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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Robert Porter was angry. The politician filling Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the television screen was lyingsubtlety of a half brick. He knew itJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He railed against it and said politician would have thought himself lucky not to be there in person. Nina only managed to calm her husband by enquiring whether he would like red or white wine with the meal 's asthmatic and had that been the end of more you read, the matter then more you'll suspect that would have been he's on the end of the matter – if you see what I meanautistic spectrum. But Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the telephone rang local A&E and it was Robertsometimes Bo's boss with details of the team-bonding office trip to Florida. Robert assured him that he was really keen not fit enough to go (he wasn't) and Nina was looking forward to it too (she wasn't)school. And then Nina started wondering about Missed shifts or the difference between need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the politician's lies and Robert's, er, evasionswrong. Surely it must be possible It was going to come to tell the truth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091931673</amazonuk>a head.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jojo MoyesLauren Bravo|title=The Last Letter From Your LoverPreloved|rating=4.5

|summary=I do love Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a story big number that wraps me up completely within its little world, making me want to ignore starts with a four and ends with an oh-my long list of things to do and just curl up reading all day. Jojo Moyes-God-I' new novel certainly managed itm-nearly-forty. I felt transported back to Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the 1960's, entirely caught up in the characters' lives, riding their highs and lows alongside toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of them, a mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and I ended up desperately foisting my just-woken-up toddler onto my husband so that I could just read Gwen has decided now is the last four pages without time to take back her hanging off my arm!life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340961627</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Cathy Woodman|title=Trust Me, I'm a Vet|rating=4Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Though I'm not a pet owner and as such had never thought too much about it, I believed this book when it told me there are two types of vets (three if you count the Vietnam kind, though for these purposes let's not). No, I mean the city type who look after poodles and hamsters and maybe the odd depressed gold fish, and the country kind who stick their hands up cows' bottoms for fun, and think horses are man's second best friend, as well as essential equipment for extracurricular activities. Maz definitely falls into the first category, but when her love life gets as sticky as a cancerous canine tumour, she realises that London is not the place to be any more. An opportunity arises at the rather tweely named ''Otter'' ''House'' ''Veterinary'' ''Clinic'', and she seizes it, pleased to have a reason to flee the capital, at least temporarily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543567</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeannie MachinHadeer Elsbai|title=My Lady DominoThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=34|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Adele Russell serves behind Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the counter in a haberdashers and lives over of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the shop. It wasn't always like that though as it's only a few years since she was a wealthy heiress engaged to marry an earl, but after her father's financial ruin rights of women and his death weavers – those with magical abilities - in a fire her fiancé broke off society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the relationship and Adele was lucky upper class, wishes to be taken in by her old nurse. It's taken some time attend the Weaving Academy to come learn to terms control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with what happened Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and Adele has reconciled herself feels great pressure to provide for her lowly position until she finds an invitation to family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a masked ballgroup campaigning for women's rights. What harm would there Giorgina also happens to be in her wearing her mother's ball gown love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and dominocruelty, just for from which blossoms a taste group of how things used to be?admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089988</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val HarrisB0B575J99N|title=Sea CreaturesBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.54

|summary=Rowena Moon Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and her husband Brendan lived on the Cornish coast with their three children, Jenna, Charlie and Oliviaa teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. Brendan It was an artist – and a reasonably successful one''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. Rowena ran a local café and She'd ''still not found the children had right vocation nor met the freedom of right man'' and now was the local beachtime to make a change. It sounds like, and probably was, an idyllic childhood until one day Rowena disappeared without warning and without explanationShe needed challenges. It There was devastating and affected each of a little trepidation when she applied for the children professoressa job in different ways as they grew upBologna. Twenty two years later After a telephone interview, she was offered the five are reunited position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the mystery of their past unravelsbeautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599741</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Heath0241542405|title=A Commercial EnterpriseMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Caroline is a Lexham, but When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not one of left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''thelike'' Lexhams as her father made a rather unfortunate marriageto: in fact, she so nearly does. In consequence Her outdoor clothes are on and she's rather surprised even considered which shoes to be invited wear if she's going to the reading of catch her uncle's willtrain. She didn't know himThen, had no expectations and probably wouldnshe can't have gone to London if she hadn. She simply can't been trying force herself to escape leave the attentions safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a pressing suitorgood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. The journey there is trying, but sheSadie's rescued by Sir Hal Seymour a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gives gave Meredith her a lift cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in his carriageher spare time. It might have got Caro to the reading on timeThen Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, but she made an enemy of his mistress who had hopes of becoming his wifea charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070908997X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jewell0008441618|title=After the PartyOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=It's been eleven years since Ralph and Jem finally became an item at Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the end new head of Lisa JewellWest Burntridge First School: if she didn's first novel Ralph's Party. After buying t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in South London and having two children their once exciting, romantic and crazy relationship has gradually become consumed by responsibility and domesticitythat part of the town. Jem has become bogged down with motherhood The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and running a home and just wishes Ralph would help out the funds which they raised were a bit as she struggles considerable benefit to start working againthe school. RalphThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, unsure of his role in particular, causing problems for the family, has gradually drifted away both physically head. Laura Spence and emotionally from Jem and his Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children, preferring to spend as much time as possible painting could bring in his studioon Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846055733</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue EcksteinGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Cloths of HeavenWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=WeMike're in West Africa in the early nineteen ninetiess 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. ThereBut Pia left them all some 'rules's the usual mix of expatriates to follow, knowing that she was dying and diplomatic staff doing their best that they would need help to do their best whilst still making the most carry on living. Whilst some of the freedoms rules are around practicalities such a life gives. Isabel is married as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to iconoclastic photographer Patrick Redmond take one of their trips away, and Vicky and copes better than most wives would Zaza, struggling with her husband's fixation with pendulous black breasts. There is gossip though. The High Commissioner their grief and his wife Fenella are both involved their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in illicit affairstheir own lives, and go along with more or less discretionhim. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0954930983</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB09FS89KX9|title=Chocolate Wishes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I know one should never judge a book by its cover, but somehow I always do. So I was expecting some light-hearted chick-lit when I began this book. I was a little startled to find several mentions of tarot cards, Mayan charms, and guardian angels - a somewhat bizarre spiritual mixture - within the first pages. What, I wondered, had I got myself into?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561144</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Margaret Leroy|title=The Perfect MotherPenelope Potts

|summary=Perfection pervades every corner Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of Catrionaher veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's life She has a beautiful home, a charming husband, a welldiner. Bob - the owner -behaved stepdaughter, and regarded her fondly: he was a cherished daughter of good boss. Hollie had moved in with her ownboyfriend, 8-year-old DaisyMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. When Daisy is taken ill, Catriona does Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all a good mother would do he wanted her to help leave her get betterjob at the diner. But as Daisy's condition deteriorates with no sign of improvementThen there was the fact that he would be violent, Catriona seeks more both to her and more medical intervention, until eventually she is accused of being responsible for her daughter's illnessto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303527</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susannah Bates 0008421714|title=Under a Sapphire SkyMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Marianne Cooper is happyThe 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 character on you?'' She has a thriving jewellery business with mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her best friend Gabby and is six months pregnant with Gabbymannerisms's brother Jay's baby. Marianne enjoys her passion Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for stones, her unconventional attitude to life and her pregnancythe fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, and her unique relationship with Jayplain, but when her ex boyfrienddetestable, and reformed manpathetic, Paul comes back into her life with his fiancée Sophie and a rare padparascha stone he wants Marianne to turn into an engagement ringunloved, she soon finds herself questioning her decision to reject Paul and indeed her way of lifeunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099445441</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Harwood1473685745|title=Kiss Like You Mean It|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This book is a modern-day love story. It's all about trendy characters with trendy names living rather trendy lives in glossy location sets. The title gives a very clear message as to its contents. Romantic fiction which will appeal generally to women. But there's also a story within a story (and for me the more interesting one) which is the Hollywood movie being filmed in Europe. It takes us back to the first World War and the heroic actions of one young man, in particular.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330442090</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Laurie Graham|title=Life According to LubkaKatie Marsh|rating=3.54

|summary=Buzz Wexler is at the top 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 gamebest to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, working in music PR with all the latest up and coming Urban music bands like Grime Beat and Evil MarsupialJake, off his bike. SheHe wasn's forty-two years old t hurt but is still out every night, drinking, eating very little and seemingly surviving on a diet of chemical mood enhancersJake has history. One day, however, she is called into her managerHe has HLHS - that's office and assigned a tour with a Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'World Music' groupwith your medical acronyms. When he was born, the Gorni Grannies, left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a group of elderly women from Bulgaria who sing togetherfew days old. Buzz finds her life in the fast lane is brought to a sudden haltSo, as she tries Simon has every right to control a group of elderly ladies touring England who think that lifts are powered by black magic and that Poundland is the best shop ever invented. Yet this is just the beginning of a whole new life for Buzzbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161828</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet MullanyC J Carey|title=Improper RelationsWidowland

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Unlucky in love Charlotte Hayden has just lost her best friend 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 confidante Ann in marriage watching over the sanctioned return to the Earl throne of BeresfordEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. At For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the wedding she encounters Lord ShadderlyWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, Beresfordwe share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland's best friend'. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a broodingly handsome man whom she takes an immediate dislike caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down tothe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Before she knows it Charlotte Female literacy is caught actively discouraged. And in a compromising situation this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with Shadderly the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and he so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is forced her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to propose light, with their potential to her or risk both their reputationsspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347803</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreview|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Ice Cream Girls|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Poppy and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious press, have their young lives shattered by the man they shared, a teacher in a position of trust, who controlled them in the worst possible ways. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has the assertiveness or maturity to handle the situation. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed courses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Grodstein|title=A Friend of the Family|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary='A Friend of the Family' is an intriguing and enjoyable read. Set in a wealthy New Jersey neighbourhood, it tells the story of two couples who have been friends for many years. Peter Dizinoff and Joe Stern graduated from medical school together and their wives, Elaine and Iris have known each other for just as long. In many ways their privileged lives have been almost perfect – that is until a shocking event occurs and the two couples react in such different ways that it shatters their friendship and threatens their comfortable existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533359</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Long|title=A Mother's Guide to Cheating|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Jaz discovers a random text message on her husband Ian's phone, it does not take a genius to work out the meaning of a message as personal as 'what did you dream last night?', followed by kisses and a strange woman's name. Nor does it take a genius to figure out the precise nature of what Ian has been up to with the sender. A subsequent confession and proclamation from Ian that 'it meant nothing; she is nothing' does not diminish Jaz's rage and he is dispatched, forthwith, from the family home. As is the norm in these kind of situations, you turn to the people you most trust to help you through and reinforcements in the shape of Jaz's mother, Carol, swiftly arrive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377505</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasRuth Hogan|title=Missing YouMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Sean seemed to have This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the perfect lifeearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. He has So we have a successful career, a beautiful wife to whom bullied half-cast boy (as he is devotedwould have been called then), a daughter whom he adores and he lives girl in a dream home. But then one day it all falls apart when Belle announces that she has met someone else humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and wants Sean to move out. Fenchiefly, Imelda, on the other handthird generation of Madame Burova, doesn't have a perfect life. She works in a bookshop 'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and is devoted Clairvoyant'', to use her young son, Connor who has cerebral palsyfamily's sea-front booth. ThatThe singer, the scryer and the sufferer's not 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 least family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of her problems though as she hides a dreadful secret and fearful pair of letters that it will be brought out into the open change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she lives a life drawn in on itself, far from and who delivered the secrets about her home to Imelda, and family and reluctant why did it have to become close to anyone.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330454412</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)Jennifer Saint |title=Loves Me, Loves Me NotAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction |summary=What a feast is presented in these forty stories from wellThis re-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating telling of the fiftieth anniversary myth of Ariadne and the Romantic Novelists' AssociationMinotaur is interesting and unusual. In Jennifer Saint presents the story in a Whoway that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's Who narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of the genreAriadne, there are writers spanning from every age groupher childhood to her death, including one or two who might even have been founder members of allowing the RNA, back reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in 1960. My advice is to sip through the stories slowly, her own right rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestionjust a prop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverLucy Holland|title=Before I FallSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston Sistersong ispart of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, in many waysfor most of us, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sistersa cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to show off just how ''In'' you stories that are at schoolnow becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, as measured by examining relationships and re-evaluating the number role of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about thatwomen. She knows she's part Sistersong is a perfect example of a group whomodern retelling done well, by most definitionsthe plot is handled with care, would be called popularkeeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and though sometimes inside she might human, most importantly they feel on relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the inside pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition masterpiece of ''in''storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne BuglerB08NF79QXT|title=This Perfect WorldCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=Laura Hamley sees herself as a fortunate woman. She Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has a successful husbandhad her shop, two beautiful children, a big house in a good neighbourhoodthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and a coterie of friends who fall nicely into wins - the category of people like usRetail Best Newcomer Award. She's always beautifully turned out, delighted and the two people she's brought with her position in to the social pecking order event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is never less than highan ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. She simply shrugs off the occasional moments of dissatisfaction Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year- what on Earth could old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she have to complain about? And then Mrs Partridge makes an unwelcome phone call..misses having a man in her life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>023074401X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen|title=Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A sign of a good book, for me, often relates to how easily I can put it down. And then how much I want to pick it back up again. Nina Jones was a particular challenge for me as after reading it for an hour whilst my toddler napped I kept my thumb in the page whilst getting her out of bed, snuck her downstairs still saving my page, put on Cbeebies, and then sat next to her on the sofa to carry on reading for at least another hour, if not a little bit more than that. I then kept it in the kitchen so I could sneak a few more pages in between stirring the spaghetti. And then once my daughter was in bed I went on to absently ignore my poor, tired, over-worked husband (who got bored and went for a bath) so that I could read on to the end of the story. I found myself mentally yelling at a fictional character (I hope it was mentally and I wasn't actually shouting out loud...we have very thin walls), I swooned over the hero, sniggered often and I even cried a little bit too. So, a book that induces such family neglect and an emotional roller coaster of emotions is definitely a good read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341414</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melanie Rose|title=Coming Home|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We meet the narrator of this story drinking coffee from a thermos in a lay-by, on a cold grey day. All her worldly possessions are travelling with her in her car, including her cat. She has clearly made some momentous decision, and is on her way to somewhere new. I assumed that as story unfolded, I'd learn more about her and where she was going.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephanie Tillotson|title=Cut on the Bias|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Erica Bauermeister B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Monday Night Cooking School|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The Monday Night Cooking School is the first novel written by American writer Erica Bauermeister and it really is a delicious read in every sense. The novel tells of eight very diverse people who attend a cooking class once a month at Lillian's restaurant. Each has a different reason for being there and each has his or her own story to tell. However, over the months that the course is run, they start to bond through the learning experience and their love of food. It's not the sort of novel where much happens but if you are interested in people and you love food, I am sure you will enjoy this book. Having said that though, I don't think it is a book that should be read if you are trying to diet because you can virtually smell the food as you turn the pages!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141038837</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Kate Morton|title=The Forgotten GardenLisette Boyd

|summary=Just before the First World War a little girl was found abandoned on the wharf after a dreadful sea voyage from England George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to Australialook at - and single. She appears 's not to know had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her name – or is unwilling to tell it – and all she will say is that has a mysterious lady real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she calls dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the Authoress had promised bottom of the stairs to look after absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. ThereShe only has to take her mother's no trace of dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her though face - and the little girl was a photo being taken in a by a friendly family. She forgot all about someone who shares it around the events until many years later when her adopted father told her what had happenedoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330449605</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Marie Buchanan B08CHJLNBS|title=The Day The Falls Stood Still|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I imagined this title as a 'Gone With the Wind' sort of novel, a saga-esque historical romance, with a characterful heroine and page-turning story line that necessitates reading late into the night. Well, I wasn't disappointed in this paperback edition of the hardback, already a best-seller in the U.S.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925967</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Nia Pritchard|title=More Than Just A HairdresserBrooke Adams|rating=2.53

|summary=ItHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a brand partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new yearage books like that, and Liverpudlian hairdresser Shirley which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is looking forward to the months ahead following one hell more of a new year[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's eve partyshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. What They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's more, shenot his usual type at all: it's going obvious to chronicle her adventures in her brand spanking new diary which she will write in diligentlyhis friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, even when why does shefeel drawn to him? The relationship's feeling obviously a bit non-starter, isn'morning after the night before'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1870206851</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony QuinnHelly Acton|title=The Rescue ManShelf|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=This love affair tale When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with the city of Liverpool is mostly told through the eyes of architect Tom BainesJamie. With the Second World War loomingYou can't really call it a partnership, Baines is desperately working 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 book surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to capture get down on one knee? Was the memory of buildings that are at risk, work (and appears a man more in love with the past and solid, cold structures than mankind.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099531933</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Lorraine Jenkin|title=Chocolate Mousse 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 has just ended and Two Spoons|rating=4.5|genre=Womennow she's Fiction|summary=From the first sentence: 'With one hell talk of a crash, Lettie Howell’s dinner service hit the wall…'school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, I everyone knew that I was going to enjoy this tale. An opening thus full of expletive , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and resounding Welsh Voice immediately makes it clear who’s the boss and I can relaxsome don't, knowing I’m in competent hands. Welcome, Lorraine Jenkinbut one thing is for sure, this isn't going to my handful of favourite chick-lit authorsblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1870206959</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ru FreemanKatie Fforde|title=A Disobedient GirlSpringtime Affair|rating=54|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=''A Disobedient GirlI'' follows two women struggling ve wanted to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha is read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a servant girl to the affluent Vithanage familywarm, whose daughtercosy read focused on romance, Thara, is Latha's agefamily and friendships. As children, This provided two romances for the girls are the best price of friendsone, but they are destined to be separated by class, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into it was actually the picture. Meanwhile, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love child. Biso's husband murdered her lover in a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are family element as opposed to live. Latha too seeks escape, but she finds it in the arms of Thara's boyfriend and this sets off a chain of events romance that will echo far into her futureI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debby HoltB07W4MNBSG|title=Recipe For ScandalBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=There's evidently It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a market for scandalous tales, or else many a womengroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you's weekly would have gone out of business by nowre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but this book, though full of scandal, is slightly different. This isnLiz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry't council estate scandal or even trashy celebrity scandal, it's juicy, firmly middle class scandal . The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of the type [[:Category:Zoe Heller|Zoë Heller]] might write aboutchildren called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and itOliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers's wickedly captivatingHalloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847396542</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jules Stanbridge|title=A Date in Your Diary|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Harry knows that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows there's a difference between what we need and what we want – and she wants a bloke. More specifically, she wants a date for the latest in a string of friend-and-family weddings, a wedding where, thanks to a 'tricky' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sight, Harry comes to the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to go. At best, she'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes and will joyfully accompany her to the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for a magazine journo.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Owens|title=The Seven Secrets of Happiness|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was hard to think that life wasn't perfect for Ruby O'Neill. She and Jonathan had an idyllic marriage and a beautiful home. There was a job in a dress shop which she enjoyed and although she might not be close to her parents she had good friends. It was Christmas Eve and the tree had just been delivered by a lovely man Move on behalf of the garden centre when her world fell apart. Jonathan had been killed in a car crash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141028564</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Duncan|title=A Single to Rome[[Features|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie is in love with Michael. They've been together for three years, but Michael wants some space. He hasn’t said he doesn’t love her, so there is still a chance he could come back… Then he goes and finds himself a new girlfriend. Devastated, Natalie consoles herself with the help of her friends, who persuade her to go speed dating. There she meets Guy, a friendly man, who like her is trying to get over someone – his new ex-wife Vanessa. But Guy is one of the nice ones, and before she knows it, he has been invited to her friend’s wedding as Natalie’s date. At least she won’t be going alone and Michael will be there. But her love life isn’t her only worry. Past actions have come to light that have put her career in danger. At a loss, Natalie turns to Guy for help, who offers her the use of his flat in Rome. A place to escape? Or a place to dwell? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345932</amazonuk>}}latest features]]