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|summary=When we first meet Pandora Armstrong Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the spring subtlety of 2003 shea half brick. Jamie's grieving for her husbandson, MikeBo, who had died just a few weeks before. It hadn't been has his first heart attack and he had reduced his workload but this attack was fatalproblems'. He was only in his fifties 's asthmatic and Pandora feels the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he'd been snatched away from her as they'd only been married for a few yearss on the autistic spectrum. When a friend suggests that she goes with her Sometimes Jamie needs to an Evening of Clairvoyance take time off at short notice - she runs out of excuses to refuse 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and although shesometimes Bo's not exactly ''convinced'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubtfit enough to go to school. A spirit voice mentioned her children Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and Pandora put in the wrong. It was adamant that she didn't have any children - it's actually quite going to come to a sore point - but that wasn't true of Mikehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780997450</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy RobinsonLauren Bravo|title=A Passionate Love Affair with a Total StrangerPreloved

|summary=Charley Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a havebig number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-itmy-all alphaGod-femaleI'm-nearly-forty. She takes cooking lessons, learns Mandarin, volunteers her time to worthy causes. But she’s not Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a lady who lunches, trying to fill her days, she’s bit of a high-flying communications manager at a Pharma company who dreams big and works relentlessly to achieve her goals. So, when she’s sidemid-lined by a nasty accident that leaves her leg broken in 3 places, she panicslife crisis. Not for her are months off sick, lounging on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle Catharsis is key and eating Thorntons straight from Gwen has decided now is the box. She can’t return to work, so she needs a new plan, something time to occupy take back her time and stop her brain going to mush.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718157664</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Sara Judge|title=Honey Brown is Married|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Honey Brown had been a foundling, but fortune - and a benefactress - had smiled on her and she became a dancer at the Windmill Theatre. Then she met August Blake, farmer and the two married and Honey left the theatre to live on the Sussex farm. After a week's honeymoon she was largely Richard left to her own devices. How would she cope with married life, the local community and being a farmer's wife? Well, it was a steep learning curve, but there's more to Honey than meets the eye. There's more to August, toothem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807212</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy ReganHadeer Elsbai|title=How We MetThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the 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 Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=At the start of 'How We Met', a group of friends Elizabeth Miller was thirty- Fraser, Mia, Anna, Melody four and Norm - are all meeting up a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in order to celebrate their friendYork. It was ''comfortable''s birthdaybut she longed for something more in life. There would be nothing unusual about this apart from She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the fact that right man'' and now was the friend is deadtime to make a change. She needed challenges. Liv died tragically after falling from There was a balcony little trepidation when they were all on holiday she applied for the professoressa job in IbizaBologna. The remaining friends feel that they need to honour 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 birthday first class but of course it is 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 1,214 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 be a poignant occasioncatch her train. As they are remembering their friend Then, Norm produces something that he found in she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the pocket safety of a coat he once lent Livher home. It She's a list of all of the things fortunate that she wanted to do before she was thirtyhas a good friend, such asSadie, learn a foreign languagewho visits regularly with her two children, swim naked in the sea at dawn James and go to an airport Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and pick a random destination to travel to! As full of sound common sense. In fact it would have been Livwas Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's thirtieth the following year, the also an internet-based support group decide to share out and complete all the activities on the list where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a tribute to their friendcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007237448</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Virginia Ironside0008441618|title=No! I Don't Need Reading Glasses!Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary= Marie is enjoying Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the sort new head of hectic retirement West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that makes her wonder how she found part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the time funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to workthe school. HoweverThere was one difficulty, not everything is rosy. Her son and daughterthough -in-law are thinking about moving abroad, taking Mariethey were ''devastatingly shockable's beloved grandson, Gene. Meanwhile Marie's partner, Archiewith two members, is becoming worryingly forgetful. On top of thisin particular, causing problems for the derelict patch of 'park' at the top of the road may be replaced by a hotelhead. It's amazing how attractive it's seemed Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to become once itJo's under threat. But 'attractive' isn't restrictions on the word toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that comes to mind when describing the resulting action group. Thank goodness there are always wine and good friendswas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878583</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen SwanGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Perfect PresentWalking on Sunshine

|summary=What do you buy for the woman Mike's wife, Pia, who has everything? Rob Blake thinks he was with for seventeen years, has it cracked when he commissions a piece of jewellery for his wife Cat’s birthday. But this is no ordinary necklacedied. The bespoke bling will be like nothing she’s seen before, because And whilst he is paying the designerdealing with his grief, Lauraso are their best friends, a small fortune to dedicate Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all her time some 'rules' to it. She will interview Cat’s nearest and dearestfollow, knowing that she was dying and design a charm that tells they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the story rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of each relationshiptheir trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330532731</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare DowlingB09FS89KX9|title=Would I Lie To You?Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Hannah, Ellen and Barbara Life should have been friends ever since they shared a house good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at universityBB's diner. They are now in their late thirties and over Bob - the years have always been there for each otherowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. This year though Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, as both Hannah Marcus: her mother thought he was great and Ellen prepare to celebrate their thirty eighth birthdays, they all seem to have a bit more stress he was doing well in their lives than usualhis career. Hannah’s partner, Ollie, has left her and their seven year old daughter, Cleo; Barbara is preparing Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to adopt a Russian baby on control her own; and Ellen and most of all he wanted her husband Mark are struggling to ‘live leave her job at the dream’ diner. Then there was the fact that was theirs when they moved he would be violent, both to France a few years earlier. Added her and 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 worseother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535981X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mhairi McFarlane0008421714|title=You Had Me At HelloMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=Who hasn’t got a ‘one that got away’? Or maybe several? Rachel When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Ben meet at university in ManchesterBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but she’s got Jake has history. 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 left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a boyfriend back homefew days old. 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 he’s 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 a ladies manEdward VIII with his wife, so rather than settle down together (which is arguably what at least one of them thinks they should have done)Queen Wallis. For yes, they pad through a few years Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as fellow students we know it, and then go their separate ways. After we are now a while Rachel heads back to Manchester and some time protectorate – well after that, Ben finds himself back up north toowe share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. They bump into each other But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and it’s like nothing ideas of female purpose, has changed. Except everything has changed. Rachel is hot off put all of that gender into a broken engagementcaste system, while Ben is married to a hotshot lawyer ranging from Lanhigh-danbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Will their past stay And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the pasttask of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and do they want it to? Told not every story excised immediately from Rachel’s point of viewBritish civilisation, this and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is a story that sets out her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to answer thoselight, and other questionswith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000748805X</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia WilliamsRuth Hogan|title=A Merry Little ChristmasMadame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=women's General Fiction|summary=Cat TinsallThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, Pippa Holliday and Marianne North all live vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the lovely village third generation of Hope Christmas Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and have formed very close and supportive friendships over the four years they have known each otherClairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The story starts with Christmas just over singer, the scryer and follows the three friends through sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the entire year leading up to first time in the next Christmasfamily 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. It’s not going Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to be an easy year for any of them though Imelda, and they’re definitely going why did it have to need each other’s help.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184756089X</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet AshtonJennifer Saint |title=The Valentine's CardAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Orla, This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a primary school teacher, way that is still at home in Ireland while actor boyfriend Sim works over in London, sympathetic to its origins but although it’s hard to be apart, there are some benefits also appealing 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 a little something in the post, but she’s not expecting the phone call that comes, nor the news that comes with itmodern audience. Sim has died, suddenly. And it’s not just his life that Saint's narrative is over. On told predominantly through the verge viewpoint of a proposalAriadne, Orla feels spanning from her life is finished too. She flees childhood to London her death, allowing the reader to recover some of Sim’s possessions, taking really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the as yet unopened Valentine’s card he sent, with its unfulfilled promisesheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751544272</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanessa GreeneLucy Holland|title=The Vintage Teacup ClubSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jenny, Maggie and Alison meet at a car boot sale. Jenny Sistersong is looking for vintage tea sets to serve tea at her wedding to Dan in part of a few month's time. She spots four cups and saucers that would be ideal but at the same timegenre I particularly enjoy, the cups are also spotted by Maggie modern retelling of folk and Alison who also want themfairy tales. Over a cup These stories, for most of teaus, they realise that each are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them needs them at retold with fresh eyes and a different time so it could be possible fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to buy them stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and then share them. Jenny will have them first at her weddingoutdated, then Maggie will use them in the 'Alice in Wonderland' garden she is creatingfleshing out characters, before finally passing them on to Alison who will use them as scented candle holders. It's a good solution examining relationships and one that will lead to a strong and lasting friendship between re-evaluating the three role of themwomen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751548502</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Moorcroft|title=Dream Sistersong is a Little Dream|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Liza Reece works as reflexologist at The Stables, a therapy centre attached to perfect example of a hotel. It ''should'' be doing quite well. It ''could'' be doing quite modern retelling done well, but the manager and leaseholder plot is Nicholashandled with care, who's a waste of rather a lot of space. Liza reckons that she could take over keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the leasecharacters to come to life, reorganise the finances to feel real and make human, most importantly they feel relatable in a success of it, but she has to raise modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the money to buy the lease. Dominic Christy has a plan toopre-Saxon age they live in. He used to be an Air Traffic Controller, but he developed a rare sleep disorder and falling asleep on ''that'' job This is not a good idea. He's just split up with his girlfriend masterpiece of storytelling and has money I was captivated from the sale of their house. He has plans for The Stables - and he wouldn't need a reflexologistbeginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931909</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann CliffB08NF79QXT|title=Poacher's MoonCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Back in Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the middle of the nineteenth century it was village gossip Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when Judith Weaver she'took ups nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She' with Will Thorpe. Such matters are always talked about in a village but Judiths delighted and the two people she's parents ran a successful bakery, whilst Will had little brought with her to recommend himthe event couldn't be more pleased. As time went on Judith left the village and Will suffered the consequences of his actions (it wasSonja, he saidher mother, only the one pheasantis 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 when he returned to Kirkby he met Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and married someone elsetheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719805791</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly HopkinsB08GFSK2WZ|title=It Happened In VeniceThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Evie George Jackson is a tour guide who leads groups around Europethirty-three years old, but when we first meet absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her in Barbados she’s there and she has a real talent for pleasure, not workattracting drama. She’s back Her life's chaotic: she dealt with Robthe leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, her boyfriend who also works on stark naked, staring at the tour circuitpervy postman. She’s just about forgiven him She only has to take her mother's dog out for cheating on a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and this holiday and their subsequent moving in together with be a fresh startphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan ColemanB08CHJLNBS|title=Dearest Rose|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Rose has finally escaped. For years she has put up with her bullying husband and lived with the sadness of her mother's suicide after her father left when she was a young girl. Only once, when she was heavily pregnant with her daughter Maddie, did anyone show her any warmth and kindness and treat her like a human being in her own right. That person was Frasier McCleod, an art dealer who had been trying to trace Rose's father, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artist. Although she couldn't help him, 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 with her husband's cruelty no more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551276</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Marian Keyes|title=The Mystery of Mercy CloseBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Helen Walsh is a Private Investigator. SheHe's also back home living with her elderly parents (you've heard about Mammy WalshCharles Devereaux, right?) because she can't keep up the mortgage or her (very small) flat in Dublin thirty-eight and she hasn't got an office eithera partner at Wickham Jones, for much the same reason. Work is decidedly thin on the ground and to make matters even worse some of her old demons have bubbled upMayfair letting agents. She's suffered from depression before Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and she knows the signs: those vultures archivist in the sky were a bit of a giveawayheritage library next door. An old boyfriend resurfaces too. Jay Parker was always charming Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but too dodgy she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to be something a keeperlittle deeper. It's Charles is more of a difficult choice when he wants to employ Helen [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but Jay has cash and , above all, he's putting on three gigs in Dublinshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. The trouble is that one of the members of former boyband LaddzThey're obviously not at all compatible, whose comeback starts the following week, has gone missing and without Wayne Diffney a lot so why can Charles not get this woman out of money is going his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to have his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to be repaid to the punters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155319</amazonuk>him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cecelia AhernHelly Acton|title=One Hundred NamesThe Shelf|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Kitty LoganWhen we meet Amy, she's career had looked to be going well until she made a life changing mistake in a story she coveredrelationship with Jamie. It changed the life of the person whom she accused of doing something he didnYou can't do and really call it changed her life tooa partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. The network suspended herAh, yes. As if her life couldnHaven't get any worse she had we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to face losing pack for a close friend - the woman who taught her all she knew - who was dying of cancersurprise trip. At her bedside for what was Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to be get down on one knee? Was the last time work (well, actually, it was and the first too - wait) worth 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 to write.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007350465</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Carmen Reid|title=Shopping With The Enemy|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Annie is girlfriend comes into school with a well known fashionistablack eye, but she’s more friendly fashion guru than scary fashion divaclaiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. She Her relationship has various things going on, like just ended and now she's the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her makeover show on the telly, and between everyone knew that , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and the kids she’s just about ticking alongsome don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552163198</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tammara WebberKatie Fforde|title=EasyA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jacqueline gave up her dreams of becoming a classical musician I've wanted to follow her boyfriend Kennedy to college. When he dumps her, it hits her hard – so hard she starts skipping classes read author Katie Fforde for ages and, as a result, failing economics. Dragged out to this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a party by her friend to help her get over the break-up, instead she faces terror as her ex’s friend Buck tries to rape her. A mysterious stranger, Lucaswarm, intervenes to save hercosy read focused on romance, family and when she realises they share economics, she starts to wonder whether he could take her mind off Kennedy. She’s also receiving e-mail tuition from an older student she’s never met, who seems to be flirting with herfriendships. Soon, though, she realises that Buck hasn’t forgiven her This provided two romances for escaping his attentionsthe price of one, and she’s forced to try but it was actually the family element as opposed to find the courage to take a stand against himromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141347449</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela HartshorneB07W4MNBSG|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>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Rose Petal BeachLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Tamia and Scott met at school It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they were friends before would be doing when they were anything else although it wasn't to the liking of either familyfifty. ScottWhen you's brother referred to Tamia as re only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''thatyour entire life depends on who you marry'' - a reference to the colour of her skin. Tamia's family weren't racially prejudiced but they knew The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the Challey family idea of living in a farmhouse and their reputation for criminality. It wasn't what they wanted for their daughter: they saw having a university educationcouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, but or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to be disappointed on both countsmarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. It looked The place to be working well: start their search was obviously the marriage seemed stable and they had two beautiful daughters, but then one night it all fell apartYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. Scott There was arrested just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in front of his wife and children for a dreadful crimethe class. As if this wasn't bad enough, Tami's world disintegrated even further when she discovered that Scott's accuser was someone whom she regarded as a close friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874960</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Debbie Macomber|title=The Inn at Rose Harbor|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Marie, who was recently widowed, feels drawn to an inn in a small town called Cedar Grove, where she believes she can find healing. She renames it Rose Harbor Inn and gets ready Move on to welcome her first two guests.[[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099564025</amazonuk>}}the latest features]]