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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liz Fenwick1471180158|title= Under a Cornish SkyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who''Under s a Cornish Sky'' is control freak with all the story subtlety of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goalhalf brick. Their personalities couldn Jamie't be more differents son, so expect fireworks along the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse and although she is a skilled architectBo, she is never able to succeed in her career because others take credit for her work'has his problems'. In relationships He's asthmatic and the more you read, she is easily manipulated into doing things she doesnthe more you't always feel comfortable with; a fact ll suspect that is not lost he's on her sleazy current boyfriend, Mattthe autistic spectrum. Lady Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -of-the-Manor Victoria, on the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is 's a frequent flier in her sixties, she has the body of a much younger woman local A&E and has no trouble getting men sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to do exactly what she wantsschool. Despite a long list of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distraction, her one true love is Missed shifts or the family home of Boscawen, a glorious estate set need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the seawrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Veronica HenryLauren Bravo|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopPreloved

|summary=It is with a heavy heart 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 Emilia Nightingale returns home 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 pretty Cotswold town Isle of PeasebrookWight. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacy, Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart to the communityrespected journalist. Julius was loved by all The couple had three children: he always had time to listen to his customers Rachel, Imogen and share a recuperative cuppa Sasha. Life was lived in times of need. HoweverLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, his finances were another matter entirely and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with an ever-mounting pile family home on the Isle of debtWight. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'toos mind: '' happy she would never be able to help out, but can Emilia really give up on her fatherleave him in charge''s dream?. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Juliet AshtonHadeer Elsbai|title= These Days The Daughters of OursIzdihar|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Not everything that looks like love is loveDrawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar''explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Kate Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and Charlie were childhood sweetheartsthen join the military, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her wayward cousin family and Kate marrying her wayward cousinmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's pretentious ex-boyfriend? How can they still rights. Giorgina also happens to be four friends? Follow Kate through her life where she experiences all kinds of in love in all kinds with Nico. What follows is a story of places an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and learns that not everything that looks like love is lovecruelty, but that just sometimes what looks like love might be the real dealfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Eliza KennedyB0B575J99N|title= I Take YouBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 24|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= In Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a week from now, Lily and Will are getting married! This weekend, theyteacher at a prestigious girl'll be leaving New s school in York and jetting down to Florida to spend the week with her family, preparing . It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for the big day, and itsomething more in life. She'd 's all brilliantly exciting. They're quite still not found the golden couple, her a lawyer at a big firm, him an archaeologist at a top museum, young, attractive, they bring right vocation nor met the world to its knees. And then sometimes Lily gets on her knees, but, ooops, itright man''s just as likely and now was the time to be in front of her boss or make a random from the bar as it is her fiancéchange. Lily, you see, is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type She needed challenges. Instead There was a little trepidation when she likes to sleep around, drink, take drugs and breakdown applied for the professoressa job in tearsBologna. After a telephone interview, all while keeping this a secret from she was offered the man position and it wasn't long before she's supposed to love and while holding down a substantial professional job of coursewas exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)0241542405|title= RoxyMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for this novel1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of the book that 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 much older husband has been killed in a car accidenttrain. Then, she can't. To add She simply can't force herself to leave the shock safety of thisher home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, the revelation that he died in the arms of his (naked) lover in the carSadie, on the hard shoulderwho visits regularly with her two children, is a further blow to RoxyJames and Matilda. I found this an interesting set-up for Sadie's a story, cardiac nurse and wondered how this full of sound common sense. In fact it was going to goSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. As the blurb on the back of the novel tells us, 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 is looking for revenge'does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, I thought the book would be a development of the character of Roxy into a self-motivating, strong character. But this wasncharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith't the cases.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Beazley0008441618|title= Keep Me PostedOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 45|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn'Keep me Posted' is written in t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a light-hearted, informal style, narrated by a young mother called Cassie who lives house price slump in New York. She and her husband Leo have twin toddlers, and her life is busy, full that part of technology and fast foodthe town. Her older sister Sid is more laid back, The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and something of the funds which they raised were a technophobe; although they used considerable benefit to be closethe school. There was one difficulty, though - they havenwere 't really been 'devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in touch much since Sid particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and her family moved Kate Monroe objected to SingaporeJo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elisa AlbertGiovanna Fletcher|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhood. In fact, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months of motherhood, however, or a partner of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searing, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Flett|title=OutstandingWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Ivy House Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is a preparatory school dealing with an his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'outstandingrules' Ofsted report. Eve Sturridge is the head teacher and to follow, knowing that she puts heart was dying and soul into making certain that it's they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the best rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that it can possibly be - wellMike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, as far as she's allowed to by the owner. But it looks as though she's getting into the big time when Stefan and Anette Sorensen (A-list billionaires) choose Ivy House for Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their son grief and daughter. There's another bonus too: the Sorensens run a hedge fund and Eve's seventeen-year-old daughter Zoe is keen their own life troubles, decide to have a career drop everything in financetheir own lives, and go along with him. What could be more natural than that some work experience could be on offer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784298247</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erica JamesB09FS89KX9|title= Song of the SkylarkFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB'Song of s diner. Bob - the Skylark' has quite owner - regarded her fondly: he was a cast of charactersgood boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and I found it a little difficult, at first, he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to keep track control her and most of everyone. Lizzie is the main protagonist; we meet all he wanted her trying in vain to apply for new jobs after losing leave her previous onejob at the diner. We quickly learn Then there was the fact that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour with he would be violent, both to her boss, a married manand to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Hore0008421714|title= The House on Bellevue GardensMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Leonie The 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 last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was left a largewrapping the bread, somewhat run-down London house by ''but isn't this the first time he's based a friendcharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, some years previouslythe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. She's an artist Perhaps this would not have mattered, and something except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a bohemian, and lets out rooms at low price to people in need. There's Peterweak, who occupies the basement and lives in squalorplain, which - occasionally - she tries to clean up. There are also an elderly Indian coupledetestable, Hari and Belapathetic, who have been there for some timeunloved, and a young and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelunloveable wretch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Colgan1473685745|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever AfterUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I loved the introduction 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 this bookapologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. It explains He has HLHS - that it's a story Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for readers those of you who love booksare not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and outlines with light humour the places 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'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 author recommends settling down with state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a good book. I related strongly bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the idea throne of reading Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in bedthe lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and forgetting who is who we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as I drop off to sleep; the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is my usual mode. Travelling is alsomost 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, in my experienceand beyond those, an excellent time right on down to readthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. I don't read And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the bath - 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 authorparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's description of books drying out on radiators conjured up a depressing image - but I enjoyed all her other suggestionsvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsRuth Hogan|title=Waltzing in ViennaMadame Burova|rating=4.5

|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction books, This book lets us discover several people in different stages of them of local interest life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to South Carolina natives become a singer, and visitors. This is his first novelchiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, however''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and you may be surprised Clairvoyant'', to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/womenuse her family's fiction rompsea-front booth. Three girlfriends meet up again The singer, the scryer and the 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 in Charleston; in their early fortiesthe family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, they're facing turning points in their professional and personal livespossession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college Just who is she, and resume their communal marijuana smoking habit, they summon who delivered the courage secrets about her to decide what they want from middle age Imelda, and refresh their sex lives.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)Jennifer Saint |title= The Dyslexic Hearts ClubAriadne |rating= 34.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written in re-telling of the Present Tense by Helle Helle myth of Ariadne and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], Minotaur is interesting and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to be very similarits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. It wasn't. ThatSaint's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy narrative is told predominantly through the fast-pacedviewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' is. It allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just wasn't exactly what I was expectinga prop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane L GibsonLucy Holland|title=The Gessami ResidenceSistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=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 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 role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to 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. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Jenny Walker Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has been a widow for three years. She's had support from her parents (Dad's still a bit protective)shop, her two sonsthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, who are at university, and her three girl friends. The four women have had a meal together every week but now theyfor just six months when she've decided to go on holiday s nominated for a fortnight. One of the women - Rose and wins - is in the business so sheRetail Best Newcomer Award. She's in charge of making delighted and the arrangements and two people she insists that they have 's brought with her to turn up at the airport before they find out their destinationevent couldn't be more pleased. Ibiza wasn't ''quite'' what they were expectingSonja, her mother, but then three of the four women are unattached (Amanda is married an ex- in an unenthusiastic sort of way) model and they all like to drink and flirtBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. What couldn't go right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Brooke|title= The ChildJessica's Secret|rating= 4|genre= Womenthirty-four and Liberty's Fiction|summary= There are obvious suspects in any missing child case, with the parents often at the top of the list. In the case of 8 year old Jasmine, though, there's someone else who catches the police's eyebest friend: local park worker Sam who has something of an unconventional relationship with the girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Fallon|title= Strictly Between Us|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Tamsin and Michelle have been friends for decades. Aside from parents, they're the longest relationship in the book, longer than Michelle ve known each other since university and PatrickLiberty adores Jessica's marriagehusband, longer than Bea has worked as Tamsin's assistant. All Charles and their four characters feature heavily, though-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in a story that is always moving and never boringher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara DelinskyB08GFSK2WZ|title=BlueprintsThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Everyone George Jackson is thirty- even Jamie MacAfee three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - thinks that her life is perfectand single. She's engaged to Brad, a lawyer with her familynot had sex for eight months and she's building firm stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and is sure that she'll manage to set has a wedding date as soon as work pressure eases upreal talent for attracting drama. SheHer life's employed chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the family firm toowater - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, as an architectstark naked, and appears as one of staring at the presenters on a television renovation showpervy postman. Her best friend is She only has to take her mother who's dog out for a master carpenter and the host on the same television show - and Caroline has managed walk for her to build end up with dog poo spattered across her confidence again after face - and a messy divorcephoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office. What can go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405042</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB08CHJLNBS|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmaresHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: the voice of a strangerShe's Emilia, twenty-nine, the presence of evil librarian and archivist in the faces of five people heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on an islandfrom new age books like that, none of which/whom she knowsleave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. She tries Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesn, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''t work. In a moment They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to where she knows it will all begin and possibly endhis friends. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events And given that three goddesses began eons ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances BrodyHelly Acton|title=Sisters on Bread StreetThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sistersWhen we meet Amy, struggling to hoist themselves out of she's in a life of poverty in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world warrelationship with Jamie. WellYou can't really call it a partnership, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage because things tend to a rich suffragetteget done on his terms, but she's sonsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, Thomasyes. SheHaven's an apprentice milliner and beautiful, but both sisters have t we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a disadvantage and surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he 's 'finally'' going to get down on one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is German.knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane McLoughlinAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The UnfriendedWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 3.54

|summary= The Unfriended lays its cards out on the table right from the first page: this is a novel all about feminism. It's going to have those conversations, and it's going to deliver some opinions, and itDoing something when you's not going to apologise for re scared is braver than doing so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373947</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Spoilers ahead for Book 1, ''Dark Witch''.Life goes on for the O'Dwyer cousins but that doesn’t mean they've given up on Cabahn, the evil one who has stalked their family for centuries. He hasn't given up on them either unfortunately. As the cousins' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors from something when their powers – as well as their problems – originated. Meanwhile the problem of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry by comparison but ityou's still a problem. Shere not's desperate not to fall in love with Connor O'Dwyer. Good luck with that Meara!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= Jenny Stallard|title= Boyfriend by Christmas|rating= 4.5|genre= WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary= Genie works as girlfriend comes into school with a writer for an online women's lifestyle siteblack eye, the sort that tells you claiming he gave it to eat at the cereal café her, her whole world is tipped upside down . Her relationship has just ended and now she's the street (before everyone starts rioting outside), advises you on where to get talk of the best seasonal homewares, reviews getaways from cottages in school. Mike was the Cotswolds to mansions most popular boy in Miami, and throws school who was always so in interviews love with important/influential/IT women for good measure. Genieher, thougheveryone knew that, has a rather niche role. She writes on dating and love so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and being single in the city. But since shesome don's been single a whilet, her editor but one thing is getting fed up with it and sets her a challenge: find a boyfriend by Christmasfor sure, and blog about the processthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405922486</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica SpindlerKatie Fforde|title= The First WifeA Springtime Affair|rating= 4.5

|summary= I should have guessed from their names (''Bailey'' ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and ''Logan'') that this story was set in the States, but initially pretty much exactly what I was too busy identifying with the blurb expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. This provided two romances for the back to notice. 10 year age gap? Check. Magnificent estate? Check. First wife? Check. Even if that doesn't make you feel as if you are reading about your own lifeprice of one, which is of course how but it made me feel, there's a lot to drag you in to this one immediately and I was utterly delighted that my initial eagerness to read this one was sustained actually the family element as opposed to the very last pageromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551929</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela HartB07W4MNBSG|title=The Soldier's WifeBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''...none of it was real, until The only eligible boys were the last moment when his hand, Young Farmers and the tips idea of his fingersliving in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, left the tips of hers or perhaps William and he Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was gonedetermined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers'' ''Turned into Halloween disco that weekend. There was just another soldierone problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.''}}

Ruby and Jimmy are newly-weds full of big dreams and plans for the future, but all of that will have Move on to wait. It is 1915 and the world is in the grip Great War, sweeping Jimmy away to fight battles in far-off Gallipoli. Ruby feels like she's in limbo; no longer an innocent child but not quite a fully-fledged married lady. Not wanting to return home, she decides to stay in Sydney, to keep herself occupied as she waits out [[Features|the war, longing for the return of her beloved husband. She rents a room from a local landlady and finds a job as a bookkeeper at a Timber Merchant. Although she initially takes the job 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 about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240606</amazonuk>}}latest features]]