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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah Fleming1471180158|title=Remembrance Day|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=In the year 2000 an old lady in a wheelchair watches the unveiling of the new war memorial in the village square. There's pride in what has been achieved, in the family who are gathered around her and there are memories too. Some are good but many are not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Abby McDonald|title=The Popularity RulesPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonaldJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's first adult novel, but a brief browse at control freak with all the juvenile titlesubtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, cover 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen more you read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when the more you're stuck in ll suspect that he's on the pre-scene yearsautistic spectrum. So, despite its label, ISometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she've given it four s a frequent flier in the local A&E and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie booksometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read Missed shifts or the story avidly, need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and enjoyed put in the ironywrong. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldIt was going to come to a head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BakerLauren Bravo|title=Through Rose-Coloured GlassesPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived in one of the poorer parts of Liverpool and whilst there might not have been a lot of money to spare she was happy in her job as an apprentice milliner and spent her free time nursing her mother, Sarah. Her father had been killed in the Great War, but it was the nineteen thirties and the Radcliffes were making the best of things. The son of their next door neighbour was a jockey and it was his free tickets which took Dinah and Gwen is pressing her friend to a race meeting at Aintree. It was there that she met Richard Haldane, a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet and introduced her to a life of wealth and privilege beyond her wildest dreams. Within weeks they were married middle- and within hours Dinah discovered that her husband was not the man she thought he was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carole Matthews |title=That Loving Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Have you ever wondered what successful authors write about? Since they no longer partake of the everyday world of work, how do they 'write about what they know' while still sounding fresh and up to the minute? And how do they think up all those unique plots? Well, Carole Matthews has solved the problem in 'That Loving Feeling' by setting the book in a Public Library, cleverly utilising the hours she must have spent promoting her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up and down the country. To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty of interest from library readers and it's a rather nice touch, isn't it, to set a book amongst your loyal fan base.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Griffiths |title=The Lost Guide to Life and Love|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living in London and hankering for a more glamorous life than the one she has. She has a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers and models. Little does she know at the time but some of the people she only glimpses that night are about to become very important to her. Just after, she agrees to go aged bosom on a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in the Pennines. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on her own. Surprisingly though, it is relief rather than fear that she experiences, particularly when she realises big number that where she is staying has very strong links starts with her family's history and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen who's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quoting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Freda Lightfoot |title=House of Angels|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The novel focuses on the Angel family who live in the Lake District in the late 1900s. Josiah Angel is the head of the family and appears to be a respectable business man, bringing up his three daughters after the death of his wife. The family live in a beautiful house and – to outsiders – the daughters seem to have everything – comfort, money, beauty four and ends with an easy life, in great contrast to the poverty around them. Not far from Josiah's department store are the workhouse with its brutality and the blocks of slum flats infested with rats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Silver |title=Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cassie may be 'just' a PA and living and working in one of the most expensive cities on the planet, but thanks to a flair for fashion, and a generous banker boyfriend youoh-my-God-I'd never know it from looking at her. But, in the fickle world of fashion, friendships and fatm-cat bonuses, things can change in an instant. Let go from her job, and from her relationship by her rhymesnearly-with-banker now ex, she is forced to fend for herself and make some cut backs (*shudder*)forty. Forget the Louboutins and the fancy, on Having been made unexpectedly redundant -fashion belts, the only buckling she'll be doing any time soon is HR officer worth their salt would argue the buckling down to get toss - Gwen finds herself having a new job, reduce her outgoings, and maintain the smidge bit of selfa mid-respect she has leftlife crisis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543559</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Barr|title=The Life You Want|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Many good writers have a signature style Catharsis is key and for me, Emily Barr's Gwen has always been decided now is the utterly authentic travel details all time to take back her books have been peppered with, whether it be the lazy life in a lush French farmhouse, or the excitement of backpacking across Asia. Her new title is no exception, and this time the destination is India.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755335600</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the 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 leave him in charge''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janette Jenkins Hadeer Elsbai|title=Angel The Daughters of BrooklynIzdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=On Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the eve lives of the Great Wartwo women who could not be more different, Jonathan Crane arrives home to yet find themselves fighting for the unyielding grey rights of his home town of Anglezarke, Lancashire women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a beautiful new bride on his armsociety pitted against them. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received Nehal, born into the embrace of upper class, wishes to attend the women of this alien place - Weaving Academy to learn to control her beauty is captivating abilities and then join the stories about where military, but instead she grew upis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, enchanting; Jonathan Cranewhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's new foreign wife rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is not ordinary among these folk and they are suspicious a story of her an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and as sometimes only grittycruelty, British from which blossoms a group of admirable women know how, they are openly fighting for their rights and unashamedly hostile toward herovercoming their personal obstacles. Who is this stunning creature that is trying to infiltrate their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Santa MontefioreB0B575J99N|title=The Italian MatchmakerBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Luca, Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a half-Italian, rich banker has been through teacher at a painful divorce and has decided to take stock of his prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. He decides to leave She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the City behind right man'' and, at now was the suggestion of time to make a friend (and, inevitably, ex-lover) he decides to take off change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the summer to visit his parents who haveprofessoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in (she was offered the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the Amalfi coastbeautiful city. Here, his parents live with a rich assortment of eccentric friends in residence, including a pet pig There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340840544</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Kate Harrison |title=The Secret Shopper Unwrapped|rating=4Frontpage|genreisbn=Women's Fiction0241542405|summary=Glamourous Grazia, sassy Sandie and enthusiastic Emily first got together in Harrison's earlier title, 'The Secret Shopper's Revenge'. Now they're back but this time there are many more hassles to deal with than just a bit of simple, secret shopping. Think toy boys and sugar daddies and the odd A-lister, a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefully, reformed criminals and criminal exes, long lost mothers and potential new mothers in law (in the same room! At the same time!) and the delight or dread that comes from finding yourself unexpectedly in the family way. Combine all these factors with the run up to Christmas and you have three good friends run off their feet in every direction but, because friendship is really all that matters, resolutely there for each other in a pinch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Sarra Manning |title=UnstickyClaire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Low paid but with big dreams, talented fashionista Grace is in the process of being dumped by a boy whom When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enough, he's doing it on left her birthdayhome for 1, and if even 214 days. She'd 'that'slike'' not bad enoughto: in fact, heshe so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's doing it in Libertyeven considered which shoes to wear if she'sgoing to catch her train. Right by Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the new season Marc Jacobs bagssafety of her home. It She's just wrong. And yetfortunate that she has a good friend, as one door closesSadie, another opens right next to it. And this one is biggerwho visits regularly with her two children, older James and Matilda. Sadie's a lot more expensivecardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace In fact it was 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 the tears begin to fallJIGSAWGIRL, whisking so you can guess what she does in her off to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cakespare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. There are worse things I can think of He's from Holding Hands, thata charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's for sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila O'Flanagan0008441618|title=The Perfect Man|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I've read many of Sheila O'Flanagan's books and have always found them light enjoyable reads with interesting storylines and likeable characters. This is what I was expecting from ''The Perfect Man'', and I wasn't at all disappointed. Unlike most of O'Flanagan's books, this one is not set in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship in the Caribbean. Britt McDonagh, the successful author of a novel also entitled ''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present a series of talks and workshops about successful romantic writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Meg Wolitzer |title=The PositionSarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wife, Roz, seemingly like no other man has ever loved Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a woman – his idolatry is boundless, bordering on theatrical and yet out house price slump in that part of this worship, Paul has the germ of an ideatown. Who would not want to know The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the ways in funds which it is possible they raised were a considerable benefit to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? the school. How could everyone not want to seeThere was one difficulty, to though - they were ''sharedevastatingly shockable'' , with two members, in particular, causing problems for the artistic renderings of this head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act of love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monica Carly Giovanna Fletcher|title=Fraser's LineWalking on Sunshine|rating=34
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=When Edie died Fraser Mike's wife, Pia, who he was devastated. They'd been married with for thirty one seventeen years and he'd been devoted to her, has died. Nothing had been too much trouble and And whilst he'd been quite prepared to watch her flirt is dealing with other menhis grief, to shine in any companyso are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. He was, after But Pia left them allsome 'rules' to follow, the man knowing that she went home with. Her death had come suddenly was dying and weeks later he was still in a state of shock, but he knew that he they would have need help to sort carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her affairs wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and he enlisted the help of a casual acquaintance Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to support drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him. He was in for some painful shocks.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1438960069</amazonuk>140593560X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy DillonB09FS89KX9|title=Lost Dogs and Lonely HeartsFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lucy DillonLife should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's previous noveldiner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, [[The Ballroom Class by Lucy Dillon|The Ballroom Class]], featured three couples whose individual stories end up muddled when they start the same dancing lessonsMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. In Hollie wasn''Lost dogs t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and Lonely Hearts'' we have three very different families whose lives end up intertwined when they suddenly become involved with most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the local rescue kennelsdiner. Sound familiar? While Then there was the premise for the two is similarfact that he would be violent, the stories share only one common theme: they're both great readsto her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919205</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Candlish 0008421714|title=Before We Say GoodbyeMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Olivia suffered 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 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, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a great deal in character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her childhood and teenage yearsmannerisms''. Her mother Maggie Perhaps this would disappearnot have mattered, often except for months at the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a timeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, leaving Olivia and her brother disorientatedunloved, upset and - eventually - very angryunloveable wretch. But when her mother lies dying, there's a big question Olivia wants to ask. Did her mother deliberately keep her away from Richie, the young man she fell in love with when she was sixteen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751540382</amazonuk>'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Jenkin 1473685745|title=Eating BlackbirdsUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary='Delightful'When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, 'unsophisticated' Simon was angry and 'funny' tags jump Beth was doing her best to mind apologise for having knocked Simon''Eating Blackbirds''s son, one of several books published this yearJake, aimed at the womenoff his bike. He wasn's mainstream market from Welsh publishers Honnot hurt but Jake has history. I read it in a couple He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of sittings, you who are not wanting to put it down''au fait'' with your medical acronyms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190678406X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Elliott |title=The Prodigal Sister|rating=5|genre=Women When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn's Fiction|summary=Sisters Rebecca, Julie t developed properly and Lauren are travelling from Ireland to attend their younger sister's wedding in New Zealandhe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. This is unlikely So, Simon has every right to be just any family reunion though as no one had heard from Cathy since she fled from their home fifteen years ago. There are many unresolved issues but Cathy has invited them all with the hope that over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they can achieve some closure and hopefully move on with their lives're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561470</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellie Campbell C J Carey|title=When Good Friends Go BadWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Themed fictionIt's April 1953, where there is 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 clear obsession bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with a specific topic can be a bit hit or misshis wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, but Britain caved in the past I have enjoyed ones lead-up to the World War Two that focus certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on [[Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack|books]] ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and [[Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn|shoes]] and especially [[The Food ideas of Love by Anthony Capella|food]]. The key in my mind female purpose, has always been put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to write about something other people obsess overthe drudges, establishing an immediate bond between reader and writerbeyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. This title falls into And in this category but puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with a rather unusual 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 specific fixation: tropical plants. I know little about thesenot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and have never really wanted to change that fact, but though I didn't share so they just get a hefty tweak towards the authorparty line before they's fascination initiallyre stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, by until the end first emerging signs of the book I was hookedfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091926122</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chika UnigweRuth Hogan|title=On Black Sisters' StreetMadame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=SisiThis 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), Amaa girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, Efe and Joyce are prostituteschiefly, Imelda, working in Antwerp's red-light district. They arrived in Belgium through the auspices third generation of DeleMadame Burova, a grasping''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant''talent, to use her family's sea-spottingfront booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer'' Lagos pimps mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, who arranges illegal entry into Europe but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for young women the first time in return for the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a large percentage pair of their earnings letters that will change everything for many yearsa woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224085301</amazonuk>152937331X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Penny Jordan Jennifer Saint |title=SinsAriadne |rating=24.5 |genre=Women's Fiction |summary=''Sins'' is set in This re-telling of the 1950s myth of Ariadne and follows the turbulent love lives of four girls — Emerald, Rose, Janey Minotaur is interesting and Ellaunusual. Scheming Emerald Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is determined sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to bag herself a royal husbandmodern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, outsider Rose just wants spanning from her childhood to fit in, wild child Janey puts her heart and soul into becoming the next Mary Quantdeath, and sensible Ella concentrates on avoiding allowing the mistakes of reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her parents. As own right rather than just a prop in the years pass, the girls reach for their dreams and come to terms with issues that have haunted them from childhoodheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847560741</amazonuk>1472273869
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren Willig Lucy Holland|title=The Secret History of the Pink CarnationSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I used to have months when I would gorge on chick lit before I got marriedparticularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. I lived in London and would wile away the tedium These stories, for most of the tube by escaping into easyus, comforting reads are a cornerstone of twenty-somethings who worried about shoes childhood and shopping I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and mena fresh perspective. It was reassuring If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to know stories that the girlare now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, albeit after a series of highs examining relationships and lows, would ultimately get re-evaluating the guyrole of women. I'm Sistersong is a different kind perfect example of person nowa modern retelling done well, a stay at home mum more likely to be found playing in the park than shoe-shopping in Londonplot is handled with care, and so it's been a while since I've felt like picking up a chick lit book. Something about this one intrigued me though. From keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the back cover blurb it's hard characters to tell if it's a historical novelcome to life, or contemporary chick litto feel real and human, or perhaps some kind of mystery. I have most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling that if you come to it with any particular expectations of it fulfilling one of these genres you might be disappointedappropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. But if you see it as This is a fun, exciting, genre-less read then, hopefully, you won't be able masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to put it downend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007613</amazonuk>1529039037
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg WolitzerB08NF79QXT|title=The WifeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The fact that Joan Castleman is the wife of Thirty-one of -year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the 20th CenturyCherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's most lauded nominated for - and acclaimed authors has not escaped her notice wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and certainly there are the two people a-plenty she's brought with her to remind her how amazing her entire existence must surely the event couldn't bemore pleased. The role of the supportive significant other is a part that Joan has played for almost Sonja, her entire lifemother, watching is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her husband Joelooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's steady rise to the top of his professional treehusband, whilst suppressing her own career aspirations Charles and talents to their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be the silent stanchion of perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her marriage, in every conceivable waylife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099478196</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Wooldridge B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Hidden DanceKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It George Jackson is 1933thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the SS Etoile karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has just left Southampton harbour en route a real talent for New Yorkattracting drama. On board is Lily SuttonHer life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, a timidstark naked, disturbed woman whose posh accent seems unsuited to her situation of travelling in steeragestaring at the pervy postman. Through a series of flashbacks She only has to various years in Lilytake her mother's life we learn why she is so frightened and what has brought dog out for a walk for her to make this secretive journey to New York. As well as learning about end up with dog poo spattered across her romantic aspirations through the story we also see her stumble into face - and a difficult situation on board ship that lends a crime mystery feel to the latter half of photo being taken by someone who shares it around the bookoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Wolitzer B08CHJLNBS|title=The Ten-year NapCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Amy couldnHe't remember s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the last time her husband Leo had gotten terribly excited by herheritage library next door. Jill could not understand why Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she did not really feel 's moved on from new age books like much of that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a mother to her adopted daughter, Nadialittle deeper. It had been four yearsCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but still the quiet little girl , above all, he's shocked that she and her husbandEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, Donald, had so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She'rescueds not his usual type at all: it' from a Siberian orphanage seemed like a stranger s obvious to herhis friends. Roberta didnAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles't seem to know how s superficiality, why does she had come feel drawn to give up on her dream to be an artist, but somehow amidst her marriage, the childrenhim? The relationship's craft projects and the part time work as obviously a puppeteernon-starter, isn't it had simply faded away until she could barely remember what it was like to hold a brush in her hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523485</amazonuk>?
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{{Frontpage
|author= Helly Acton
|title= The Shelf
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?
|isbn=1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Elmor Katie Fforde|title=Pictures of YouA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction |summary=This is the story of Luna, who is an artist. ItI's also the story of Angie, her mother, ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - to a lesser degree - it's about Natwarm, a teenage single mother in horrendous circumstances. It begins when Luna and Angie attend the funeral of Luna's long-estranged father in 2003. Or rathercosy read focused on romance, the story actually begins when Luna family and her boyfriend Pierre are making love in a cupboard under the stairs just after the funeralfriendships. And This provided two romances for the book itself starts with a prologue, set six years later, when an unnamed man (with wife and two children in tow) spots an unnamed woman in an art gallery, and thinks back to a lifetime price of loving her. Confused? Yesone, I but it was too. And not at all sure what actually the family element as opposed to expectthe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230014569</amazonuk>1780897561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maggie DanaB07W4MNBSG|title=BeachcombingBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
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|genre=Women's General Fiction |summary=You'll like Jill HunterIt was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. SheWhen you's smartre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, independent and likes to have fun. Her business is one but Liz was convinced that she's built up from scratch and she's brought up two sons your entire life depends on her own since her divorce many years ago who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to her credit theymarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers're both splendid young menHalloween disco that weekend. Money's a little tight but she's managed to restore a dilapidated beach cottage There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in Connecticut where it sits amongst some rather more expensive neighboursthe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742688</amazonuk>
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