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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=WomenGeneral Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's Fiction==asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lulu TaylorLauren Bravo|title=Midnight GirlsPreloved

|summary=Best friends Allegra McCorquodale, Imogen Heath Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and Romily de Lisle, known as the Midnight Girls, spend ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their nights at salt would argue the exclusive Westfield Boarding School for Girls up in the attic rooms smoking and bitchingtoss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. But when Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the girls are witness time to a tragic accident, they become bound together forever by what they have seen and vow never to tell.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524929</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Holly McQueen|title=Confetti Confidential|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=''Confetti Confidential'' is the third book in the Isabel series, but the first one I've read. Even without that grand claim on the front, you couldn't help but draw comparisons between Kinsella's series and this one from the very first page. The writing style is virtually identical – to the point where you do actually wonder if this is just a pseudonym – and while the chatty, chummy, conversational approach is not for everyone, if it's the sort of thing you like then this is the sort of book you'll love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099545756</amazonuk>}}SS{{newreview|author=Sabrina Broadbent|title=You Don't Have To Be Good|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Bea Kemp has reached a crisis point in her life. She is in her forties, childless, enjoying a tedious job and a lacklustre marriage with Frank. She seems to have spent her entire life 'being good' and it really does not seem to have got her anywhere. Her only pleasure seems to come from the time she spends with her niece and nephew, Laura and Adrian, and as her successful sister Katharine has no qualms about using her as an unpaid childminder, that's quite a lot! However, all that looks set to change when Katharine announces that she is moving away with the children so she does not need Bea to look after Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535556</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rekha WaheedHadeer Elsbai|title=Saris and the CityThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Yasmin Yusuf is a likeable main character with a group Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of Sex-women andweavers – those with magical abilities -in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the-City-style friends. The story begins with Yasmin splitting up with upper class, wishes to attend the man she was convinced was going Weaving Academy to learn to propose, rapidly followed by losing control her job. We abilities and then follow her as join the military, but instead she determines is 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 become successful provide for her family and make her mark in her new jobmaintain their reputation, whilst holding out secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women''the package'' s rights. Giorgina also happens to be in her personal lifelove with Nico. I particularly liked the way each chapter What follows is a lesson story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and lets the reader know what Yasmin will be learning or proving through events played out in that chapter. For examplecruelty, chapter one is ''Lesson One: If he's the bad boy from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and you're the good girl, you will get burnt'', hence the resulting ex-boyfriendovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755356136</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan M MoulesB0B575J99N|title=Fragile MemoriesBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=34

|summary=Maura Elizabeth Miller was surprised when she inherited the manor house thirty-four and a teacher at Picton near Salisburya prestigious girl's school in York. She hadnIt was ''comfortable''t been close to her Uncle Tom but she longed for many years and he had a stepson, Jim, whom she thought would have inherited something more in preference to herlife. It was five years since sheShe'd ''s been back to Picton and when she returned to put still not found the property on right vocation nor met the market she right man'' and now was surprised by the extent of her longing time to return theremake a change. Money She needed challenges. There was going to be a problem thoughlittle trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. She worked as After a model telephone interview, she was offered the position and couldnit wasn't really to this from the manor – and long before she didn't have was exploring the money for the property's upkeepbeautiful city. Her boyfriend, Nick, had an answerThere were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well. He already had three successful restaurants and was looking to extend into the countryside – what better place could there be for his new restaurant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090587</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne O'Brien0241542405|title=Virgin WidowMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The mighty Richard Neville, Earl of WarwickWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, is famous throughout England as one of King Edward IV’s most trusted advisors214 days. But as Edward is lured towards another influential family when he falls She'd ''like'' to: in love with Elizabeth Woodvillefact, Warwick responds by backing the alliance between Margaret of Anjou she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and King Louis XI of Franceshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, aiming she can't. She simply can't force herself to put Margaret’s husband Henry VI back on leave the English thronesafety of her home. A helpless pawn She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Anne is torn away from the man she lovesSadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who will grow up to become Richard IIIgave Meredith her cat, to be used Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as political capital by JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her father and his allies spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as they try to regain the kingdom of EnglandMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Wragg0008441618|title=Playing for KeepsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=35

|summary=The Vernon family have been involved with Rislington Rovers Football Club – The Rogues - for generations. Presently 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 are three generations actively involved with the Club, although Eleanor Vernon, the matriarch could well be a house price slump in that part of the family, wishes that husband Landon would spend a little more time with hertown. As The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the Rogues are facing relegation and funds which they raised were a police investigation into their finances, stalwart Landon isn’t likely considerable benefit to be doing that any time soon and when the Club needs a new Chief Executive the appointment is school. There was one which divides difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the Vernon family head. Laura Spence and it seems that there’s not one of them whose personal life isnKate Monroe objected to Jo't s restrictions on the toys children could bring in turmoilon Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie MacomberGiovanna Fletcher|title=Hannah's List|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was a year since Dr Michael Everett's wife Hannah died from ovarian cancer and his grief was still as painful as ever. He certainly wasn't ready for what his brother-in-law, Hannah's brother, handed him. It was a letter which Hannah had written some time before her death and not only did she suggest that he should remarry, she went Walking on to name three women she thought would make a good wife for him. Winter Adams was the chef who owned the café on blossom Street, Leanne Lancaster had been Hannah's nurse, but who was Macy Roth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303799</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hester Browne|title=The Finishing TouchesSunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=As the daughter of its ownerMike's wife, and a highly experience management consultant to bootPia, Betsy is the obvious choice to call who he was with for help in turning around a finishing school failing to make the grade in 21st century Londonseventeen years, has died. Except... Betsy never attended the school as a studentAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and sheZaza. But Pia left them all some 's not so much rules'management consultant' as to follow, knowing that she is 'shop assistant' – a distinction many a proud parent could be forgiven for missingwas dying and that they would need help to carry on living. With Whilst some of the Tallimore Academy facing financial ruinrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, howeveranother one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, Betsy isn't so much and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their best hope as she is own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their only hopeown lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340937807</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allie SpencerB09FS89KX9|title=The Not-So Secret Diary of a City GirlFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Banking analyst, Laura McGregor has Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her secret diary accidentally uploaded to veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the Internetowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. The diary contains her thoughts about Hollie had moved in with her lacklustre relationship with atraderboyfriend, Marcus: her attraction towards a “dirt-digging journalist” mother thought he was great and massive discrepancies he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the accounts of fact that he would be violent, both to her new managerand to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352947</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Fforde0008421714|title=A Perfect ProposalMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=I have read most The problem began just after the publication of Katie FfordeGeorge March's books and each and every one has proved most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be enjoyable and entertainingreading it or had already done so. A Perfect Proposal comes up Every day Mrs March went to the same high standard andlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, having just finished reading itPatricia asked, it has left me wanting more! Her style is very relaxed and easy going and as she always creates believable characters was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that you canJohanna is the whore of Nantes - ''t help caring abouta weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846054494</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Wilson1473685745|title=A Change of FortuneUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=34

|summary=Leonie Conyngham seemed 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 have everything going 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 herthose of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. She When he was beautiful born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and set 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=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the belle state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the forthcoming seasonsanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, but Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a family disaster stripped her protectorate – well, we share enough of her position the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most important pupil in her school certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and placed her there as ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the lowliest teacherdrudges, there and beyond those, right on down to do the bidding of those above herchildless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Her possessions stolen And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and in debt she had little choice in so they just get a hefty tweak towards the matterparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Her physical attractions have not left That is her thoughjob, but now the young rakes of London are not looking at her as a possible wifeleast, but to see who can be until the first emerging signs of female protest come to deprive her of her virtuelight, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089996</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian MorganRuth Hogan|title=Salt BlueMadame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=I always judge a This book by its coverlets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. The eyes So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the pretty face on the cover third generation of Madame Burova, ''Salt BlueTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' are arresting, but difficult to assign to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a periodrevamped holiday camp, though it’s clearly women’s or teen fictionbut just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. I imagine We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the cover might attract fiction readers of mainstream women’s magazines such as Women’s Weekly or Woman’s Ownsecrets about her to Imelda, so it’s spot on for the story inside.and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784159</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LawsonJennifer Saint |title=Mother of the BrideAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This is re-telling of the story myth of Jess Foster who Ariadne and the Minotaur is busily preparing for her forthcoming marriage to Max Porter, willingly aided by her mum, Molly, interesting and her stepmother, Marnieunusual. It soon becomes apparent though that Jennifer Saint presents the women have different ideas, particularly opinionated Marnie who seems set on Jess having the society wedding of the year and even goes as far as hiring story in a wedding planner. Molly, on the other hand, agrees with Jess way that things should really be kept simpleis sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Thus the scene Saint's narrative is well set for all told predominantly through the moods and mayhem which occurs when arranging a wedding. Will Jess be able viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to stick her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her guns and arrange own right rather than just a prop in the type heroics of wedding that she wants or will it just be easier to give in to other suggestions?Theseus. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561179</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liane MoriartyLucy Holland|title=What Alice ForgotSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary='This wasn't the worst thing that had ever happened to her…it was just the most ridiculous' laments thirty nine year old mother Sistersong is part of threea genre I particularly enjoy, Alice, who has had the last ten years modern retelling of her life struck from her memory by a blow to the head in her step aerobics classfolk and fairy tales. Alice now thinks she's twenty nineThese stories, newly pregnant with her first child and happily married to Nick and furthermore she hasn't a clue what she's doing at an aerobics class in the first place. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043768</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elin Hilderbrand|title=The Castaways|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=On the island for most of Nantucketus, four couples have forged strong bonds are a cornerstone of friendship. Together they live childhood and love, raise their children, share their dreams. It's an idyllic existence I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and at the same time a very purposeful onefresh perspective. The couples have worked hard to create the quality of If handled well these retellings give new life they now enjoy and nothing can take it away from them. Until new meaning to stories that are now. Greg becoming increasingly narrow and Tess are deadoutdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the result role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of what appears to be a sailing accident. They leave behind two young childrenmodern retelling done well, and six devastated friendsthe plot is handled with care, all of whom have keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to terms with what has happened. For some there is guilt over final words said or final warnings left unsaid. For otherslife, there is the knowledge that secret relationships will now have to stay that way evermore. 'The Castaways' is the book of that fateful summer, the accident feel real and its aftermathhuman, but it's more than just that. It's most importantly they feel relatable in a look at modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the precious role friends and family play pre-Saxon age they live in our lives, . This is a masterpiece of storytelling and how innocent actions or words can change the course of history foreverI was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340919825</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen AbbottB08NF79QXT|title=A Most Rebellious DebutanteCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Lucy TempletonThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, daughter of Lord Templetonthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, fell in love with her dancing master. It wasn't entirely unusual for a seventeen year old girl to feel this way, but it was better that it was unheard of just six months when she was caught in his arms's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. A substantial sum of money for She's delighted and the dancing master ensured that he would disappear and Lucy was sent to stay two people she's brought with her married sister as punishmentto the event couldn't be more pleased. She was not to attend parties or social functions Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and must spend Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her time looking after her sisterlooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's young children best friend: they've known each other since university and doing good worksLiberty adores Jessica's husband, until such time as the Templetons could get her married offCharles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. All might have gone according to their plan had Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she not had misses having a chance encounter with the notorious Lord Rockhaven and a stolen kiss catches man in her heartlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090315</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo MoyesB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Horse DancerKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Only two things in life matter George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to fourteen-yearlook at -old Sarah: her horse Boo and her grandfather Henri Lachapellesingle. Henri sees SarahShe's not had sex for eight months and she's skill at horsemanship as her way out stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of their inner city London life and wants bad luck is being visited on her to follow in his footsteps and become she has a member of France's elite equestrian academy Le Cadre Noirreal talent for attracting drama.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mavis Cheek|title=Truth to Tell|rating=4.5|genre=Women Her life's Fiction|summary=Robert Porter was angry. The politician filling the television screen was lying. He knew it. 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 chaotic: she dealt with the meal and had that been leak from the end of shower by putting something down at the matter then that would have been the end bottom of the matter – if you see what I mean. But the telephone rang and it was Robert's boss with details of stairs to absorb the teamwater -bonding office trip to Florida. Robert assured him that he was really keen to go (he wasn't) and Nina was looking forward to it too (she wasn't). And then Nina started wondering about the difference between shower fell through the politician's lies roof whilst she was in it and Robert'sleft her, erstark naked, evasions. Surely it must be possible to tell staring at the truth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091931673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jojo Moyes|title=The Last Letter From Your Lover|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I do love a story that wraps me up completely within its little world, making me want to ignore my long list of things to do and just curl up reading all daypervy postman. Jojo Moyes' new novel certainly managed it. I felt transported back She only has to the 1960's, entirely caught up in the characters' lives, riding their highs and lows alongside of them, and I ended up desperately foisting my just-woken-up toddler onto my husband so that I could just read the last four pages without take her hanging off my arm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961627</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Woodman|title=Trust Me, I'm a Vet|rating=4.5|genre=Womenmother's Fiction|summary=Though I'm not dog out for 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 walk 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 her to end up cows' bottoms for fun, with dog poo spattered across her face - 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 photo being taken by someone who shares it, pleased to have a reason to flee around the capital, at least temporarilyoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543567</amazonuk>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeannie MachinB08CHJLNBS|title=My Lady DominoCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Adele Russell serves behind the counter in He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a haberdashers and lives over partner at Wickham Jones, the shopMayfair letting agents. It wasn't always like that though as itShe's only a few years since she was a wealthy heiress engaged to marry an earlEmilia, twenty-nine, but after her father's financial ruin librarian and his death archivist in a fire her fiancé broke off the relationship and Adele was lucky to be taken in by her old nurseheritage library next door. It's taken some time to come to terms with what happened and Adele Emilia has reconciled herself to her lowly position until read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she finds an invitation to a masked ball. What harm would there be in her wearing her mother's ball gown and dominomoved on from new age books like that, just for a taste of how things used to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089988</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Val Harris|title=Sea Creatures|rating=3.5|genre=Womenwhich leave you dependent on someone else's Fiction|summary=Rowena Moon and her husband Brendan lived on the Cornish coast with their three childrenphilosophies, Jenna, Charlie and Olivia. Brendan was an artist – and to something a reasonably successful onelittle deeper. Rowena ran Charles is more of a local café and the children had the freedom of the local beach. It sounds like[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, and probably wasbut, an idyllic childhood until one day Rowena disappeared without warning and without explanation. It was devastating and affected each of the children in different ways as they grew up. Twenty two years later the five are reunited and the mystery of their past unravels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599741</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Heath|title=A Commercial Enterprise|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Caroline is a Lexhamabove all, but shehe's not one of shocked that Emilia reads ''theThe Guardian'' Lexhams as her father made a rather unfortunate marriage. In consequence sheThey're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's rather surprised to be invited to the reading of her unclenot his usual type at all: it's willobvious to his friends. She didnAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles't know hims superficiality, had no expectations and probably wouldn't have gone to London if why does she hadn't been trying feel drawn to escape the attentions of a pressing suitor. him? The journey there is trying, but sherelationship's rescued by Sir Hal Seymour who gives her obviously a lift in his carriage. It might have got Caro to the reading on timenon-starter, but she made an enemy of his mistress who had hopes of becoming his wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070908997X</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa JewellHelly Acton|title=After the PartyThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=ItWhen we meet Amy, she's been eleven years since Ralph and Jem finally became an item at the end of Lisa Jewellin a relationship with Jamie. You can's first novel Ralpht really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's Partysticking around because she hopes she can change him. After buying a house in South London and having two children their once excitingAh, romantic and crazy relationship has gradually become consumed by responsibility and domesticityyes. Jem has become bogged down with motherhood and running Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a home and just wishes Ralph would help out a bit as she struggles surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to start working again. Ralph, unsure of his role in get down on one knee? Was the family, has gradually drifted away both physically work (and emotionally from Jem and his children, preferring to spend as much time as possible painting in his studio.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846055733</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Sue Eckstein|title=The Cloths of Heaven|rating=4.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=We're in West Africa in the early nineteen ninetiesgirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. ThereHer relationship has just ended and now she's the usual mix talk of expatriates and diplomatic staff doing their best to do their best whilst still making the most of school. Mike was the freedoms such a life gives. Isabel is married to iconoclastic photographer Patrick Redmond and copes better than most wives would popular boy in school who was always so in love with her husband, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don's fixation with pendulous black breasts. There t, but one thing is gossip though. The High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both involved in illicit affairsfor sure, with more or less discretionthis isn't going to blow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0954930983</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trisha AshleyKatie Fforde|title=Chocolate WishesA Springtime Affair|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 've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting some light-hearted chick-lit when I began this book. I was a little startled to find several mentions of tarot cardswarm, Mayan charmscosy read focused on romance, family and guardian angels - a somewhat bizarre spiritual mixture - within the first pagesfriendships. What, I wondered, had I got myself into?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Leroy|title=The Perfect Mother|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Perfection pervades every corner This provided two romances for the price of Catriona's life She has a beautiful homeone, a charming husband, a well-behaved stepdaughter, and a cherished daughter of her own, 8-year-old Daisy. When Daisy is taken ill, Catriona does all a good mother would do but it was actually the family element as opposed to help her get better. But as Daisy's condition deteriorates with no sign of improvement, Catriona seeks more and more medical intervention, until eventually she is accused of being responsible for her daughter's illnessthe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303527</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susannah Bates B07W4MNBSG|title=Under a Sapphire Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Marianne Cooper is happy. She has a thriving jewellery business with her best friend Gabby and is six months pregnant with Gabby's brother Jay's baby. Marianne enjoys her passion for stones, her unconventional attitude to life and her pregnancy, and her unique relationship with Jay, but when her ex boyfriend, and reformed man, Paul comes back into her life with his fiancée Sophie and a rare padparascha stone he wants Marianne to turn into an engagement ring, she soon finds herself questioning her decision to reject Paul and indeed her way of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099445441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Harwood|title=Kiss Like Be Careful Who 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>}} {{newreviewMarry|author=Laurie Graham|title=Life According to Lubka|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Buzz Wexler is at the top of her game, working in music PR with all the latest up and coming Urban music bands like Grime Beat and Evil Marsupial. She's forty-two years old but is still out every night, drinking, eating very little and seemingly surviving on a diet of chemical mood enhancers. One day, however, she is called into her manager's office and assigned a tour with a 'World Music' group, the Gorni Grannies, a group of elderly women from Bulgaria who sing together. Buzz finds her life in the fast lane is brought to a sudden halt, as she tries 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 Buzz.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Mullany|title=Improper RelationsLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Unlucky It was coming up to Halloween in love Charlotte Hayden has just lost her best friend 1987 and confidante Ann in marriage to the Earl a group of Beresfordsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. At the wedding she encounters Lord ShadderlyWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, Beresfordbut Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''s best friend, a broodingly handsome man whom she takes an immediate dislike to. Before she knows it Charlotte is caught in a compromising situation with Shadderly and he is forced to propose to her or risk both their reputations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347803</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Ice Cream Girls|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Poppy only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious press, have their young lives shattered by the man they shared, idea of living in a teacher in farmhouse and having a position couple of trustchildren called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who controlled them in was determined to marry the worst possible waysrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has the assertiveness or maturity place to handle start their search was obviously the situationYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years on, There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesclass.|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>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=Missing You|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sean seemed to have the perfect life. He has a successful career, a beautiful wife to whom he is devoted, a daughter whom he adores and he lives in a dream home. But then one day it all falls apart when Belle announces that she has met someone else and wants Sean to move out. Fen, on the other hand, doesn't have a perfect life. She works in a bookshop and is devoted to her young son, Connor who has cerebral palsy. That's not the least of her problems though as she hides a dreadful secret and fearful that it will be brought out into the open she lives a life drawn in on itself, far from her home and family and reluctant to become close to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)|title=Loves Me, Loves Me Not|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=What a feast is presented in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In a Who's Who of the genre, there are writers from every age group, including one or two who might even have been founder members of the RNA, back in 1960. My advice is to sip through the stories slowly, rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Before I Fall|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about that. She knows she's part of a group who, by most definitions, would be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Suzanne Bugler|title=This Perfect World|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Laura Hamley sees herself as a fortunate woman. She has a successful husband, two beautiful children, a big house in a good neighbourhood, and a coterie of friends who fall nicely into the category of people like us. She's always beautifully turned out, and her position in the social pecking order is never less than high. She simply shrugs off the occasional moments of dissatisfaction - what on Earth could she have to complain about? And then Mrs Partridge makes an unwelcome phone call... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>023074401X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=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 Move 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[[Features|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>}}latest features]]