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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|title=An Englishwoman in New York|author=Anne-Marie Casey|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I just love that feeling. I’m in the hands of an writer who knows the business of writing inside out, and I can relax and enjoy a surprise ride with plenty of laughs along the way. No, I’m not related to veteran scriptwriter and producer Anne-Marie Casey: in a literary world awash with good reads, this is the highest-calibre popular novel I’ve read in a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548338</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Allen|title=Finding Mother|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Nicole Oxford knew that her marriage was over when she discovered that Tom had been unfaithful - again. They'd seemed like the golden couple of television but that and their gorgeous home suddenly seemed as insubstantial as dust. Taking a break from work Nicole flew out to stay with her parents in Spain. Actually, they were her adoptive parents - and Nicole wondered if the bond between them all was going to be strong enough to stand the weight of what she was going to ask of them. Nicole had stopped liking herself and she felt that she needed to go back to her roots, discover who ''she'' was - and she wanted their help to trace her birth mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992711207</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Step Back In Time|author=Ali McNamara|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summaryisbn=Career girl Jo-Jo gets hit by a car, but the accident leaves her not in hospital, but transported back to 1963. Another such accident leaves her in the 70s, a third in the 80s, and a fourth in the 90s. With a different life each time, and fashion and music being very different from what she's used to, can she find her way home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075155023X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1471180158|title=The Flavours of LoveMaybe Tomorrow|author=Dorothy KoomsonPenny Parkes

|summary=SaffronJamie 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 husbandson, JoelBo, was stabbed in the street eighteen months ago and no one 'has ever been arrested for his murderproblems'. It He's hard for Saffron asthmatic and her two childrenthe more you read, Pheobe and Zane, to live with what happened but somehow they have to find a way of getting the more you'll suspect that he's on with their lives; lives that no longer have Joel in themthe autistic spectrum. It Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's hardly surprising that they struggle on a daily basis frequent flier in the local A&E and it all culminates when Saffron is called into sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school . Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to discuss fourteen year old Pheobepick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. Saffron doesn't know how It was going to deal with the situation especially as her daughter won't talk come to her. On top of all that, Joel's killer is still out there somewhere and that makes her scared for all her family's safetya head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875002</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr PerfectLauren Bravo|authortitle=Joanna DaviesPreloved|rating=3.54

|summary=This book made me feel old. Old, Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and a bit boring. From the blurb ends with an oh-my-God-I'd expected a lightm-nearly-hearted chickforty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant -lit style story of finding any HR officer worth their salt would argue the perfect man, or perhaps realising that the perfect man doesn't exist and finding, instead, the man you love has been living right under your nose all along! It is, in part, that sort toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of storya mid-life crisis. But it's also the story of two people who spend an awful lot of their lives having sex with entirely the wrong people Catharsis is key and occasionally running into each other (literally at one point!) but missing Gwen has decided now is the fact that they like each other for many, many years.time to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784671</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=Bridget Jones: Mad About The BoyGarnett Girls|author=Helen FieldingGeorgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=BridgetThe 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 you might have heard'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, is back they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Some things have changed (she’s now Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a mother! And in her, ahemwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, 50s) Imogen and some things haven’t (she still has dating disasters Sasha. Life was lived in London and drinks wine as if it holidays were water) but spent at Sandcove, the family home on the most important thing Isle of all is that she’s still Bridget, and she’s still journaling her life for our amusementWight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224098098</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream|author=Abby Clements|rating=4Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Amelia and Jack live in a cramped flat in Hackney where they hardly have room to swing a cat. They can't afford to upgrade in London but maybe a small cottage away from the city could be affordable. When Amelia is overlooked for a promotion at the school she teaches in it feels that the time is right for a change. After their dream cottage is sold to another buyer, they discover Brambledown Cottage. It looks to be just what they are after; however, do they really know just how much work they are taking on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Heart Bent Out of ShapeHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Emylia HallThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Hadley Dunn is quite a fancy name 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 girl like hersociety pitted against them. She has lived quite a nondescript life up until nowNehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and even her university years look like they’ll be quite uneventful since she’s decided to live at home rather than move away. Then, out of then join the bluemilitary, but instead she is forced into an opportunity arises, and Hadley finds herself spending a year abroad in Switzerlandarranged marriage with Nico. Away from Giorgina on the responsibilities of home, other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and surrounded by exciting new friendsmaintain their reputation, Hadley becomes whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a much more appealing charactergroup campaigning for women's rights. She is especially close Giorgina also happens to Danish student Kristina who be in love with Nico. What follows is also there for a year in Lausannestory of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and the two soon grow closecruelty, even if each has secrets they keep to themselves from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and cannot share with even overcoming their closest of friendspersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755390881</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly PetersonB0B575J99N|title=The MannyBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Jamie Whitfield is married to Phillip and has three children Elizabeth Miller was thirty- although, if truth be told, she has four children, but shares and a bed with one of them, who also happens to have teacher at a highly paid jobprestigious girl's school in York. Well, most people would think that he has a highly-paid job, It was ''comfortable'' but Phillip is resentful that heshe longed for something more in life. She'd ''s still not one of found the right vocation nor met the super-richright man'' and now was the time to make a change. Just nicely getting into seven figures is simply not enoughShe needed challenges. Living There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in New York's Grid is not enough - he wants one of the massive apartmentsBologna. Jamie works tooAfter a telephone interview, but shewas offered the position and it wasn's only a part-time television news producer, so obviously t long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her needs - and rights - are going to be secondaryfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007233035</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=My Husband Next Door0241542405|author=Catherine Alliott|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summarytitle=Ella's marriage to the artist Sebastian Monclair has gone downhill just as quickly as Sebastian's once-stellar career did. With him living in an outhouse and her seeking comfort with charming gardener Ludo, who she's not quite ready to have an affair with, their children are caught in the fallout. When Ella's parents go through their own marital problems and her overbearing mum moves in with her, will it give Ella the push she needs to take action?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047801</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Deborah Schwartz|title=Woman on TopClaire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=Kate When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and Jake had one of those brilliant marriages that looks set to last forever along with two wonderful childrenshe's not left her home for 1,214 days. But Fate is always hiding around the corner with its foot stuck outShe'd ''like'' to: in fact, waiting to trip you up and Jake was diagnosed with cancershe so nearly does. They both fought Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to do everything that they could wear if she's going to find a cure but within two years Kate was a widowcatch her train. For nearly a decade Then, she dedicated can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children , James and to making Matilda. Sadie's a career cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as a healthcare lawyer JIGSAWGIRL, so that you can guess what she could support the familydoes in her spare time. When she was ready to look for another relationship she met LenThen Tom McDermott arrives. It wasnHe't his looks that attracted her or his stature (shes from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'd hastily searched out her flat shoes), but he did seem to have something about hims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00D3WHBJK</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Sparks0008441618|title=The Longest RideOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=An elderly man set off on a car journey when the weather Jo Fairburn knew that she was so bad that he really shouldn't have taken under intense pressure as the risk. He couldnnew head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't ''quite'' remember what caused him live up to skid off the road, but he was trapped her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the car which had slithered down a steep embankmenttown. The weather was worsening school had an active Parent Teacher Association and he wasn't optimistic about the chances of being foundfunds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. For ninety-There was onedifficulty, though -year-old Ira Levinson his only comfort and hope was the presence of his adored wifethey were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, Ruthin particular, who'd been dead causing problems for nine yearsthe head. Some way away Sophia DankoLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's life was complicated. She'd been dating Brian for two years but finished restrictions on the relationship when he cheated toys children could bring in on her for the second time - only Brian couldn't accept Toy Day but that it was over. That was how Sophia met Luke - he stepped in when Brian's attentions became just a little ''too'' pressingwarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549940</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tempting FateGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Jane GreenWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Sometimes people make mistakes. It only takes a moment to do something wrong and if you’re luckyMike's wife, Pia, it only takes a moment to put it right. Or it can take months or who he was with for seventeen years, has died. Some mistakes you just have to live And whilst he is dealing withhis grief, foreverso are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. Gabby has made one of But Pia left them all some 'rules'those'' mistakesto follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. The sort you can never really come back fromWhilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their 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>0718157583</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=The Husband's SecretFall On Me|author=Liane MoriartyPenelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Cecelia, Tess Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and Rachel are - three women spread across years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the generationsowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and spread across Australiahe was doing well in his career. At first glance they have little in common Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, but as this book progresses, their lives move closer both to her and staggering links appear between the threesometo other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405911662</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=A Private ViewMrs March|author=Crystalle ValentinoVirginia Feito|rating=24.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jemma is a model who thinks nothing The problem began just after the publication of photographers taking an interest in George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her. In fact, she rather likes first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading itor had already done so. After all, that’s Every day Mrs March went to the sort of thing local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that leads to more work. But when particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the renowned Dominic Vane comes after herbread, ''but isn't this the works first time he has in mind is something 's based a little different. As an erotic romancecharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, you can imagine what he wants the principal character had 'her body formannerisms''. Hint: it’s Perhaps this would not just as have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a clothes horse. And soweak, thanks to a helpfully understanding boyfriend with whom she’s in an open relationshipplain, Jemma decides to welcome Dominic into her life… and her bed. Except for some reasondetestable, he’s playing hard to get. The more he eludes herpathetic, the more she wants himunloved, and their initial relationship turns on its head as she becomes the one now pursuing himunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0352347562</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Fudge1473685745|title=Not What It SeemsUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Owen was a widower with two young children When Beth Carlyle and Evie was recently divorced with three children Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of about the same age. Friends introduced them - in the way of doing a little matchmaking an angry exchange - but although they liked each other and the kids all got on well there , Simon was no spark between them. They both needed help though angry and they made a business arrangementBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. Until the children were old enough to leave home they would share a house and the parenting of the children He wasn't hurt but they would not be involved in a sexual relationshipJake has history. Friends and acquaintances found this difficult to accept and Evie grew tired He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of explaining that the setup was you who are not ''Not What It Seemsau fait''with your medical acronyms. When we meet Owen and Evie he was born, the last child has just left home side of his heart hadn't developed properly and as the arrangement he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has come every right to an end be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're both moving into their own housesdriving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719809606</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia FawcettC J Carey|title=Best Laid PlansWidowland|rating=34|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The Fletcher family have a removal business but itIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's been hit - as have so many other businesses - by 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 recession. Frank Fletcher has been lucky in having sanctioned return to the support throne of Edward VIII with his wife Christine, who has money of her own which she's been willing Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to inject into the businessWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, but he counts himself less lucky in his son Mike. Mike works for his father for what he describes we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland'a pittance' and suffers being publicly humiliated by him rather too often. Frank would like 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 sack Mikethe drudges, and beyond those, but doesn't feel able right on down to take such a drastic stepthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. To add to the problemAnd in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, Christine is very fond employed with the task of Mike's wife, Monique - bowdlerising classical literature to the detriment take all encouragement for female emancipation out of her own daughterit – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, Amy who works in retail - much to her fatherand so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they's chagrinre stamped ready for reprint. He'd love to have That is her in job, at least, until the business rather than Mike. Itfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's very complicatedvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719810019</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FamiliarRuth Hogan|authortitle=J Robert LennonMadame Burova

|summary=Is there a greater change This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the life of early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a middlebullied half-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might cast boy (as he would have thought notbeen called then), having been forced a girl in a humdrum job wanting to bury fifteen year old Silasbecome a singer, and try chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and move on with Clairvoyant'', to use her husband Derek family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the year-older sonsufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, Sambut just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. But We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a greater pair of letters that will change occurs on everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the way back from secrets about her annualto Imelda, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens 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 universeMinotaur is interesting and unusual. She pops from one car Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to another, from under a cloudless sky its origins but also appealing to a slightly greyer one – and modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her self as Elisa childhood to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumperdeath, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a different job, stiil married to Derek prop in the same home – but still the mother heroics of two young men…Theseus. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Walk Me HomeLucy Holland|authortitle=Catherine Ryan HydeSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Carly and Jen’s mother Sistersong is dead part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and they have no other living relativefairy tales. Scared that they will be placed in care in separate homesThese stories, the sisters decide that they have to find their mother’s former boyfriendfor most of us, Teddy, one are a cornerstone of the only people to have shown childhood and I relish seeing them any care retold with fresh eyes and affection in their short livesa fresh perspective. The only problem is If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that they are not sure where he is nowbecoming increasingly narrow and outdated, other than in Californiafleshing out characters, examining relationships and have no money or means re-evaluating the role of getting therewomen. They decide Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to walk but how long will it take feel real and what will human, most importantly they find waiting feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for them when the pre-Saxon age they finally reach their destination?live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055277801X</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Pack Up Your TroublesCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Pam WeaverBrooke Adams

|summary=This book opens on VE Day. Connie Thirty-one- who year old Liberty Rossini has been doing war work had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and some friends are on their way to Trafalgar Square to celebratewins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Connie had hoped She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her boyfriend would to the event couldn't be with more pleased. Sonja, hermother, but he’s stood is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her uplooks from... however she’s determined to enjoy herself anyway. She meets some Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other girlssince university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and gets chatting to Eva. They find themselves parted from the rest of their groupfour-year-old daughter, but have fun anyway, including playing Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in a fountain with some soldiers... and are caught on camera doing soher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563627</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=Midsummer MagicThe Karma Trap|author=Julia WilliamsLisette Boyd|rating=14

|summary=After a whirlwind romanceGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, Josie and Harry are engaged absolutely gorgeous to be married look at - and she is putting every waking hour into planning the wedding down to the finest detailsingle. This includes taking Harry, bridesmaid Diana She's not had sex for eight months and best man Ant down to her parents’ home she's stuck in Cornwall for the weekend as that karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is where the wedding is going to be taking place. It should be being visited on her and she has a weekend of excited planning and preparations but, unfortunately, things don’t turn out entirely as Josie hopesreal talent for attracting drama. She turns into Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the 'bride leak from Hell' driving all her friends crazy with boredom as she talks non-stop about the wedding plans in shower by putting something down at the minutest bottom of details. In order the stairs to liven things upabsorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, Harry and Ant persuade staring at the girls pervy postman. She only has to take part in her mother's dog out for a hypnosis experiment which will make them plight their troths walk for her to their true loves at midnight on Midsummer Night’s Eve. As you might imagine, all sorts of mayhem occurs as well as end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a few home truths sharedphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563570</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina GreenB08CHJLNBS|title=As the Cards FallCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=At the end of the nineteenth century Bella Reed was working as a companion to a lady in Exeter He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and she had a gentleman friendpartner at Wickham Jones, Jack Courtneythe Mayfair letting agents. Jack was a solicitor She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and their friendship seemed to grow steadily - archivist in the the extent heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that Bella suspected he might be about , which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to proposesomething a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The letter from her cousin rather upset the applecartGuardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not least because she had no idea his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn'hadt it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she' s in a cousinrelationship with Jamie. Since the deaths of her parents You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she'd thought of herself as an orphan without any relatives - but Lizzie asked that s sticking around because she hopes she visit the family home on Dartmoor as can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her Uncle William was ill and wanted to see herpack for a surprise trip. A weekend trip didnCould this be it? Is he ''finally''t seem unreasonable and Jack escorted her going to get down on one knee? Was the station work (and said that he would meet her on Monday when she returned.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719809355</amazonuk>1838770879

When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has 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, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen P KiernanKatie Fforde|title=The CuriosityA Springtime Affair|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed. |isbn=1780897561}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=It's ten years since Charlotte was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and Nicole a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were closefifty. Since then Nicole has married JulianWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, an eminent surgeon and Charlotte has made her way as a writerbut Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. She has a base The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in New York, but it's little bigger than a cupboard farmhouse and is only having a place to stay between foreign assignments. Nicole lives in Philadelphia but still spends her summers at her family's property off the coast couple of Maine. This year is going to be the last time though. Her father died suddenly children called Will and her mother can't bear Olly appealed to go back to QuinniepeagueCharlotte, so Nicole is returning or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the island rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to clear start their search was obviously the house for saleYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. And she's going to write a cookbookThere was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472104579</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Wonder Women|author=Rosie Fiore|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Hockley has always wanted to run her business but real life has got in the way. Married to Lee and mother to two small children, she has enough Move on her plate looking after all of them. However, when she dreams about an innovative kids’ clothing store with play facilities, she cannot let the idea go. She is sure that all mums would welcome the opportunity to shop while their children are able to play boisterously supervised by friendly staff. Encouraged by Lee, she investigates [[Features|the idea further and before she knows what is happening, she is renting premises, planning interiors and hiring staff. Holly and Mel come on board and together, all three women work hard to make Jo’s dream become a reality. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389602</amazonuk>}}latest features]]