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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Frances Irvine enjoys Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a privileged lifestyle in Victorian England: man who's a beautiful house, servants, rich gowns and control freak with all the trappings her position as the daughter subtlety of an industrialist demandsa half brick. HoweverJamie's son, Bo, Frances' lifestyle proves to be a precarious house of cards balanced on her fatherhas his problems's investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad in North America. When He's asthmatic and the Canadian terrain proves too much for more you read, the railroad construction to continue, her fathermore you'll suspect that he's shares are rendered worthlesson the autistic spectrum. As this occurs just before his sudden death, Frances is forced Sometimes Jamie needs to make take time off at short notice - she's a choice as her finery frequent flier in the local A&E and home are auctioned offsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Does she throw herself 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 mercy of her lower class relatives or commit herself wrong. It was going to come to a loveless marriage to distant cousin Dr Edwin Matthews? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920894</amazonuk>head.

 {{newreview|author=Lynda Renham|title=Croissants and Jam|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Even before Annabel Lewis boards the flight to Rome that will take her to her wedding, she is having doubts. After all, she has only known Simon for seven months and he does tend to be quite controlling and not much fun. So, when a series of unfortunate events causes her to miss her connecting flight, although she is reluctant to admit it, it is a welcome relief. She does still intend to go ahead with the wedding though, so she needs to find away to get across France and into Italy. As there are no flight options, she ends up agreeing to share a car with the man who inadvertently made her miss her flight. As a fashion conscious stylish woman though, she is more than a little perturbed when the car in question ends up as a clapped out old Citroen (affectionately known as the lemon) and when Christian, her travelling companion, stops at a French supermarket so that she can get some clothes to wear. Bels is much more used to designer labels than cheap and functional clothing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957137206</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara J ZitwerLauren Bravo|title=The J M Barrie Ladies' Swimming SocietyPreloved|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Joey Rubin arrives at Stanway House to oversee its renovations she is looking forward to the challenge of preserving its ties with one of her favourite authors, J M Barrie. It also means a change of scenery from her somewhat lonely life in New York as well as the opportunity for catching up with Sarah, her oldest and closest friend. However, things don't go quite according to plan as Sarah has changed out of all recognition and everything Joey says or does seem to cause offence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720408</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Kelly|title=The House on Willow Street|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=You don't get to a certain age without having a bit of a past and a few stories, some of which you'd rather weren't told and others which you'd just plain rather forget about. In the idyllic Irish coastal village of Avalon we meet four women and they've all got big histories. Tess is descended from the local landowners, but now she lives with her teenage son Zach and her nine-year-old daughter Kitty and she owns the local antiques shop. It's a struggle to make ends meet when her marriage falls apart. To cap it all, her first love and the man she's never really forgotten returns to the village but they're no friendlier than they were the last time they met.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007373619</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julie Cohen|title=The Summer of Living Dangerously|rating=5

|summary=When I read Julie Cohen's book [[Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom by Julie Cohen|Nina Jones Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and the Temple of Gloom]] a couple of years ago ends with an oh-my poor toddler had to endure neglect for the day since -God-I couldn't stop reading itm-nearly-forty. This time Julie had me risking my own health since I started reading her new book in Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the bath and my husband came to find me there several hours later sitting in stone cold water, unwilling to get out since I didn't want to stop reading! I do love it when you find a book that captures your imagination, but I'd advise perhaps a comfortable armchair located near to toss - Gwen finds herself having a stash bit of plentiful snacks would be a wise place mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to begin.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755350650</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie Fiore0008506337|title=Babies In WaitingThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Three womenThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, three different situations, ages spanning three decadesapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Gemma, Toni Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and Louise don’t have masses in commonhaving a glittering career. In the event, but come into each other’s lives when they all fall pregnant around eloped and Richard took her away from the same timeIsle of Wight. With partners, parents, siblings Margo did go to Oxford and other friends not quite getting all that’s going went on in their heads.to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and in their tummies..holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the women quickly form a tight support network doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in which all their differences cease to mattercharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389580</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Deborah Moggach|title=The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Ravi and his cousin Sonny decide to open the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in Bangalore as a retirement home, they don't know whether they will get any takersThen Richard left them. However, by advertising it as a newly restored palatial hotel that will provide a life of leisure, good weather and mango gin, they soon get a great deal of interest and are welcoming their new residents. Evelyn, Madge, Dorothy, Norman and all of the others who decide to move to the hotel have their own reasons for leaving Britain but they are all excited by the new opportunity and the lease of new life that it could provide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572028</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick AlexanderHadeer Elsbai|title=The Case Daughters of the Missing BoyfriendIzdihar

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=You Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be forgiven more different, yet find themselves fighting for thinking that CC had it all. At thirty nine she was near the top rights of the advertising business, owned her own flat women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in north London and had a group of closesociety pitted against them. Nehal, party-going friends. That's what you saw from born into the outsideupper class, looking in. What CC saw was a life that lacked that one essential which she seemed unable wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to acquire. She was desperate learn to find the man of control her dreams abilities and preferably one who would whisk her off to a farm house in Devon where she'd live ''The'' ''Good'' ''Life''. In then join the meantime military, but instead she was stuck is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the memories of too many heartbreaks, other hand did not have a mother whose current lifestyle brought a very unfortunate word privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to mind provide for her family and being on maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the periphery Daughters of her friendsIzdihar – a group campaigning for women' dramas - s rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and as they were all gay she didn't have cruelty, from which blossoms a lot group of chance of meeting that elusive manadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085789630X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie FfordeB0B575J99N|title=Recipe for Love|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Zoe Harper arrives at Somerby, a lovely old mansion and the setting for the latest televised cookery contest, she is full of excitement. Before long, she finds herself rescuing one of the judges, Gideon Irving, from a ditch and realises that she is extremely attracted to him. Not long after, she meets her room mate and fellow competitor, Cher, for whom there is no immediate attraction as she comes across as shallow and devious. All the rest of the contestants are friendly though and they are soon all immersing themselves in the challenges of Beneath the various rounds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846056527</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Elizabeth Noble|title=Between a Mother and her Child|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Maggie and Bill had a wonderful, happy family until tragedy struck, nearly a year before the story opens. The blurb on the back of the book says exactly what this tragedy was, but it's not explained until several chapters into the book. It would have made more powerful reading had I not known what had caused the family to break up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155378</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Polly Williams|title=The Angel at No. 33Brooke Adams

|summary=Sophie is the wife of disorganised Ollie (who watered Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a plastic plant for teacher at a year before realising), mother of typical little boy Freddie and sheprestigious girl's deadschool in York. Yes, Sophie is very deadIt was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. During She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to make a wine-filled evening of moaning about her predictable lifestyle with her best friend Jenny, Sophie tries to stop change. She needed challenges. There was a taxi little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the worst way possiblebeautiful city. The taxi stops There were some natural doubts before her first class but not quite soon enoughit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755358872</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Jones0241542405|title=Never Can Say GoodbyeMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Frankie is unexpectedly handed the reins to the shop where we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she currently works's not left her home for 1, she’s surprised 214 days. She'd ''like'' to say the least: in fact, she so nearly does. Current boss Rita is heading off for a new life ( Her outdoor clothes are on and love) in she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the sun, and leaving safety of her home and business behind. It’s She's fortunate that she has a swift learning curve to go from shop assistant to business ownergood friend, Sadie, but who visits regularly with her friendstwo children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and most full of the villagesound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, behind so you can guess what she does in herspare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, Frankie’s going to give it a shotcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Gibson0008441618|title=The Great EscapeOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=Hannah, Sadie and Lou have all known each other since their student days in Glasgow. That Jo Fairburn knew that she was thirteen years ago and since then, although they have kept in touch, they have not seen under intense pressure as much of each other as they would have liked. Sadie is married to Barney and is the mother new head of twin babies. She is trying West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to adjust to life in her retired predecessor there could well be a country village and to fit house price slump in with all that part of the other young mums who always appear to do things so much better than her. Lou lives in York with Spike, her boyfriend since college daystown. She has The school had to put her dreams of being a jewellery designer on hold while she supports herself an active Parent Teacher Association and Spike (who does very little) by working in the funds which they raised were a soft play barn. She often thinks that there must be more considerable benefit to life but does not have the courage to break freeschool. Hannah loves her fiancé There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, Ryanin particular, but finds causing problems for the open hostility from her future stepchildren hard head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to take and this is the reason why the imminent wedding is so daunting. They all need some time out which is why the others jump at HannahJo's suggestion of restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a weekend away visiting warm-up act for their old student hauntsreal gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562604</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlene S LewisGiovanna Fletcher|title=RuthWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Up in Yorkshire Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, Cath and Rich aren’t sure so are their future can include children following her major illnessbest friends, which would be ok if she didn’t want a baby so badlyVicky and Zaza. In BrightonBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, Lou hasn’t had quite the same infertility issues but has problems of her own knowing that she was dying and that might get in the way they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the tick tock of rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her body clock. The two women don’t know each otherwardrobe, and in spite another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of what you might expecttheir trips away, don’t get to know each otherand Vicky and Zaza, but struggling with their grief and their stories sit side by side own life troubles, decide to drop everything in this tale of the trials their own lives, and tribulations of fertility treatmentgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330544098</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess StimsonB09FS89KX9|title=The Wife Who Ran AwayFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=KateLife should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's life is far from easydiner. She earns Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a great deal more money than good boss. Hollie had moved in with her husband Nedboyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and works long hourshe was doing well in his career... but Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her boss seems to be trying to edge leave her outjob at the diner. She pays not just for their mortgage Then there was the fact that he would be violent, but for both to her mother's too, and fees for their teenage children Guy and Agness who are in expensive private schoolsto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330522019</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Bugler0008421714|title=The Child InsideMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Rachel Morgan feels that she does not fit in anywhere. Certainly not with all The problem began just after the publication of the other mums at her son JonoGeorge March's posh schoolmost successful novel to date. Certainly not with all Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the happy jolly families on last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the beaches when they are local patisserie to buy olive bread but on holiday. And most of allthat particular morning, Patricia asked, as she no longer feels was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that she fits in with Johanna, the principal character had 'her own little familymannerisms''. Nothing ever feels right and she continually feels isolated on Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the outside looking in. Of coursewhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, these feelings lead to an increasing sense of dissatisfaction which she can only deal with by dwelling on what she perceives as her happier pastunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510916</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Harper1473685745|title=Shakespeare's Mistress|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The conceit of ''Shakespeare's Mistress'' is that Shakespeare was married to Anne Whateley the day before he was married to Anne Hathaway, and Anne W remained the love of his life, with an affair (if you can have an affair with your 'wife') continued in London where the same Anne was also the famed ''dark lady'' of his sonnets. There is some basis for this theory in that the parish records do show a mysterious entry into the register for just such a contract the day before the Hathaway marriage but although the author claims this is 'faction', it's very much at the fiction end of that scale and is really a 'what if?' piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091940427</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Giselle Green|title=Falling for YouKatie Marsh|rating=3.54

|summary=Rose is full When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of worries an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and insecuritiesBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. Her father is frail, her mother died some years previously He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. Rose is desperately hoping He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for a letter offering her a place at those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the university left side of her dreamshis heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old... but So, Simon has no idea how her father will survive without her there every right to look after himbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006KHWSJ8</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer E SmithC J Carey|title=The Statistical Probability of Love at First SightWidowland

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=The story takes place It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the course sanctioned return to the throne of only twenty four hours but so much happens during that small amount of timeEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. It starts when For yes, Britain caved in the reader meets Hadley having missed her flight lead-up to London by a mere four minutes. As the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it turns out, those four minutes and we are some now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most significant certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of her lifefemale purpose, as they result in her booking has put all of that gender into a later flight caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and consequently meeting Oliver beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with whom she 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 so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is seated throughout her job, at least, until the journey across the Atlanticfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392175</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SullivanRuth Hogan|title=MaineMadame Burova

|summary=The Kellehers' beach-front holiday home This book lets us discover several people in Maine was built on a plot different stages of land won life in a bar-room bet at the end of World War IIearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. It's not 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 same league as the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port but there are a couple third generation of substantial properties on the plot Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and thereClairvoyant'', to use her family's still room to sparesea-front booth. ItThe singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a place of indulgencerevamped holiday camp, secrets and but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the sort of burning cruelty which you only get first time in families who care for each other - some of the timefamily stall. ''Maine'' is essentially the story We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a summer at the property - but the seeds pair of what happens wereletters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, of courseand who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, planted long ago.and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085789496X</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monica CarlyJennifer Saint |title=The Golden ThreadAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was a sad day when Claudia Hansom retired as headmistress This re-telling of Kingdown School. The staff respected her, despite the fact that she was always somewhat distant myth of Ariadne and the children did well under her chargeMinotaur is interesting and unusual. She was Jennifer Saint presents the story in a stickler for discipline and the pupils accepted this – way that is sympathetic to its origins but once again there was no ''love''also appealing to a modern audience. No, the sadness was all ClaudiaSaint'snarrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, for what was she spanning from her childhood to do with the rest of her life as death, allowing the ex-head teacher living alone reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her cat? Her mother had died when she and her sister were teenagers and her father not long before she retired. There hadn't been any contact with her sister was forty years. She might imagine doing some writing, but the reality was that own right rather than just a prop in the life ahead heroics of her was emptyTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780880162</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean MarshLucy Holland|title=The House of EliottSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Evangeline Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and Beatrice's father diesfairy tales. These stories, the two sisters discover that he has left for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with very little money fresh eyes and without any qualifications with which to support themselvesa fresh perspective. They struggle If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to find suitable employment before accidentally discovering their talents as seamstresses stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and fashion designers. The book follows their journey of independence after their father's deathoutdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the new relationships they begin to build without him dominating their livesrole of women.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720008X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stella Newman|title=Pear Shaped|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=One night Sophie was out with her friend Laura. They met Sistersong is a couple perfect example of men and there was an immediate chemistry between Sophie and James Stephens. He was good lookinga modern retelling done well, charismaticthe plot is handled with care, great fun and obviously attracted keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to Sophie. The fact that he was rich (complete with Maserati) didn't matter come to her - but it didn't do any harm either. What's not to like? Welllife, there's nothing 'not to like' but just the odd thing that might give some pause for thought. He's forty five feel real and never been married - and has human, most importantly they feel relatable in a history of dating supermodern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-slim modelsSaxon age they live in. But - he This is obviously very taken with Sophie a masterpiece of storytelling and she falls head-over-heels for himI was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847562701</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beryl KingstonB08NF79QXT|title=Off the RailsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=A young girl from a Yorkshire village was weeping, begging Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her mother to be allowed just one more night at homeshop, but the carter was waiting Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for her. The girl was fifteen, unmarried - and pregnantwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She was to go any stay 's delighted and the two people she's brought with her aunt until to the baby was born and she would event couldn't be Mrs Smith whose husband had died at seamore pleased. The father of the baby was actually a village boySonja, George Hudsonher mother, who would prefer to pay a fine for bastardy than make is an honest woman of the girlex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. He too ended up leaving home over the matter. In the years to come the paths of JaneJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, along with her Charles and their four-year-old daughter Milly, Ava. Life would cross and recross with Jane swearing that be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she would have vengeancemisses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090951</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen GordonB08GFSK2WZ|title=LandfallThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Most people at one time or another s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of their lives get bad luck is being visited on her and she has a feeling that they must kill themselves; as a rule they get over it in a day or two' (real talent for attracting drama. Her life'How Girls Can Build Up The Empires chaotic: she dealt with the handbook for Girl Guides' 1912) Excerpts leak from the handbook precede each section shower by putting something down at the bottom of ''Landfall'' the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and it is hard left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to know what take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to make of them – other than to take on board that women are not, end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by any stretch, the weaker sex, just someone who shares it around the more emotional one 'They can even…shoot tigers, if they can keep cool'office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490828</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kerry JamiesonB08CHJLNBS|title=The Forgotten Lies|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In the mid-thirties, the golden age of Hollywood, three aspiring starlets shared a studio house on Lantana Drive as they waited to hear if they were going to have a career in the movies – or not. Charlotte (soon to be Carlie for acting purposes), Verbena, known to her friends (and ''only'' her friends) as Bee and Ivy were desperate for the role of a lifetime, which would put their name in lights. There was an added appeal. Whoever won would star opposite Liam Malone – good looking, charismatic and ''very'' married with six children. It wasn't just a case of being able to act. Their lives would be under intense scrutiny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141026049</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=Watch Over MeBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Eilidh Lawson thought that life was finally looking upHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She'd struggled through years of failed fertility treatments despite knowing that her husband was seeing someone elses Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Their marriage had crumbled around their feet – Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but then Eilidh found she's moved on from new age books like that she was pregnant. Despite being only ten weeks into the pregnancy she wore , which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a maternity smock – and that was the day she lost the babylittle deeper. Months Charles is more of heartbreaka [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, depression and hospitalisation followed until one day she decided but, above all, he's shocked that enough was enoughEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. She was leaving her homeThey're obviously not at all compatible, her marriage and most so why can Charles not get this woman out of her possessions and she was returning his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to her childhood home in the Highlands of Scotlandhis friends. She was never going And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to risk that sort of hurt again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845023668</amazonuk>him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel WolffHelly Acton|title=The Very Picture Of YouShelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Ella is When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a portrait painterpartnership, living in Londonbecause things tend to get done on his terms, single but ok with itshe's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. She’s 35 years old – Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a fact wedged rather unsubtly into the first page of chapter one – and her younger sister is getting marriedsurprise trip. It could Could this be the start of something a bit samey, or it could be ? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the start of something a bit special. Lucky for us, it’s the second one, work (and the story develops in an intriguing and quite unusual direction.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000724584X</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Christina Courtenay|title=Highland Storms|rating=4|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=The publishergirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, Choc Lit Limitedclaiming he gave it to her, gives a fair idea of what kind of read this book her whole world istipped upside down. Romance with a capital R. Courtenay decides to go back in time to a Scotland rather weary of battles but strong in image especially in terms Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of the countrysideschool. Is Mike was the bookmost popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don's purple hue suggestive of the purple heather to be found all over this area of Scotlandt, I wonder. It all conjures up a deeply romantic setting but one thing is for manysure, myself included. Add in the odd fairy-tale castle or two and itthis isn's even bettert going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931712</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean MarshKatie Fforde|title=Fiennders AbbeyA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=In I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was the end of the nineteenth century and the family at Fiennders Abbey might lead pretty much more leisurely lives than the staff who kept the house running as it shouldexactly what I was expecting - a warm, but their fortunes were inextricably linked. Mary Bowden was the tweenie when we first met her – she did all the dirty jobs which were beneath those higher up the ladder – as well as being the daughter of the gamekeeper. She was also intelligentcosy read focused on romance, ambitious family and very attractive with her straight, milk-blonde hairfriendships. As a child she'd always been very friendly with Richard, This provided two romances for the son price of the houseone, but it's not a friendship which either of their mothers wishes was actually the family element as opposed to fosterthe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447200071</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson SmithB07W4MNBSG|title=San Marco: The End of the Road|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we [[Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not Forget by Margaret Henderson Smith|last saw ]] Harriet Glover she had just been stood up at the altar by her long-term partner, Mark but rescued and proposed to by the man she has lusted after for quite a while – Joris Sanderson. Harriet knows something else too. She knows that she's pregnant and that the father of the child is not the man she was going to marry, but the man who has now proposed. Complicated? Of course it is. This is the woman who could make Frank Spencer look like a miracle of organisation. She's going to have to do something quite spectacular this time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494687</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Sophie Duffy|title=The Generation GameLizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Do It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you remember 're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that 'The Generation Game'your entire life depends on who you marry'' TV show, with old Brucie and then Larry Grayson managing the mayhem? . Where The only eligible boys were you when Charles the Young Farmers and Di got married? What about when Diana died? There's plenty of reminiscing to be done in this book as Sophie Duffy takes us from the 1960's to 2006 through the life idea of her character, Philippa, living in a book that fleets from funny, heartwarming moments to real sadness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Fallon|title=The Ugly Sister|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Abi hasn't really had much of a relationship with her sister Cleo since Cleo was discovered on the street farmhouse and morphed into having a successful couple of children called Will and well known model. It's now more than 20 years laterOlly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and the sisters are hardly what Oliver if you'd call close. But, with a summer to kill and nowhere really to kill it in, Abi takes up her sister's offer were Elizabeth who was determined to move into her plush Primrose Hill pad and spend some 'quality time' with marry the familyrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Except...Cleo's idea of quality family time is to go The place to start their search was obviously the gym. Or the spa. Or a comeback casting. Anywhere really, as long as itYoung Farmers's away from them allHalloween disco that weekend. And with brother There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in law Jon at work during the day, Abi quickly starts feeling like the hired help, shuttling her nieces around town and seeing to their every needclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047259</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Alan Titchmarsh|title=The Haunting|rating=4Move on to [[Features|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We don't know whether or not Harry Flint was a good history teacher – but we do know that he's disenchanted with the job and determined to make a change. His marriage to a lawyer only lasted a few months and Harry feels – rightly or wrongly – that he needs a complete change. He buys a ramshackle cottage, determined to spend some time restoring it as well as investigating his family history and the lives of the saints. Honestly – I know what you're thinking – he is rather more fun than all that sounds. Well, he is - some of the time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340936886</amazonuk>}}latest features]]