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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Dowling1471180158|title=Would I Lie To You?|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Hannah, Ellen and Barbara have been friends ever since they shared a house at university. They are now in their late thirties and over the years have always been there for each other. This year though, as both Hannah and Ellen prepare to celebrate their thirty eighth birthdays, they all seem to have a bit more stress in their lives than usual. Hannah’s partner, Ollie, has left her and their seven year old daughter, Cleo; Barbara is preparing to adopt a Russian baby on her own; and Ellen and her husband Mark are struggling to ‘live the dream’ that was theirs when they moved to France a few years earlier. Added to this, when Hannah and Barbara spend a couple of weeks with Ellen and her family, something happens that shocks Hannah. If she tells Ellen, it could wreck their friendship. However, if she keeps quiet, she runs the risk of Ellen finding out anyway which could make things even worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535981X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Mhairi McFarlane|title=You Had Me At HelloPenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Who hasn’t got a ‘one that got away’? Or maybe several? Rachel and Ben meet at university Jamie Matson works in Manchesteran upper-class grocery store, but she’s got for a boyfriend back home, and he’s man who's a bit control freak with all the subtlety of a ladies manhalf brick. Jamie's son, so rather than settle down together (which is arguably what at least one of them thinks they should have done)Bo, they pad through a few years as fellow students 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and then go their separate waysthe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. After a while Rachel heads back Sometimes Jamie needs to Manchester and some take time well after that, Ben finds himself back up north too. They bump into each other and it’s like nothing has changed. Except everything has changed. Rachel is hot off at short notice - she's a broken engagement, while Ben is married frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to a hotshot lawyer from Lan-danschool. Will their past stay 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 past, and do they want it wrong. It was going to come to? Told from Rachel’s point of view, this is a story that sets out to answer those, and other questionshead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000748805X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Julia Williams|title=A Merry Little Christmas|rating=5|genre=women's Fiction|summary=Cat Tinsall, Pippa Holliday and Marianne North all live in the lovely village of Hope Christmas and have formed very close and supportive friendships over the four years they have known each other. The story starts with Christmas just over and follows the three friends through the entire year leading up to the next Christmas. It’s not going to be an easy year for any of them though and they’re definitely going to need each other’s help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756089X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet AshtonLauren Bravo|title=The Valentine's CardPreloved

|summary=Orla, a primary school teacher, Gwen is still at home in Ireland while actor boyfriend Sim works over in London, but although it’s hard to be apart, there are some benefits to doing the long distance thing, not least Sim’s awesome card writing skills. So when Valentine’s day comes around, Orla is excited for what the day might bring. She’s expecting pressing her middle-aged bosom on a little something in the post, but she’s not expecting the phone call big number that comes, nor the news that comes starts with a four and ends with it. Sim has died, suddenlyan oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. And it’s not just his life that is over. On Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the verge toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a proposal, Orla feels her mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is finished too. She flees to London the time to recover some of Sim’s possessions, taking with take back her the as yet unopened Valentine’s card he sent, with its unfulfilled promises.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751544272</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Vanessa Greene|title=The Vintage Teacup Club|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny, Maggie and Alison meet at a car boot sale. Jenny is looking for vintage tea sets to serve tea at her wedding to Dan in a few month's time. She spots four cups and saucers that would be ideal but at the same time, the cups are also spotted by Maggie and Alison who also want them. Over a cup of tea, they realise that each of them needs them at a different time so it could be possible to buy them and then share them. Jenny will have them first at her wedding, then Maggie will use them in the 'Alice in Wonderland' garden she is creating, before finally passing them on to Alison who will use them as scented candle holders. It's a good solution and one that will lead to a strong and lasting friendship between the three of Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751548502</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftHadeer Elsbai|title=Dream a Little DreamThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Liza Reece works as reflexologist at The StablesDrawing inspiration from Egypt, a therapy centre attached to a hotel. It ''should'' be doing quite well. It The Daughters of Izdihar''explores the lives of two women who could'' not be doing quite wellmore different, but yet find themselves fighting for the manager rights of women and leaseholder is Nicholas, who's a waste of rather weavers – those with magical abilities - in a lot of spacesociety pitted against them. Liza reckons that she could take over Nehal, born into the leaseupper class, reorganise wishes to attend the finances Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and make a success of itthen join the military, but instead she has to raise is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the money other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to buy provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the lease. Dominic Christy has Daughters of Izdihar – a plan toogroup campaigning for women's rights. He used Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an Air Traffic Controllerunjust society, but he developed a rare sleep disorder and falling asleep on ''that'' job is not a good idea. He's just split up filled with his girlfriend hypocrisy and has money cruelty, from the sale which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their house. He has plans for The Stables - rights and he wouldn't need a reflexologistovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931909</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann CliffB0B575J99N|title=Poacher's Moon|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Back in Beneath the middle of the nineteenth century it was village gossip when Judith Weaver 'took up' with Will Thorpe. Such matters are always talked about in a village but Judith's parents ran a successful bakery, whilst Will had little to recommend him. As time went on Judith left the village and Will suffered the consequences of his actions (it was, he said, only the one pheasant...) and when he returned to Kirkby he met and married someone else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719805791</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Molly Hopkins|title=It Happened In VeniceBrooke Adams

|summary=Evie is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a tour guide who leads groups around Europe, 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 we first meet her she applied for the professoressa job in Barbados she’s there for pleasure, not workBologna. She’s back with Rob After a telephone interview, her boyfriend who also works on she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the tour circuitbeautiful city. She’s just about forgiven him for cheating on There were some natural doubts before her and this holiday and their subsequent moving in together with be a fresh startfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan Coleman0241542405|title=Dearest RoseMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=Rose has finally escapedWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. For years Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she has put up with 's going to catch her bullying husband and lived with train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the sadness safety of her motherhome. She's suicide after her father left when fortunate that she was has a young girl. Only oncegood friend, Sadie, when she was heavily pregnant who visits regularly with her daughter Maddietwo children, did anyone show her any warmth James and kindness Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and treat her like a human being in her own rightfull of sound common sense. That person In fact it was Frasier McCleodSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an art dealer who had been trying to trace Roseinternet-based support group where you's fatherll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artistso you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. Although she couldn He't help hims from Holding Hands, Frasier sent a postcard to thank her and it is the village pictured on that postcard that she makes her way to nine years later when she can put up charity which supports people with her husbandproblems such as Meredith's cruelty no more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551276</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian Keyes0008441618|title=The Mystery of Mercy CloseOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=Helen Walsh is a Private Investigator. She's also back home living with her elderly parents (you've heard about Mammy Walsh, right?) because Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she candidn't keep live up the mortgage or to her (very small) flat retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in Dublin and she hasn't got an office either, for much that part of the same reasontown. Work is decidedly thin on The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the ground and funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to make matters even worse some of her old demons have bubbled upthe school. SheThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s suffered from depression before and she knows the signs: those vultures , with two members, in particular, causing problems for the sky were a bit of a giveawayhead. An old boyfriend resurfaces too. Jay Parker was always charming but too dodgy to be a keeper. It's a difficult choice when he wants Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to employ Helen but Jay has cash and heJo's putting restrictions on three gigs the toys children could bring in Dublin. The trouble is on Toy Day but that one of the members of former boyband Laddz, whose comeback starts the following week, has gone missing and without Wayne Diffney was just a lot of money is going to have to be repaid to the punterswarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155319</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cecelia AhernGiovanna Fletcher|title=One Hundred NamesWalking on Sunshine|rating=3.54

|summary=Kitty LoganMike's career had looked to be going well until she made a life changing mistake in a story she coveredwife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. It changed the life of the person whom she accused of doing something And whilst he didn't do is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and it changed her life tooZaza. The network suspended her. As if her life couldnBut Pia left them all some 'rules't get any worse she had to face losing a close friend - the woman who taught her all follow, knowing that she knew - who was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of cancer. At the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her bedside for what was wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to be the last time (welltake one of their trips away, actuallyand Vicky and Zaza, it was the first too - it's not just her research Kitty's been neglecting) Constance was asked if she would tell Kitty about the one story she always wanted struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to writedrop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007350465</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carmen ReidB09FS89KX9|title=Shopping With The EnemyFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Annie is a well known fashionista, but she’s more friendly fashion guru than scary fashion diva. Life should have been good for Hollie: She has various things was just going on, like into the final year of her makeover show on veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the tellyowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and between he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and the kids she’s just about ticking alongto other people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552163198</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammara Webber0008421714|title=EasyMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jacqueline gave up her dreams The problem began just after the publication of becoming a classical musician George March's most successful novel to follow date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her boyfriend Kennedy first name only on the last page) seemed to college. When he dumps her, either be reading it hits her hard – or had already done so hard she starts skipping classes and, as a result, failing economics. Dragged out Every day Mrs March went to a party by her friend to help her get over the break-up, instead she faces terror as her ex’s friend Buck tries local patisserie to rape her. A mysterious strangerbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, LucasPatricia asked, intervenes to save her, and when as she realises they share economicswas wrapping the bread, she starts to wonder whether ''but isn't this the first time he could take 's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mind off Kennedymannerisms''. She’s also receiving e Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes -mail tuition from an older student she’s never met''a weak, who seems to be flirting with her. Soonplain, detestable, thoughpathetic, she realises that Buck hasn’t forgiven her for escaping his attentionsunloved, and she’s forced to try to find the courage to take a stand against himunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347449</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Hartshorne1473685745|title=Time's Echo|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of her godmother, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live life to the full and plans more travelling once Lucy's house is sold. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the world, as long as she doesn't remember little Lucas back on that Christmas beach. As it turns out, that's not the only thing she needs to avoid. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep and vivid daydreams start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine though; it's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of the past is just a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drew. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Rose Petal BeachKatie Marsh

|summary=Tamia When Beth Carlyle and Scott Simon Withers first met at school and they were friends before they were anything else although it on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't to the liking of either familyhurt but Jake has history. ScottHe has HLHS - that's brother referred to Tamia as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''thatau fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open- heart surgery when he was a reference few days old. So, Simon has every right to the colour of her skinbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. Tamia}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's family werenApril 1953, and Adolf Hitler't racially prejudiced but they knew s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the Challey family state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and their reputation for criminalitywatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. It wasnFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't what they wanted for their daughter: they saw happen as we know it, and we are now a university educationprotectorate – well, but were to be disappointed we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on both counts''the mainland''. It looked But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to be working well: the marriage seemed stable drudges, and they had two beautiful daughtersbeyond those, right on down to the childless, but then one night it all fell apartthe husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Scott was arrested And in front this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of his wife 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 children so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for a dreadful crimereprint. As if this wasn't bad enoughThat is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, Tamiwith their potential to spoil Hitler's world disintegrated even further when she discovered that Scott's accuser was someone whom she regarded as a close friendvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780874960</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debbie MacomberRuth Hogan|title=The Inn at Rose HarborMadame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo MarieThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, who was recently widowedall vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), feels drawn a girl in a humdrum job wanting to an inn in become a small town called Cedar Grovesinger, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, where she believes she can find healing. She renames it Rose Harbor Inn Palmist and gets ready Clairvoyant'', to welcome use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, 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 two gueststime in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099564025</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LongJennifer Saint |title=FerneyAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=History lecturer Michael Martin thought that This re-telling of the chance myth of love Ariadne and marriage had passed him by. Then Gally, a history nut and lecture gate crasher, attended one of his lectures the Minotaur is interesting and dared to contradict himunusual. Contradiction led to courtship and Jennifer Saint presents the marriage story in a way that had previously seemed so elusive is sympathetic to its origins but despite their love and accompanying emotional security, Gally has also appealing to a dark subconscious that haunts hermodern audience. SheSaint's unsettled by repeating nightmares andnarrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, worse, night terrors that can't be explained by counsellors' logic. However when Mike and Gally find their (or ratherspanning from her childhood to her death, Gally's) ideal home in allowing the shape of reader to really connect with Ariadne as a derelict cottage character in the Somerset village of Penselwood, Gally's nightmares are augmented by a strong feeling of déjà vu. Meanwhile the Martins seem to have developed her own right rather than just a benevolent stalker prop in the shape of aged local Ferney Miller. Mike considers him a bit of a pain while for Gally he represents something else entirely; something that she can't explain nor understand but will become a threat to her marital happiness and Michael's peace heroics of mindTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780875304</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Janet Evanovich|title=Wicked Business|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Following on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]], pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sins. They're looking for the stone associated with lust and it becomes a bit of a treasure hunt as, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the ill-mannered monkey) they have to work their way through a string of clues. However, they aren't the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, the baddies lurk also. The baddies in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey Garvis GravesLucy Holland|title=On The IslandSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=High school teacher Anna has been hired as Sistersong is part of a tutor genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for the summermost of us, helping 16 year old T.J. who has missed are a fair amount cornerstone of school due childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to illness. Leaving the USA behindstories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the two role of them head over to the Maldives where his parents have hired women. Sistersong is a holiday home, but instead perfect example of gracefully descending into paradise, they crash land, quite literally, into a nightmare. Their pilot has a heart attackmodern retelling done well, their sea plane plummets into the oceanplot is handled with care, and they wash up on a deserted desert island. The unlikely twosome has keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to band together come to survive and wait out their rescuelife, but as weeks to feel real and then months passhuman, hope fades and most importantly they have to wonder what will happen if no one ever finds them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910216</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Kleypas|title=Dream Lake|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=''Dream Lake'' is the third book feel relatable in a series about three brothers who grew up modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in a somewhat dysfunctional home. This one focuses on Alex, youngest of the three, who is a brilliant designer masterpiece of storytelling and builder. Unfortunately, we’re told, he’s also angry at the world, arrogant, and aggressive. He’s a very heavy drinker, tooI was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749953985</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hazel OsmondB08NF79QXT|title=The First Time I Saw Your Face|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mack Stone used to be a journalist on a tabloid paper and was not averse to dishing the dirt on whoever he happened to be writing about. He has left that world behind though and is now attempting to work freelance and only write in a more ethical way. However, one day he receives a call from his old boss who has one last job for him to do. When Mack 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 to protect his family, it seems that he has little choice but to agree.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164193</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Renae Lucas-Hall|title=Tokyo Hearts - A Japanese Love StoryBrooke Adams

|summary=Takashi is a student in his final Thirty-one-year at university. He works pretty hard, but his heart belongs to Haruka, who was a fellow student until she old Liberty Rossini has had to leave when her father was taken ill. As a rule they meet once a week in a cafe - but Takashi fears that Haruka only sees him as a friendshop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, particularly for just six months when he discovers that she's seeing a wealthy exnominated for - and wins -boyfriend on a regular basisthe Retail Best Newcomer Award. JunShe's good-looking too delighted and Takashi realises that he has little the two people she's brought with her to offer, particularly as Haruka loves shopping for designer goods. Theythe event couldn're in fashionable Tokyo where style, sophistication and fashion are a way of lifet be more pleased. How will it work outSonja, particularly when Haruka is planning on moving to Kyoto - which is also where the ex-boyfriend lives - and earthquakes seem to be happening regularly in the capital?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781487693</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clodagh Murphy|title=Frisky Business|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Romy doesn’t have a clue who the father of her baby son, Lukemother, is. But it’s not like she’s an überex-slut who sleeps aroundmodel and Brazilian: in you can see where Liberty got her defence his conception was a one off thing, it was dark (they were in a cupboard) and the baby daddy had on a Darth Vader mask (it was a Halloween party). That was a year ago, and now Romy’s wondering whether she should renew her efforts to find the mystery man, for Luke’s sake as much as anything. As the book starts she is throwing her own Halloween party, hoping to jog some memories as she recreates last year’s (not in every way of course…she’s far looks from ready for baby number 2).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444726234</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Annie Sanders|title=Instructions For Bringing Up Scarlett|rating=3.5|genre=WomenJessica'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?' thirty-four and there will be few who do other than give assurances that of course they would. ThereLiberty'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 the unthinkable happened she was a travel guide writer, used to going hither : they've known each other since university and thither at a momentLiberty adores Jessica's noticehusband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Scarlett was eleven years old and she didnLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't come with for one thing: she misses having a user's manualman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409117197</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam BinnieB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Wedding DiariesKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Kiki George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and Thom are getting married! The proposal might single. She's not have been quite as fabulous as Thom would have liked (had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad Kiki!) but that’s all sorted now luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with barely a year the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to plan absorb the shindigwater - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, Kiki needs to get cracking. With dresses to try onstark naked, venues to find, wedding cakes to taste test, there’s lots to be done, and so staring at the sensible option is pervy postman. She only has to start take her mother's dog out for a diary, to chronicle this magical time in her life but also walk for her to keep track off all those little To Dos which will lead end up to I Dowith dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007477120</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark NeilsonB08CHJLNBS|title=A Strange InheritanceCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Meg had just lost her job when she received He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the letter from Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the Solicitorheritage library next door. It was all very mysterious Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but when she presented herself in his office she discovered 's moved on from new age books like that an Uncle she knew nothing about had left her an inheritance. It wasn, which leave you dependent on someone else't just any inheritances philosophies, either – in addition to something a substantial sum of money she was now the proud owner little deeper. Charles is more of a mill in the Yorkshire Dales[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. Almost on a whim she decided that she wouldnThey're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it't sell the propertys obvious to his friends. The more And given that she saw of the millEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, the more that why does she felt she wanted feel drawn to live there. him? She loved the local town and The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it was a bonus when she made a friend – a fellow Scot – on her first day there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709099509</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie PriceHelly Acton|title=In the Name of LoveThe Shelf|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Charlie Porter is a television sports presenter whoWhen we meet Amy, she's recently broken up in a relationship with her footballer boyfriendJamie. She and her friend Zoe now refer You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to him as TFB. The first letter is for 'total' and the last casts doubts get done on his parentage. Iterms, but she'm sure that you s sticking around because she hopes she can work the rest out for yourselfchange him. Ah, yes. On a holiday to Barbados (ZoeHaven's footballer boyfriend forgot t we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her birthday, you see...) she meets Felipe Castillo, to pack for a central figure in the Spanish Eventing team and hotly tipped for an Olympic medalsurprise trip. ThereCould this be it? Is he 's an almost immediate attraction - after Charlie has given him a piece of her mind because of his attitude 'finally'' going to a waiter - but there are get down on one or two difficulties in knee? Was the work (and the way of their relationship.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846059615</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Wendy Wallace|title=The Painted Bridge|rating=3When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Anna Palmer places her trust in all Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of the wrong peopleschool. One choice Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that backfires spectacularly is her impulsive marriage to the Reverend Vincent Palmer. Less than a year after their marriage , so why did he do what he tells did? Some people believe her that they are going to visit and some of his friends at a place called Lake House. But Lake House don't, but one thing is a privately run asylum 'for genteel women of a delicate naturesure, this isn'. Once there Anna discovers that she is not allowed t going to leave without Vincent's approvalblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857209272</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melanie GideonKatie Fforde|title=Wife 22A Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Alice and William Buckle have been married I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for quite a few years and have two teenage children ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a dog. With their busy liveswarm, cosy read focused on romance, they end up having little time for each other family and rarely get the opportunity to talk about the things that matterfriendships. In order to do something about her feelings of discontent, Alice googles 'happy marriage?' and although there seem to be no magic secrets This provided two romances for success, a little later she is invited to take part in an online survey about modern marriage. She is given the labelprice of one, Wife 22, and is assigned to her caseworker, Researcher 101, who sends her questions periodically, and is also available through email to answer any queries. 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 a little attracted to her faceless caseworker. They start chatting through facebook and Alice finds it quite exciting was actually the family element as opposed to mildly flirt with her new friend. However, the more she does so, the more disgruntled she becomes with her own husbandromance that I really enjoyed. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007481772</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin KayeB07W4MNBSG|title=Second Time Around|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Jennifer and Ben first meet, they really like each other. It doesn't take long before they are dating and although there is over sixteen years difference in age, they get on so well that they can see that they do have a future together. However, as Ben is closer in age to Jennifer's children, Matt and Lucy, she is worried about what they will think. Ben's parents are equally unhappy especially as they feel that if Ben stays with Jennifer, she is not likely to provide them with the grandchildren they so desire. It seems that there's no way to keep everybody happy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562027</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Ellen Sussman|title=French LessonsLizzy Mumfrey|rating=3.54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=There are six main characters It was coming up to Halloween in this book which is really three stories in one. Nico, Philippe 1987 and Chantal know each other, and Nico knows Josie, and Philippe knows Riley, and Chantal knows Jeremy, but Josie and Riley and Jeremy don’t know each other or anyone else. The first three are French tutors who have private lessons with their foreign students on the streets of Paris, using the city as a better backdrop for learning than a stuffy classroom. This week they each have Americans engaging their services, and over the course group of one day the lives of students and teachers all change in ways sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they never expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780333846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley Conran|title=Lace|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lili might would be young but she's a superstar and she's used to getting what she wantsdoing when they were fifty. SheWhen you's just summoned Judyre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, Kate, Maxine and Pagan to her suite in Manhattanbut Liz was convinced that 's most exclusive hotel. They might be at the top of ''their'' professions - Fashion, PR and interior design but it's Lili your entire life depends on who holds the whip hand here. She has a simple request: ''Which one of you bitches is my mother?marry''|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]] finishes. Matthew Claremont (vampire, intellectual The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and, even after centuries the idea of life, still looking living in a pretty decent 37 years old) farmhouse and Diana Bishop (historian having a couple of children called Will and witch with a pedigree stretching back Olly appealed to the Salem witch trials) are married Charlotte, or perhaps William and have time-walked Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to 1591 to look for Ashmole 782, marry the ancient book that Diana let slip through her fingers in 2010rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. They also need The place to find Diana a tutor to help her control start their search was obviously the powers Young Farmers' Halloween disco that she's chosen to ignore for a lifetimeweekend. There aren't was just supernatural items on the agenda though; Diana thought she knew all one problem - there was to know about her new spouse but there are secrets to be discovered, his connection to the historic 'School of were too many Elizabeths in the Night' being one of the less dangerousclass. Oh, 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 tutor. (I think we could have told them that if they'd asked!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384733</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Timeri N Murari|title=The Taliban Cricket Club|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=We all know, or think we know, how oppressive life was for Afghans, particularly Afghan women, under the Taliban regime, but when you read this novel, boy do you get a sense of how tough it really was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=In Her Shadow|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Hannah has had one nervous breakdown due to unbearable guilt and seems Move 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>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Day You Saved My Life|rating=4.5[[Features|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Holly, in her early twenties, is a single mother who has had severe post-natal depression since the birth of her son Mikey. He is now a toddler, and they live with Holly's mum, Joanna. She has a somewhat sordid past of her own but has given everything to raising Holly in a loving environment; she has also had to do most of the caring for her small grandson. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>}}latest features]]