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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=Rosy ThorntonLauren Bravo|title=NinepinsPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Laura lives deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens with Gwen is pressing her daughter Beth and at the time middle-aged bosom on a big number that we meet them she's just coming up to her twelfth birthday. Her father has remarried starts with a four and now has three young sons, but mother and father decided early on that they would have cordial relations for Bethends with an oh-my-God-I's sake m- and the habit has stucknearly-forty. Money from Beth's father is a little hit and miss, so Laura has Having been in made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the habit toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of letting out the pumphouse - once a drainage station mid- to students, but this time its occupant is Willow, who life crisis. Catharsis is seventeen years old key and who Gwen has been in care. It takes a while for her history to emerge, but her mother was a hippy with no sense of responsibility and it ''seems'' that Willow might have been guilty of arson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905207859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Kleypas|title=Rainshadow Road|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's sometimes said that bad luck comes in threes. It certainly happens that way for Lucy, decided now is the rather hapless heroine of this book. First her boyfriend of two years announces that he wants her time to move out, because - of all things - he has decided that he likes take back her sister Alice better. Then Lucylife's car breaks down. And then, just as she seems to be dealing with her circumstances fairly well, she is knocked over by a car.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953888</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara DelinskyHadeer Elsbai|title=EscapeThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Emily 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 women and James are a couple of 30weavers – those with magical abilities -something lawyers living in New Yorka society pitted against them. Nehal, except they’re not really living so much as existingborn into the upper class, running from home wishes to work attend the Weaving Academy to yoga class learn to book clubcontrol her abilities and then join the military, barely spending any time togetherbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. It’s just Giorgina on the way it is until one day Emily takes other hand did not have a particularly tough call at work privileged upbringing like Nehal and realises in that moment that what she’s doing isn’t right. It isn’t how she imagined life would be. It isn’t what she went feels great pressure to law school provide forher family and maintain their reputation, or what she wantswhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. And so she leavesGiorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Fleeing the city for What follows is a story of an altogether more relaxed placeunjust society, she tells neither her work nor her husband that she is leavingfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, she just goesfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780335016</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB0B575J99N|title=Welcome To Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop Of DreamsBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rosie Hopkins is reluctant to leave her beloved London, Gerard, a liveElizabeth Miller was thirty-in boyfriend of eight years four and her work as auxiliary nurse. But when an elderly aunt who had spent her life running a traditional sweetshop teacher at a prestigious girl's school in a small village York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the North of England becomes just too elderly to cope, Rosie surprises everybody – even herself – by taking up right vocation nor met the challenge. A 100% townie who canright man''t ride a bike and doesn't seem now was the time to own make a waterproof, change. She needed challenges. There was a pair of wellies or even walking boots, Rosie soon discovers that little trepidation when she applied for the countryside has its charmsprofessoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, not least of which is the local supply of masculine eye candy. Soon she will find herself re-opening was offered the shop (just to sell position and it as a running concern, you understand) as well as somewhat accidentally, saving and enriching lives all around, from a lady of wasn't long before she was exploring the manor's Lab to beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her own dignified, first class but possessed of an acid tongue, great aunt Lillianit went surprisingly well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154454X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emylia Hall0241542405|title=The Book of SummersMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Beth receives a parcel from we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her estranged mother home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she realises so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she must finally face up 's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her pasttrain. The parcel contains a scrap bookThen, full of photos from each summer when Beth was 10 until she was 16can't. As she turns She simply can't force herself to leave the pages we learn safety of Bethher home. She's childhoodfortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, the separation 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 gave Meredith her parents cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and the summers there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she spends does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with her mother in Hungaryproblems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390830</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh0008441618|title=The Fever Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Frances Irvine enjoys a privileged lifestyle in Victorian England: a beautiful house, servants, rich gowns and all the trappings her position as the daughter of an industrialist demands. However, Frances' lifestyle proves to be a precarious house of cards balanced on her father's investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad in North America. When the Canadian terrain proves too much for the railroad construction to continue, her father's shares are rendered worthless. As this occurs just before his sudden death, Frances is forced to make a choice as her finery and home are auctioned off. Does she throw herself on the mercy of her lower class relatives or commit herself to a loveless marriage to distant cousin Dr Edwin Matthews? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920894</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Lynda Renham|title=Croissants and JamSarah Stovell|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Even before Annabel Lewis boards the flight to Rome Jo Fairburn knew that will take her to her wedding, she is having doubts. After all, was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she has only known Simon for seven months and he does tend didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be quite controlling a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and not much fun. So, when the funds which they raised were a series of unfortunate events causes her considerable benefit to miss her connecting flightthe school. There was one difficulty, although she is reluctant to admit itthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', it is a welcome relief. She does still intend to go ahead with the wedding thoughtwo members, so she needs to find away to get across France and into Italy. As there are no flight optionsin particular, she ends up agreeing to share a car with causing problems for the man who inadvertently made her miss her flighthead. As a fashion conscious stylish woman though, she is more than a little perturbed when Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the car toys children could bring in question ends on Toy Day but that was just a warm-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 clothingact for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957137206</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara J ZitwerGiovanna Fletcher|title=The J M Barrie Ladies' Swimming SocietyWalking on Sunshine|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 Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with one of her favourite authorsfor seventeen years, J M Barriehas died. It also means a change of scenery from her somewhat lonely life in New York as well as the opportunity for catching up And whilst he is dealing with Sarahhis grief, so are their best friends, her oldest Vicky and closest friendZaza. HoweverBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, things don't go quite according knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to plan carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as Sarah has changed clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of all recognition their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything Joey says or does seem to cause offencein their own lives, and go along with him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780720408</amazonuk>140593560X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy KellyB09FS89KX9|title=The House on Willow StreetFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=You don't get to a certain age without having a bit Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of a past her veterinary degree and a few stories, some of which you- three years later - was still working at BB'd rather weren't told and others which you'd just plain rather forget abouts diner. In Bob - the idyllic Irish coastal village of Avalon we meet four women and they've all got big historiesowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Tess is descended from the local landowners, but now she lives Hollie had moved in with her teenage son Zach and boyfriend, Marcus: her nine-year-old daughter Kitty mother thought he was great and she owns the local antiques shophe was doing well in his career. ItHollie wasn's a struggle t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to make ends meet when leave her marriage falls apartjob at the diner. To cap it allThen there was the fact that he would be violent, both to 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 metother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007373619</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen0008421714|title=The Summer of Living DangerouslyMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When I read Julie CohenThe problem began just after the publication of George March's book [[Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom by Julie Cohen|Nina Jones and most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the Temple of Gloom]] a couple of years ago my poor toddler had last page) seemed to endure neglect for the day since I couldn't stop either be reading itor had already done so. This time Julie had me risking my own health since I started reading her new book in Every day Mrs March went to the bath and my husband came local patisserie to find me there several hours later sitting in stone cold waterbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, unwilling to get out since I didnPatricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't want to stop reading! this the first time he's based a character on you?'' I do love it when you find a book She mentioned that captures your imaginationJohanna, but Ithe principal character had 'her mannerisms''d advise perhaps a comfortable armchair located near to a stash . Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of plentiful snacks would be Nantes - ''a wise place to beginweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755350650</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie Fiore1473685745|title=Babies In WaitingUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Three women, three different situations, ages spanning three decades. Gemma, Toni When Beth Carlyle and Louise don’t have masses in common, but come into each other’s lives when Simon Withers first met they all fall pregnant around the same time. With partnerswere on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, parents, siblings and other friends not quite getting all that’s going on in their heads...Simon was angry and in their tummies...the women quickly form a tight support network in which all their differences cease Beth was doing her best to matter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Moggach|title=The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel|rating=3|genre=Womenapologise for having knocked Simon's Fiction|summary=When Ravi and son, Jake, off his cousin Sonny decide to open the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in Bangalore as a retirement home, they donbike. He wasn't know whether they will get any takershurt but Jake has history. However, by advertising it as a newly restored palatial hotel He has HLHS - that will provide a life 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of leisureyou who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, good weather the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and mango gin, they soon get he needed open-heart surgery when he was a great deal of interest and are welcoming their new residentsfew days old. Evelyn, Madge, Dorothy So, Norman and all of the others who decide Simon has every right to move to the hotel have their own reasons for leaving Britain but be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they are all excited by the new opportunity and the lease of new life that it could provide're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572028</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick AlexanderC J Carey|title=The Case of the Missing BoyfriendWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that CC had it all. At thirty nine she was near It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the top state funeral of the advertising businessJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, owned her own flat in north London and had a group watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of closeEdward VIII with his wife, party-going friendsQueen Wallis. That's what you saw from the outsideFor yes, looking Britain caved in. What CC saw was a life that lacked that one essential which she seemed unable the lead-up to acquire. She was desperate to find the man of her dreams World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and preferably one who would whisk her off to we are now a farm house in Devon where sheprotectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on 'd live ''The'' ''Good'' ''Lifethe mainland''. In the meantime she was stuck with the memories But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of too many heartbreaksfemale purpose, has put all of that gender into a mother whose current lifestyle brought a very unfortunate word caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to mind the drudges, and being 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 the periphery task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of her friends' dramas - it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and as so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they were all gay she didn't have a lot re stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of chance of meeting that elusive manfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085789630X</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie FfordeRuth Hogan|title=Recipe for LoveMadame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Zoe Harper arrives at SomerbyThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a lovely old mansion girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and the setting for the latest televised cookery contestchiefly, she is full of excitement. Before longImelda, she finds herself rescuing one the third generation of the judgesMadame Burova, Gideon Irving''Tarot-Reader, from a ditch Palmist and realises that she is extremely attracted Clairvoyant'', to himuse her family's sea-front booth. Not long after The singer, she meets the scryer and the sufferer's 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 family stall. We also see her on her room mate and fellow competitorlast day, Cherfifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for whom there a woman called Billie. Just who is no immediate attraction as she comes across as shallow , and devious. All who delivered the rest of the contestants are friendly though secrets about her to Imelda, and they are soon why did it have to remain a secret all immersing themselves in the challenges of the various rounds.this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846056527</amazonuk>152937331X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth NobleJennifer Saint |title=Between a Mother and her ChildAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Maggie This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and Bill had a wonderful, happy family until tragedy struck, nearly a year before the story opensMinotaur is interesting and unusual. The blurb on Jennifer Saint presents the back of the book says exactly what this tragedy was, story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but italso appealing to a modern audience. Saint's not explained until several chapters into narrative is told predominantly through the book. It would have made more powerful reading had I not known what had caused viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the family reader to break upreally connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155378</amazonuk>1472273869
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Polly WilliamsLucy Holland|title=The Angel at No. 33Sistersong|rating=45|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Sophie Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the wife modern retelling of disorganised Ollie (who watered a plastic plant folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a year before realising), mother cornerstone of typical little boy Freddie childhood and she's deadI relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. YesIf handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, Sophie examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is very dead. During a wine-filled evening perfect example of moaning about her predictable lifestyle a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with her best friend Jennycare, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, Sophie tries to stop feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a taxi modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in the worst way possible. The taxi stops but not quite soon enoughThis is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358872</amazonuk>1529039037
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina JonesB08NF79QXT|title=Never Can Say GoodbyeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=When Frankie is unexpectedly handed the reins to the Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop where she currently works, she’s surprised to say the least. Current boss Rita is heading off Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for a new life (- and love) in wins - the sun, Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and leaving the two people she's brought with her home and business behindto the event couldn't be more pleased. It’s a swift learning curve to go from shop assistant to business owner Sonja, but with her friendsmother, is an ex-model and most of the village, behind Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her, Frankie’s going to give it a shotlooks from.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Gibson|title=The Great Escape|rating=5|genre=WomenJessica's Fiction|summary=Hannah, Sadie thirty-four and Lou have all Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since their student days in Glasgow. That was thirteen years ago university and since thenLiberty adores Jessica's husband, although they have kept in touchCharles and their four-year-old daughter, they have not seen as much of each other as they Ava. Life would have liked. Sadie is married to Barney and is the mother of twin babies. She is trying to adjust to life in be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a country village and to fit in with all the other young mums who always appear to do things so much better than her. Lou lives man in York with Spike, her boyfriend since college days. She has had to put her dreams of being a jewellery designer on hold while she supports herself and Spike (who does very little) by working in a soft play barn. She often thinks that there must be more to life but does not have the courage to break free. Hannah loves her fiancé, Ryan, but finds the open hostility from her future stepchildren hard 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 Hannah's suggestion of a weekend away visiting their old student haunts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562604</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlene S LewisB08GFSK2WZ|title=RuthThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Up in Yorkshire George Jackson is thirty-three years old, Cath absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and Rich aren’t sure their future can include children following she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her major illness, which would be ok if and she didn’t want has a baby so badlyreal talent for attracting drama. In Brighton, Lou hasn’t had quite Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the same infertility issues but has problems bottom of her own that might get in the way of stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the tick tock of roof whilst she was in it and left her body clock. The two women don’t know each other, and in spite of what you might expectstark naked, don’t get staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to know each other, but their stories sit side end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by side in this tale of someone who shares it around the trials and tribulations of fertility treatmentoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330544098</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess StimsonB08CHJLNBS|title=The Wife Who Ran AwayCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=KateHe's life is far from easyCharles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She earns a great deal more money than her husband Ned's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and works long hoursarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. but her boss seems to be trying to edge her They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out. of his mind? She pays 's not just for their mortgagehis usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, but for her motherwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's tooobviously a non-starter, and fees for their teenage children Guy and Agness who are in expensive private schools.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330522019</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne BuglerHelly Acton|title=The Child InsideShelf|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Rachel Morgan feels that When we meet Amy, she does not fit 's in anywherea relationship with Jamie. Certainly not with all of the other mums at her son JonoYou can's posh school. Certainly not with all the happy jolly families t really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on the beaches when they are on holiday. And most of allhis terms, but she no longer feels that 's sticking around because she fits in with her own little familyhopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Nothing ever feels right and she continually feels isolated on the outside Haven't we all been there? Things are looking inup when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Of course, these feelings lead Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to an increasing sense of dissatisfaction which she can only deal with by dwelling get down on what she perceives as her happier past.one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330510916</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Giselle GreenKatie Fforde|title=Falling for YouA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rose is full of worries I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and insecurities. Her father is frailthis was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, her mother died some years previouslyfamily and friendships. Rose is desperately hoping This provided two romances for a letter offering her a place at the university price of her dreams... one, but has no idea how her father will survive without her there it was actually the family element as opposed to look after himthe romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B006KHWSJ8</amazonuk>1780897561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer E SmithB07W4MNBSG|title=The Statistical Probability of Love at First SightBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Kellehers' beach-front holiday home in Maine It was built on a plot of land won coming up to Halloween in a bar-room bet at the end of World War II. It's not in the same league as the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port but there are a couple of substantial properties on the plot 1987 and there's still room to spare. It's a place of indulgence, secrets and the sort group of burning cruelty which you only get in families who care for each other sixth- some of the time. ''Maine'' is essentially the story of a summer at the property - but the seeds of form schoolgirls wondered what happens they would be doing when they were, of course, planted long agofifty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789496X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Monica Carly|title=The Golden Thread|rating=3.5|genre=Women When you's Fiction|summary=It was a sad day when Claudia Hansom retired as headmistress of Kingdown School. The staff respected herre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, despite the fact that she was always somewhat distant and the children did well under her charge. She was a stickler for discipline and the pupils accepted this – but once again there Liz was no convinced that ''loveyour entire life depends on who you marry''. No, The only eligible boys were the sadness was all Claudia's, for what was she to do with Young Farmers and the rest idea of her life as the ex-head teacher living alone with her cat? Her mother had died when she in a farmhouse 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 the life ahead having a couple of her was empty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780880162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Marsh|title=The House of Eliott|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Evangeline children called Will and Beatrice's father diesOlly appealed to Charlotte, the two sisters discover that he has left them with very little money or perhaps William and without any qualifications with which Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to support themselvesmarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. They struggle The place to find suitable employment before accidentally discovering start their talents as seamstresses and fashion designerssearch was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. The book follows their journey of independence after their father's death, and There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the new relationships they begin to build without him dominating their livesclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720008X</amazonuk>
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