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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Kiem1471180158|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=I was caught up by this novel from the first pages and read it with absorption Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a single sitting. The young heroine, Lana Dukovskaya, is man who's a third generation ballerina control freak with all the Bolshoi Ballet but the experiences subtlety of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and losta half brick. Her grandmother Jamie's nameson, we discoverBo, 'has been erased from 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 - she's a frequent flier in the records local A&E and her mother is a troubled secretive figuresometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Lana challenges Missed shifts or the conventional notion of a ballerina: she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and most of all she wants put in the wrong. It was going to come to experiment with the repertoirea head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FudgeLauren Bravo|title=It's In The CardsPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ellen Carson was just ''slightly'' put out that Gwen is pressing her family arranged middle-aged bosom on a surprise birthday party for her fortieth, but more annoyed big number that they wouldnstarts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I't accept that she was quite happy being single and unattachedm-nearly-forty. She had Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a successful career as a card designer, bit of a home she loved and no intentions of getting into any longmid-term relationshiplife crisis. What did make her wonder was why her brothers Catharsis is key and sisters were so keen Gwen has decided now is the time to get her involved with any remotely eligible male when their own relationships were so dysfunctional. She had no interest in the two men from her past who have come take back into her life - or the one who has been hovering round the edges more in hope than expectation.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719813697</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=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 '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, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. 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''.
{{newreview|author=RS Meyers|title=Accidents of Marriage|rating=4Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=What if your marriage is crumbling? What if you are living on borrowed time? What if a terrible accident occurs and your role in the family has to change from absent father to man about the house? Would you rise to the challenge or add this to a long list of things you don’t do well?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114044X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganHadeer Elsbai|title=The Christmas SurpriseDaughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=I do like Jenny Colgan’s books. At leastDrawing inspiration from Egypt, that’s my impression although I’m surprised to discover that I had only previously read ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Her titles seem Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to feature food-related topicsattend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, and this particular one but instead she is third in forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a series about privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a young woman called Rosie Hopkinsgroup campaigning for women's rights. She lives Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a small village in Derbyshire story of an unjust society, filled with her boyfriend Stephenhypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and runs a sweet shopovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553956</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delia FranklinB0B575J99N|title=Almost Perfect|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Almost Perfect is Beneath the debut novel for Delia Franklin, and comes with a delightfully quirky front cover, which is part of what attracted me to it. It starts well, too. Gloria, who works as housekeeper for a late middle-aged farmer called Will, is happily surveying her vegetable patch. The tractor approaches and as Will climbs down, his mobile phone alerts him to the fact that his only granddaughter Lucy has had a fall, and is in a serious state in hospital.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992886309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Baron Next Door|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy a relaxing break in Bath, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmother, Lady Effington. Charity doesn't just love music, she ''lives'' music; it is an intrinsic part of her very being and she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianoforte. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns up on her doorstep, demanding that she keep the ''infernal racket to a minimum'', she declares war on the insufferably rude Baron next door. The result is a light-hearted and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin to bond, despite their differences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Year I Met YouPorticoes|author=Cecelia AhernBrooke Adams|rating=34
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|summary=Jasmine is the main protagonist of this book, Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and also the narratora teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. She’s single and has just lost her job, much to her dismay It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She’s She'd ''still not found the kind of person who likes to be busy right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to have make a purpose change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in lifeBologna. After a telephone interview, but she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the conditions of beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her former employment mean that she’s on a year’s ‘gardening leave’: she receives a full salary first class but is not allowed to start another job for a full yearit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501765</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=The Last AnniversaryMeredith Alone|author=Liane MoriartyClaire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=For yearsWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, Scribbly Gum has been a tourist trap214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, with crowds flocking from the mainland she can't. She simply can't force herself to visit leave the untouched site safety of the Munro Baby mystery, when a newborn was found abandoned on the island, her parents vanishedhome. The baby is now She's fortunate that she has a grandmother herselfgood friend, Sadie, but the mystery lingers onwho visits regularly with her two children, James and, well, it’s quite Matilda. Sadie's a good business for the residents. Silver linings cardiac nurse and all thatfull of sound common sense. But now Connie, one of two sisters In fact it was Sadie who found the babygave Meredith her cat, has passed awayFred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, and left so you can guess what she does in her house to spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a stranger, an outsider, someone who doesncharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith't really belong on the islands. Will Sophie’s arrival disturb the peace? Are long hidden secrets about to surface? And what will it mean for the extended family if they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918519</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hall0008441618|title=The RepercussionsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Once home from her role as a photo-journalist in Afghanistan, Jo decides to move into the Brighton flat that her great aunt Elizabeth has bequeathed her. While searching through the belongings that go with the home, she finds Elizabeth's WWI diaries from the time that she nursed wounded servicemen from the Indian Corps at the Brighton Pavilion. These entries cause her to reflect on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series of letters, telling her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did to them and, indeed, to her.
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{{newreview
|author=Anne O'Brien
|title=The King's Sister
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=ItJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn's England t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in 1380 and 17 year old Elizabeth of Lancaster has always dreamt that part of her betrothal and the sort of love of which balladeers singtown. So when she meets The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the person her father has lined up, her face drops funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to say the leastschool. The Earl of Pembroke is eight years old so sheThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s not pleased, with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. However one day love will find her Laura Spence and cruelly cause her Kate Monroe objected to choose between Jo's restrictions on the love of her life and family with fatal consequencestoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=One Step Closer To YouGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Alice PetersonWalking on Sunshine
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Single mum Polly Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has a lot of baggagedied. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, but it Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all basically boils down some 'rules' to two thingsfollow, boys knowing that she was dying and boozethat they would need help to carry on living. She’s been Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to hell take one of their trips away, and backVicky and Zaza, but for right nowstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, she seems decide to be doing ok, holding down a job drop everything in a cafétheir own lives, looking after son Louis and staying off the sauce. She’s even in a position to help those she meets, like her fellow AA-ers and single dad Ben at school who is adjusting to his new rolego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061835</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Indian SummerFall On Me|author=Marcia WillettPenelope Potts|rating=43.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Mungo is a retired actor Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and director- three years later - was still working at BB's diner. His brother Archie is Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a landowner, struggling to make ends meetgood boss. Kit is a good friend who comes to stay, wanting a safe place while she decides whether or not to get Hollie had moved in touch with a former her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Neighbours include Emma, an army wife with two small children who is tempted Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to an affair with a friend control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her husband’sjob at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and the elderly brothers Philip and Billy who have a secret that’s been hidden for forty years..to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071530</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicci Gerrard0008421714|title=The Twilight HourMrs March|author=Virginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Eleanor has been persuaded by The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her children first name only on the last page) seemed to seriously consider sheltered accommodationeither be reading it or had already done so. At Every day Mrs March went to the age of 94 and blindlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't considered safe rattling around this the first time he's based a big old house. character on you?'' She doesnmentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 't surrender without conditions though: before she considers moving out, a stranger should be employed to sort her photos and papers before burning themmannerisms''. The family agree and Peter Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is appointed. Gradually he realises why Eleanor doesn’t want her children to see the documents as the story whore of hidden lifeNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, love and loss is revealedpathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405919833</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Geras1473685745|title=Cover Unbreak Your EyesHeart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=For London fashion journalist Megan forbidden love When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends suddenly of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and painfullyBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, just the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when she thinks it will blossom into something lasting and legitimatehe was a few days old. ElsewhereSo, in Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the countrysidestate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, Eva Conway lives with her daughterparading around a bit, son-in-law and granddaughters in Salix House – watching over the house that Eva used sanctioned return to call her own when she was a famous fashion designerthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Now she feels aloneFor yes, even Britain caved in the heart lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of her familythe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Not only But this but she also faces the loss 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 home that means so much drudges, and beyond those, right on down to herthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. As Megan And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of 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 Eva's paths cross so they discover that each of them has just get a dark guilty secret eating away hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at themleast, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, but then Salix House has secrets toowith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782066071</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Woman Who Stole My LifeRuth Hogan|authortitle=Marian KeyesMadame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Stella is an author working on her second This book. Though now back lets us discover several people in Ireland, she talks different stages of a life in New York. It sounds fabulous. But something has changed. Whatever it isthe early 1970s, we’re not sureall vaguely connected. Maybe the mighty So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have fallenbeen called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the stars have stopped collidingthird generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. Either way The singer, that adventure is over as the book starts. It’s not where scryer and the story startssufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, though, and we’re soon plunged back into but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the past, with first time in the events that have lead Stella to this pointfamily stall. First We also see her on the listher last day, fifty years later, in possession of a serious illness, without which nothing pair of letters that followed would have happenedwill change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, or at least not in and who delivered the way secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it didhave to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4. 5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This may sound confusing but re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the book story in a way that is anything sympathetic to its origins butalso appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, and despite its great lengthspanning from her childhood to her death, I sped through itallowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155335</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Seafront Tea RoomsLucy Holland|authortitle=Vanessa GreeneSistersong|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=CharlieSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Kat the modern retelling of folk and Seraphinefairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are strangers brought together in a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the Seafront Tea Rooms by their mutual love role of afternoon teawomen. Kat Sistersong is a youngperfect example of a modern retelling done well, single mum struggling to get by while her ex provides very little help, Charlie the plot is a heartbroken journalist writing a tea feature for her magazine while visiting her difficult sisterhandled with care, and French Seraphine has keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come across the channel to au pairlife, improve her English to feel real and get some perspective on human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a new, complicated relationshipmasterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552232</amazonuk>1529039037
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=A Most Desirable MarriageCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Hilary BoydBrooke Adams|rating=4.53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jo and Lawrence have been married for nearly forty years. It Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has been a good marriage and they are both looking forward to spending more time together and pursuing new interests once Lawrence has retired. Howeverhad her shop, as the time approaches Jo notices that Lawrence appears more edgy Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and withdrawnwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She puts it down 's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to pre-retirement nerves; nothing to really worry about. So, when Lawrence makes a confession to her immediately after his retirement party, she the event couldn't have been be more surprisedpleased. She realises that 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've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband has been living a secret life , Charles and that changes everything: instead of anticipating their rosy future togetherfour-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she's now looking forward to the prospect of misses having a man in her life as a single woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067922</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie FitzgeraldB08GFSK2WZ|title=Zemindar|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emily's husband Charles to the exotic sub-continent for a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskine. Although none of the travellers have ever met Oliver, many of the people they encounter have heard of him and the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindar. These stories tantalise Laura as the information conflicts and she's unable to develop a mental picture of the man. That's not all that's conflicting: there's an increasing feeling of unrest in this furthest outpost of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead to one of the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British history. Laura, Emily and Charles are naïve, but that won't save them from what's to come – something beyond their worst nightmares. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Karma Trap|author=Holly Peterson|title=The Idea of HimLisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Allie Crawford seemed George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to have it madelook at - and single. She was married to Wade - the sort of man who made other women 's not had sex for eight months and she'drool'', had a job s stuck in a high-profile Manhattan PR firm the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and two kids whom she adoredhas a real talent for attracting drama. What could be better? What could go wrong? Well, it looked as though 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 going wrong when Allie found Wade locked in their laundry room with a decidedly glamorous blondeit and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. There had been She only has to take her mother's dog out for a bit of walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a blip in their marriage whilst Allie was breastfeeding their younger child, but Allie thought that Wade had learned his lesson and would be careful about hurting her in futurephoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=What I Love About YouCapturing Emilia|author=Rachel GibsonBrooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Natalie is He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the girl heritage library next door when Blake moves . 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 town but it’s neither love nor even friendship at first sightsomething a little deeper. Sure, her daughter might have taken Charles is more of a shine to the handsome stranger who likes to keep himself to [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself , but , above all, he'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 Natalie he’s arrogant and obnoxioushis friends. Still And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, you can’t live next door why does she feel drawn to someone and never run into themhim? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, just as you can’t avoid your neighbours she's in a small townrelationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, and since Trulybecause things tend to get done on his terms, Idaho fits the bill on bothbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, they’re yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to see each other.get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
{{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=Your Beautiful Lies|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes from into school with a mining family and is married black eye, claiming he gave it to Williamher, a police superintendenther whole world is tipped upside down. Although Her relationship has just ended and now she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides talk of the divideschool. It's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on Mike was the side youmost 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're on t, but unfortunately Annie one thing is for sure, this isn't permitted going to choose. However this is only the start of her problems. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriend, is back on the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifeblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah HarknessKatie Fforde|title=The Book of LifeA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=FantasyWomen's Fiction|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in the 21st century but now face the tragic news of Aunt Sarah's partner, EmI's death. Hard-ve wanted toread author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting -get-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan and is making life dangerously difficult for Dianaa warm, cosy read focused on romance, Matthew family and their unborn twinsfriendships. If this isn't enoughThis provided two romances for the price of one, they still need but it was actually the family element as opposed to find and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Life. However, they have very dangerous competitionromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen NobleB07W4MNBSG|title=The 49th DayBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=After escaping a disastrous marriage, Katherine Walsh travels It was coming up to an island retreat Halloween in Wales in order to pick up the pieces 1987 and a group of her life, relax and decide future directionsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. HoweverWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, rest and recreation isnbut Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''t all she discovers. During therapy sessions her ancient past is unlocked The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and odd happenings that have haunted her for years start Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to make sensemarry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Katherine also realises that it may be The place to her benefit to learn how to trust a man again but start their search was obviously the chance of love isnYoung Farmers't her biggest surpriseHalloween disco that weekend. She appears to be pregnant so any decisions she makes about her future must include There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the new life within herclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782795936</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=It Had to Be You|author=Ellie Adams|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well in her life until it all goes startlingly wrong. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst she is dressed as Henry VIII at a thirtieth birthday party and unfortunately the whole debacle is filmed and ends up Move on YouTube. She becomes known as 'head butt girl' as she is filmed demonstrating her fury. Her PR job is also going nowhere as she finds herself having to try and promote some very strange concepts. At least she has her two best friends for solace and they can all be found, many evenings, drinking away their sorrows and putting the world to rights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Mill River Redemption|author=Darcie Chan|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction[[Features|summary=Rose and Emily are sisters who co-exist rather than interact. In the past, a devastating event drove them apart, and now they both have their own lives, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew up. When their mother Josie dies, they are brought back together first in their mourning and then in their frustration at a message from beyond the grave: their mother is determined to achieve in death what she couldn't while still alive, a sisterly reconciliation. She has left her estate to the girls, but in order to access the funds they will need to cooperate and coordinate efforts to unearth the clues she has left them. With neither in a position to walk away from the potential gold mine, they have to put aside their differences, if only for the summer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>}}latest features]]