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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Hore1471180158|title= The House on Bellevue GardensMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= Leonie was left Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a large, somewhat run-down London house by control freak with all the subtlety of a friend, some years previouslyhalf brick. She Jamie's an artistson, and something of a bohemianBo, and lets out rooms at low price to people in need'has his problems'. There He's Peterasthmatic and the more you read, who occupies the basement and lives in squalor, which - occasionally more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she tries 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to clean be away on time to pick Bo up. There from school are also an elderly Indian couple, Hari and Bela, who have been there for some time, occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a young and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelhead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny ColganLauren Bravo|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever AfterPreloved|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I loved the introduction to this book. It explains Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that it's starts with a story for readers who love books, four and outlines ends with light humour the places where the author recommends settling down with a good book. I related strongly to the idea of reading in bed, and forgetting who is who as I drop off to sleep; this is an oh-my usual mode. Travelling is also, in my experience, an excellent time to read. -God-I don't read in m-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the bath toss - and the author's description Gwen finds herself having a bit of books drying out on radiators conjured up a depressing image mid- but I enjoyed all life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her other suggestions.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G Metts0008506337|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, several of them of local interest 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 South Carolina natives Oxford and visitorshaving a glittering career. This is his first novel, however In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and you may be surprised went on to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction rompbecome a well-respected journalist. Three girlfriends meet up again in Charleston; in their early forties The couple had three children: Rachel, they're facing turning points Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in their professional London and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers holidays were spent together at Folly Beach during college and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitSandcove, they summon the courage 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 decide what they want from middle age and refresh their sex livesleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)Hadeer Elsbai|title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionFantasy|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelistDrawing inspiration from Egypt, Helle Helle''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, [[This Should be Written in yet find themselves fighting for the Present Tense by Helle Helle rights of women and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the Present Tense]]upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similarthen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. It wasn't. That's Giorgina on the other hand did not totally have a bad thing 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 – many people will enjoy the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'a group campaigning for women' s rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expectinga story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane L GibsonB0B575J99N|title=The Gessami ResidenceBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=34

|summary=Jenny Walker has been Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a widow prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for three yearssomething more in life. She's had support from her parents (Dadd ''s still a bit protective), her two sons, who are at university, not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and her three girl friends. The four women have had a meal together every week but now they've decided was the time to go on holiday for make a fortnightchange. She needed challenges. One of There was a little trepidation when she applied for the women - Rose - is professoressa job in the business so Bologna. After a telephone interview, she's in charge of making was offered the arrangements position and it wasn't long before she insists that they have to turn up at was exploring the airport before they find out their destinationbeautiful city. Ibiza wasn't ''quite'' what they There were expecting, some natural doubts before her first class but then three of the four women are unattached (Amanda is married - in an unenthusiastic sort of way) and they all like to drink and flirtit went surprisingly well. What couldn't go right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amanda Brooke0241542405|title= The Child's SecretMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= There When 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'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are obvious suspects in any missing child caseon and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, with the parents often at she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the top safety of the listher home. In the case of 8 year old Jasmine She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, thoughwho visits regularly with her two children, thereJames and Matilda. Sadie's someone else a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who catches the policegave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's eye: local park worker Sam who has something of also an unconventional relationship 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. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with the girlproblems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Fallon0008441618|title= Strictly Between UsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Tamsin Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and Michelle have been friends for decadesthe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. Aside from parents There was one difficulty, though - theywere ''re the longest relationship devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the book, longer than Michelle head. Laura Spence and PatrickKate Monroe objected to Jo's marriage, longer than Bea has worked as Tamsin's assistant. All four characters feature heavily, though, restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a story that is always moving and never boringwarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara DelinskyGiovanna Fletcher|title=BlueprintsWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Everyone - even Jamie MacAfee - thinks that her life Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is perfectdealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. SheBut Pia left them all some 'rules's engaged to Bradfollow, a lawyer with her family's building firm knowing that she was dying and is sure that she'll manage they would need help to set a wedding date as soon as work pressure eases upcarry on living. She's employed by Whilst some of the family firm too, rules are around practicalities such as an architectclearing out her wardrobe, and appears as another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of the presenters on a television renovation show. Her best friend is her mother who's a master carpenter their trips away, and Vicky and the host on the same television show - Zaza, struggling with their grief and Caroline has managed their own life troubles, decide to build up her confidence again after a messy divorcedrop everything in their own lives, and go along with him. What can go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405042</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB09FS89KX9|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the sameLife should have been good for Hollie: the voice of a stranger, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knows. She tries all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations was just going into her art but even the refuge final year of her talent veterinary degree and livelihood doesn- three years later - was still working at BB't works diner. In Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels to where she knows it will all begin and possibly endgood boss. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along Hollie had moved in with the events that three goddesses began eons ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Sisters on Bread Street|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Julia her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty he was doing well in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world warhis career. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's son, Thomasleave her job at the diner. She's an apprentice milliner and beautifulThen there was the fact that he would be violent, but both sisters have a disadvantage to her and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is Germanto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane McLoughlin0008421714|title= The UnfriendedMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= The Unfriended lays its cards out problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the table right from the first last page: this is a novel all about feminism) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It's going Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to have those conversationsbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, and it''but isn't this the first time he's going to deliver some opinionsbased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, and itthe principal character had 'her mannerisms''s . Perhaps this would not going to apologise have mattered, except for doing sothe fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373947</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts1473685745|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Spoilers ahead 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 Book 1having 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 ''Dark Witchau fait''with your medical acronyms.Life goes on for When he was born, the Oleft side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn'Dwyer cousins but that doesn’t mean t looking where they've given up on Cabahnre 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 state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the evil one who has stalked their family for centuriesthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. He hasnFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't given up happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on them either unfortunately''the mainland''. As But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the cousins' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors from when their powers – as well as their problems – originatedwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Meanwhile And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the problem task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry by comparison but 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 party line before they's still a problemre stamped ready for reprint. She's desperate not That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to fall in love light, with Connor Otheir potential to spoil Hitler'Dwyers visit. Good luck with that Meara!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny StallardRuth Hogan|title= Boyfriend by ChristmasMadame Burova|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= Genie works as This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a writer for an online women's lifestyle site, the sort that tells you to eat at the cereal café down the street bullied half-cast boy (before everyone starts rioting outsideas he would have been called then), advises you on where a girl in a humdrum job wanting to get become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the best seasonal homewaresthird generation of Madame Burova, reviews getaways from cottages in the Cotswolds to mansions in Miami''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and throws in interviews with important/influential/IT women for good measureClairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. Genie The singer, though, has a rather niche role. She writes on dating the scryer and love and being single in the city. But since shesufferer's been single mother will all become staff at a whilerevamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her editor is getting fed up with it and sets on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a challenge: find pair of letters that will change everything for a boyfriend by Christmaswoman called Billie. Just who is she, and blog who delivered the secrets about the process.her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405922486</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica SpindlerJennifer Saint |title= The First WifeAriadne |rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I should have guessed from their names (''Bailey'' This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and ''Logan'') that this unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story was set in the States, a way that is sympathetic to its origins but initially I was too busy identifying with the blurb on the back also appealing to notice. 10 year age gap? Check. Magnificent estate? Check. First wife? Checka modern audience. Even if that doesnSaint't make you feel as if you are reading about your own life, which s narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of course how it made me feelAriadne, there's spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a lot to drag you prop in to this one immediately and I was utterly delighted that my initial eagerness to read this one was sustained to the very last pageheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551929</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela HartLucy Holland|title=The Soldier's WifeSistersong|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''...none Sistersong is part of it was reala genre I particularly enjoy, until the last moment when his handmodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, the tips for most of his fingersus, left the tips are a cornerstone of hers childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and he was gonea fresh perspective.'' ''Turned into just another soldier.'' Ruby If handled well these retellings give new life and Jimmy new meaning to stories that are newlynow becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-weds full of big dreams and plans for evaluating the future, but all role of that will have to waitwomen. It Sistersong is 1915 and a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the world plot is in the grip Great Warhandled with care, sweeping Jimmy away to fight battles in far-off Gallipoli. Ruby feels like she's in limbo; no longer an innocent child keeping its archaic historical feel but not quite a fully-fledged married lady. Not wanting allowing the characters to return home, she decides come to stay in Sydneylife, to keep herself occupied as she waits out the warfeel real and human, longing most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the return of her beloved husbandpre-Saxon age they live in. She rents This is a room masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from a local landlady and finds a job as a bookkeeper at a Timber Merchant. Although she initially takes the job beginning to keep herself occupied and earn a little money, she soon falls into a comfortable routine and starts to enjoy her new-found independence and responsibility.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410186</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marianne Kavanagh|title= Don't Get Me Wrong|rating= 3|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Don't get me wrong, this was an enjoyable read but it's not one you'll rush and tell your friends aboutend. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240606</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina WarnerB08NF79QXT|title=Fly Away HomeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=How would you subvert a fairy tale? You know enough of them Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and enough about them to do it, so think on itwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop stars, She's delighted and perhaps let them be witness to the Schadenfreude caused by a cave thattwo people she's sacred brought with her to native Canadians? the event couldn't be more pleased. Would youSonja, in the light of their characters usually being routineher mother, interchangeable tropes, give them a closelyis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-observed personality – as seen here in a teacherfour and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's interior thoughts when faced with a piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take the exoticism of the easthusband, Charles and Egypt in particulartheir four-year-old daughter, and see Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it in the light of a musical teacher on wasn't for one thing: she misses having a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering to himself, directing traffic in the middle of the road, or from the remove of an elderly man with ''swollen feet in orthopaedic sandals'' with a message from the past? Certainly these two are not the standard Arabian Nights-styled pieces…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>her life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo MoyesB08GFSK2WZ|title=After YouThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=After writing the massively popular George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Me Before You'', all s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of Jojo Moyes' readers were clamouring bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for moreattracting drama. Having been on Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the edge bottom of our armchairs during the storystairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, we all wanted to know what happened to Lou nextstark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Would she be okay? Would she live She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her life to end up with passion? Where would she go next? So the arrival of this story is dog poo spattered across her face - and a special treat, as photo being taken by someone who shares it continues around the tale of Lou, although perhaps not in the way we had imagined…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718179617</amazonuk>office.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Menna Van PraagB08CHJLNBS|title=The Dress Shop Of DreamsCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary= Cambridge is He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a city of winding streets and cobbled alleyways partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in such a street the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you will find A Stich In Timedependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a tiny dress shop filled [[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 bursting with dresses that will take your breath awayhis friends. Etta Sparks spends her days crafting gowns from jewel-coloured velvets and beaded silks And given that are unlike any dresses you have seen before; once you try one of EttaEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's creations on - and with obviously a few stitches from her expert and rather magical needle non- these incrediblestarter, amazing garments have the power to reach within your soul and extract your deepest desire and hidden-away dreams.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018720</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophie KinsellaHelly Acton|title= Shopaholic to the RescueThe Shelf|rating= 4.5

|summary=After 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 terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a year of waiting surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and somewhat frantic googling for the release datewait), Becky returns with the latest in the Shopaholic series, and guess whatworth it? It was completely worth the wait. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593074629</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill ThrussellAlyssa Sheinmel|title=I'll Meet You In HeavenWhat Kind of Girl|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary= Rebecca and Gideon were made for each other. They've been married for 10 years and' 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, apart from their unfulfilled desire for childrenclaiming he gave it to her, all her whole world is perfect, love remaining at tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's the centre talk of their relationshipthe school. WellMike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, all was perfect until their 10th anniversary dinner everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and that fatal a fatal car crash. The next some don't, but one thing they knowis for sure, they arrive in a garden to be told that theythis isn'll be sent back to Earth for 3 months t going to live separately as a testblow over any time soon. Why? More importantly, would they be able to find each other again afterwards?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957113285</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emylia HallKatie Fforde|title=The Sea Between UsA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=To her parents, the move I've wanted to Cornwall read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was an escape to expecting - a better way of life. For city-girl Robynwarm, it was wetcosy read focused on romance, remote and miserable family and she was counting down the days to University and her return to civilizationfriendships. Desperate This provided two romances for something to do to entertain herself, Robyn takes a wetsuit and surfboard and makes her way to a secluded cove. An inexperienced surfer, she soon gets into difficultythe price of one, but is rescued from it was actually the sea by a young local man called Jago. From that moment on, the two lives are intertwined by an invisible bond; a bond that will be tested and stretched during family element as opposed to the years romance that followI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472211979</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate KerriganB07W4MNBSG|title=The Dress|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=In 1935 a young man left his cruel father, stealing from his kindly schoolteacher to fund his trip to Dublin. Years later he left for New York. He'd never dreamed of being rich, but hard work brought wealth his way. He'd never thought about a wife either, but it seemed the right thing to do and Frank Fitzpatrick married Joy. She may well have been the most beautiful woman in New York, but she adored Frank. He was, well, ambivalent about her. For her thirtieth birthday Joy decided that she was going to throw a party at the Waldorf and for this she required the most stunning dress ever made. The Dress. She hoped that it would bring Frank back to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082384</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Anna Caltabiano|title=The Time Of The ClockmakerLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Fantasy General Fiction|summary=''The Time Of The Clockmaker'' is not so much It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a sequel to group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you'[[The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano|The Seventh Miss Hatfield]]re only seventeen that seems positively ancient, rather itbut Liz was convinced that 's more like ''The Seventh Miss Hatfield : Part Deuxyour entire life depends on who you marry''. Cynthia (who is now The only eligible boys were the aforementioned Seventh Miss Rebecca Hatfield and from this point we shall refer to her as such) has just seen her predecessor Young Farmers and mentor, the somewhat intimidating Sixth Miss Hatfield, murdered in the only way it is possible for an immortal to die – she has been slain by another immortal. Forced to flee for her life (with the clock that governs Rebecca's ability to travel through time), Rebecca is stunned to find herself back idea of living in the Court of King Henry VIII. It seems that the hands of her mysterious clock have somehow inadvertently been moved, during the course of a break-in, farmhouse and Tudor England is the backdrop for Miss Hatfield's fight for survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473200431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alice Peterson|title= The Things We Do For Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= January is an unusual name for having a reasonably normal girl, a single mum to a daughter (couple of children called Will and a dog). She has a few unusual characteristics, though. Her dog comes Olly appealed to work with her (at a property company whereCharlotte, before or perhaps William and Oliver if you ask, she's not were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the boss or even close rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to it). She start their search was raised by her grandparents following obviously the sudden death of her parentsYoung Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. And her daughter, though adorable, has a few issues which can make everyday life a bit tricky. None of this really matters, though. Because, as There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the title suggests, this is a straight up love story (or search for love story) and it's a pretty brilliant oneclass. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848669011</amazonuk>