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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=LukeJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a barrister and Eva? control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. SheJamie's a romantic novel editor and habitual leaverson, Bo, 'has his problems'. Be it a party or a manHe's asthmatic and the more you read, shethe more you'll suspect that he's working on the exit strategy from the moment everything startsautistic spectrum. This makes the fact that Eva and Luke have been together for three years Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a little abnormal in Eva world. The other abnormality frequent flier in Eva world is the blonde woman she keeps spotting in random places, almost as if shelocal A&E and sometimes Bo's being spied upon…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882370</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cora Carmack|title=Losing It|rating=3not fit enough to go to school.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Bliss is a drama student, but what else would you expect with a name like that? And yet, when we first meet her, I would never have guessed that was her major. She just doesn’t seem Missed shifts or the type. She’s also not the type need to be away on time to pick Bo up random men from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in bars, but that’s exactly what she does as the book startswrong. It’s her friend Kelsey’s fault. She’s determined to get Bliss out there, because that’s not where Bliss normally is. About It was going to graduate at the end of the year, Bliss has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time come to change thata head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisLauren Bravo|title=Peaches for Monsieur Le CuréPreloved

|summary=It’s over seven years since Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I read [[Chocolat by Joanne Harris|Chocolat]], set in a small French town called Lansquenet'm-nearly-forty. I liked it, on the whole, and often wondered what happened to Vianne, Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the chocolatetoss -making and rather mystical heroine, not to mention the people whose lives she affected so deeply. A couple Gwen finds herself having a bit of years later I read ''The Lollipop Shoes'' which purported to be a sequel, but really stood alonemid-life crisis. It was set in Paris Catharsis is key and rather different in style. I liked it, but somehow it did not feel as if it involved Gwen has decided now is the same people.time to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776998</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Anne Berry|title=The Adoption|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It is a sad fact that only a few decades ago, the forced removal of an infant from its unmarried mother was widely considered the best option for all concernedThen Richard left them. It is hard to imagine the terrible trauma suffered by these women when the authorities intervened and took away that tiny bundle, destined for a new life with new parents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947057</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura KempHadeer Elsbai|title=Mums Like Us|rating=2|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Stella Smith is fed up with the expectation that mums should be superwomen. She feels that there are certain women, who appear to have achieved perfection in terms The Daughters of motherhood, that make all other mums feel inept and inferior. She feels that realism is best and that to strive to be 'good enough' is what most mums should aspire to. That is why she sets up the 'Mums Like Us' group that meets weekly in her messy kitchen and rejoices in slovenliness, messy clothes and overeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099574586</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Fforde|title=A French Affair|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Gina Makepiece has just moved to the Cotswolds to live near her sister Sally. They are intrigued when they discover that their dear Aunt Rainey has left them something in her will. In order to find out what though, they have to go to the French House, an antiques centre, where the owner, Matthew, has a letter from their aunt to open. It transpires that they have been left a stall in the centre and their aunt has requested that Matthew helps them get to grips with the world of antiques. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846056543</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Moran|title=The Last Time I Saw YouIzdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=As 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 woman in society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her mid thirtiesabilities and then join the military, Livvy feels that her life but instead she is OKforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. She has Giorgina on the other hand did not have a good job even though she is slightly intimidated by privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her boss family and is often in danger maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of being overlooked Izdihar – a group campaigning for new projectswomen's rights. Her Giorgina also happens to be in love life might be non-existent but at least she shares her home with James, the one time love Nico. What follows is a story of her life which only works if she can settle for being good mates. Howeveran unjust society, when she hears that Sallyfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, her best friend from many years ago, has been killed in which blossoms a car accident, her world is turned upside downgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780876327</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda GreenB0B575J99N|title=The MummyfestoBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Three women, who meet regularly Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the school playground, have become close friends. Sam has two sons: right vocation nor met the sensitive, old-for-his years Zach, who is seven, right man'' and now was the fun-loving five-year-old Oscartime to make a change. She needed challenges. Anna has two teenagers, Will and Charlotte, and There was a younger daughter called Esme. Jackie just has Alicelittle trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. OscarAfter a telephone interview, Esme she was offered the position and Alice are classmates, and good friends; sadly, Oscar suffers from an incurable muscle-wasting disease, and can only move in a wheelchairit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. Sam and There were some natural doubts before her partner Rob have to use ventilators and other machines just to keep him alive, knowing that any infection could be seriously life-threateningfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875223</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth Gutcheon0241542405|title=GossipMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=Loviah FrenchWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf met when they were at boarding school214 days. Lovie owns a top-class dress shop She'd ''like'' to: in Manhattan - the place where women of a certain class go when they want something for a special occasion fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to be secure in leave the knowledge safety of her home. She's fortunate that they will be treated well she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and discreetlyMatilda. Dinah is a columnist who chronicles the lives of New YorkSadie's rich a cardiac nurse and famousfull of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, whilst Avis is a prominent figure in the art worldFred. Lovie is our narrator Groceries are online deliveries and shethere's also the glue which holds the three women togetheran internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. TheyHe're both devoted to her and she to thems from Holding Hands, but a small, imagined slight, many decades earlier, has left an icy distance between Dinah and Avischarity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899821</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Binnie0008441618|title=The Baby Diaries|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Hot on the heels of [[The Wedding Diaries by Sam Binnie|the Wedding Diaries]], Kiki and Thom are back with the next installment of their lives. It’s not giving too much away, given the title, to tell you that there’s a baby on the way. It was sorta, kinda not all that planned, but they’re happy if a little shocked. Luckily she’s got her sister to guide her through the process, numerous friends who are newly married, newly pregnant or newly parents themselves, and her own mother who seems to be almost nice for once.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007477104</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Bernardine Bishop|title=Unexpected Lessons in Love|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Cecilia Banks and Helen Gatehouse met by chance in a doctor's waiting room and a friendship developed because they were both cancer survivors, albeit with a colostomy. It was a case of opposites attracting: Cecilia was quiet, reserved, married for the second time and the mother of Ian whom she idolised. Helen had never married, loud in the nicest sense of the word and an author. They gave each other mutual support and an outlet for their preoccupations. People with whom you can discuss the, er, intricacies of your stoma are few and far between! The relationship wasn't entirely uncritical: Helen was less than impressed when Ian dumped (sorry - there's really no other word for it) a baby on his mother. Cephas was the result of a fling he'd had with the child's mother and she'd disappeared. He - a war correspondent - was on his way abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184854782X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Gibson|title=Pedigree MumSarah Stovell|rating=4.5

|summary=When Kerry Tambini moves to Shorling, Jo Fairburn knew that she has high expectations that was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she and didn't live up to her family will live retired predecessor there happily forevercould well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Within weeks though, her dreams are shattered after her husband Rob shocks her by The school had an indiscretion that he can hardly remember. This indiscretion turns out to have active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a devastating consequence leaving Kerry with no option but considerable benefit to ask Rob to move outthe school. This leaves her alone There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the children in Shorling head. Laura Spence and pretty much friendless as she struggles Kate Monroe objected to find anything Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in common with the snooty mums she meets at the school gateon Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562612</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Carolyn Mathews|title=Transforming Pandora|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Pandora Armstrong in the spring of 2003 she's grieving for her husband, Mike, who had died just a few weeks before. It hadn't been his first heart attack and he had reduced his workload but this attack was fatal. He was only in his fifties and Pandora feels that he'd been snatched away from her as they'd only been married for a few years. When a friend suggests that she goes with her to an Evening of Clairvoyance she runs out of excuses to refuse and although she's not exactly ''convinced'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubt. A spirit voice mentioned her children and Pandora was adamant that she didn't have any children - it's actually quite a sore point - but that wasn't true of Mike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780997450</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy RobinsonGiovanna Fletcher|title=A Passionate Love Affair with a Total StrangerWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Charley Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is a have-it-all alpha-female. She takes cooking lessonsdealing with his grief, learns Mandarinso are their best friends, volunteers her time to worthy causesVicky and Zaza. But she’s not a lady who lunches, trying Pia left them all some 'rules' to fill her daysfollow, she’s a high-flying communications manager at a Pharma company who dreams big knowing that she was dying and works relentlessly that they would need help to achieve carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her goals. Sowardrobe, when she’s side-lined by a nasty accident another one that leaves her leg broken in 3 placesMike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, she panics. Not for her are months off sickand Vicky and Zaza, lounging on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle struggling with their grief and eating Thorntons straight from the box. She can’t return their own life troubles, decide to work, so she needs a new plandrop everything in their own lives, something to occupy her time and stop her brain going to mushgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718157664</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara JudgeB09FS89KX9|title=Honey Brown is MarriedFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Honey Brown had Life should have been a foundling, but fortune good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - and a benefactress the owner - had smiled on regarded her and she became fondly: he was a dancer at the Windmill Theatregood boss. Then she met August BlakeHollie had moved in with her boyfriend, farmer Marcus: her mother thought he was great and the two married and Honey left the theatre to live on the Sussex farmhe was doing well in his career. After a weekHollie wasn's honeymoon she was largely left t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her own devicesjob at the diner. How Then there was the fact that he would she cope with married lifebe violent, the local community both to her 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, tooother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807212</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katy Regan0008421714|title=How We MetMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=At The problem began just after the start publication of George March'How We Met', a group of friends - Fraser, Mia, Anna, Melody and Norm - are all meeting up in order s most successful novel to celebrate their friend's birthdaydate. There would be nothing unusual about this apart from Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the fact that the friend is dead. Liv died tragically after falling from a balcony when they were all on holiday in Ibiza. The remaining friends feel that they need last page) seemed to honour her birthday but of course either be reading it is going or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to be a poignant occasion. As they are remembering their friend, Norm produces something that he found in the pocket of a coat he once lent Liv. It's a list of all of the things local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that she wanted to do before particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was thirtywrapping the bread, such as, learn a foreign language, swim naked in ''but isn't this the sea at dawn and go to an airport and pick a random destination to travel to! As it would have been Livfirst time he's thirtieth the following year, the group decide to share out and complete all the activities based a character on the list as a tribute to their friend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007237448</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Virginia Ironside|title=No! I Donyou?'t Need Reading Glasses!|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Marie is enjoying She mentioned that Johanna, the sort of hectic retirement that makes principal character had 'her wonder how she found the time to work. However, not everything is rosy. Her son and daughter-in-law are thinking about moving abroad, taking Mariemannerisms's beloved grandson, Gene. Meanwhile Marie's partner, Archie, is becoming worryingly forgetful. On top of Perhaps thiswould not have mattered, except for the derelict patch fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - 'park' at the top of the road may be replaced by a hotelweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. It's amazing how attractive it's seemed to become once it's under threat. But 'attractive' isn't the word that comes to mind when describing the resulting action group. Thank goodness there are always wine and good friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878583</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Swan1473685745|title=The Perfect PresentUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=What do you buy When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for the woman who having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has everything? Rob Blake thinks he history. He has it cracked when HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he commissions a piece was born, the left side of jewellery for his wife Cat’s birthday. But this is no ordinary necklace. The bespoke bling will be like nothing she’s seen before, because heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he is paying the designer, Laura, was a small fortune to dedicate all her time to itfew days old. She will interview Cat’s nearest and dearest So, and design a charm that tells the story of each relationshipSimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330532731</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare DowlingC J Carey|title=Would I Lie To You?Widowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=HannahIt's April 1953, Ellen and Barbara have been friends ever since they shared 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 house at universitybit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. They 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 in their late thirties and over a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the years have always been there mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for each other. This year thoughNazi-styled phrenology, as both Hannah and Ellen prepare to celebrate their thirty eighth birthdaysideas of female purpose, they has put all seem to have of that gender into a bit more stress in their lives than usual. Hannah’s partnercaste system, Ollieranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, has left her and their seven year old daughterbeyond those, Cleo; Barbara is preparing right on down to adopt a Russian baby on her own; and Ellen the childless, the husbandless and her husband Mark are struggling to ‘live the dream’ that was theirs when they moved to France a few years earlierwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Added to And in thispuritanical existence, when Hannah and Barbara spend a couple our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of weeks with Ellen it – after all, not every book can be banned, and her familynot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, something happens that shocks Hannahand so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. If she tells Ellen That is her job, it could wreck their friendship. Howeverat least, if she keeps quiet, she runs until the risk first emerging signs of Ellen finding out anyway which could make things even worsefemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075535981X</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mhairi McFarlaneRuth Hogan|title=You Had Me At HelloMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Who hasn’t got a ‘one that got away’? Or maybe This book lets us discover several? Rachel and Ben meet at university people in different stages of life in Manchesterthe early 1970s, but she’s got all vaguely connected. So we have a boyfriend back home, and he’s a bit of a ladies man, so rather than settle down together bullied half-cast boy (which is arguably what at least one of them thinks they should as he would have donebeen called then), they pad through a few years as fellow students and then go their separate ways. After girl in a while Rachel heads back humdrum job wanting to Manchester become a singer, and some time well after thatchiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Ben finds himself back up north too. They bump into each other Palmist and it’s like nothing has changed. Except everything has changed. Rachel is hot off a broken engagementClairvoyant'', while Ben is married to a hotshot lawyer from Lanuse her family's sea-danfront booth. Will their past stay 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 time in the pastfamily stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, and do they want it to? Told from Rachel’s point in possession of view, this is a story pair of letters that sets out will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to answer thoseImelda, and other questions.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000748805X</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia WilliamsJennifer Saint |title=A Merry Little ChristmasAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=womenWomen's Fiction|summary=Cat Tinsall, Pippa Holliday and Marianne North all live in This re-telling of the lovely village myth of Hope Christmas Ariadne and have formed very close the Minotaur is interesting and supportive friendships over unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the four years they have known each otherstory in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. The story starts with Christmas just over and follows the three friends Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the entire year leading up viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the next Christmas. It’s not going reader to be an easy year for any really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of them though and they’re definitely going to need each other’s helpTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184756089X</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Juliet Ashton|title=The Valentine's Card|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Orla, a primary school teacher, 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 a little something in the post, but she’s not expecting the phone call that comes, nor the news that comes with it. Sim has died, suddenly. And it’s not just his life that is over. On the verge of a proposal, Orla feels her life is finished too. She flees to London to recover some of Sim’s possessions, taking with her the as yet unopened Valentine’s card he sent, with its unfulfilled promises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544272</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanessa GreeneLucy Holland|title=The Vintage Teacup ClubSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=JennySistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Maggie the modern retelling of folk and Alison meet at a car boot salefairy tales. Jenny is looking These stories, for vintage tea sets to serve tea at her wedding to Dan in most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a few month's timefresh perspective. She spots four cups If handled well these retellings give new life and saucers new meaning to stories that would be ideal but at the same timeare now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the cups are also spotted by Maggie and Alison who also want themrole of women. Over Sistersong is a cup perfect example of teaa modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, they realise that each of them needs them at a different time so it could be possible to buy them feel real and then share them. Jenny will have them first at her weddinghuman, then Maggie will use them most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the 'Alice pre-Saxon age they live in Wonderland' garden she . This is creating, before finally passing them on to Alison who will use them as scented candle holders. It's a good solution masterpiece of storytelling and one that will lead I was captivated from beginning to a strong and lasting friendship between the three of themend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751548502</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue MoorcroftB08NF79QXT|title=Dream a Little Dream|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Liza Reece works as reflexologist at The Stables, a therapy centre attached to a hotel. It ''should'' be doing quite well. It ''could'' be doing quite well, but the manager and leaseholder is Nicholas, who's a waste of rather a lot of space. Liza reckons that she could take over the lease, reorganise the finances and make a success of it, but she has to raise the money to buy the lease. Dominic Christy has a plan too. He used to be an Air Traffic Controller, but he developed a rare sleep disorder and falling asleep on ''that'' job is not a good idea. He's just split up with his girlfriend and has money from the sale of their house. He has plans for The Stables - and he wouldn't need a reflexologist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931909</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Ann Cliff|title=Poacher's MoonBrooke 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 this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a resultwarm, failing economics. Dragged out 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 to rape her. A mysterious stranger, Lucas, 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 Kennedyfriendships. She’s also receiving e-mail tuition from an older student she’s never met, who seems to be flirting with her. Soon, though, she realises that Buck hasn’t forgiven her This provided two romances for escaping his attentions, and she’s forced to try to find the courage to take a stand against him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Hartshorne|title=Time's Echo|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs price of her godmother, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmasone, 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 but it turns out, that's not was actually the only thing she needs to avoid. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep and vivid daydreams start to attack her waking moments family element as 21st century York keeps fading opposed 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 Drewromance that I really enjoyed. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy KoomsonB07W4MNBSG|title=The Rose Petal BeachBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy 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]]