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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas1471180158|title=In Her Shadow|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Hannah has had one nervous breakdown due to unbearable guilt and seems on course for a second. How else can she explain the fact that the still dead Ellen seems to be following her around? It all started two decades earlier...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070216</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Day You Saved My LifePenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Holly, Jamie Matson works in her early twentiesan upper-class grocery store, is for a single mother man who has had severe post-natal depression since 's a control freak with all the birth subtlety of her a half brick. Jamie's son Mikey, Bo, 'has his problems'. He is now 's 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 toddler, frequent flier in the local A&E and they live with Hollysometimes Bo's mum, Joannanot fit enough to go to school. She has a somewhat sordid past of her own but has given everything Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to raising Holly pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a loving environment; she has also had to do most of the caring for her small grandsonhead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=The Secrets Between Us|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah and Alexander meet at a time when both are looking for a fresh start following the demise of their previous relationships. She is vulnerable, he is needy, and together they can support each other. Sarah is quickly employed as a live in housekeeper in his sprawling home, and moves south from Manchester to join Alex and his young son Jamie. Life in a small village takes some getting used to, especially given what has happened. Genevieve, Alex’s popular, pretty and wealthy wife, has disappeared. Some say of her own accord, others are sure something sinister has happened to her, but in any event she has not been heard from since she left town and the locals are suspicious of Sarah’s motives. In their eyes she is moving in on the man who rightly belongs to the town sweetheart, taking over the role of mothering Jamie, and generally weaselling her way in to become the lady of the house before Genevieve’s bed is even cold. Protestations that she is simply an employee, not a lover, fall on deaf ears, and with Genevieve’s family being the most prominent in town, it’s hard to get anyone to be on Sarah and Alexander’s side when accusations start flying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552777331</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark DevineLauren Bravo|title=Dragon of Life Book 2 Minor GodsPreloved|rating=3.54

|summary=Luke Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and Martha have been apart for some time as Lukeends with an oh-my-God-I's been in Valparaiso where one of the hotels which he sold to a consortium of employees has been having problemsm-nearly-forty. When they meet again it's in Seattle, but they're on Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their way to salt would argue the Far East in the hope toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of starting a new mid-life free from the attentions of the FBI which they so tired of in the [[Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining Truth by Mark Devine|first book]] in the seriescrisis. They had perhaps hoped that life would be simpler - but this Catharsis is Luke Whittaker we're talking about key and 'simple' Gwen has decided now is just never going the time to happen.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B008674NNO</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Parks0008506337|title=Whatever It TakesThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Whatever it takes means giving up your excitingThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, settled life apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the capital to move to Dartmouth, if that’s 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 your husband wants. Whatever it takes means being a constant shoulder they felt she could achieve - going to cry on for your best friend even when that nagging voice at the back of your mind is asking whether this is really Oxford and having a two-way friendshipglittering career. Whatever it takes means prioritising In the needs of others – your daughtersevent, your in laws – ahead they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of your own needsWight. All day, every day. Whatever it takes means maintaining Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a calm, putwell-together demeanour in the face of event crashers, party trashers, unfaithful spouses and life-changing secretsrespected journalist. Whatever it takes means keeping up appearances, no matter what. But if a relationship’s a sham The couple had three children: Rachel, it’s only a matter of time before the façade starts to crack Imogen and splinterSasha.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371348</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Devine|title=Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining Truth|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we first encounter Luke Whitaker he is - he tells us - a disembodied spirit placed was lived in this part of the heavenly kingdom so that he can remember his life London and emotions exactly as they holidays were livedspent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. I donEven then the doubts about Richard't know about you, but Is drinking were never far from Margo'd find that rather unpleasant and decidedly embarrassing. Luke Whitaker recognises that there are parts of his life which hes mind: 'd rather remove from the record, but acknowledges that he can't. We join she would never be able to leave him in 1967 in Seattle and hecharge's on his way to Honolulu. When he sets off he doesn't realise quite how momentous the trip is going to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>098501640X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Pamela Fudge|title=Turn Back Time|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Charles and Tessa have managed reasonably well since their divorceThen Richard left them. Both adore their daughter, Megan and would agree that the other is a good parent - that is if they ever had any contact with each other other than the occasional text or email. Just before Megan is due to go to university Charles sends a message to Tessa via Megan. He has something which he needs to discuss with her and thinks that they should meet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098448</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fannie FlaggHadeer Elsbai|title=I Still Dream About You|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At the age The Daughters of 60, Maggie Fortenbury's glory days seem to have passed her by. An ex-Miss Alabama, she headed for the fame she dreamt of in 'the Big Apple' and ended, instead, making disastrous life choices that took her along a different route. However she had made one good decision: to work for the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget and founder of Red Mountain Realty. Now, as Hazel is dead, and despite her friendship with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems the next logical step. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes from an era when you wouldn't want to let anyone down or any commitment unfulfilled. Therefore picking her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get in the way, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona McGregor|title=Indelible InkIzdihar

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Once wealthyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought she'd 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be starting a new life at 59 but here she ismore different, divorced yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and having to sell the marital homeweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. UnfortunatelyNehal, attached to born into the marital home is the marital garden into which Marie didn't only give life but also pour her own life. Howeverupper class, Marie tries wishes to be positive and decides that if she's going attend the Weaving Academy to be a new person, she may as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much learn to control her offsprings' horror) abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an unlikely friendship arranged marriage with tattooist RhysNico. With that comes Giorgina on the realisation that other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the privileged suburb Daughters of Mossman isnIzdihar – a group campaigning for women't all there is s rights. Giorgina also happens to Sydneybe in love with Nico. There's much more to the cityWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and indeed herselfcruelty, than she first thoughtfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB0B575J99N|title=Chocolate Shoes and Wedding BluesBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Tansy Elizabeth Miller was brought up by thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a 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 beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her great-aunt Nancyfirst class but it went surprisingly well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, who is 214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her nineties at train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the start safety of this bookher home. Tansy lives She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her fiancé Justintwo children, but time is racing by James and she is beginning to despair of ever getting married or having babiesMatilda. Justin is under his demanding mother Sadie's thumba cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and Tansy loves getting away to the village there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her great aunt owns spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a small shoe shopcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562779</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen MacMahon0008441618|title=This Is How It EndsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=The prologue Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of this book sees Becca with West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her student friends at retired predecessor there could well be a New Year's Eve partyhouse price slump in that part of the town. Afterwards, she The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and her boyfriend Ollie and their flatmate Joe hang out for the funds which they raised were a while, talking about considerable benefit to the futureschool. They wonder what There was one difficulty, though - they might be doing were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in ten yearsparticular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo' time..s restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383256</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne AllenGiovanna Fletcher|title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love Walking on the Island of GuernseySunshine

|summary=Jeanne Le Page suffered a panic attack as the ferry neared GuernseyMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. It was a decade And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and a half since sheZaza. But Pia left them all some 'd left the island following the deaths of her parents in a boating accident. Sherules'd been in the boat with them but had no memory of what happened other than the occasional flashback. It was the death of her grandmother which brought her back to the islandfollow, but knowing that she never intended was dying and that they would need help to stay for long - in fact just long enough to arrange for the sale carry on living. Whilst some of the cottage which her grandmother had left her. But somehow the island worked its magic on rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and she found herself making friends Zaza, struggling with their grief and developing more of a social their own life than she'd had back on the mainlandtroubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780882300</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gwen KirkwoodB09FS89KX9|title=Another Home, Another LoveFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Rosemary Palmer-Farr is nowhere near as grand as Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her name might lead you to expect. In fact she's a downveterinary degree and -tothree years later -earth girl, fresh out of horticultural college whowas still working at BB's taken over diner. Bob - the gardens attached to owner - regarded her mother's hotelfondly: he was a good boss. It's Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother who has the social pretensionsthought he was great and he was doing well in his career. SheHollie wasn's determined that Rosemary Lavender (it's OK - everyone else calls t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her Rosie) is going to make a good marriage and that certainly doesn't include any most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the tenant farmers (or their offspring) she's been so friendly withdiner. And when push comes Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to shove she'll do ''whatever'' is necessary her and to keep her away from one particular man of the soil whilst pushing the suit of the local landowning familyother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096305</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Kavanagh0008421714|title=The Lonely FurrowMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The loss problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the family business local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was no fault of wrapping the Drummond familybread, ''but by isn't this the first time that theyhe'd repaid what was owed they had no home and no means of making s based a living. character on you?'' The elder sonShe mentioned that Johanna, Nathan, lost his fiancé and there was little left for them to do but to leave Glasgow and move to a farm which the principal character had been in Florence Drummond's family for some timeher mannerisms''. They weren't farmersPerhaps this would not have mattered, but there was little choice but except for them to buckle down and make the best fact that Johanna is the whore of the situation presented to themNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096372</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway1473685745|title=The Lady Most Likely|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hugh, the Earl of Briarly, has acknowledged his mortality after a nasty accident, and has decided to take a wife. Not being a very sociable person - he likes horses better than people - he asks his married sister Carolyn to produce a list of eligible young ladies. She does so, and then invites them and various other friends to a house party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074995776X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Sinead Moriarty|title=Me and My SistersKatie Marsh|rating=54

|summary=LouiseWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Sophie Simon was angry and JulieBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. Three women He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. Three sisters He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. One When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a successful business womanfew days old. One 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 state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a successful trophy bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. One 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 successful mother protectorate – well, we share enough of fourthe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. All But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of them seem that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the others childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to have 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. All That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of them have more troubles than the others could ever imaginefemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241950589</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria GoodinRuth Hogan|title=NutmegMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Meg was rather underdone when she was born. Her mother ate lots This book lets us discover several people in different stages of eggs during pregnancy, life in the hope of giving her early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a good glazebullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), but instead she came out clucking like a chickengirl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and was fortuitously caught in a frying pan by chiefly, Imelda, the gas man...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy Robinson|title=The Greatest Love Story third generation of All Time|rating=2.5|genre=WomenMadame Burova, ''s Fiction|summary=It was the blurb on this one that had me interestedTarot-Reader, mentioning Fran’s 30th birthday (mine’s a few months away) Palmist and the fact she’s bluffed Clairvoyant'', to use her way into a very posh job (something some might say I’ve just done too)family's sea-front booth. I thought we might be kindred spirits and even if we weren’t, I thought I might be signing up for some fun The singer, flirty chick lit which is never a bad thing. Until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952980</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosy Thornton|title=Ninepins|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Laura lives deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens with her daughter Beth scryer and at the time that we meet them shesufferer's just coming up to her twelfth birthday. Her father has remarried and now has three young sonsmother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but mother and father decided early on that they would have cordial relations just before then we see Imelda fly solo for Beth's sake - and the habit has stuckfirst time in the family stall. Money from Beth's father is a little hit and missWe also see her on her last day, fifty years later, so Laura has been in the habit possession of a pair of letting out the pumphouse - once letters that will change everything for a drainage station - to students, but this time its occupant woman called Billie. Just who is Willowshe, who is seventeen years old and who has been in care. It takes a while for delivered the secrets about her history to emergeImelda, but her mother was a hippy with no sense of responsibility and why did it ''seems'' that Willow might have been guilty of arson.to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905207859</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa KleypasJennifer Saint |title=Rainshadow RoadAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's sometimes said that bad luck comes in threes. It certainly happens that way for Lucy, This re-telling of the rather hapless heroine myth of this bookAriadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. First her boyfriend of two years announces Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that he wants her is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to move out, because - of all things - he has decided that he likes her sister Alice bettera modern audience. Then LucySaint's car breaks down. And thennarrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, just as she seems allowing the reader to be dealing really connect with Ariadne as a character in her circumstances fairly well, she is knocked over by own right rather than just a carprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953888</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor PrescottLucy Holland|title=Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of DatingSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary='Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art Sistersong is part of Dating' is a very enjoyable and light-hearted look at genre I particularly enjoy, the world modern retelling of dating agenciesfolk and fairy tales. Table These stories, for Two is most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a thriving agency run by Audrey Cracknell fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and her team including Alice who is most successful at setting up dates leading new meaning to lasting love. There is nothing more exciting stories that receiving gold written wedding invitations from former clients. There's also fierce competition from are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the other dating agencies in town especially Love Birds run by Audrey's arch rival, Sheryl Toogoodrole of women. Then Sistersong is a perfect example of coursea modern retelling done well, there's the annual Matchmakers' ball – the highlight of the year plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but also allowing the place characters to come to life, to be seen feel real and score pointshuman, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. There's This is a great deal masterpiece of fun storytelling and lots of romance too. This book is pure escapismI was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857387146</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara DelinskyB08NF79QXT|title=EscapeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Emily and James are a couple of 30Thirty-one-something lawyers living in New Yorkyear old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, except they’re not really living so much as existingthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, running from home to work to yoga class to book club, barely spending any time together. It’s for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the way it is until one day Emily takes a particularly tough call at work Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and realises in that moment that what she’s doing isn’t right. It isn’t how the two people she imagined life would be. It isn’t what she went 's brought with her to law school for, or what she wants. And so she leaves. Fleeing the city for an altogether event couldn't be more relaxed placepleased. Sonja, she tells neither her work nor mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband that she is leaving, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she just goesmisses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780335016</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB08GFSK2WZ|title=Welcome To Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop Of DreamsThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Rosie Hopkins George Jackson is reluctant thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to leave her beloved London, Gerard, a livelook at -and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in boyfriend the karma trap: an awful lot of eight years bad luck is being visited on her and her work as auxiliary nurseshe has a real talent for attracting drama. But when an elderly aunt who had spent her Her life running a traditional sweetshop in a small village in 's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the North of England becomes just too elderly to cope, Rosie surprises everybody – even herself – shower by taking up putting something down at the challenge. A 100% townie who can't ride a bike and doesn't seem to own a waterproof, a pair bottom of wellies or even walking boots, Rosie soon discovers that the countryside has its charms, not least of which is stairs to absorb the local supply of masculine eye candy. Soon she will find herself rewater -opening then the shop (just to sell shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it as a running concern, you understand) as well as somewhat accidentallyand left her, saving and enriching lives all aroundstark naked, from a lady of staring at the manorpervy postman. She only has to take her mother's Lab dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her own dignified, but possessed of an acid tongue, great aunt Lillianface - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154454X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emylia HallB08CHJLNBS|title=The Book of SummersCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=When Beth receives a parcel from her estranged mother she realises she must finally face up to her past. The parcel contains He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a scrap bookpartner at Wickham Jones, full of photos from each summer when Beth was 10 until she was 16the Mayfair letting agents. As she turns the pages we learn of BethShe's childhoodEmilia, the separation of her parents twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the summers she spends with her mother in Hungaryheritage library next door.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755390830</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer McVeigh Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|title=The Fever Tree|rating=4Secret]] 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.5 Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Frances Irvine enjoys a privileged lifestyle in Victorian England: a beautiful houseJack Reacher]] man himself, servantsbut, rich gowns and above all the trappings her position as the daughter of an industrialist demands. However, Franceshe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian' 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 continueThey're obviously not at all compatible, her fatherso why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's shares are rendered worthless. As this occurs just before not his sudden death, Frances is forced usual type at all: it's obvious to make a choice as her finery and home are auctioned offhis friends. Does And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she throw herself on the mercy of her lower class relatives or commit herself feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a loveless marriage to distant cousin Dr Edwin Matthewsnon-starter, isn't it? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920894</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynda RenhamHelly Acton|title=Croissants and JamThe Shelf|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Even before Annabel Lewis boards the flight to Rome that will take her to her weddingWhen we meet Amy, she is having doubts's in a relationship with Jamie. After allYou can't really call it a partnership, she has only known Simon for seven months and he does because things tend to be quite controlling and not much fun. Soget done on his terms, when a series of unfortunate events causes her to miss her connecting flight, although but she's sticking around because she hopes she is reluctant to admit it, it is a welcome reliefcan change him. She does still intend to go ahead with the wedding thoughAh, so she needs to find away to get across France and into Italyyes. As Haven't we all been there ? Things are no flight options, she ends looking up agreeing when he tells her to share pack for a car with the man who inadvertently made her miss her flightsurprise trip. As a fashion conscious stylish woman though, she is more than a little perturbed when Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the car in question ends up as a clapped out old Citroen work (affectionately known as and the lemonwait) 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. worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957137206</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Barbara J Zitwer|title=The J M Barrie LadiesWhen Mike Parker' Swimming Society|rating=4s girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down.5|genre=WomenHer relationship has just ended and now she's Fiction|summary=When Joey Rubin arrives at Stanway House to oversee its renovations she is looking forward to the challenge talk of preserving its ties the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love 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 Saraheveryone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her oldest and closest friend. Howeversome don't, but one thing is for sure, things donthis isn't go quite according to plan as Sarah has changed out of all recognition and everything Joey says or does seem going to cause offenceblow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780720408</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy KellyKatie Fforde|title=The House on Willow StreetA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=You donI't get ve wanted to a certain age without having a bit of a past read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a few storieswarm, cosy read focused on romance, some of which you'd rather weren't told family and others which you'd just plain rather forget aboutfriendships. In This provided two romances for the idyllic Irish coastal village price of Avalon we meet four women and they've all got big histories. Tess is descended from the local landownersone, but now she lives with her teenage son Zach and her nine-year-old daughter Kitty and she owns it was actually the local antiques shop. It's a struggle family element as opposed to make ends meet when her marriage falls apart. To cap it all, her first love and the man she's never romance that I really forgotten returns to the village but they're no friendlier than they were the last time they metenjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007373619</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie CohenB07W4MNBSG|title=The Summer of Living DangerouslyBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=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 I read Julie Cohenyou're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that 's book [[Nina Jones 'your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the Temple idea of Gloom by Julie Cohen|Nina Jones living in a farmhouse and the Temple of Gloom]] having a couple of years ago my poor toddler had children called Will and Olly appealed to endure neglect for Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the day since I couldnrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers't stop reading itHalloween disco that weekend. This time Julie had me risking my own health since I started reading her new book There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in 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 a stash of plentiful snacks would be a wise place to beginclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755350650</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Rosie Fiore|title=Babies In Waiting|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Three women, three different situations, ages spanning three decades. Gemma, Toni and Louise don’t have masses in common, but come into each other’s lives when they all fall pregnant around the same time. With partners, parents, siblings and other friends not quite getting all that’s going Move on in their heads...and in their tummies...the women quickly form a tight support network in which all their differences cease to matter.[[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389580</amazonuk>}}the latest features]]