marriage is overtwenty-nine, albeit 15 years librarian and two daughters further along than predictedarchivist in the heritage library next door. IndeedEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinewhich leave you dependent on someone else's housephilosophies, to something a little deeper. There's the split and the awkwardness Charles is more of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that mistaken identity moment involving the neighboursEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She still dreams of him, yes, but 's not his usual type at all: it's so over! obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? Just as well really… guess whoThe relationship's at the doorobviously a non-starter, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wendy HoldenHelly Acton|title= Honeymoon SuiteThe Shelf|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= This is an excellent read, weaving together many stories. We have Nell who, yes, is left at the altar after a whirlwind romance. It's horrible and horrifying and she is, understandably, distraught. Her last modicum of self-respect vanishes when she rings to cancel her honeymoon, only to find it non-refundable. And so, in a rare show of gumption, she decides to go anyway, taking along her friend Rachel and Rachel's daughter Juno for the ride. At 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 to disappear, at least for a bit. As luck, and artistic license, would have it, the two end up in the same place. But this is not the first time they have crossed paths, and they are both in for an almighty shock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosie Blake|title=How to Get a Love Life|rating=34

|summary= Nicola is the sort of girl who knows whatWhen we meet Amy, she's for dinner based on what day of the week it is. Meticulously tidy, she employs in a cleaner as well just to make doubly sure nothing is out of placerelationship with Jamie. And you You can set your watch by the time she eats her daily treat of 't really call it a Mini Roll. Not all of this is bad. I believe in scheduled relaxationpartnership, and felt my heart skip a beat whenbecause things tend to get done on his terms, on the first day of my honeymoonbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we received all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a schedule with our activities for the weeksurprise trip. But the point is, Nicola is at the far end of Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the spectrum, work (and she certainly does not seem the kind to have a messy, chaotic love life.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398643</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadiya HussainAlyssa Sheinmel|title=The Secret Lives What Kind of the Amir SistersGirl|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: there's really no other way of putting it. They'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 in her own way. For the most part they're doing it quietly, but it's not always the case. The eldest is Fatima. Her name's often abbreviated to Fatti: it's not meant unkindly, but she's well upholstered and at thirty she's unmarried. Even her mother doesn't seem to think that there's much point in trying to find a husband for her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chrissie Manby|title= A Fairy Tale For Christmas|rating= 3.5

|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working as a singer on a cruise ship. He '' Doing something when you're scared is the impressive Director of Entertainment on board, and they fall braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship which Kirsty hopes will grow has just ended and develop into something specialnow she's the talk of the school. When Jon announces Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he wants to return to England to his West Country seaside homedid? Some people believe her and some don't, Kirsty but one thing is faced with a difficult decision: whether for sure, this isn't going to follow him and cement their flourishing relationship or pursue her own career with a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbeanblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diane AllenKatie Fforde|title= The Mistress of Windfell ManorA Springtime Affair

|summary= Charlotte Booth is I've wanted to read 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. This provided two romances for the beautiful daughter price of a successful wool farmer and like any young Victorian womanone, she looks forward but it was actually the family element as opposed to the day she can be married romance that I really enjoyed. |isbn=1780897561}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and have a family group of her ownsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Her childhood sweetheart Archie has a place in Charlotte When you's heartre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but he cannot provide her with Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the life she desires, so when wealthy mill owner Joseph Dawson comes Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to town Charlotte sees her luck begin to change. After a brief courtship, Charlotte or perhaps William and Joseph Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry and move in the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the illustrious Windfell Manor, but things soon turn sour when one of JosephYoung Farmers's mill workers is found dead and Charlotte starts to suspect Halloween disco that Joseph isn't weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the man she first thought he wasclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>