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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] <!-- Remove -->__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erica James1471180158|title= Coming Home to Island HouseMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= Much to Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the disgust subtlety of the village and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a new wifehalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, the 'scarlet womanhas his problems' Romily Temple. But He's asthmatic and the more you read, can his death and final demand the more you'll suspect that his children spend seven days together he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at childhood home, Island House, bring about short notice - she's a reconciliation frequent flier in the local A&E and forgiveness 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 his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, griefschool are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren Bravo|title=Preloved|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and fiery Allegra this seems like ends with an impossibility but then war oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. Catharsis is declared key and Gwen has decided now is the family find themselves pulling together.time to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159590</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sue Moorcroft0008506337|title= The Little Village ChristmasGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 45|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= For meThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, the best Christmas books are unapologeticapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. There is no such thing as too much mistletoe Richard was twenty-one and magic described by Margo's mother as far as I'm concerned 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 sentiment should absolutely be Richard took her away from the order Isle of the dayWight. Whilst Moorcroft offers Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a rather more tapered version 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 this Christmas ideal, I still thoroughly enjoyed Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''The Little Village Christmasshe would never be able to leave him in charge'' and was definitely . Then Richard left with a warm and fuzzy festive feeling!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000826001X</amazonuk>them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny ColganHadeer Elsbai|title= Christmas at Little Beach Street BakeryThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= PollyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the Little Beach serieslives of two women who could not be more different, seems to be yet find themselves fighting for the last rights of this trilogywomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Never say never but by Nehal, born into the end of this bookupper class, wishes to attend the author has certainly secured Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the destiny of these three much-loved charactersmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Don't be put off if you haven't read Giorgina on the previous onesother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, it really won't matter particularly as whilst secretly attending meetings of the author provides Daughters of Izdihar – a helpful little synopsis at the start group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to help thosebe in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, like mefilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, that are new to these storiesfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075156477X</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heidi SwainB0B575J99N|title= Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at Beneath the Christmas FairPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 54|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Having just discovered author Heidi Swain Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and her series of novels featuring a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the residents of Wynbridge, I couldnright man''t wait to read this book and it certainly didn't disappoint being every bit as good as now was the previous book. Yet again Heidi Swain has managed time to combine an original mix of characters with make a feel-good storyline to create change. She needed challenges. There was a totally compelling readlittle trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. ButAfter a telephone interview, don't worry if you haven't read any of she was offered the other instalments as each one focuses on a different lead character position and story so it really wonwasn't matterlong before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164853</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Pimentel0241542405|title=Jenny Sparrow Knows the FutureMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=Jenny and Isla were focused teenagers. So much so in fact Jo Fairburn knew that they decided she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to write her retired predecessor there could well be a life plan for their futures right down to predicting the year house price slump in which Jenny would marry the man that part of her dreams. As luck would have it, as the predicted year arrives Jenny finds herself living with Chris – kind, dependable Christown. The sort of guy with whom she would happily walk down school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the aisleschool. Then that fateful long girly weekend There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with Isla happens in Vegas. A cocktail or two and voilamembers, a suddenin particular, very different husbandcausing problems for the head. Can Jenny get a divorce in time for her wedding Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Chris without Chris finding out about this little…errr... glitch? JennyJo's working restrictions on it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718186443</amazonuk>the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa HillGiovanna Fletcher|title= Keep You SafeWalking on Sunshine|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= This is the story of two mothers and two daughtersMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, and the virus that binds themhas died. Widowed mum Kate And whilst he is a nurse. She has a daughterdealing with his grief, Rosieso are their best friends, Vicky and Rosie is ill with measlesZaza. As a nurseBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can be, but because Rosie has a rare allergy knowing that prevents vaccination, there she was nothing she could do except cross her fingers dying and hope herd immunity that they would need help to carry her throughon living. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' and tells Whilst some of the worldrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, or at least the internetanother one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, the do's and do not's of parenting. There's one thing she didn't do, thoughVicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMRtheir own life troubles, she and her husband decided decide to forgo the jabs for drop everything in their children. And nowown lives, like Rosie, she has measlesand go along with him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008217122</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chrissie ManbyB09FS89KX9|title= The Worst Case Scenario Cookery ClubFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I love a Life should have been good romcom for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and so - three years later - was excited to read Chrissie Manbystill working at BB's latest noveldiner. It certainly didn't disappoint on Bob - the comedy value owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and pleasingly it he was more a doing well in his career. Hollie wasn'relationship comedy' than just a romcom with unlikely friendships t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and day-most of all he wanted her to-day family relations providing leave her job at the diner. Then there was the best laughsfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473639778</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly Hepburn0008421714|title= The Picture House by the SeaMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to a close, I found myself craving a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romancedate. In such a mood 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 thenwrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that I came across Johanna, the cover for principal character had 'her mannerisms''The Picture House by . Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the Seawhore of Nantes - ''. Perfect blue skiesa weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, glistening seaunloved, a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartunloveable wretch. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471161714</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his 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, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=Susi OsborneC J Carey|title=Angelica StoneWidowland

|summary=IIt'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friendss April 1953, but sheand Adolf Hitler's not big on friends. She has schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the sort state funeral of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a childbit, grabbed by the care system and didn't so much fall through watching over the cracks as escaped its clutches and then had sanctioned return to learn how to copethe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. She's been told For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that shecertainly didn's taintedt happen as we know it, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that shewe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''s best staying away from the mainland'decent' people. One But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of her jobs that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is working actively discouraged. And in a supermarket 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 it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they''shere stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's'' a completely different kettle of fishvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katy ColinsRuth Hogan|title= Chasing the SunMadame Burova|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Author Katy Colins became Britain's most famous jilted bride when the true story of her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viral, before becoming a romantic comedy book series with this the latest one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Heidi Swain|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this book. It was utterly enchanting with its charming feel-good storyline, delightful characters and innocent romance. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy to pick up and put down (not that I wanted to) throughout the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rebecca Chance|title= Killer Affair|rating= 3|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Rebecca Chance's much anticipated and praised latest novel is definitely worth a 'chance' but for me it was a very mixed read. The cover blurb describes it as 'irresistibly readable' and 'a glittering page-turner' which it most certainly was, starting with a famed but as yet unidentified woman on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. The story then restarts from the beginning setting the scene, characters and events that will eventually lead up to the revengeful opening act. It's not until the end of the book that this mystery betrayal is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite a long book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)|title=Madame Bovary of the Suburbs|rating=2.5

|summary=''It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life inthe early 1970s, then reproducingall vaguely connected.'' Well, it actually starts So we have a lot before bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), with a set girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of fractured memories of our heroineMadame Burova, ''s childhood – things she recalls her parents Tarot-Reader, Palmist and relatives saying both Clairvoyant'', to and about use herfamily's sea-front booth. It goes through her childhoodThe singer, the scryer and pen letters to the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a best friend conveying revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her wishes for on her lifelast day, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty of university fifty yearslater, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out in possession of a pair of letters that you should be careful what you wish will change everything fora woman called Billie. Just who is she, but not even our wiseand who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''.and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise PentlandJennifer Saint |title=Wilde Like MeAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=World famous fashion and beauty vlogger Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle This re-telling of Glitter, takes on a new challenge in the form of her touching debut novel, ''Wilde Like Me''. You will be transported into a world full myth of exasperating drama with the PSMs (Posh School Mums), heart-warming mother daughter moments Ariadne and self-righteous men who you realise aren't the be all Minotaur is interesting and end allunusual. Now enters Robin Wilde, Jennifer Saint presents the story in a single mum way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to Lyla and make-up artist living in her grannya modern audience. Saint's house simply just trying narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to get by. The novel follows really connect with Ariadne as a character in her journey own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of self discovery, which even she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, and shows you that only '''you''' can make you happyTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonLucy Holland|title=The FriendSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=MaxieSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Anayathe modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffeemost of us, wine, gossip are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and momentary escape from their respective livesa fresh perspective. Nothing unusual about If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that until Yvonne is found battered are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and halfre-dead in evaluating the playgroundrole of women. Three weeks later Cece moves into Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the areaplot is handled with care, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the orbit of Maxiecharacters to come to life, Anaya to feel real and Hazel and hears what happened to human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the still comatose Yvonnepre-Saxon age they live in. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator This is one a masterpiece of the three remaining friends storytelling and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position I was captivated from beginning to be inend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB08NF79QXT|title=Come SundownCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Bodine LongbowThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's family has learnt to live with tragedynominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. A quarter of a century earlier BodineShe's Aunt Alice disappeared without a trace. Nothing has softened the pain but life goes on delighted and the family business (a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps them all busy. Bo is fully focussed as the resorttwo people she's manager but distraction is on brought with her to the horizon in the form of Callen Skinnerevent couldn't be more pleased. Local lad Callen comes home with a successful Hollywood film career on his CV Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and an eye for a certain Longbow ladyBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. However, when a womanJessica's body is found on resort land Callen is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen thirty-four and Bo shake themselves free of a lawmanLiberty's prejudice in order to discover the truth? The clockbest friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's ticking as Bo husband, Charles and Callen try to solve their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a mystery while putting themselves man in the firing line and then Aunt Alice returns..her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB08GFSK2WZ|title=Spandex and the CityThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary= Touted as a superGeorge Jackson is thirty-hero romantic comedythree years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Spandex s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and the City'' features she has a girl-next-door Holly, a typically insecure 20-something rom-com heroine, enjoying her real talent for attracting drama. Her life in Centerton (Colgan's stand in for Gotham). When a handsome stranger chaotic: she meets at a bar turns out to be dealt with the ''Ultimate Man'', a vigilante superhero straight leak from the Marvel or DC universe (shower by putting something down at the superpowers are more bottom of a Marvel kind, but the character stairs to absorb the water - both of then the shower fell through the UM roof whilst she was in it and of his adversary - reference Batmanleft her, among others)stark naked, she canstaring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother't help falling s dog out for a walk for himher to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Isabella DavidsonB08CHJLNBS|title=The Beta Mum: Adventures in Alpha LandCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=To say that Sophie Bennett didnHe't want to move to London is something of an understatements Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's a shy person who doesn't make friends easily Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the thought of losing all her support systems and having to start again fills her with dreadheritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she''But''s moved on from new age books like that, husband Michael has been offered a big job which leave you dependent on Londonsomeone else's RailLink project and it's not philosophies, to something a chance he can turn down - even if he wanted to, and he doesn'tlittle deeper. So before long their three-year old daughterCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, Kayaabove all, has been left with Sophiehe's parents and Michael and Sophie have found a flat in west London and theyshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They've even, against re obviously not at all the oddscompatible, managed to secure a place for Kaya so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at Londonall: it's most exclusive nursery schoolobvious to his friends. Well, when I say And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship'they'' managed to secure the place, I actually mean that they required the services of s obviously a nursery consultantnon-starter, who has a double-barrelled name and a friendship with the headmistress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsHelly Acton|title=The ObsessionShelf|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. Naomi's life had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday present. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurks. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find she's the target.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kaela Coble|title=Friends and Liars|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Kaela Coble's debut novel ''Friends and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells the tale of 'the crew', a group of friends who once made a pact to ''always be honest with eachother''. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at the wake of one of their own, Danny Deuso, who has left a haunting suicide note 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 grave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= The Last Piece of my Heart|rating= 3.54

|summary= Bridget is a travel writer and blogger with dreams of writing a bookWhen we meet Amy, but so far that has remained just a dream. Then an opportunity arises: not to write a book of her own, but to ghost write someone elseshe's. Nicole died with a bestseller in print and plans for a sequel, and her publishers are keen that Bridget picks up where she left offrelationship with Jamie. ItYou can's an unusual propositiont really call it a partnership, even more so because she will need things tend to go and spend time with Nicole's husband and baby daughter as part of her researchget done on his terms, but it might be the foot in the door she needs to segway into that book she's been planning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162559</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Falvey|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that sticking around because she hopes she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forevercan change him. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in the House and thoseAh, like Rosieyes. Haven's family, who have t we all been brought there? Things are looking up merely when he tells her to serve thempack for a surprise trip. The days of innocence are coming Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to an end in many ways. Soon, as get down on one knee? Was the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be work (and the same again.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Colleen OakleyAlyssa Sheinmel|title= Close Enough to TouchWhat Kind of Girl

|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 couldnDoing something when you't breathe. Everything went black.re scared is braver than doing something when you're not''

So begins the tale of an unlikely romantic heroine: When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a girl who black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is allergic to other human beingstipped upside down. After the extreme humiliation suffered in Her relationship has just ended and now she's the aftermath talk of the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse and hides herself away from school. Mike was the world for nine years. When most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her source of income suddenly dries up, Jubilee needs to overcome everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her fears, step out into the world and find a job. Working at the local librarysome don't, she meets divorced dad Eric and his quirky adopted sonbut one thing is for sure, Aja and strikes up a friendship with them. As their mutual attraction starts this isn't going to grow, can there be blow over any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy RevellKatie Fforde|title=Shipyard Girls at War: (Shipyard Girls 2) A Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Warning: This review contains spoilers I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for [[The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell|Book 1]] in the series from the beginning.The war bites deeper ages and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more to contend with than this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a heavier workload. The Elliott household is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in Africawarm, muting the celebrations when his twincosy read focused on romance, Joe, comes home, albeit injuredfamily and friendships. Rosie is getting over her horrendous episode with her murderous uncle but she's still not back to full health. Working shifts at This provided two romances for the yard during the day and secretly by night as a brothel manager to afford her little sister's school fees is a bit price of a strain at times one, but it was actually the worst seems family element as opposed to be over. The complications in Rosie's life aren't over yet though. A complication of the heart is on the horizon: can she afford to fall in love with a police detective? Meanwhile Gloria attempts to move on from her abusive husband aren't romance that easy. The war is taking more than its share of casualties but then so is lifeI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney CosteloeB07W4MNBSG|title=The New NeighboursBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Dartmouth Circle has always been the epitome It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of British middle class proprietysixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Manicured lawnsWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, well-kept house facades… All is where it should be and but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life is ordered, with the disrupting influence of the towndepends on who you marry''s university students out of sight and out of mind. Imagine, then, The only eligible boys were the horror when Young Farmers and the good citizens idea of the Circle hear that one living in a farmhouse and having a couple of their houses… THEIR houses… has been bought as student accommodation. children called Will it be the harbinger of doom they expect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972665</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dinah Jefferies|title=Before the Rains|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire and Olly appealed to return. Therefore in 1930Charlotte, following the death of her husband, when the British government commission her or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at marry the chancerather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. What she doesnThe place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers't realise is Halloween disco that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the ideaweekend. Living within There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlyclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>