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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=TaraShea Nesbit1471180158|title=The Wives of Los Alamos|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=1943: In the US a group of men, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn to total secrecy. Their destination is a hastily knocked up, unfinished small town in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside down for nearly 3 years. This isn't mass abduction by a malevolent power but the US government's plan to end WWII. The men (and some of the women) are scientists, the place is Los Alamos, the site of the project that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating ''Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know her. Anna just happened to walk past and ask to buy the house decades earlier. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but always remembered the young lady, walking past with the baby in the pram. The baby, Martha, is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through the belongings that Elizabeth left with it, Martha sees glimpses of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before it's too late and while she still has a mind to take her back to the good times. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vanora Bennett|title=Midnight in St PetersburgPenny Parkes

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Inna Feldman is Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the Kiev theatre the night that Prime Minister Stolypin is assassinated in front subtlety of the Tsara half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Fearing He's asthmatic and the retribution against more you read, the Jews in general and being picked out as a more you'll suspect in particular, Inna flees to St Petersburg and her landlordthat he's cousin Yashaon the autistic spectrum. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she unexpected but Yasha is 's a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation frequent flier in Russia during 1911the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. The family that Yasha is living with takes her 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 anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of themthe wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie ThomasLauren Bravo|title=The IllusionistsPreloved

|summary=Devil Wix Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a great Victorian illusionist. Admittedly Lady Luck hasn’t been too good to him lately and he may look big number that starts with a little ragged but he's talented four and repeatedly tells himself so. One particular night as heends with an oh-my-God-I's reassuring himself over a drink or three, he runs into Carlo Boldonim-nearly-forty. (Or rather Carlo runs into him as he's picking Devil's pocket at Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the time.) Formerly Charlie Morris and toss - Gwen finds herself having a dwarf to the Victorians/person of restricted growth to us, Carlo was part bit of a performing troupe but now finds himself alone due to tragic circumstancesmid-life crisis. They join forces but little do they know Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the future nor the part that a certain young lady will play in it.time to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512015</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=A Single BreathThe Garnett Girls|author=Lucy ClarkeGeorgina Moore|rating=4.5

|summary=Eva is blissfully content with lifeThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. She has a fulfilling career Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her job as away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a midwife glittering career. In the event, they eloped and a happy marriage to Richard took her away from the man Isle of her dreams who clearly adores herWight. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil when, early one morning, her beloved husband Jackson is swept out Margo did go to sea whilst fishing Oxford and went on the Dorset coastto become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. It seems that Life was lived in one fell swoopLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, all the family home on the Isle of her hopes and dreams have been washed away into Wight. Even then the cold, white waterdoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481365</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=Loxley|rating=3Then Richard left them.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Harry, the eleventh Duke of Loxley, fell in love with Bronwyn and they married. It wasn't the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn was, after all, nothing more than the daughter of the local doctor and even Harry and Bronwyn wondered whether or not they'd done the right thing as they struggled to come to terms with married life. Katherine, the dowager Duchess, didn't make Bronwyn's life any easier - I mean, the girl wasn't above starting to clear the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''that'' sort of thing. And - to cap it all - she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was of paramount importance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=SkeletonsFrontpage|author=Jane Fallon|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jen doesn’t have the happiest of families, so she’s immediately drawn to her husband Jason’s. Luckily they welcome her with open arms and she’s soon like a fourth child to Charles and Amelia. So when she discovers a secret that could tear lives apart, it’s as devastating to her as if it were her own parents. She has a choice to make: share the burden and ruin relationships in the process, or keep it to herself and shoulder it all alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047267</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona McIntoshHadeer Elsbai|title=The French Promise|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A few years on from [[The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh|The Lavender Keeper]] Luc the former resistance fighter and Lisette the former British spy have survived the ravages Daughters of war and start a new life together in England with their little boy Harry. However Luc can't settle, missing the lavender farming that's in his blood. This is remedied when the freshly transplanted family move again, this time to Tasmania. Nonetheless they still have a lot to learn; the biggest lessons being that no one can outrun the past and that fate isn't always kind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015659</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Little Beach Street Bakery|author=Jenny ColganIzdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Polly is disconsolate. She thought she had it allDrawing 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 perfect yuppie lifestyle rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in Plymoutha society pitted against them. She is 32 and has worked tirelessly marketing and managing her artist boyfriend’s graphic design consultancy. NowNehal, born into the upper class, with wishes to attend the sudden economic downturn Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the competitive nature of new technologiesmilitary, the bank has foreclosedbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Chris just wants to shut out Giorgina on the world other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and slink back feels great pressure to his motherprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's, leaving Polly bereft, homeless and confused as she struggles rights. Giorgina also happens to start over again away from the rat racebe in love with Nico. Faced with the prospect What follows is a story of grungy student flat sharesan unjust society, she looks further afield for new affordable accommodation filled with hypocrisy and finds a neglected tidal island in Cornwall connected by a causeway to the mainland. In the harbourcruelty, there is from which blossoms a dirty, derelict building group of admirable women fighting for rent. The upstairs loft is over a disused bakerytheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751549215</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=Mrs Sinclair's SuitcaseBeneath the Porticoes|author=Louise WaltersBrooke Adams

|summary=Every family has its stories, 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 right vocation nor met the anecdotes passed down right man'' and now was the generations that help time to explain who we think we aremake a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Roberta is sure that After a telephone interview, she knows all there is to know about her family until was offered the position and it wasn't long before she comes across a letter written to her grandmother in 1941was exploring the beautiful city. The contents cast doubt on all There were some natural doubts before her assumptions about the pastfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777424</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=The Dead Wife's HandbookMeredith Alone|author=Hannah BeckermanClaire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=Rachel wasnWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like''t ready to drop dead at thirty-five: in fact, she so nearly does. It Her outdoor clothes are on and she's been a year since - a year even considered which shoes to wear if she's spent trapped in some sort going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of netherworld her home. She's fortunate that allows she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her brieftwo children, tantalising glimpses James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of the lives of those shesound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's left behindalso an 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. There He's no apparent rhyme or reason to the glimpsesfrom Holding Hands, and Rachel wishes they were more often and lasted longera charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718178149</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Alan Titchmarsh|title=Bring Me HomeFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we first meet Charlie Stuart he's half wishing that the guests at his annual summer party at his Scottish castle would hurry up and leave - and half hoping that he could delay what he knows will have to be done once everyone has gone. He knows that life will never again be the same, but to understand why we have to go back from June 2000 to 1960 when Charlie was just a young boy being shown the ways of the loch and the surrounding land by the ghillie, who, oddly enough, was also his uncle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340936916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0008441618|title=Mother of the YearOther Parents|author=Karen RossSarah Stovell

|summary=The one person who 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 best judge well be a 'Mother house price slump in that part of the Year' competition would surely be town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a nominee’s daughterconsiderable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, right? And yet where threethough -time winner Beth Jackson is concernedthey were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, her daughter JJ is causing problems for the one person who remains unconvinced head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the accolade is warrantedtoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956404</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet GreenwoodGiovanna Fletcher|title=We That Are LeftWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Jess Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is a single mum of a rather smart little girl. She’s also single step mumdealing with his grief, if there’s such a thingso are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to a rather troubled teenage boy. This is the story of this unusual but endearing family of threefollow, knowing that she was dying and a road trip that they would need help to the other end carry on living. Whilst some of the countryrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, showing another one that even with few resources, mums will go Mike discovers one day encourages him to the ends take one of the earth for their children. It’s also the story of Edtrips away, and Vicky and Zaza, a wealthy businessman whose struggling with their grief and their own life interacts with theirs troubles, decide to drop everything in an unconventional way. A single mum meets a single mantheir own lives, but in an unpredictable wayand go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405915579</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=The Memory BookFall On Me|author=Rowan ColemanPenelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=When Claire Ryan first hears Life should have been 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 - the devastating news that she has Earlyowner -onset Alzheimer’s disease, regarded her first instinct is to run awayfondly: he was a good boss. However Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, she does not get far before she realises that she is already forgetting where she lives Marcus: her mother thought he was great and the names of simple everyday objects that she has always taken for grantedhe was doing well in his career. The worst implication Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of the news though is that soon she will no longer remember the special events in all he wanted her life such as giving birth to leave her daughters nor will she recognise their faces or remember how much she loves job at the diner. Then there was the man fact that is her husband. Not only is this traumatic for herhe would be violent, the effect on both to her family is unbearable. This is a modern day tragedy with seemingly, no happy endingand to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091951372</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=The Darling GirlsMrs March|author=Emma BurstallVirginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Leo Bruck, a world famous conductor, died suddenly The problem began just after the publication of a heart attackGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Amongst many mourners at his funeral are three women for whom Leo was much more than an acquaintance. Victoria was his long term partner and mother of his two children, Ralph and Salome. However, Maddy has also shared much of Everyone but Mrs March (we know her life with Leo and he is father first name only on the last page) seemed to her daughter Pheobeeither be reading it or had already done so. Then there is Cat Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, who met Leo about eighteen months ago and they also formed a relationship. All three were aware of as she was wrapping the others andbread, for whatever reasons''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had tolerated the parallel lives that Leo was leading'her mannerisms''. However Perhaps this would not have mattered, they had never met before except for the funeral and there fact that Johanna is instant dislike particularly between Victoria and Maddythe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857865</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Left and LeavingUnbreak Your Heart|author=Jo VerityKatie Marsh

|summary=Set in modern day LondonWhen 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 having knocked Simon's son, Jake, this novel explores the lives off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of two central characters you whoare not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, on the surfaceleft side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, could not Simon has every right to be any differentover-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. However}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, after and 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 catastrophic incident bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the citylead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, Gil and Vivian we are thrown together through now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the rather annoyingmainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, interfering character has put all of Irenethat gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Spending time And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with each other in the run up task of bowdlerising classical literature to Christmastake all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, both Gil and Vivian find themselves having to face up to various family issues not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and responsibilities thatso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, beforeuntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, they were able with their potential to ignorespoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784981</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Come to Me QuietlyRuth Hogan|authortitle=A L JacksonMadame Burova|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Aleena hasn't seen Jared for six yearsThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. Not since So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he hit would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the very bottom third generation of his downward spiral Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and ended up in prisonClairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. She The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's trying to move 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 family stall. We also see her onher last day, let go fifty years later, in possession of the boy she secretly loved all her lifea pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just as who is she's starting , and who delivered the secrets about her to make progressImelda, Jared reappears.and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349403309</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It Felt Like A KissJennifer Saint |authortitle=Sarra ManningAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Ellie Cohen lives with two This re-telling of her best friends, works in an exclusive gallery, and sees her loving Jewish grandparents every first Friday of the month. Her single mother, Ari, has always been the epitome myth of cool Ariadne and the Minotaur is Ellie’s best friend interesting and confidante. The only thing they don’t talk about is Billy Kay, Ellie’s biological fatherunusual. That doesn’t stop him being one of Jennifer Saint presents the nation’s favourites, recently knighted, and talked about by pretty much everyone else. But Billy story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a non-issue for Elliemodern audience. She doesn’t need him, she has ChesterSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her mum’s best frienddeath, who has always been enough of allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a dad if she needed. Her only real trouble is character in her penchant for lame ducks, or fixer-uppersown right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552163279</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New YorkLucy Holland|authortitle=Gail ParentSistersong

|summary=Oy vey! Sheila Levine is down on Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her luck. Try as she might to meet a niceshop, Jewish boy to marrythe Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she just keeps ending up with schmucks's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. The wrong side of 30, single She's delighted and living in Manhattan, well if only she’d taken the two people she's brought with her mother’s advice at to the timeevent couldn't be more pleased. Now it’s too late. There Sonja, her mother, is no hope. The only thing Sheila an ex-model and Brazilian: you can do is respectfully take see where Liberty got her own life (having made all the arrangements looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and tied up the loose ends beforehandtheir four-year-old daughter, of courseAva. Nice girls always clean up after themselves) Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1585674710</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniela SacerdotiB08GFSK2WZ|title=Take Me HomeThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Inary Monteith George Jackson is confusedthirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's just spent not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the night with karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her close friend, Alex and it seems that it means more to him that she will allow it to mean to herhas a real talent for attracting drama. After her fiance ditched her not that long before Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the wedding she decided that she would never allow herself stairs to be hurt like that again. Then absorb the water - then the shower fell through the problem seems to be solved for her as roof whilst she has to leave London was in it and return to Glen Avich in left her, stark naked, staring at the Scottish Highlandspervy postman. Her sister, Emily, She only has been waiting to take her mother's dog out for a heart transplant but walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it now looks very unlikely that she will make it through to an operationaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845027469</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda MitchelmoreB08CHJLNBS|title=EmmaCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=Emma Le Goff was determined that she He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and her childhood sweetheart, Seth Jagoa partner at Wickham Jones, would get married but the vicar seemed strangely reluctant to obligeMayfair letting agents. Their pasts were against them. Seth’s brother had been hung She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and his father and brother were archivist in prisonthe heritage library next door. No one could - or would - quite believe Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that Seth had kept , 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 the criminalityall, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. Then there were the deaths of Emma’s mother and brotherThey're obviously not at all compatible, which might so why can Charles not have been an accident. get this woman out of his mind? To top She's not his usual type at all: it all Emma had lived with Matthew Caunter - the vicar wasn’t prepared 's obvious to accept his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she was simply his housekeeper. feel drawn to him? No The relationship's obviously a non- there was no question of starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his marrying themterms, but Emma came she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up with when he tells her to pack for a novel solution surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the problem.work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890935</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|titleauthor=Wish Upon a StarKatie Fforde|authortitle=Trisha AshleyA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cally is I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a single motherwarm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. The novel begins with This provided two romances for the birth price of her daughter Stellaone, and but it was actually the family element as opposed to the discovery romance that her baby has a serious heart conditionI really enjoyed. Stella’s first few years are taken |isbn=1780897561}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was coming up with hospitals to Halloween in 1987 and medical procedures but eventually the NHS can provide nothing furthera group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Then Cally learns When you're only seventeen that a doctor in Boston is able to do a new kind of operationseems positively ancient, one but Liz was convinced that could potentially give Stella a totally normal ''your entire lifedepends on who you marry''. The only problem is eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the enormous cost idea of surgery living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the US, not rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to mention start their search was obviously the need for flights and accommodationYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562787</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop|author=Jenny Colgan|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rosie Hopkins lives with her boyfriend Stephen in the village of Lipton, and we meet them first Move on a winter’s evening, with snow gently falling on the picturesque buildings around their cottage. Or, rather, Rosie’s great aunt Lilian’s cottage. For Rosie is a town girl who came to look after Lilian some time previously. Lilian has moved to a lovely care home, and Rosie runs her traditional sweet shop.[[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551805</amazonuk>}}the latest features]]