==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Louise Harwood
|title=Kiss Like You Mean It
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=This book is a modern-day love story. It's all about trendy characters with trendy names living rather trendy lives in glossy location sets. The title gives a very clear message as to its contents. Romantic fiction which will appeal generally to women. But there's also a story within a story (and for me the more interesting one) which is the Hollywood movie being filmed in Europe. It takes us back to the first World War and the heroic actions of one young man, in particular.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330442090</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laurie Graham
But Zach isn't her first-born. First there was Cassie. A child who entered the world screaming and has since learned exactly what power she can wring with such lungs. Not yet two years old, Cassie adores her father, but even him she manipulates. Her mother she terrorises.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Moorcroft
|title=Starting Over
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The story opens when Tess bumps her old reliable car into a breakdown truck. That's rather convenient, since she isn't hurt, and the guy driving it is able to tow her to his garage, and then give her a lift to her new home. Naturally, since this is the 'chick-lit' genre, Tess and the truck-driver, who goes by the unlikely name of Ratty (an abbreviation of his surname) feel mutual antipathy of the sort that's clearly going to lead, sooner or later, to strong attraction.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931224</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stella Whitelaw
|title=Midsummer Madness
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=You'll like Sophie Gresham. She wanted to be an actress but suffers from paralysing stage fright and when the side effects became too much for her she worked behind the scenes. She's a very good prompt despite the fact that you need to wrap up very warmly to survive in the prompt corner she loves her job and most of the cast in the theatre company. It's a bit of a shock though when she realises that the guest producer from New York is Joe Harrison, the man she helped out when he had nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. Sophie was a little softer in those days – in the meantime she's had to develop a protective shell.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089147</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Bohnet
|title=Follow Your Star
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's three years since Nanette Weston left Monaco. She'd been engaged to a Formula 1 racing driver and had lived the life of the wealthy but a serious car accident had ended all that. The accident could have killed her fiancé and she lost her driving licence because of the alcohol she'd consumed. Her slow recovery was hindered by the end of her engagement but she's found some contentment in being a nanny to two young children. When her friend and employer, Vanessa, remarries and takes an extended honeymoon in the Amazon Nanette is asked to take the children back to Monaco where their father lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089090</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Miss Read
|title=Christmas at Thrush Green
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Set in the rural village of Thrush Green, this book is the latest in a series surrounding familiar characters. There is the feisty Ella Bembridge, who is finally having to admit that old age is creeping up as her eyesight fails. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about her, but she refuses to accept any help. Albert Piggott has decided it's time to retire now that his wife, Nelly, is a successful cafe owner and can afford to take care of him! And relative newcomer Phil Hurst and her husband are arranging the local nativity play, despite a number of set-backs. Will everything be in place for Christmas? And will independent Ella make a decision about her future?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maxine Barry
|title=River Deep
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Two young women both have a love of the Thames. Melisande Ray's beloved hotel, the Ray of Sunshine is on the river bank. It's here that guests come who want to be pampered and looked after in the way that only the best hotels can do well, but when Wendell James checks in to the hotel it's not pampering he's looking for. He's buying a piece of land not far from the Ray of Sunshine and he's sussing out the competition. There's something personal in there too – if his new hotel means that the Ray of Sunshine goes under then that would be an added bonus. There's just a slight doubt in his mind when a red-haired maid catches his eye.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leah Fleming
|title=Remembrance Day
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=In the year 2000 an old lady in a wheelchair watches the unveiling of the new war memorial in the village square. There's pride in what has been achieved, in the family who are gathered around her and there are memories too. Some are good but many are not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Abby McDonald
|title=The Popularity Rules
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Baker
|title=Through Rose-Coloured Glasses
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived in one of the poorer parts of Liverpool and whilst there might not have been a lot of money to spare she was happy in her job as an apprentice milliner and spent her free time nursing her mother, Sarah. Her father had been killed in the Great War, but it was the nineteen thirties and the Radcliffes were making the best of things. The son of their next door neighbour was a jockey and it was his free tickets which took Dinah and her friend to a race meeting at Aintree. It was there that she met Richard Haldane, a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet and introduced her to a life of wealth and privilege beyond her wildest dreams. Within weeks they were married - and within hours Dinah discovered that her husband was not the man she thought he was.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carole Matthews
|title=That Loving Feeling
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Have you ever wondered what successful authors write about? Since they no longer partake of the everyday world of work, how do they 'write about what they know' while still sounding fresh and up to the minute? And how do they think up all those unique plots? Well, Carole Matthews has solved the problem in 'That Loving Feeling' by setting the book in a Public Library, cleverly utilising the hours she must have spent promoting her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up and down the country. To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty of interest from library readers and it's a rather nice touch, isn't it, to set a book amongst your loyal fan base.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sharon Griffiths
|title=The Lost Guide to Life and Love
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living in London and hankering for a more glamorous life than the one she has. She has a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers and models. Little does she know at the time but some of the people she only glimpses that night are about to become very important to her. Just after, she agrees to go on a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in the Pennines. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on her own. Surprisingly though, it is relief rather than fear that she experiences, particularly when she realises that where she is staying has very strong links with her family's history and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen who's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quoting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>
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