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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maxine Barry1471180158|title=River DeepMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Two young women both have Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a love control freak with all the subtlety of the Thamesa half brick. Melisande RayJamie's beloved hotelson, the Ray of Sunshine is on the river bankBo, 'has his problems'. ItHe's here that guests come who want to be pampered asthmatic and looked after in the way that only the best hotels can do wellmore you read, but when Wendell James checks in to the hotel itmore you's not pampering ll suspect that he's looking foron the autistic spectrum. HeSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's buying a piece of land not far from frequent flier in the Ray of Sunshine local A&E and hesometimes Bo's sussing out the competitionnot fit enough to go to school. There's something personal Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in there too – if his new hotel means that the Ray of Sunshine goes under then that would be an added bonuswrong. There's just a slight doubt in his mind when It was going to come to a red-haired maid catches his eyehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingLauren Bravo|title=Remembrance DayPreloved

|summary=In Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the year 2000 an old lady in toss - Gwen finds herself having a wheelchair watches the unveiling bit of the new war memorial in the village squarea mid-life crisis. There's pride in what Catharsis is key and Gwen has been achieved, in decided now is the family who are gathered around time to take back her and there are memories too. Some are good but many are not.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Abby McDonald|title=The Popularity Rules|rating=4Then Richard left them.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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BakerHadeer Elsbai|title=Through Rose-Coloured GlassesThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived in one Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the poorer parts lives of Liverpool two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and whilst there might not have been weavers – those with magical abilities - in a lot of money society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to spare she was happy in control her job as an apprentice milliner abilities and spent her free time nursing her mother, Sarah. Her father had been killed in then join the Great Warmilitary, but it was instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the nineteen thirties other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Radcliffes were making the best Daughters of thingsIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. The son of their next door neighbour was a jockey and it was his free tickets which took Dinah and her friend Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a race meeting at Aintree. It was there that she met Richard Haldanestory of an unjust society, a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet filled with hypocrisy and introduced her to cruelty, from which blossoms a life group of wealth admirable women fighting for their rights 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 wasovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Matthews B0B575J99N|title=That Loving FeelingBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.54

|summary=Have you ever wondered what successful authors write about? Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. Since they no longer partake of the everyday world of work, how do they It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd 'write about what they know' while still sounding fresh and up to not found the minute? And how do they think up all those unique plots? Well, Carole Matthews has solved right vocation nor met the problem in right man'That Loving Feeling' by setting and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the book professoressa job in Bologna. After a Public Librarytelephone interview, cleverly utilising the hours she must have spent promoting her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up and down was offered the country. To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty of interest from library readers position and it's a rather nice touch, isnwasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it, to set a book amongst your loyal fan basewent surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Griffiths 0241542405|title=The Lost Guide to Life and LoveMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living in London When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and hankering she's not left her home for a more glamorous life than the one she has1,214 days. She has a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her 'd ''like'' to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers : in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and models. Little does she know at the time but some of the people 's even considered which shoes to wear if she only glimpses that night are about to become very important 's going to catch hertrain. Just after Then, she agrees can't. She simply can't force herself to go on a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in leave the Pennines. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on safety of her ownhome. Surprisingly though, it is relief rather than fear She's fortunate that she experienceshas a good friend, Sadie, particularly when she realises that where she is staying has very strong links who visits regularly with her familytwo children, James and Matilda. Sadie's history a cardiac nurse and that everyone knows full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her Great Granny Allen whocat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's sayings Tillyfrom Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's mother is so fond of quoting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Freda Lightfoot 0008441618|title=House of Angels|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The novel focuses on the Angel family who live in the Lake District in the late 1900s. Josiah Angel is the head of the family and appears to be a respectable business man, bringing up his three daughters after the death of his wife. The family live in a beautiful house and – to outsiders – the daughters seem to have everything – comfort, money, beauty and an easy life, in great contrast to the poverty around them. Not far from Josiah's department store are the workhouse with its brutality and the blocks of slum flats infested with rats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Amy Silver |title=Confessions of a Reluctant RecessionistaSarah Stovell|rating=4.5

|summary=Cassie may 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 'just' a PA and living and working house price slump in one that part of the most expensive cities on town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the planet, but thanks funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to a flair for fashionthe school. There was one difficulty, and a generous banker boyfriend youthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable''d never know it from looking at her. But, in the fickle world of fashion, friendships and fat-cat bonuseswith two members, things can change in an instant. Let go from her job, and from her relationship by her rhymes-with-banker now exparticular, she is forced to fend causing problems for herself and make some cut backs (*shudder*)the head. Forget the Louboutins Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the fancy, toys children could bring in on-fashion belts, the only buckling she'll be doing any time soon is the buckling down to get Toy Day but that was just a new job, reduce her outgoings, and maintain the smidge of selfwarm-respect she has leftup act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543559</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BarrGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Life You WantWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=Many good writers have a signature style and Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for meseventeen years, Emily Barrhas died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules's has always been to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the utterly authentic travel details all rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her books have been peppered wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling withtheir grief and their own life troubles, whether it be the lazy life decide to drop everything in a lush French farmhouse, or the excitement of backpacking across Asia. Her new title is no exceptiontheir own lives, and this time the destination is Indiago along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755335600</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatiana BoncompagniB09FS89KX9|title=Hedge Fund WivesFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Chick lit is about finding a man in order to live happily ever afterLife should have been good for Hollie: not She was just any man, going into the final year of course, but Mr Right himselfher veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. ''Hedge Fund Wives'' is as pink cottonBob -wooly as any selfthe owner -respecting chick lit novel in search of regarded her fondly: he was a herogood boss. But... it also flies Hollie had moved in the face of this convention. In the storywith her boyfriend, marrying money does not secure the fairy tale endingMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. ItHollie wasn's really amazing that Tatiana Boncompagni has managed t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to deliver a rags-control her and most of all he wanted her to-riches happy ending for leave her heroine while roundly denouncing job at the riches along diner. Then there was the wayfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756187X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janette Jenkins 0008421714|title=Angel of BrooklynMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=On The problem began just after the eve publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the Great Warlast 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, Jonathan Crane arrives home to Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the unyielding grey of his home town of Anglezarkebread, Lancashire with ''but isn't this the first time he's based a beautiful new bride character on his armyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Beatrice is Perhaps this would not immediately warmly received into have mattered, except for the embrace of fact that Johanna is the women whore of this alien place Nantes - her beauty is captivating and the stories about where she grew up''a weak, plain, detestable, enchanting; Jonathan Crane's new foreign wife is not ordinary among these folk and they are suspicious of her and as sometimes only grittypathetic, British women know howunloved, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward herunloveable wretch. Who is this stunning creature that is trying to infiltrate their lives?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Santa Montefiore1473685745|title=The Italian MatchmakerUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Luca, a halfWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange -Italianwell, rich banker has been through a painful divorce Simon was angry and has decided Beth was doing her best to take stock of apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his lifebike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He decides to leave the City behind andhas HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, at the suggestion left side of a friend (his heart hadn't developed properly and, inevitably, exhe needed open-lover) heart surgery when he decides to take off for the summer to visit his parents who have, fortuitously, recently renovated an was a few days old palazzo in (the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on the Amalfi coast. Here So, his parents live with a rich assortment of eccentric friends in residence, including a pet pigSimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340840544</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Harrison C J Carey|title=The Secret Shopper UnwrappedWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Glamourous Grazia, sassy Sandie and enthusiastic Emily first got together in HarrisonIt's earlier titleApril 1953, 'The Secret Shopperand Adolf Hitler's Revenge'. Now they're back but this time there are many more hassles schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to deal with than just London, parading around a bit , and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of simpleEdward VIII with his wife, secret shoppingQueen Wallis. Think toy boys and sugar daddies For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the odd Amainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-listerstyled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefullycaste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, reformed criminals and criminal exesbeyond those, long lost mothers and potential new mothers in law (in right on down to the same room! At childless, the same time!) husbandless and the delight or dread that comes from finding yourself unexpectedly widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in the family way. Combine all these factors this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the run up task of bowdlerising classical literature to Christmas take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and you have three good friends run off their feet in not every direction butstory excised immediately from British civilisation, because friendship and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is really all that mattersher job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, resolutely there for each other in a pinchwith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarra Manning Ruth Hogan|title=UnstickyMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Low paid but with big dreams, talented fashionista Grace is This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the process of being dumped by early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy whom she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enough(as he would have been called then), he's doing it on her birthdaya girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and if even chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''that'sTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' not bad enough, he's doing it in Libertyto use her family'ssea-front booth. Right by The singer, the scryer and the new season Marc Jacobs bags. Itsufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just wrongbefore then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. And yet We also see her on her last day, as one door closesfifty years later, another opens right next to itin possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. And this one Just who is biggershe, older and a lot more expensive. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace as who delivered the tears begin secrets about her to fallImelda, whisking her off and why did it have to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cake. There are worse things I can think of, that's for sure.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'FlanaganJennifer Saint |title=The Perfect ManAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I've read many This re-telling of the myth of Sheila O'Flanagan's books Ariadne and have always found them light enjoyable reads with the Minotaur is interesting storylines and likeable charactersunusual. This Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is what I was expecting from ''The Perfect Man'', and I wasn't at all disappointedsympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience.  Unlike most of O'FlanaganSaint's books, this one narrative is not set in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship in told predominantly through the Caribbean. Britt McDonaghviewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the successful author of reader to really connect with Ariadne as a novel also entitled ''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present character in her own right rather than just a series prop in the heroics of talks and workshops about successful romantic writingTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg Wolitzer Lucy Holland|title=The PositionSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wifeSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, Rozfor most of us, seemingly like no other man has ever loved are a woman – his idolatry is boundlesscornerstone 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, bordering on theatrical and yet fleshing out of this worshipcharacters, Paul has examining relationships and re-evaluating the germ role of an ideawomen. Who would not want to know Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the ways in which it plot is possible handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? How could everyone not want come to seelife, to ''share'' feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the artistic renderings pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of this act of love?storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Monica Carly B08NF79QXT|title=Fraser's LineCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=When Edie died Fraser was devastated. TheyThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she'd been married s nominated for thirty one years - and he'd been devoted to herwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Nothing had been too much trouble She's delighted and hethe two people she'd been quite prepared to watch s brought with her flirt with other men, to shine in any companythe event couldn't be more pleased. He wasSonja, after allher mother, the man she went home withis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Her death had come suddenly Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and weeks later he was still in a state of shockLiberty adores Jessica's husband, but he knew that he would have to sort out her affairs Charles and he enlisted the help of a casual acquaintance to support himtheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. He was Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in for some painful shocksher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438960069</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy DillonB08GFSK2WZ|title=Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lucy Dillon's previous novel, [[The Ballroom Class by Lucy Dillon|The Ballroom Class]], featured three couples whose individual stories end up muddled when they start the same dancing lessons. In ''Lost dogs and Lonely Hearts'' we have three very different families whose lives end up intertwined when they suddenly become involved with the local rescue kennels. Sound familiar? While the premise for the two is similar, the stories share only one common theme: they're both great reads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919205</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Louise Candlish |title=Before We Say Goodbye|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Olivia suffered a great deal in her childhood and teenage years. Her mother Maggie would disappear, often for months at a time, leaving Olivia and her brother disorientated, upset and - eventually - very angry. But when her mother lies dying, there's a big question Olivia wants to ask. Did her mother deliberately keep her away from Richie, the young man she fell in love with when she was sixteen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751540382</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lorraine Jenkin |title=Eating Blackbirds|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary='Delightful', 'unsophisticated' and 'funny' tags jump to mind for ''Eating Blackbirds'', one of several books published this year, aimed at the women's mainstream market from Welsh publishers Honno. I read it in a couple of sittings, not wanting to put it down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190678406X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Elliott |title=The Prodigal Sister|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sisters Rebecca, Julie and Lauren are travelling from Ireland to attend their younger sister's wedding in New Zealand. This is unlikely to be just any family reunion though as no one had heard from Cathy since she fled from their home fifteen years ago. There are many unresolved issues but Cathy has invited them all with the hope that they can achieve some closure and hopefully move on with their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561470</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ellie Campbell |title=When Good Friends Go BadLisette Boyd

|summary=A famous designerGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, a cleanlinessabsolutely gorgeous to look at -obsessed stay at home mum and a slightly kooky Yank who talks to angels might single. She's not be three people youhad sex for eight months and she'd pick to be friends s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a normal story, but these women havenreal talent for attracting drama. Her life't met now, as pushings chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water -40 year olds. No, they were good friends, great friends even, all then the shower fell through high school, the roof whilst she was in it and though life has evidently taken then in different directionsleft her, you can understand how something like surviving their teen years together would form an everlasting bond. Except it didn'tstark naked, reallystaring at the pervy postman. They She only has to take her mother've barely talked in years, s dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and even a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the reunion organised ten years ago went wrongoffice. So how is it that they've ended up back in each others' lives? What's happened? Why now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519992</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Melissa Hill |title=Before I Forget|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=At the start of the book, Abby's partner of four years has just left her and, in dealing with her misery, she is becoming a bit of a workaholic and a social recluse. One morning, on her way to work she becomes the victim of a freak accident and suffers a brain injury that is going to affect her long term memory. Faced with the prospect of forgetting all that she holds dear, Abby re-evaluates the way she has been living and makes a list of all the memorable experiences she hopes to create. She also sets about capturing all the memories in a 'memory chest' on her computer so that she will be able to remember all the wonderful experiences. Suddenly she is enjoying life a lot more especially when she meets the handsome and thoughtful Finn. Unexpectedly, Abby's life has never looked better except, of course, for the fact that she keeps forgetting things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340952997</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsey Kelk B08CHJLNBS|title=I Heart New York|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Holed up in a New York hotel room, Angela is getting a New York make over from her NY NBF, Jenny. And how, we ask ourselves, did our heroine end up in The City That Never Sleeps? Well, if you had caught your boyfriend of ten years having sex with a skinny (grrr!) blonde on the back seat of your car (where the car seats of your future children were supposed to go), during the wedding reception of your best friends, and that everyone – including your best friends - apart from you had known what he had been up to for some considerable time, you may very well have kicked off your Louboutins, hitched up your bridesmaids dress and headed for the nearest airport too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007288387</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Jaishree Misra |title=Secrets and LiesBrooke Adams

|summary=Four girls became friendly He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at school in DelhiWickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. Fifteen years later three of them are in LondonShe's Emilia, twenty-nine, but Zeba is still librarian and archivist in Indiathe heritage library next door. She was a promising actress (on and off the stage) at school Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but in 2008 she's the reigning queen of Bollywood. Let no one say moved on from new age books like that she hasn, which leave you dependent on someone else't earned her position; some of those producers can be quite demanding – on and off the stages philosophies, to something a little deeper. Back in London Bubbles Charles is the wife more of a millionaire Indian businessman[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. It was an arranged marriage and although 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 never been close Bubbles isn't too unhappyobvious to his friends. Sam is the trophy wife and her marriage seems to have ground to a haltAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, whilst Anita, always the brainiest of the group, seems why does she feel drawn to have difficulty in keeping him? The relationship's obviously a relationship going. There was another girl who had an influence on the girlsnon-starter, but they hated Lily Disn'Souza – and then she died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561683</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margot BerwinHelly Acton|title=Hot House FlowerThe Shelf|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Themed fictionWhen we meet Amy, where there is she's in a clear obsession relationship with a specific topic Jamie. You can be 't really call it a bit hit or misspartnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but in the past I have enjoyed ones that focus on [[Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack|books]] and [[Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn|shoes]] and especially [[The Food of Love by Anthony Capella|food]]she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. The key in my mind has always Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to write about something other people obsess over, establishing an immediate bond between reader and writerpack for a surprise trip. This title falls into Could this category but with a rather unusual and specific fixation: tropical plants. I know little about these, and have never really wanted to change that fact, but though I didnbe it? Is he ''finally't share the author's fascination initially, by going to get down on one knee? Was the end of work (and the book I was hooked.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091926122</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Chika Unigwe|title=On Black SistersWhen Mike Parker' Street|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Sisis girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, Amaclaiming he gave it to her, Efe her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and Joyce are prostitutes, working in Antwerpnow she's red-light districtthe talk of the school. They arrived Mike was the most popular boy in Belgium through the auspices of Deleschool who was always so in love with her, a graspingeveryone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don''talent-spotting'' Lagos pimpt, who arranges illegal entry into Europe but one thing is for young women in return for a large percentage of their earnings for many yearssure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224085301</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Penny Jordan Katie Fforde|title=SinsA Springtime Affair|rating=24|genre=Women's Fiction |summary=I''Sins'' is set in the 1950s ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and follows the turbulent love lives of four girls — Emeraldthis was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, Rosecosy read focused on romance, Janey family and Ellafriendships. Scheming Emerald is determined to bag herself a royal husband, outsider Rose just wants to fit in, wild child Janey puts her heart and soul into becoming the next Mary Quant, and sensible Ella concentrates on avoiding This provided two romances for the mistakes price of her parents. As the years passone, but it was actually the girls reach for their dreams and come family element as opposed to terms with issues the romance that have haunted them from childhoodI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847560741</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Willig B07W4MNBSG|title=The Secret History of the Pink Carnation|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I used to have months when I would gorge on chick lit before I got married. I lived in London and would wile away the tedium of the tube by escaping into easy, comforting reads of twenty-somethings who worried about shoes and shopping and men. It was reassuring to know that the girl, albeit after a series of highs and lows, would ultimately get the guy. I'm a different kind of person now, a stay at home mum more likely to be found playing in the park than shoe-shopping in London, and so it's been a while since I've felt like picking up a chick lit book. Something about this one intrigued me though. From the back cover blurb it's hard to tell if it's a historical novel, or contemporary chick lit, or perhaps some kind of mystery. I have a feeling that if you come to it with any particular expectations of it fulfilling one of these genres you might be disappointed. But if you see it as a fun, exciting, genre-less read then, hopefully, you won't be able to put it down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007613</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Meg Wolitzer|title=The Wife|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The fact that Joan Castleman is the wife of one of the 20th Century's most lauded and acclaimed authors has not escaped her notice and certainly there are people a-plenty to remind her how amazing her entire existence must surely be. The role of the supportive significant other is a part that Joan has played for almost her entire life, watching her husband Joe's steady rise to the top of his professional tree, whilst suppressing her own career aspirations and talents to be the silent stanchion of her marriage, in every conceivable way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099478196</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Wooldridge |title=The Hidden Dance|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It is 1933, and the SS Etoile has just left Southampton harbour en route for New York. On board is Lily Sutton, a timid, disturbed woman whose posh accent seems unsuited to her situation of travelling in steerage. Through a series of flashbacks to various years in Lily's life we learn why she is so frightened and what has brought her to make this secretive journey to New York. As well as learning about her romantic aspirations through the story we also see her stumble into a difficult situation on board ship that lends a crime mystery feel to the latter half of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007419</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Wolitzer |title=The Ten-year Nap|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Amy couldn't remember the last time her husband Leo had gotten terribly excited by her. Jill could not understand why she did not really feel like much of a mother to her adopted daughter, Nadia. It had been four years, but still the quiet little girl that she and her husband, Donald, had 'rescued' from a Siberian orphanage seemed like a stranger to her. Roberta didn't seem to know how she had come to give up on her dream to be an artist, but somehow amidst her marriage, the children's craft projects and the part time work as a puppeteer, it had simply faded away until she could barely remember what it was like to hold a brush in her hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523485</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Fforde |title=Love Letters|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Love Letters is one of those enjoyable and satisfying reads that is so perfect for these hot lazy summer days. It's gentle pace and intriguing characters draw you in as you want to find out what happens next. What's more, the storyline is based around a literary festival which makes fascinating reading for any book lover like me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846054478</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Elmor |title=Pictures of YouLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction |summary=This is the story of Luna, who is an artist. It's also the story of Angie, her mother, was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and - to a lesser degree group of sixth- itform schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you's about Natre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, a teenage single mother in horrendous circumstances. It begins when Luna and Angie attend the funeral of Lunabut Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''s long-estranged father in 2003. Or rather, The only eligible boys were the story actually begins when Luna Young Farmers and her boyfriend Pierre are making love the idea of living in a cupboard under the stairs just after the funeral. And the book itself starts with farmhouse and having a prologue, set six years later, when an unnamed man (with wife and two couple of children in tow) spots an unnamed woman in an art gallery, called Will and thinks back Olly appealed to a lifetime of loving her. Confused? YesCharlotte, I or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was toodetermined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. And not at all sure what The place to expect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230014569</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Dana|title=Beachcombing|rating=4|genre=Womenstart their search was obviously the Young Farmers's Fiction |summary=You'll like Jill HunterHalloween disco that weekend. She's smart, independent and likes to have fun. Her business is There was just one that she's built up from scratch and she's brought up two sons on her own since her divorce problem - there were too many years ago and to her credit they're both splendid young men. Money's a little tight but she's managed to restore a dilapidated beach cottage Elizabeths in Connecticut where it sits amongst some rather more expensive neighboursthe class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742688</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Eloisa James |title=Duchess by Night|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=In this third instalment of the ''Desperate Duchesses'' series the focus is Move on Harriet, the Duchess of Berrow. A widow of two years, Harriet manages her vast estate, makes judgements in the local court (where the judge is only a drunken figurehead) and is generally settled into her life. But she feels unattractive, old and boring; ready to find another husband but doesn't attract too many dancers, never mind suitors, when she turns up at a costume ball dressed as a dumpy Mother Goose (complete with a stuffed bird). When her friend sets off on a visit to a permanent house party at a residence of a certain very disreputable Lord Strange (in order to create a scandal and entice a husband she never met back to [[Features|the country), Harriet decides to go with her, but worried about the debauchery, she goes as a young man, a nephew of Duke Villiers who also accompanies the ladies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961082</amazonuk>}}latest features]]