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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leah McLaren|title= A Better Man|rating= 4.5|genre= Womens Fiction|summary= Maya and Nick are both the same type of person. A special type of person. She doesn’t really see it, but they are. He is obsessed with his company, an advertising agency, and the expected long hours of not just shoots and post-production, but also client relationship management that such a field entails. She is just as obsessed, but it’s not with her former life as a hot shot lawyer – now she’s obsessed with their twins and every moment of their little lives, from enriching activities to bonding sleepy times in the family bed. The one thing they’re no longer really obsessed with, though, is each other. And therein lies the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396349</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Caltabiano|title= The Seventh Miss Hatfield|rating= 4.5|genreisbn= Fantasy|summary= Cynthia is a simple, All American girl who whilst generally happy – she’s fed and watered with a roof over her head - and relatively care free, she is somewhat bored of her existence in Suburbia. Miss Hatfield is Cynthia’s mysterious and rarely seen neighbour. What an enigma she is and how compelling and irresistible it is for Cynthia to attempt to discover more about her. Ever hear the phrase ''Be careful what you wish for''?. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473200415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza 1471180158|title= Techbitch|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Imogen Tate (Editor in Chief, fashionista, all round legend) is back after an extended break for health reasons. Back at her desk at Glossy magazine, back in charge of the magazine and the team she’s spent years building and nurturing. Except she’s not. Things have changed a little while she’s been off. Her former assistant has sprung up the ranks and is now running the show. And it’s a show that’s now moved on, had its interval, and started its second act. Print and permanent are out, tech and temporary are in. The world has changed, the magazine’s going online and the old ways of working are just like Imogen – old. Forget trying to thrive, her new goal now is simply to survive in the arena she once loved and was happy to call home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918683</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Elizabeth Loupas|title=The Red Lily CrownPenny Parkes

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Florence 1574: Chiara Nerini only approaches Francesco de' Medici to sell him her late fatherJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's alchemical equipmenta control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. She and her family are starving and a sale would mean survivalJamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. However the soon to be Emperor has other ideas He's asthmatic and abducts Chiara to become his assistant in the quest to find more you read, the Philosophermore you'll suspect that he's Stoneon the autistic spectrum. If he finds it Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she will 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go freeto school. If not.Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head. Best not think about that option!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona Walker Lauren Bravo|title= The Woman Who Fell in Love for a Week|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Jenny is a teacher who sometimes spends her school holidays housesitting, and that’s just what she’s up to now, spending a couple of weeks in the country. It’s a happy coincidence that the house she’s placed at is a grand manor, owned by two well-known writers, because she herself is into literature, teaches the subject, and also works a bit as a proof reader. It’s a match made in housesitting heaven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Louisa Treger|title= The Lodger|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A writer writing about writers writing. What more could a reader, a book reviewer, a tentative writer and lover of words want from a book? Not forgetting the setting – England, early 1900s, clear class divisions and social expectations – and the characters – fascinating, colourful, and above all, real. This book has everything I look for in a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250051932</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Judy Blume|title=In The Unlikely Event |rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= How many planes have to crash, before people take notice? How often can an ''unlikely event'' occur before you have to stop calling it that? How horrible do things have to get before the adults are willing to talk to the children about their fears, their theories, their understanding of it all, rather than just glossing over the details?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barbara Lamplugh|title=Secrets of the PomegranatePreloved

|summary=SingleGwen is pressing her middle-mum Frankie doesn't have time to go looking for love. In fact, its the last thing on her mind, languishing somewhere on the list below sorting out repairs aged bosom on the house, writing a chapter of big number that new book, getting starts with a haircut four and fetching crisps for ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the kids. Yes, Frankie is much too busy for complications like love. But romance has toss - Gwen finds herself having a funny way bit of creeping up on people and when Frankie meets musician Scott on a trip to London, sparks fly mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and suddenly she HAS to find Gwen has decided now is the time for him. Scott lives halfway across the world in Canada and has work and family obligations of his own. Can love really find a way?to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007569556</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Menna Van Praag0008506337|title=The House At The End Of Hope StreetGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary= Alba Ashby is a wallflower of a girl; studious, bookish The love affair between Margo Garnett and excruciatingly shypoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, so apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when tragedy wields its ponderous bolt, 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 is less able than most could achieve - going to adjust to life as she now knows itOxford and having a glittering career. In one of the event, they eloped and Richard took her midnight walks around historical Cambridge, she finds herself at away from the door to Number 11 Hope StreetIsle of Wight. It is house that she has never before seen; quirky Margo did go to Oxford and turreted with went on to become a wild garden well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and grandly Victorian Sasha. Life was lived in hue London and Alba is enchanted by itholidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. So she does something that Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never normally do, be able to leave him in a million yearscharge''. She knocks on the door Then Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018623</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth RenzettiHadeer Elsbai|title=Based on a True StoryThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Augusta PriceDrawing inspiration from Egypt, middle-aged''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, washed up, substance-addicted actress has just left rehab yet find themselves fighting for the innumerable time. Her only friend in the world is her equally washed-up former mentor. Augusta has recently received a sudden upsurge rights of interest women and income when her tell all memoir became weavers – those with magical abilities - in a baffling best-sellersociety pitted against them. Frances Bleeker is an American journalist who came to London with high hopesNehal, that were quickly dashed by born into the reality of the British magazine market. The two meet when Frances is sent to interview Augusta about her book where Frances realises there’s far more upper class, wishes to attend the story of Augusta’s life than she’s cared Weaving Academy to put in words. Needless learn to say, young, optimistic Frances control her abilities and self-obsessedthen join the military, drunk Augusta don’t exactly hit it off at oncebut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. But when Frances loses her job Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and Augusta needs a ghost writer feels great pressure to provide for her new bookfamily and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the two offer each other Daughters of Izdihar – a lifeline ..group campaigning for women's rights. or enough rope Giorgina also happens to hang themselvesbe in love with Nico. As Frances will learn by delving into her pastWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, people close to Augusta don’t come away unscathed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395539</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tina Seskis|title=When We Were Friends|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Six friends meet at Bristol University; six very different people from six very different backgrounds. Six lives intertwined in an assortment which blossoms a group of ways… break-ups, marriages, careers, motherhood admirable women fighting for their rights and bereavement; until one night six become fiveovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917954</amazonuk >0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne AllenB0B575J99N|title=Guernsey Retreat: The Guernsey Novels Book 3Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Louisa returned home one night to the house she shared with her mother, but as she opened the door Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a man pushed past her and dashed awayprestigious girl's school in York. Her mother It was shocked and injured by what had happened - and died ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in Louisalife. She'd 's arms, but 'still not before telling her that found the right vocation nor met the right man had come for 'the jewels' - and now was the ones which she'd worn time to make a ballchange. Betty had never marriedShe needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Time After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and circumstances had separated her from Louisait wasn's father t long before he could know that she was pregnant and no man had ever been able to match Malcolm in exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her heart - and first class but it was Malcolm who had the jewels and who had to be warned that he was probably in dangerwent surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992711215</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Madeleine0241542405|title=The Confectioner's TaleMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Petra is researching the life of late historianWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, author214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, critic she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and greatly missed grandfather JG Stevenson when she should really be writing a dissertation for 's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her doctoratetrain. While looking through his belongings Then, she comes across a photo taken in Paris at can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the turn safety of the 20th century and an intriguing note in his handwritingher home. Petra She's fortunate that she has never consciously realised that Grandpa Jim (as he was to a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her) had been to France so the revelation spurs her on against all oddstwo children, an unscrupulous competitor James and academic pressureMatilda. Gradually the search reveals Sadie's a romance cardiac nurse and notorious scandal; the sort full of scandal would lead a man to regret sound common sense. In fact it for the rest of his lifewas Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Meanwhile Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in 1909, Guillaume du Frere moves to France her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from the provinces in order to escape poverty and changes his life completelyHolding Hands, although not in the way hea charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'd expecteds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160725</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Louise Candlish0008441618|title= The Sudden Departure of the FrasersOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary= When something is too good Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be true, maybe it is. Christy and Joe Davenport have found the a house price slump in that part of their dreams in the luxurious enclave of Lime Park Road, town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and are thrilled by the asking pricefunds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. After all There was one difficulty, properties rarely come up here and when though - they dowere ''devastatingly shockable'', it’s for an eye-watering amount. Pretty soonwith two members, thoughin particular, they’re left wonderingcausing problems for the head. Why was this house so cheap? Why did Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the previous owners clearly invest so much toys children could bring in giving the place on Toy Day but that was just a fabulous finish only to move out straight after? And why won’t any of the neighbours talk about ‘’the situation’’ which clearly went down?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405919841</amazonuk>warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonGiovanna Fletcher|title=That Girl from NowhereWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=Smitty Smittson (Clemency to be formal!) designs and modifies pre-loved jewellery. Smitty Mike's wife, Pia, who he was adopted at birth by the straight and very correct Heather and her dearestwith for seventeen years, late Don. Although Smitty has always been curious about her birth parents she's never searcheddied. However when her 12 year relationship And whilst he is dealing with Seth crumbleshis grief, so are their best friends, she decides to move Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to Brightonfollow, the area from which three decades earlier, as a little black baby knowing that she was given away dying and that they would need help to a white familycarry on living. There any idea Whilst some of searching becomes redundant the rules are around practicalities such as the world turns and she's the clearing out her wardrobe, another one that's foundMike 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>1780893345</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea ChapinB09FS89KX9|title=The TutorFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Katherine de L'Isle comes to live with Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her uncle Sir Edward's family veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at Lufanwal Hall when sheBB's widowed after only a year of marriagediner. A fine home and Bob - the bosom of the family should be owner - regarded her fondly: he was a place of safety but not in this casegood boss. This is 1590 Hollie had moved in Queen Elizabeth's protestant England with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and Katherine's family are Roman Catholics; something they thought he was a secret till their priest is found murdered on their landdoing well in his career. Life must go on 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. The children of Then there was the household are raised fact that he would be violent, both to her and educated almost on the periphery of Katherine's vision until she meets their tutor, a certain Midlands' glove maker's son called William Shakespeareto other people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>024196816X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadia Hashimi0008421714|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima and The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her sisters are followed home from school one first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day by a boy Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on his bike. He taunts them innocently enough that particular morning, Patricia asked, as little boys doshe was wrapping the bread, ''but with no sibling brotherisn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the girls are unchaperoned in principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this land would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is ruled by the laws whore of men. And as daughters in Nantes - ''a household without sonsweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, in a country that is governed by fearunloved, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fannie Flagg1473685745|title=The All-Girl Filling Station's Last ReunionUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4.5

|summary=2005 Alabama: Sookie Earle awakes one morning a 59 year old happily married female Methodist When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for 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 American roots that go way back in history your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a wonderfully steadfast dentist husbandfew days old. However before she goes So, Simon has every right to bed that night all that (apart from the married and female bits) will changebe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland1940s Wisconsin: |rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, 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 Polish immigrant family lose their men bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to wartime conscription the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and so have to make we are now a go protectorate – well, we share enough of their family gas station alonethe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Fritzi But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and her sisters rise ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the challenge drudges, and then take beyond those, right on another more dangerous adventuredown to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, taking 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 so they just get a hefty tweak towards the skies party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the war effortfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593149</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia IronsideRuth Hogan|title=Yes! I Can Manage, Thank You!Madame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=As midThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-60s edges towards latecast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Marie Sharp has even more Imelda, the third generation of lifeMadame Burova, ''s challenges to grapple with Tarot-Reader, Palmist and even more Clairvoyant'', to giveuse her family's sea-front booth. Her beloved Archie has passed away The singer, the scryer and she feels itthe sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time to take in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a new lodgerwoman called Billie. Maybe someone male Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a little youngersecret all this time? There|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's also Melanie; a new gale force Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of nature next door neighbour now that Ariadne and the wind-chime-challenged Brad Minotaur is interesting and Sharmie have moved onunusual. Unfortunately Marie doesn't like her Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but this only gets worse when Marie realises that shealso appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the ''only'' person who doesn't like viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her. Howeverdeath, not all is negative. Grandson Gene is now 7 years old and may be allowing the link reader to really connect with Ariadne as a little part time work for Marie to keep her artistic hand character in. If she could work out why one side of her tummy is own right rather than just a different size and shape to prop in the other, life would be practically perfectheroics of Theseus. Or maybe it's best not to think about that at all?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782069283</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicci ClokeLucy Holland|title=Lay Me DownSistersong|rating=4.5

|summary=It's New Year's Eve Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and the nightclub is pulsating I relish seeing them retold with soundfresh eyes and a fresh perspective. The revellers heave If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and swell in oceanic waves outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and Jack re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is preparing to call it a nightperfect example of a modern retelling done well, when he the plot is presented handled with Elsacare, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. She This is small; delicate a masterpiece of storytelling and pretty and alluringly confident I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty-one- a heady combination year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for a man like Jack - and though he wants, wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with every fibre of his beingher to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, to walk awayher mother, to go home is an ex-model and forget Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got herlooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, he doesnCharles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn'tfor one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William NicholsonB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Lovers of AmherstKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to write a screenplay about the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd look at - and Austin Dickinson (no relation)single. 1881She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: Austin, brother an awful lot of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, bad luck is being visited on her and she has an unhappy marriage but isn't looking a real talent for happiness outside it till he meets Mabelattracting drama. The very liberated Mabel may be married tooHer life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, but her husband believes in freedom within wedlockstaring at the pervy postman. There follows one of the most scandalous relationships She only has to face small town New England; take her mother's dog out for a relationship that Alice wants walk for her to research onend up with dog poo spattered across her face -site. While there, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is the 21st century so she feels ready for and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the consequencesoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane ChamberlainB08CHJLNBS|title=The Silent SisterCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=Her father deadHe's Charles Devereaux, her mother toothirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, her only brother struggling with the after effects of a tour in IraqMayfair letting agents. Riley’s life is not the easiest right now She's Emilia, but with the mammoth task of clearing out her late father’s estatetwenty-nine, she’s back librarian and archivist in her hometown for the summer while school’s out and heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she has time off her adolescent counselling job's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Riley Charles is expecting to have more of a long [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but simple task ahead of her, sorting through things to keepabove all, things to donatehe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, things so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to sellhis friends. But as And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she rifles through feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a lifetime’s collectionnon-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she finds far more than she bargained for including troubling news about her sister Lisa who committed suicide as 's in a teenagerrelationship with Jamie. ExceptYou can't really call it a partnership, it seemsbecause things tend to get done on his terms, but she didn's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven'twe all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. With Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the help wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author= Alyssa Sheinmel|title= What Kind of family friendsGirl|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, reams of paperwork and an email history claiming he never expected gave it to her to find, Riley discovers her father had been keeping some big secretswhole world is tipped upside down. Lisa didnHer relationship has just ended and now she't drown, after alls the talk of the school. She took off under an assumed name Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with a new identityher, never to be heard of again. It’s a traumatic discovery for Rileyeveryone knew that, especially without anyone to share it withso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but the more she digs into the pastone thing is for sure, the more she realises how little she knows about her family historythis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447211308</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate RiordanKatie Fforde|title=The Girl in the PhotographA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Alice Eveleigh is sent I've wanted to Fiercombe Manor in 1933 as the result of a scandal. Back in the 1890s the Manor had been home to Elizabeth read author Katie Fforde for ages and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but it doesn't feel like this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a house that's seen much happiness. The stones are drenched in tragedy warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and secrets that have remained locked away since thenfriendships. What sort of secrets? Will Alice be too nosey This provided two romances for her own good or will the secrets remain just thatprice of one, with but it was actually the family element as opposed to the added threat of history repeating itself?romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel KentB07W4MNBSG|title=The Crooked HouseBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Many years ago, It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a tragedy shook an English villagegroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. A whole family wiped out with no warning When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a whole family, that iscouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, except for one of the daughters or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was, unbeknown determined to marry the assailant, upstairs at the timerather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Esme The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that girl, but she is no moreweekend. She has a new name, a new identity, a new life, far away from that terrible place. As Alison she flies under There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the radar, not attracting any attention, with a menial job to fill her days. And she has every intention of staying that way, no intention of ever stepping foot in Saltleigh againclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557501</amazonuk>