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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Kleypas1471180158|title=Dream LakeMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=''Dream Lake'' is the third book Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a series about three brothers man who grew up in 's a control freak with all the subtlety of a somewhat dysfunctional homehalf brick. This one focuses on Alex Jamie's son, Bo, youngest of 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the threemore you read, who is 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 brilliant designer frequent flier in the local A&E and buildersometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Unfortunately, we’re told, he’s also angry at Missed shifts or the world, arrogant, need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and aggressiveput in the wrong. He’s It was going to come to a very heavy drinker, toohead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953985</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel OsmondLauren Bravo|title=The First Time I Saw Your FacePreloved

|summary=Mack Stone used to be Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a journalist on big number that starts with a tabloid paper four and was not averse to dishing ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the dirt on whoever he happened to be writing abouttoss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. He has left that world behind though and Catharsis is now attempting to work freelance key and only write in a more ethical way. However, one day he receives a call from his old boss who Gwen has one last job for him to do. When Mack decided now is not keen, he reveals that he has information about Mack's mother – a sordid little secret that he would have no qualms about publicising to the world if Mack does not agree. If Mack wants time to protect his family, it seems that he has little choice but to agree.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164193</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Renae Lucas-Hall0008506337|title=Tokyo Hearts - A Japanese Love StoryThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=35|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Takashi is a student in his final year at universityThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. He works pretty hard, but his heart belongs to Haruka, who Margo was a fellow student until she had to leave just sixteen when her father was taken illthey fell in love. As a rule they meet once a week in a cafe Richard was twenty- but Takashi fears that Haruka only sees him one and described by Margo's mother as a friend, particularly when he discovers 'an older man'. Her parents worried that sheRichard's seeing a wealthy exinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve -boyfriend on going to Oxford and having a regular basisglittering career. Jun's good-looking too In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and Takashi realises that he has little went on to offerbecome a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, particularly as Haruka loves shopping for designer goodsImogen and Sasha. They're Life was lived in fashionable Tokyo where styleLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, sophistication and fashion are a way the family home on the Isle of lifeWight. How will it work out, particularly when Haruka is planning on moving to Kyoto - which is also where Even then the ex-boyfriend lives - and earthquakes seem doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to be happening regularly leave him in the capital?charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781487693</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clodagh MurphyHadeer Elsbai|title=Frisky BusinessThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Romy doesn’t have a clue 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 father rights of her baby son, Luke, is. But it’s not like she’s an überwomen and weavers – those with magical abilities -slut who sleeps around: in her defence his conception was a one off thingsociety pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, it was dark (they were in a cupboard) wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the baby daddy had military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a Darth Vader mask (it was a Halloween party). That was a year ago, privileged upbringing like Nehal and now Romy’s wondering whether she should renew feels great pressure to provide for her efforts to find family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the mystery man, Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for Luke’s sake as much as anythingwomen's rights. As the book starts she is throwing her own Halloween party, hoping Giorgina also happens to jog some memories as she recreates last year’s (not be in every way love with Nico. What follows is a story of course…she’s far an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from ready which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for baby number 2)their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444726234</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie SandersB0B575J99N|title=Instructions For Bringing Up Scarlett|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A lot of adults will be familiar with the scenario where a close friend ventures the thought 'if anything happened to us would you look after the children?' and there will be few who do other than give assurances that of course they would. There's an easy assumption that it was unlikely to come about - and it would seem churlish to refuse someone that reassurance. Alice gave her best friend Virginia that assurance, but when Beneath the unthinkable happened she was a travel guide writer, used to going hither and thither at a moment's notice. Scarlett was eleven years old and she didn't come with a user's manual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409117197</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Sam Binnie|title=The Wedding DiariesBrooke Adams

|summary=Kiki Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Thom are getting married! The proposal might not have been quite as fabulous as Thom would have liked (bad Kiki!) but that’s all sorted now and with barely a year to plan the shindig, Kiki needs to get cracking. With dresses to try on, venues to find, wedding cakes to taste test, there’s lots to be done, and so the sensible option is to start teacher at a diary, to chronicle this magical time in her life but also for her to keep track off all those little To Dos which will lead up to I Do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007477120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Neilson|title=A Strange Inheritance|rating=3|genre=Womenprestigious girl's Fiction|summary=Meg had just lost her job when she received the letter from the Solicitorschool in York. It was all very mysterious ''comfortable'' but when she presented herself longed for something more in his office she discovered that an Uncle she knew nothing about had left her an inheritancelife. It wasnShe'd ''t just any inheritance, either – in addition to a substantial sum of money she was now still not found the proud owner of a mill in right vocation nor met the Yorkshire Dales. Almost on a whim she decided that she wouldnright man''t sell and now was the propertytime to make a change. The more that she saw of the mill, the more that she felt she wanted to live thereShe needed challenges. She loved the local town and it There was a bonus little trepidation when she made a friend – a fellow Scot – on her first day there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709099509</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Price|title=In the Name of Love|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Charlie Porter is a television sports presenter who's recently broken up with her footballer boyfriend. She and her friend Zoe now refer to him as TFB. The first letter is applied for 'total' and the last casts doubts on his parentage. I'm sure that you can work the rest out for yourselfprofessoressa job in Bologna. On After a holiday to Barbados (Zoe's footballer boyfriend forgot her birthdaytelephone interview, you see...) she meets Felipe Castillo, a central figure in was offered the Spanish Eventing team position and hotly tipped for an Olympic medalit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There's an almost immediate attraction - after Charlie has given him a piece of were some natural doubts before her mind because of his attitude to a waiter - first class but there are one or two difficulties in the way of their relationship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059615</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wendy Wallace|title=The Painted Bridge|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Anna Palmer places her trust in all the wrong people. One choice that backfires spectacularly is her impulsive marriage to the Reverend Vincent Palmer. Less than a year after their marriage he tells her that they are going to visit some of his friends at a place called Lake House. But Lake House is a privately run asylum 'for genteel women of a delicate nature'. Once there Anna discovers that she is not allowed to leave without Vincent's approvalit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209272</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melanie Gideon0241542405|title=Wife 22Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Alice When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and William Buckle have been married she's not left her home for quite a few years and have two teenage children and a dog. With their busy lives1, they end up having little time for each other and rarely get the opportunity to talk about the things that matter214 days. In order She'd ''like'' to do something about her feelings of discontent: in fact, Alice googles she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she'happy marriage?s even considered which shoes to wear if she' and although there seem s going to be no magic secrets for successcatch her train. Then, a little later she is invited to take part in an online survey about modern marriagecan't. She is given simply can't force herself to leave the label, Wife 22, and is assigned to safety of her caseworkerhome. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Researcher 101Sadie, who sends visits regularly with her questions periodicallytwo children, James and is also available through email to answer any queriesMatilda. Alice soon enjoys being able to pour her heart out through the questions that she has to answer but also finds that she is becoming more than Sadie's a little attracted to her faceless caseworkercardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. They start chatting through facebook and Alice finds In fact it quite exciting to mildly flirt with was Sadie who gave Meredith her new friendcat, Fred. However Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, the more so you can guess what she does soin her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, the more disgruntled she becomes a charity which supports people with her own husbandproblems such as Meredith's. There comes a point though where Alice has to decide whether to take things further and if she does, what will become of her marriage?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481772</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kaye0008441618|title=Second Time AroundOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=4.5

|summary=When Jennifer and Ben first meet, they really like each other. It doesnJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't take long before they are dating and although live up to her retired predecessor there is over sixteen years difference could well be a house price slump in age, they get on so well that they can see that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they do have raised were a future togetherconsiderable benefit to the school. However There was one difficulty, as Ben is closer in age to Jenniferthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s children, Matt and Lucywith two members, in particular, she is worried about what they will thinkcausing problems for the head. Ben Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's parents are equally unhappy especially as they feel that if Ben stays with Jennifer, she is not likely to provide them with restrictions on the grandchildren they so desire. It seems toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that there's no way to keep everybody happywas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562027</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellen SussmanGiovanna Fletcher|title=French LessonsWalking on Sunshine|rating=3.54

|summary=There are six main characters in this book which is really three stories in one. NicoMike's wife, Pia, Philippe and Chantal know each otherwho he was with for seventeen years, and Nico knows Josiehas died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, and Philippe knows Rileyso are their best friends, Vicky and Chantal knows JeremyZaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, but Josie knowing that she was dying and Riley and Jeremy don’t know each other or anyone elsethat they would need help to carry on living. The first three are French tutors who have private lessons with their foreign students on the streets Whilst some of Paris, using the city rules are around practicalities such as a better backdrop for learning than a stuffy classroom. This week they each have Americans engaging their servicesclearing out her wardrobe, and over the course of another one that Mike discovers one day the lives encourages him to take one of students their trips away, and teachers all change Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in ways they never expectedtheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780333846</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley ConranB09FS89KX9|title=LaceFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Lili might be young but she's a superstar and she's used to getting what she wants. Life should have been good for Hollie: She's was just summoned Judy, Kate, Maxine going into the final year of her veterinary degree and Pagan to her suite in Manhattan- three years later - was still working at BB's most exclusive hoteldiner. They might be at Bob - the top of ''their'' professions owner - Fashion, PR and interior design but it's Lili who holds the whip hand here. She has regarded her fondly: he was a simple request: ''Which one of you bitches is my mother?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy 2)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Shadow of Night'' moves on from where [[A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness|A Discovery of Witches]] finishesgood boss. Matthew Claremont (vampire, intellectual and, even after centuries of life, still looking a pretty decent 37 years old) and Diana Bishop (historian and witch Hollie had moved in with a pedigree stretching back to the Salem witch trials) are married and have time-walked to 1591 to look for Ashmole 782her boyfriend, the ancient book that Diana let slip through Marcus: her fingers mother thought he was great and he was doing well in 2010his career. They also need Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to find Diana a tutor control her and most of all he wanted her to help leave her control job at the powers that she's chosen to ignore for a lifetimediner. There aren't just supernatural items on the agenda though; Diana thought she knew all Then there was to know about her new spouse but there are secrets to the fact that he would be discoveredviolent, his connection both to the historic 'School of the Night' being one of the less dangerous. Oh, her and another thing, they discover that the 16th century isn't, perhaps, the best time to visit if you're a witch, especially if you need to advertise for a tutorother people. (I think we could have told them that if they'd asked!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384733</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timeri N Murari0008421714|title=The Taliban Cricket ClubMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=We all The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we knowher first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, or think we knowPatricia asked, how oppressive life as she was for Afghans, particularly Afghan women, under wrapping the Taliban regimebread, ''but when isn't this the first time he's based a character on you read ?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this novelwould not have mattered, boy do you get except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a sense of how tough it really wasweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas1473685745|title=In Her ShadowUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=54

|summary=Hannah has had one nervous breakdown due to unbearable guilt When Beth Carlyle and seems Simon Withers first met they were on course opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for a secondhaving knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. How else can she explain the fact He has HLHS - that 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the still dead Ellen seems left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be following her 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 bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. It 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 protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all started two decades earlierof that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and 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 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 her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070216</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise CandlishRuth Hogan|title=The Day You Saved My LifeMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Holly, This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in her the early twenties1970s, is all vaguely connected. So we have a single mother who has had severe postbullied half-natal depression since cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the birth third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her son Mikeyfamily's sea-front booth. He is now a toddler The singer, the scryer and they live with Hollythe sufferer's mummother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, Joannabut just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. She has We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a somewhat sordid past pair of her own but has given letters that will change everything to raising Holly in for a loving environment; woman called Billie. Just who is she has also had to do most of , and who delivered the caring for secrets about her small grandson. to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasJennifer Saint |title=The Secrets Between UsAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah and Alexander meet at a time when both are looking for a fresh start following This re-telling of the demise myth of their previous relationships. She is vulnerable, he is needy, Ariadne and together they can support each other. Sarah the Minotaur is quickly employed as a live in housekeeper in his sprawling home, interesting and moves south from Manchester to join Alex and his young son Jamieunusual. Life Jennifer Saint presents the story in a small village takes some getting used way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to, especially given what has happeneda modern audience. GenevieveSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, Alex’s popular, pretty and wealthy wife, has disappeared. Some say of spanning from her own accord, others are sure something sinister has happened childhood to herdeath, but in any event she has not been heard from since she left town and allowing the locals are suspicious of Sarah’s motives. In their eyes she is moving reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in on the man who rightly belongs to the town sweetheart, taking over the role of mothering Jamie, and generally weaselling her way own right rather than just a prop in to become the lady heroics 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 flyingTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552777331</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Mark Devine|title=Dragon of Life Book 2 Minor Gods|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Luke and Martha have been apart for some time as Luke's been in Valparaiso where one of the hotels which he sold to a consortium of employees has been having problems. When they meet again it's in Seattle, but they're on their way to the Far East in the hope of starting a new 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 series. They had perhaps hoped that life would be simpler - but this is Luke Whittaker we're talking about and 'simple' is just never going to happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B008674NNO</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele ParksLucy Holland|title=Whatever It TakesSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Whatever it takes means giving up your excitingSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, settled life in the capital to move to Dartmouthmodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, if that’s what your husband wants. Whatever it takes means being a constant shoulder to cry on for your best friend even when that nagging voice at the back most of your mind is asking whether this is really us, are a two-way friendship. Whatever it takes means prioritising the needs cornerstone of others – your daughters, your in laws – ahead of your own needschildhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. All dayIf handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, every day. Whatever it takes means maintaining a calmfleshing out characters, putexamining relationships and re-together demeanour in evaluating the face role of event crashers, party trashers, unfaithful spouses and life-changing secretswomen. Whatever it takes means keeping up appearances, no matter what. But if Sistersong is a relationship’s perfect example of a shammodern retelling done well, it’s only a matter of time before the façade starts to crack and splinter.|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 plot is - he tells us - a disembodied spirit placed in this part of handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the heavenly kingdom so that he can remember his characters to come to life and emotions exactly as they were lived. I don't know about you, but I'd find that rather unpleasant to feel real and decidedly embarrassing. Luke Whitaker recognises that there are parts of his life which he'd rather remove from the recordhuman, but acknowledges that he can't. We join him most importantly they feel relatable in 1967 a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in Seattle and he's on his way to Honolulu. When he sets off he doesn't realise quite how momentous the trip This is going a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to beend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>098501640X</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela FudgeB08NF79QXT|title=Turn Back TimeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Charles and Tessa have managed reasonably well since their divorce. Both adore their daughter, Megan and would agree that the other is a good parent Thirty-one- that is if they ever year old Liberty Rossini has 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>}} {{newreview|author=Fannie Flagg|title=I Still Dream About You|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At shop, the age of 60Cherry Blossom Boutique, Maggie Fortenburyfor just six months when she's glory days seem to have passed her by. An exnominated for -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 wins - the diminutive Hazel Whisenkott, midget and founder of Red Mountain RealtyRetail Best Newcomer Award. Now, as Hazel is dead, She's delighted and despite her friendship the two people she's brought with her colleagues (obese, optimistic Brenda and moaning Ethel), suicide seems to the next logical step. It has to be done correctly as Maggie comes from an era when you wouldnevent couldn't want to let anyone down or any commitment unfulfilledbe more pleased. Therefore picking Sonja, her final day becomes increasingly difficult when other things get in the waymother, including a troupe of Whirling Dervishes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555484</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona McGregor|title=Indelible Ink|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Once wealthy, middle class Australian suburbanite Marie King never thought she'd be starting a new life at 59 but here she is, divorced an ex-model and having to sell the marital home. Unfortunately, attached to the marital home is the marital garden into which Marie didn't only give life but also pour Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her own lifelooks from. However, Marie tries to be positive and decides that if sheJessica's going to be a new person, she may as well go the whole way. This means tattoos (much to her offsprings' horror) thirty-four and an unlikely friendship with tattooist Rhys. With that comes the realisation that the privileged suburb of Mossman isn't all there is to Sydney. ThereLiberty's much more to the city, and indeed herself, than she first thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857894129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Trisha Ashley|title=Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues|rating=4|genre=Womenbest friend: they's Fiction|summary=Tansy was brought up by her great-aunt Nancy, who is in her nineties at the start of this book. Tansy lives with her fiancé Justin, but time is racing by ve known each other since university and she is beginning to despair of ever getting married or having babies. Justin is under his demanding motherLiberty adores Jessica's thumbhusband, Charles and Tansy loves getting away to the village where her great aunt owns a small shoe shop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562779</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen MacMahon|title=This Is How It Ends|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is an incredibly gentle (and gently funny) love story set in the winter of 2008 when the Irish economy was booming and the US were about to elect their first black president. Hugh (a deliciously grumpy surgeon) and his currently unemployed architect four-year-old daughter Addie lived happily in an Irish seaside town. Ok, he'd broken both his wrists tripping over Addie's dog and Addie found it hard not to cry sometimes, but they were alrightAva. Then one day, out of the blue, they receive a voicemail message from Bruno, a distant American relative who's just popped over the ocean to say 'Hi!' Remembering the last US relative who came to visit ( Life would be perfect for Liberty if it didnwasn't go well), Addie and Hugh decide to ignore the phone... and the front door... and the occupant of the bench seat across the road... He's bound to go home eventuallyfor one thing: she misses having a man in her life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445462</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth SabertonB08GFSK2WZ|title=Amber Scott is Starting OverThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Amber Scott has been with her fiancé Ed for over ten George Jackson is thirty-three yearsold, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. Things may She's not be perfect had sex for eight months and she's stuck in their relationship but they muddle along OK in their London home, both going off to their separate jobs. However, one day, just as Amber the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is about to celebrate a promotion of being visited on her own, Ed announces that he and she has been offered a partnership in a law firmreal talent for attracting drama. This should be fantastic news but Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the problem is that it is over two hundred miles away in Cornwall and would mean Amber having leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to give up everything that absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she has worked for was in order to go with him. Andit and left her, of coursestark naked, as Ed points staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out many times, if she really loves him she wouldn't even have for a walk for her to think about end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares itaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409135500</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice PetersonB08CHJLNBS|title=Ten Years On|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The prologue of this book sees Becca with her student friends at a New Year's Eve party. Afterwards, she and her boyfriend Ollie and their flatmate Joe hang out for a while, talking about the future. They wonder what they might be doing in ten years' time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383256</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Anne Allen|title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jeanne Le Page suffered a panic attack as the ferry neared Guernsey. It was a decade and a half since she'd left the island following the deaths of her parents in a boating accident. She'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 island, but she never intended to stay for long - in fact just long enough to arrange for the sale of the cottage which her grandmother had left her. But somehow the island worked its magic on her and she found herself making friends and developing more of a social life than she'd had back on the mainland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780882300</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gwen Kirkwood|title=Another Home, Another Love|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rosemary Palmer-Farr is nowhere near as grand as her name might lead you to expect. In fact she's a down-to-earth girl, fresh out of horticultural college who's taken over the gardens attached to her mother's hotel. It's her mother who has the social pretensions. She's determined that Rosemary Lavender (it's OK - everyone else calls her Rosie) is going to make a good marriage and that certainly doesn't include any of the tenant farmers (or their offspring) she's been so friendly with. And when push comes to shove she'll do ''whatever'' is necessary to keep her away from one particular man of the soil whilst pushing the suit of the local landowning family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096305</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Kavanagh|title=The Lonely FurrowBrooke Adams

|summary=The loss of the family business was no fault of the Drummond familyHe's Charles Devereaux, but by the time that they'd repaid what was owed they had no home thirty-eight and no means of making a livingpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. The elder sonShe's Emilia, Nathantwenty-nine, lost his fiancé librarian and there was little left for them to do archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but to she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave Glasgow and move you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a farm which had been in Florence Drummondlittle deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's family for some timeshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They weren't farmersre obviously not at all compatible, but there was little choice but for them to buckle down and make the best so why can Charles not get this woman out of the situation presented his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to themhis friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096372</amazonuk> And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie BrockwayHelly Acton|title=The Lady Most LikelyShelf|rating=34|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=HughWhen we meet Amy, the Earl of Briarlyshe's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, has acknowledged because things tend to get done on his mortality after a nasty accidentterms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, and has decided yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to take pack for a wifesurprise trip. Not being a very sociable person - he likes horses better than people - Could this be it? Is he asks his married sister Carolyn ''finally'' going to produce a list of eligible young ladies. She does so, get down on one knee? Was the work (and then invites them and various other friends to a house party.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>074995776X</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Sinead Moriarty|title=Me and My Sisters|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Louisegirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, Sophie her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and Julie. Three women. Three sisters. One a successful business woman. One a successful trophy wife. One a successful mother now she's the talk of fourthe school. All of them seem to Mike was the others most 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't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to have it all. All of them have more troubles than the others could ever imagineblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241950589</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria GoodinKatie Fforde|title=NutmegA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Meg I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was rather underdone when she pretty much exactly what I was bornexpecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. Her mother ate lots of eggs during pregnancy, in This provided two romances for the hope price of giving her a good glazeone, but instead she came out clucking like a chicken, and it was fortuitously caught in a frying pan by actually the family element as opposed to the gas man..romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908248246</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy RobinsonB07W4MNBSG|title=The Greatest Love Story of All Time|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was the blurb on this one that had me interested, mentioning Fran’s 30th birthday (mine’s a few months away) and the fact she’s bluffed her way into a very posh job (something some might say I’ve just done too). I thought we might be kindred spirits and even if we weren’t, I thought I might be signing up for some fun, flirty chick lit which is never a bad thing. Until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952980</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Rosy Thornton|title=NinepinsLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Laura lives deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens with her daughter Beth and at the time that we meet them she's just It was coming up to her twelfth birthdayHalloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Her father has remarried and now has three young sonsWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but mother and father decided early Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on that they would have cordial relations for Bethwho you marry''s sake - and the habit has stuck. Money from Beth's father is a little hit The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and miss, so Laura has been in the habit idea of letting out the pumphouse - once living in a farmhouse and having a drainage station - couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to students, but this time its occupant is WillowCharlotte, who is seventeen years old or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who has been in carewas determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. It takes a while for her history The place to emerge, but her mother start their search was a hippy with no sense of responsibility and it ''seems'obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that Willow might have been guilty of arsonweekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905207859</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Lisa Kleypas|title=Rainshadow Road|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionMove on to [[Features|summary=It's sometimes said that bad luck comes in threes. It certainly happens that way for Lucy, the rather hapless heroine of this book. First her boyfriend of two years announces that he wants her to move out, because - of all things - he has decided that he likes her sister Alice better. Then Lucy'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953888</amazonuk>}}latest features]]