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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2}}Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction__NOTOC__ <!|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - Remove -->she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. 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 wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Revenge Wears PradaLauren Bravo|authortitle=Lauren WeisbergerPreloved

|summary=Ten years after Gwen is pressing her disastrous stint at ''Runway'', playing slave to Queen of Fashion Miranda Priestly in middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a job ‘a million girls would die for’, Andy Sachs finally has her life back on track.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000731101X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Brooklyn Girls|author=Gemma Burgess|rating=4.5|genre=Womenfour and ends with an oh-my-God-I's Fiction|summary=22m-yearnearly-old Pia Keller has screwed up againforty. She should be living Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the dream, sharing toss - Gwen finds herself having a Brooklyn townhouse with her four best friends bit of a mid- but one too many drunken escapades leads to her getting sacked from her new joblife crisis. After hearing this, her parents are ready Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to summon take back her to live with them abroad. They clearly don't think shelife's mature enough to look after herself - can she prove them wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=Two for JoyThe Garnett Girls|author=Helen ChandlerGeorgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'Two for Joyan older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' is Helen Chandler’s first novel s influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and is immensely enjoyable from having a glittering career. In the very first pages where the reader meets Julia event, they eloped and Richard took her best friend Toby who is telling her about how he intends away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to go down Oxford and went on one knee and propose to his girlfriend, Rubybecome a well-respected journalist. Although outwardly delighted The couple had three children: Rachel, internally Julia experiences some uncomfortable feelings that she doesn’t really recognise Imogen and does not want to acknowledgeSasha. Come Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the big night, she is desperately miserable at family home on the thought Isle of Toby’s and Ruby’s romantic evening and can’t bring herself Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to do anything other than mope around leave him in her pyjamascharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769294</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stella Whitelaw|title=Promise to Obey|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jessica Harlow let her London flat and undertook a three-month nursing contract at Upton Hall to fill in the time before she took up a permanent post in Sheffield. It didn't start well: she got soaked waiting to be picked up at the deserted railway station and then she discovered that she was to nurse Lady Grace Coleman who was recovering from a hip-replacement operation ''and'' look after her two grandchildrenThen Richard left them. Five-year-old Lily was a delight, but overweight and asthmatic. Eight-year-old Daniel was autistic and on top of this Lady Grace was, er, ''difficult''. What made her stay? Well, despite a humiliating romantic experience with a doctor in London she was rather taken by Lucas Coleman, a talented plastic surgeon - and she was obstinate enough to decide that she was going to make a go of it. Besides, where would she live if she left Upton Hall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719809789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RidgwayHadeer Elsbai|title=The River Daughters of No ReturnIzdihar

|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits 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 pig women and beef jellyweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriendsNehal, him being a young man and this being Americaborn into the upper class, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard wishes to explain away too. His second lease on life in attend the 21st century is thanks Weaving Academy to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return learn to control her abilities and then join the time or home country from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence military, but all this instead she is about to changeforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Eventually they seem Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to think that they can send him back provide for her family and wonmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women't take no for an answers rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. Any thought of What follows is a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts story of Juliaan unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all from which blossoms a bit fishy thoughgroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew CloverB0B575J99N|title=Learn Love in a WeekBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=54

|summary=The Midgleys, who have been married Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for ten years something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and have three children, are long since past now was the madly passionate stage in their relationship – or at least Polly istime to make a change. She needed challenges. From her point of view, Polly is drowning in executive domesticity, that is, holding down There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job while trying to organise Arthur to be as effective in Bologna. After a parent as she would betelephone interview, if she were a stay-at-home Mum. Arthur sees his role differently: he’s more interested in was offered the hearts position and minds of his kids than essential maintenance to it wasn't long before she was exploring the fruit bowlbeautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580446</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hornby0241542405|title=The HiveMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=ThereWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's an old joke that, Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for parents1, there are only two good 214 days . She'd ''like'' to: in the school holidays - the first fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and the last, but in St Ambrose the she's even considered which shoes to wear if she'reals going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can' work begins when the children go back t force herself to school at leave the start safety of the new school yearher home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. ThereSadie's a new head at the school (cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and hethere'll have to be knocked into shape) but the real power is Beatrice s also an internet- based support group where you'Bea' to those whom she elects to call friends for the time being - who rules the parentsll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, decides who is in or out and so you can guess what status they should have she does in the communityher spare time. And how does she do it? Then Tom McDermott arrives. WellHe's from Holding Hands, shea charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's the queen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704358</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Jones0008441618|title=An Enormously English Monsoon WeddingOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=3.5

|summary=Jay loves Erin and Erin loves Jay. They Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in a picture perfect village called Nook Green that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and are planning their dream wedding, the funds which is only they raised were a few weeks awayconsiderable benefit to the school. The plans are coming along perfectly There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and everything is running according Kate Monroe objected to schedule. Life simply couldn’t get any better than thisJo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957131</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ciara GeraghtyGiovanna Fletcher|title=Lifesaving for BeginnersWalking on Sunshine

|summary=A fatal car crash links Kat and MiloMike's wife, Pia, two people who otherwise might never have methe was with for seventeen years, has died. After allAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, they live in different countriesso are their best friends, Vicky and she’s old enough Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to be his mother. He likes lifesaving classes and the banana muffins in his mother’s caféfollow, while knowing that she lives off cigarettes was dying and wine, and writes for a that they would need help to carry on living. And yet nowWhilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, because another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of the crashtheir trips away, they are linked. They don’t realise it yetand Vicky and Zaza, but as time passes struggling with their grief and their lives will move closer. As secrets are unearthedown life troubles, they will become bound decide to one another drop everything in different waystheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998121</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy WoodmanB09FS89KX9|title=Country LovingFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=When Stevie Dunsford receives a call to tell her that her father’s farm is in danger of going under, she doesn’t Life should have any idea how bad things really are. Her life is in London with her successful career in accountancy and her been good looking boyfriend. for Hollie: She plans to go to was just going into the farm in Devon for the weekend to sort things out and that will be that. However, when she discovers the state final year of things, she has no option other to stay and try to make things better even though she her veterinary degree and her father have been estranged for - three yearslater - was still working at BB's diner. What she does not expect though, is how readily and happily she fits back into life on Bob - the farm and soon owner - regarded her London life and Nick start to lose their attractionfondly: he was a good boss. Of course, this new contentment has got nothing to do Hollie had moved in with her blossoming relationship with the gorgeous local vetboyfriend, LeoMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. It’s time Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to move forward control her and commit most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the farm and Leodiner. However Then there was the fact that he would be violent, just as things are really looking good, Stevie makes an unexpected discovery that threatens both to her and to ruin everythingother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891571</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fern Britton0008421714|title=The Holiday HomeMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Pru and Connie might be sisters but theyThe problem began just after the publication of George March're as different as chalk and cheeses most successful novel to date. It's always been like thisEveryone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Pru is Every day Mrs March went to the elderlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, although not by much and as shewas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a hard-nosed businesswoman who character on you?''always She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms' gets what she wants. Husband Francis was acquired in much the same way that you might employ staff - and that's his function. He looks after Pru and their son Jeremy. ConniePerhaps this would not have mattered, on except for the other hand, fact that Johanna is a homebody the whore of Nantes - married to Greg (who runs her parents' family business) and mother to Abigail their sixteen-going-on-seventeen year old daughter. There's another difference too. Francis is pure of heart and an honest mana weak, plain, largely unappreciated by his wifedetestable, but Gregpathetic, although Connie believes differentlyunloved, is a philandering little shunloveable wretch..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007468539</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Newman1473685745|title=LeftoversUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=3.54

|summary=Susie Rosen is what a magazine calls a 'leftover' When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - shewell, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's thirty something and lacks her dream manson, Jake, job or homeoff his bike. You might He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that'thinks Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not '' that she has au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the job left side of her dreams as shehis heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be 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 an account manager in advertisingApril 1953, but she finds it unfulfilling - and thatAdolf Hitler's on 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 good daysthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. On For yes, Britain caved in the bad days she resurrects her plan lead-up to the World War Two that shecertainly didn's going to get promoted by Christmas t happen as we know it, and then quitwe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Boyfriend Jake cheated 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 the drudges, and beyond those, right on her down to the childless, the husbandless and although the relationship broke up some time ago she hasn't got over himwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Right now life revolves around the jobAnd in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, minimising is employed with the effect task of some bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the more dreadful colleagues and party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her girlfriends - but some job, at least, until the first emerging signs of them are proving female protest come to light, with their potential to be not quite as reliable as she might have hopedspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184756271X</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janey FraserRuth Hogan|title=Happy FamiliesMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Happy families are, contrary to popular beliefThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, not all alikevaguely connected. Bobbie is So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a working mum of two children who we’ll call ‘spirited’ for want of girl in a better phrase. Her husband works late humdrum job wanting to become a lot so she’s singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the one left trying third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to juggle running use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the house with wrangling sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the children and still fitting first time in the family stall. We also see her own jobon her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Andy Just who is dad she, and who delivered the secrets about her to two teens who are perfectly behavedImelda, or at least they are during and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the rare moments he spends at home. His wife Pamela Minotaur is a goddess, interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a Perfect Parent way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to boot. He’s a very lucky guymodern audience. And then there’s VanessaSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, who feels spanning from her mothering days are behind childhood to her until death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her young grand-daughter comes to stay…and doesn’t leaveown right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580853</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenLucy Holland|title=Dear ThingSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Everyone hopes Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for the happily ever aftermost of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and Claire I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and Ben expected a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that once they were marriedare now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, once they had examining relationships and re-evaluating the house with role of women. Sistersong is a garden big enough for perfect example of a swingmodern retelling done well, that the babies would naturally follow afterwards. So what happens when plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the babies don't? How long do you try characters to come to get pregnant? How long do you endure IVF? At what point do you say enough is enoughlife, to feel real and let go of the dream? And what ifhuman, at that moment of most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling you simply cannot take any more, your best friend offered to be appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a surrogate mother, masterpiece of storytelling and carry your baby?I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070828</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy BratleyB08NF79QXT|title=The Antenatal GroupCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Five women are all looking forward Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to meeting their new babies in a few weeks timethe event couldn't be more pleased. Part of their preparations involve joining the local antenatal group Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they get to meet 've known each other. Little do they realisesince university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, when they turn up for Charles and their first sessionfour-year-old daughter, how much they are going to come to rely on and care Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for each other. This book is partly one thing: she misses having a testament to all those lasting friendships that are formed man in groups just like this all over the countryher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218388</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in ParisKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Anna has been working as a supervisor George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and taster at a chocolate factorysingle. She’s 30, never much cared about school, She's not had sex for eight months and recently split with she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her boyfriendand she has a real talent for attracting drama. Life isn’t particularly exciting, but she’s reasonably content Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the 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 lot, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Then She only has to take her mother's dog out for a freak accident at work, followed by a nasty infection in hospital leaves walk for her unemployed, apathetic and to end up with no idea what dog poo spattered across her future holdsface - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549207</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB08CHJLNBS|title=Good Husband MaterialCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Fergal is part of He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a popular pop bandpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. Regularly She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the news for various scandalsheritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he is introduced in the prologue 's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They'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's obvious to this novel when he recalls his firstfriends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, somewhat dramatic meeting with 17why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-year-old Tishstarter, and the year-long romance which followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562817</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna StothardHelly Acton|title=The Art of LeavingShelf|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=LukeWhen we meet Amy, she's in a barrister and Eva? Sherelationship with Jamie. You can's a romantic novel editor and habitual leaver. Be t really call it a party or a manpartnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's working on the exit strategy from the moment everything startssticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. This makes the fact that Eva and Luke have Haven't we all been together there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for three years a little abnormal in Eva worldsurprise trip. The other abnormality in Eva world is Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the blonde woman she keeps spotting in random places, almost as if she's being spied upon…wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846882370</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Cora Carmack|title=Losing It|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Bliss is a drama student, but what else would you expect girlfriend comes into school with a name like that? And yetblack eye, when we first meet claiming he gave it to her, I would never have guessed that was her majorwhole world is tipped upside down. She Her relationship has just doesn’t seem ended and now she's the typetalk of the school. She’s also not Mike was the type to pick up random men most popular boy in school who was always so in barslove with her, everyone knew that, but that’s exactly so why did he do what she does as the book starts. It’s he did? Some people believe her friend Kelsey’s fault. She’s determined to get Bliss out thereand some don't, because that’s not where Bliss normally but one thing is. About for sure, this isn't going to graduate at the end of the year, Bliss has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s blow over any time to change thatsoon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisKatie Fforde|title=Peaches for Monsieur Le CuréA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It’s over seven years since I 've wanted to read [[Chocolat by Joanne Harris|Chocolat]], set in a small French town called Lansquenet. I liked it, on the whole, author Katie Fforde for ages and often wondered this was pretty much exactly what happened to Vianne, the chocolateI was expecting -making and rather mystical heroinea warm, not to mention the people whose lives she affected so deeply. A couple of years later I cosy read ''The Lollipop Shoes'' which purported to be a sequelfocused on romance, but really stood alone. It was set in Paris family and rather different in stylefriendships. I liked it This provided two romances for the price of one, but somehow it did not feel was actually the family element as if it involved opposed to the same peopleromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552776998</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne BerryB07W4MNBSG|title=The AdoptionBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General 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 concerned. It is hard coming up to imagine the terrible trauma suffered by these women when the authorities intervened Halloween in 1987 and took away that tiny bundle, destined for a new life with new parentsgroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947057</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Kemp|title=Mums Like Us|rating=2|genre=Women When you's Fiction|summary=Stella Smith is fed up with the expectation re only seventeen that mums should be superwomen. She feels seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that there are certain women, ''your entire life depends on who appear to have achieved perfection in terms of motherhood, that make all other mums feel inept and inferior. She feels that realism is best and that to strive to be you marry'good enough' is what most mums should aspire to. That is why she sets up The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the 'Mums Like Us' group that meets weekly idea of living in her messy kitchen a farmhouse and rejoices in slovenlinesshaving a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, messy clothes or perhaps William 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 Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the Cotswolds rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to live near her sister Sally. They are intrigued when they discover that start their dear Aunt Rainey has left them something in her will. In order to find out what though, they have to go to search was obviously the French House, an antiques centre, where the owner, Matthew, has a letter from their aunt to openYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. It transpires that they have been left a stall There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the centre and their aunt has requested that Matthew helps them get to grips with the world of antiquesclass. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846056543</amazonuk>

{{newreviewMove on to [[Features|author=Eleanor Moran|title=The Last Time I Saw You|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As a woman in her mid thirties, Livvy feels that her life is OK. She has a good job even though she is slightly intimidated by her boss and is often in danger of being overlooked for new projects. Her love life might be non-existent but at least she shares her home with James, the one time love of her life which only works if she can settle for being good mates. However, when she hears that Sally, her best friend from many years ago, has been killed in a car accident, her world is turned upside down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876327</amazonuk>}}latest features]]