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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pam Jenoff1471180158|title=The Orphan's TaleMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes

|summary=Herr NeuroffJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's circus has a secret: as well as control freak with all the subtlety of a much needed wartime source of entertainment, ithalf brick. Jamie's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates. One such personson, AstridBo, a trapeze and high wire artist, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly act'has his problems'. SheHe's an expert who has perfected her art over time asthmatic and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noathe more you read, a non-circus family new comer, quicklythe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. ThereSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a reason behind frequent flier in the circus ownerlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's demand thoughnot fit enough to go to school. Noa arrives at Missed shifts or the circus endangered by an act of kindness: a Jewish baby she stole need to be away on time to pick Bo up from a Nazi train before leaving school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the Netherlandswrong. It was a spur of the moment decision that will bind her going to come to Astrid and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may behead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda RobertsLauren Bravo|title=The Roots of the TreePreloved

|summary=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can see, not from the trunk, the branches love affair between Margo Garnett and the leaves, but from what you canpoet Richard O't see Leary was all- the rootsconsuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Disturbance to the roots can be devastatingRichard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. ItHer parents worried that Richard's similar in human beingsinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. Annie had lived for 63 yearsIn the event, secure in they eloped and Richard took her away from the love Isle of her parents, Elsie and FrankWight. She'd looked after them in her home in their final years Margo did go to Oxford and it was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effectswent on to become a well-respected journalist. They The couple had not been married until ''after'' her birththree children: Rachel, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father Imogen and that her mother Sasha. Life was married to himlived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: Even then the man shedoubts about Richard'd loved as her father all those years s drinking were never far from Margo's mind: 'wasn'tshe would never be able to leave him in charge'' her father after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909716863</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marilyn BennettHadeer Elsbai|title=Granny with BenefitsThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age for a womanDrawing inspiration from Egypt, particularly if she's 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not married. Has she given up on be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the idea rights of having women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a family? Does her career mean everything society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to her? On attend the other hand is she desperately looking for a man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought of him). She'd volunteered Weaving Academy to learn to sort out control her late grandmother's homeabilities and then join the military, but instead she couldn't resist is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the opportunity other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to do a little dressing up. So, wearing provide for her grandmother's clothesfamily and maintain their reputation, wig resting just above her eyebrows and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on the end whilst secretly attending meetings of her nose she met the man Daughters of her dreamsIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. OnlyWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, rather than laughing filled with hypocrisy and explaining what she'd been doingcruelty, Grace carried on the pantomime - from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and called herself Louiseovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898736</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB0B575J99N|title=The Summer Seaside KitchenBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary= Colgan has Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a diverse portfolio of chick lit (and she also writes Dr Who novels) under her belt but starting with [[Meet me teacher at the Cupcake Café]] a prestigious girl's school in 2011, she has established herself as one of the queens of the chick-lit subgenre of York. It was ''comfortable'comedy romance with food'but she longed for something more in life. She'd ', 'still not found the right vocation nor met the Queen of Hearts right man'' and now was the queen of fruit tarts, time to an obvious benefit of her popularity and presumably her bank balance and to the sound of satisfied ahhhhs and mmmms from her growing fanbasemake a change. She needed challenges. As you can see I do miss the Old Jenny There was a little bit, trepidation when she applied for the brasher and swearier characters and the much more cutting humour. Butprofessoressa job in Bologna. There is something to be said for After a well written feelgood novel and I did enjoy the sweetshop, the cafételephone interview, she was offered the bakery position and now the it wasn''Summer Seaside Kitchen'' which has all t long before she was exploring the tried, tested and beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well loved ingredients of a perfectly escapist, mostly but not totally predictable chick-lit romance with a foodie angle that Jenny Colgan has made something of her house special. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075156480X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Bell0241542405|title=The Good Girlfriend's Guide to Getting EvenMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= We begin the story with Lexi 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 on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her boyfriendtrain. Lexi is one Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of those women, who her home. She's fortunate that she has a begrudging relationship with her mothergood friend, Sadie, who is constantly pestering to get visits regularly with her down the aisletwo children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a father who has a spine missing cardiac nurse and a boyfriend full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who leaves gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as a sports widowJIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. The more I talk to my female friends about this, the luckier I realise I am to not have Then Tom McDermott arrives. A partner who is entirely uninterested in sport but does fixate on Star Trek He's from Holding Hands, Star Wars and anything else that revolves around space and gunsa charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760394</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dawn O'Porter0008441618|title= The CowsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 3.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= Reading Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the blurb for this novel, 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 first novel for adults by author Dawn O'Porter, I got very excitedtown. It talks about The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the cow being funds which they raised were a piece of meat, born considerable benefit to breed, the school. There was one of the herd, and compares this to womendifficulty, saying how though - they donwere ''devastatingly shockable''t have to fall into a stereotype, with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. I expected a slightly subversive novel about feminism. What I found was an easy Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to read, enjoyable romp through three modern womenJo's livesrestrictions 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>0008126038</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toni JordanGiovanna Fletcher|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsWalking on Sunshine|rating=54

|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and HenryMike's wedding daywife, their marriage is overPia, albeit 15 who he was with for seventeen years and two daughters further along than predicted, has died. IndeedAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's houseso are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girlsBut Pia left them all some ' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then thererules's to follow, knowing that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted she was dying and over her ex-husband Alecthat they would need help to carry on living. She still dreams Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages himto take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, yesstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy HoldenB09FS89KX9|title= Honeymoon SuiteFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary= This is an excellent read, weaving together many stories. We Life should have Nell who, yes, is left been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at the altar after a whirlwind romance. ItBB's horrible and horrifying and she is, understandably, distraughtdiner. Her last modicum of self Bob - the owner -respect vanishes when she rings to cancel regarded her honeymoon, only to find it non-refundablefondly: he was a good boss. And so, Hollie had moved in a rare show of gumptionwith her boyfriend, she decides to go anyway, taking along Marcus: her friend Rachel mother thought he was great and Rachel's daughter Juno for the ride. At the same time, bestselling novelist Dylan is having romantic woes of he was doing well in his owncareer. An almighty fire has chased him out Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of town and all he needs wanted her to disappear, leave her job at least for a bit. As luck, and artistic license, would have it, the two end up in the same placediner. But this is not Then there was the first time they have crossed pathsfact that he would be violent, both to her and they are both in for an almighty shockto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755385357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rosie Blake0008421714|title=How to Get a Love LifeMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Nicola is The problem began just after the sort publication of girl who knows whatGeorge March's for dinner based most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on what day of the week last page) seemed to either be reading it isor had already done so. Meticulously tidy Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she employs was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a cleaner as well just to make doubly sure nothing is out of place. And character on you can set your watch by ?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the time she eats principal character had 'her daily treat of a Mini Rollmannerisms''. Not all of Perhaps this is bad. I believe in scheduled relaxation, and felt my heart skip a beat when, on the first day of my honeymoonwould not have mattered, we received a schedule with our activities except for the week. But the point is, Nicola fact that Johanna is at the far end whore of the spectrumNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, and she certainly does not seem the kind to have a messyunloved, chaotic love lifeunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398643</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadiya Hussain1473685745|title=The Secret Lives of the Amir SistersUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=The Amirs are dysfunctional: thereWhen 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 really no other way Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of putting ityou who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. TheyWhen he was born, the left side of his heart hadn're of Bangladeshi origin 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'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 state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the only Muslim family in sanctioned return to the small village throne of WyvernageEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. On For yes, Britain caved in the surface they look lead-up to be happythe World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, but actually each we share enough of the sisters is struggling in her own waysame blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. For 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 most part they're doing it quietlychildless, but it's not always the casehusbandless and the widows. The eldest Female literacy is Fatimaactively discouraged. Her name's often abbreviated And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to Fatti: take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it's – after all, not every book can be banned, and not meant unkindlyevery story excised immediately from British civilisation, but she's well upholstered and at thirty sheso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they's unmarriedre stamped ready for reprint. Even That is her mother doesn't seem job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to think that therespoil Hitler's much point in trying to find a husband for hervisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008192251</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chrissie ManbyRuth Hogan|title= A Fairy Tale For ChristmasMadame Burova|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= Kirsty meets Jon while working This book lets us discover several people in different stages of 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 become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer on , the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a cruise shiprevamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. He is the impressive Director of Entertainment We also see her on boardher last day, and they fall into fifty years later, in possession of a relationship which Kirsty hopes pair of letters that will grow change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and develop into something special. When Jon announces he wants to return to England who delivered the secrets about her to his West Country seaside homeImelda, Kirsty is faced with a difficult decision: whether and why did it have to follow him and cement their flourishing relationship or pursue her own career with remain a Cruise Line contract in the Caribbean.secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473639743</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diane AllenJennifer Saint |title= The Mistress of Windfell ManorAriadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Charlotte Booth is This re-telling of the beautiful daughter myth of a successful wool farmer Ariadne and like any young Victorian woman, she looks forward to the day she can be married Minotaur is interesting and have unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a family of her ownway that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Her childhood sweetheart Archie has a place in CharlotteSaint's heartnarrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, but he cannot provide spanning from her childhood to her with death, allowing the life she desires, so when wealthy mill owner Joseph Dawson comes reader to town Charlotte sees really connect with Ariadne as a character in her luck begin to change. After own right rather than just a brief courtship, Charlotte and Joseph marry and move prop in to the illustrious Windfell Manor, but things soon turn sour when one heroics of Joseph's mill workers is found dead and Charlotte starts to suspect that Joseph isn't the man she first thought he wasTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287312</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wray DelaneyLucy Holland|title=An Almond for a ParrotSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained Sistersong is part of a step-mother that her education really started. That was genre I particularly enjoy, the beginning modern retelling of the road to discoveryfolk and fairy tales. The discovery that she can realise ghosts These stories, for othersmost 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 she can escape are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the cruelty role of an alcoholic father and the discovery women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the income and pleasure her body can generate. Thatplot is handled with care, in turnkeeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel feel real andhuman, now, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the condemned cell pre-Saxon age they live in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for This is a Parrot'' masterpiece of storytelling and allows us I was captivated from beginning to read over her shoulderend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nancy RevellB08NF79QXT|title=The Shipyard GirlsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=1940 and the workload of ThompsonsThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Tyneside shipyardCherry Blossom Boutique, increases so much they do the unthinkable: employ women to perform for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the roles traditionally taken by menRetail Best Newcomer Award. ItShe's delighted and the bravest as well as two people she's brought with her to the strongest women who accept the challenge andevent couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, under the expert tuition of Rosieher mother, begin to take their places beside their male counterpartsis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. ItJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's not an easy ride for any of them. In fact, as best friend: they band together, there've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's one particular group that will face dangers in husband, Charles and their daily lives as real four- and more imminent year- than any encountered on the slipwayold daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784754633</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa DickensonB08GFSK2WZ|title= Mistletoe on 34th Street|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= It's December, and Olivia is off to New York. Sadly it's not for the Christmas of a lifetime, or even a pre-holiday shopping weekend. She's going for work, in fact she's leading a team of colleagues, so it's far from a relaxing trip. Luckily she'll be home in time for the big day itself, and then she'll really be able to relax. Except, in a comedy of errors such as this, things don't exactly go to plan. Fierce weather grounds flights and shatters dreams, and new Christmas plans come into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751563099</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Karma Trap|author=Fionnuala Kearney|title=The Day I Lost YouLisette Boyd|rating=4.5

|summary=Anna George Jackson is missing; a difficult truth for her mother Jess to absorb. Anna went skithirty-ing with friendsthree years old, leaving Jess absolutely gorgeous to look after Annaat - and single. She's daughter, Jessnot had sex for eight months and she' granddaughter. Little Rose s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is now being visited on her and she has a comforting presence real talent for Jess as attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she thinks about Annadealt 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, piecing together stark naked, staring at the person and life that Jess thought she knew aboutpervy postman. However, Anna She only has secrets, at least one of which will have repercussions… to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and not just for Jessa photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007593996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney CosteloeB08CHJLNBS|title=The Sisters of St CroixCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasnHe't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt in a French convent s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a father who died in WWI rather than Richard - her motherpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's husband Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the man who raised herheritage library next door. Adeline decides Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to go to France for something a short holiday in order to learn little deeper. Charles is more from her aunt of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that her family knew as Sarah HuntEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. Both Sarah and Adelaide part, hoping that they will see each other again soon and they willThey're obviously not at all compatible, but in circumstances that neither so why can Charles not get this woman out of them envisagedhis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. As the Second World War begins and Germany captures FranceAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, therewhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's danger ahead for each of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Melissa PimentelHelly Acton|title= The One That Got AwayShelf

|summary= When you're Americanwe meet Amy, and planning a wedding, you want that wedding to be in a proper, English castle. Of course you do. It's the only thing that matters. Itshe's far more important than the hassle of shipping in your whole family from the States, forcing your sister to spend a week in a foreign country relationship with her ex or anything elseJamie. This is the situation Ruby finds herself in. Her exYou can't really call it a partnership, Ethanbecause things tend to get done on his terms, is the best man and but she's Maid of Honoursticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. It canHaven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be avoided. And it? Is he ''finally''s going to be a disaster.get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405923733</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vanessa GreeneAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The Little Pieces What Kind of You and MeGirl

|summary= Sometimes '' Doing something when you know exactly what 're scared is braver than doing something when you want in life're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, can list claiming he gave it all quite easilyto her, her whole world is tipped upside down. At Her relationship has just ended and now she's the end talk of their first year of unithe school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, Isla so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and Sophie make lists. Just some don't, but one list eachthing is for sure, but with a number of items on. Things they want this isn't going to accomplish in their lives. Lofty goals and easier winsblow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751563765</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Penelope JacobsKatie Fforde|title= Playing FTSEA Springtime Affair|rating= 4.5

|summary= Melanie is something of a I''wunderkind'', a graduate at an investment bank with brains ve wanted to match her body. In read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a male dominated environment she's finding that one gets in the way of the otherwarm, cosy read focused on romance, but she's a smart girl family and can learn to play this to her advantagefriendships. With her friend Jenny keen to lead her astray, Mel must learn This provided two romances for the give and take price of life in one, but it was actually the City, and how far family element as opposed to push the limits to get aheadromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781324611</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan TitchmarshB07W4MNBSG|title=Mr Gandy's Grand Tour|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Timothy Gandy lost his wife unexpectedly. One minute she was reaching up for the perfect serve and the next she was lying dead of a massive heart attack on the tennis court. It hadn't been the perfect marriage: the two had little in common, but Tim had stayed with his wife firstly for the sake of the children, then eventually for Isobel's sake and eventually because he realised that he would feel guilty if he left her. After the shock of her death came the realisation that he was 55, retired and could now do what he liked. And that was where the idea of the grand tour came from. He was going to take a leisurely trip around the cultural sights of western Europe and indulge himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340953071</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Georgia Clark|title= The Regulars|rating= 5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= If offered the chance to immensely upgrade your beauty, to become the very definition of gorgeous, to have a face and body the likes of which are only ever seen on magazine covers and catwalks, would you take it? This is the question posed to best friends Evie, Krista and Willow, when they are presented with ''Pretty'', an enchanted solution of which a single drop guarantees a stunning physical appearance for a week. Before the ''Pretty'', the girls had regular faces, faced regular problems, and found themselves regularly disappointed by the dating world. But this bottle has the potential to change everything. The adventure that ensues takes all three young women on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery as dreams are fulfilled, hearts are broken, and the addiction to such a lifestyle proves to be far more sinister than they ever imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160181</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author= Talulah Riley|title= Acts of LoveLizzy Mumfrey|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction |summary= Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. She is strong, career-driven, beautiful…and definitely holds the attention of the public. For Bernadette is the ''Man Whisperer'', winning herself fame with her ability to coax secrets from the richest and most powerful men of the world, exposing them with controversial distaste in her articles. Hidden behind such a conniving and judgemental persona, however, is a deep insecurity, and a desperate longing to be loved by the perfect man. She has already decided that the newly engaged Tim Bazier is the only candidate for such a position in her heart, and will stop at nothing to win him back from his all-too-lovely fiancé. Yet what is perfect is a subject for discussion, and charismatic entrepreneur Radley Blake's unwavering attention has also fallen upon the feisty journalist. It is a weaving tale of ''will-they-wont-they'' that Riley spins here, one that I found myself unable to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473637902</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julie Cohen|title=Falling|rating=5

|summary=Here is the story of three women, from three generations within the same family. There is Jo, a forty year old single mother whose first husband died, It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and whose second husband ran off with their nanny. She is left caring for her older teenage daughter, Lydia, and her two little ones, Oscar and Iris, whilst harbouring a secret that she feels she cannot share with anyonegroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Her daughter Lydia is the second female character, and as well as the usual teenage angst she is also dealing with grief, still, over her fatherWhen you's deathre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, anger with her mother for her second disastrous marriage, and her own very difficult secret but Liz was convinced that she is unable to talk to anyone about. Finally there's Honor 'your entire life depends on who is Joyou marry's mother in law, the mother of Jo's first husband, Stephen. Honor has a fall, breaks her hip, and is forced to move in with Jo for a time as she has no one else who can help her. She too is hiding a secret from The only eligible boys were the world, Young Farmers and as you read the story you begin to wonder if any of these characters actually know who the others are, and if any idea of them will ever start telling the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160636</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lisa Jewell|title= I Found You|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= A man is missing, and his new wife is worried. Miles away, living in a man is found alone farmhouse and confused on having a beach, couple of children called Will and his new friend is concerned. Are the two in any way connected and what events have occurredOlly appealed to Charlotte, in the past or perhaps William and in the present, Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to lead us all here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893612</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rhona Martin|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against marry the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's times|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hazel, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century has had a tough time to say the leastrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Therefore when she comes across Black John, an outlaw about The place to be hanged she sees her chance. By proposing to him shestart their search was obviously the Young Farmers'll save his life and, marrying him, her ownHalloween disco that weekend. At least that's Hazel's theory but There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the fates will make it a bit more of a struggleclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>