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|summary=''The Message'' Gwen is very much a twenty first century tale as it all hinges pressing her middle-aged bosom on a voicemail message made from big number that starts with a mobile phonefour and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. It is also based on Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the fact that it is very easy to send toss - Gwen finds herself having a message to one person when it is actually meant for someone else. This is what happens to Jen when she receives bit of a message from her husband Robertmid-life crisis. There Catharsis is nothing particularly special about this message; that key and Gwen has decided now is until Jen realises that she is not the intended recipient and then it has a shattering effect on time to take back her marriage.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755343018</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Pearlman0008506337|title=The Cookie ClubGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Chocolate bonbons with 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 almond glazeolder man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. Peanut butter cookies double dipped in chocolate In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Coffee Margo did go to Oxford and raisin hermit biscuitswent on to become a well-respected journalist. Crisp vanilla fingers with toasted almonds The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Thin crunchy crisps flavoured with molasses Life was lived in London and gingerholidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.

If you're even the slightest bit peckish after that, I guarantee you'll be starving by the time you finish this wonderful book full of festive flavourThen Richard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847376843</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eloisa JamesHadeer Elsbai|title=When the Duke ReturnsThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''When the Duke ReturnsThe Daughters of Izdihar''explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the newest volume rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the 'Desperate Duchesses' seriesupper class, continues wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the regency celebrity romp saga where [[Duchess by Night by Eloisa James|Duchess by Night]] left off. The focus, this timemilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on Isidore, the Duchess of Conway: hot-headed, hot-blooded other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and Italian feels great pressure to bootprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, she was married by proxy at whilst secretly attending meetings of the age Daughters of sixteen and is still Izdihar – a virgin seven years later. Isidoregroup campaigning for women's cunning plot rights. Giorgina also happens to entice back the husband she has never seen from his travels be in Asia and Africa works perfectly and Simeon, His Grace Duke love with Nico. What follows is a story of Conway is now back in Englandan unjust society, ready to claim his estate filled with hypocrisy andcruelty, as Isidore presumes, ready to claim his beautiful wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961104</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nia Pritchard |title=More Than Just A Wedding|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=If you like novels in from which little happens as the story strolls towards its happy ending, then Nia Pritchard's sequel to 'More Than Just blossoms a Hairdresser' may suit you. If the Liverpudlian vernacular and setting pushes your buttons, then maybe you'll enjoy its light-hearted picture group of Scouse life. My mother-in-law will probably love it. I'm sorry to say that it wasn't my cup of tea at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Porter |title=Sicilian Sunset|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah Livingstone's jewellery business was struggling but she was still annoyed when her father called James Ross admirable women fighting for help. Sarah their rights and James had had a relationship some ten years earlier and Sarah really didn't want to work with him, particularly after her marriage. Most people thought that her husband's death in a plane crash had been the cruel end to a good marriage. Only a few knew that he had been about to leave her to live with another woman. It's left Sarah very reluctant to get involved with any manovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089430</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret ThorntonB0B575J99N|title=Until We Meet AgainBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=In the fateful summer of 1914 Tilly Moon is settled in the midst of the Moon family Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in ScarboroughYork. Itwas 's an extensive clan with the usual close relationships, unusual situations and slight distances between people for no apparent reason. Tilly's an accomplished pianist and she longs to take her music studies further, but therecomfortable's someone who's coming to mean but she longed for something more to her than her musicin life. Her twinShe's best friend, Dominic Fraser is d ''still not found the right vocation nor met the apple of her eye right man'' and he feels now was the same way about hertime to make a change. She needed challenges. There are war clouds on the horizon though and was a little trepidation when Britain declares war on Germany Tommy and Dominic are quick to enlist as were many of she applied for the men professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and around it wasn't long before she was exploring the Moon familybeautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007486</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liza Palmer0241542405|title=A Field Guide to Burying Your ParentsMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Grace is reluctantly participating in a 5k race when When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she receives the news: 's not left her estranged sister is calling to tell her their estranged father has had a strokehome for 1,214 days. That She'd ''like''s two lots of estrangement to: in just two generations of family, but a summons is a summonsfact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and Grace soon finds herself dragged back into the heart of the family she deserted's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, working with the others she can't. She simply can't force herself to discover leave the many hidden secrets safety of the father who deserted them allher home. It She's fortunate that she has a tough jump from good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her happy life of a good jobtwo children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a new boyfriend cardiac nurse and a home full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her own to return to the family life she left behind a long time agocat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and Grace has to decide whether there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she can ignore the pull of does in her biological siblings once more or whether the spare time has come to let bygones be bygones. After all Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, while there are lots of four letter words she would associate a charity which supports people with her family, problems such as Meredith''love'' is not one of thems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340962151</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Williams0008441618|title=Last ChristmasOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=4.5

|summary=With Christmas fast approaching, what better way Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of getting West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in the spirit of things than by reading this excellent book that captures the joys and stresses part of the festive season so well? town. The reader follows four different people – Catherine Tinsall school had an active Parent Teacher Association and her husband Noelthe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, Marianne Moore and Gabriel North. Each of these characters have their own reasons causing problems for not really looking forward to Christmas (mainly because of the experience of last Christmas) head. Laura Spence and these reasons slowly become apparent Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the reader as the story progressestoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560865</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla NoliGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Mother's TaleWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Mike''It is early evening. I am suckling my infant son… We are picture perfect. Madonna and child''.  No doubt about it: a new mother totally smitten s wife, Pia, who he was with her sonfor seventeen years, has died. Zach And whilst he is adorable. Quiet. Undemanding. A happydealing with his grief, generally relaxedso are their best friends, childVicky and Zaza. Gorgeous.  But Zach isnPia left them all some 't her first-born. First there rules' to follow, knowing that she was Cassiedying and that they would need help to carry on living. A child who entered Whilst some of the world screaming rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and has since learned exactly what power she can wring Vicky and Zaza, struggling with such lungs. Not yet two years oldtheir grief and their own life troubles, Cassie adores her fatherdecide to drop everything in their own lives, but even and go along with him she manipulates. Her mother she terrorises.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella WhitelawB09FS89KX9|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>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Jennifer Bohnet|title=Follow Your StarPenelope Potts

|summary=ItLife 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's three years since Nanette Weston left Monacodiner. She'd been engaged to a Formula 1 racing driver and had lived Bob - the life of the wealthy but owner - regarded her fondly: he was a serious car accident good boss. Hollie had ended all thatmoved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. The accident could have killed Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her fiancé and she lost most of all he wanted her to leave her driving licence because of job at the alcohol she'd consumeddiner. Her slow recovery Then there was hindered by the end of her engagement but she's found some contentment in being a nanny fact that he would be violent, both 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 livesother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089090</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miss Read0008421714|title=Christmas at Thrush GreenMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Set in The problem began just after the rural village publication of Thrush Green, this book is George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the latest in a series surrounding familiar characterslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. There is Every day Mrs March went to the feisty Ella Bembridge, who is finally having local patisserie to admit buy olive bread but on that old age is creeping up particular morning, Patricia asked, as her eyesight fails. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about hershe was wrapping the bread, ''but she refuses to accept any help. Albert Piggott has decided itisn't this the first time he's time to retire now based a character on you?'' She mentioned that his wifeJohanna, Nellythe principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna 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 whore of setNantes -backs''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. Will everything be in place for Christmas? And will independent Ella make a decision about her future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maxine Barry1473685745|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>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Leah Fleming|title=Remembrance DayKatie Marsh

|summary=In the year 2000 When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an old lady in a wheelchair watches the unveiling of the new war memorial in the village square. Thereangry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's pride in what has been achievedson, Jake, in the family who are gathered around her and there are memories toooff his bike. Some are good He wasn't hurt but many are notJake has history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Abby McDonald|title=The Popularity Rules|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald He has HLHS - that'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 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are aspirational stuff when younot ''au fait''re stuck in the pre-scene yearswith your medical acronyms. SoWhen he was born, despite its label, Ithe left side of his heart hadn've given it four t developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie bookfew days old. That saidSo, ISimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldre driving. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne BakerC J Carey|title=Through Rose-Coloured GlassesWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived in one of It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the poorer parts state funeral of Liverpool Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and whilst there might not have been a lot watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of money to spare she was happy in her job as an apprentice milliner and spent her free time nursing her motherEdward VIII with his wife, SarahQueen Wallis. Her father had been killed For yes, Britain caved in the Great lead-up to the World WarTwo that certainly didn't happen as we know it, but it was the nineteen thirties and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the Radcliffes were making same blood as the best of thingsGermanic peoples on ''the mainland''. The son of their next door neighbour was But this is most certainly a jockey different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and it was his free tickets which took Dinah and her friend to ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a race meeting at Aintree. It was there that she met Richard Haldanecaste system, a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet and introduced her ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to a life of wealth the drudges, and privilege beyond her wildest dreams. Within weeks they were married - those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and within hours Dinah discovered that her husband was not the man she thought he waswidows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carole Matthews |title=That Loving Feeling|rating=3 Female literacy is actively discouraged.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Have you ever wondered what successful authors write about? Since they no longer partake And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of the everyday world bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of workit – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, how do and so they 'write about what just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they know' while still sounding fresh and up to the minute? re stamped ready for reprint. 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 Libraryis her job, cleverly utilising the hours she must have spent promoting her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up and down least, until the country. To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty first emerging signs of interest from library readers and itfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's a rather nice touch, isn't it, to set a book amongst your loyal fan basevisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon Griffiths Ruth Hogan|title=The Lost Guide to Life and LoveMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living This book lets us discover several people in London and hankering for a more glamorous different stages of life than in the one she hasearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. She has So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her humdrum job wanting to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers become a singer, and models. Little does she know at chiefly, Imelda, the time but some third generation of the people she only glimpses that night are about to become very important Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use herfamily's sea-front booth. Just after The singer, she agrees to go on the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a working revamped holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the Penninesfamily stall. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left We also see her on her ownlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Surprisingly though, it Just who is relief rather than fear that she experiences, particularly when she realises that where she is staying has very strong links with and who delivered the secrets about her family's history to Imelda, and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen who's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quoting.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Freda Lightfoot Jennifer Saint |title=House of AngelsAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=The novel focuses on This re-telling of the Angel family who live in the Lake District in myth of Ariadne and the late 1900s. Josiah Angel Minotaur is the head of the family interesting and appears to be a respectable business man, bringing up his three daughters after unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the death of his wife. The family live story in a beautiful house and – way that is sympathetic to outsiders – the daughters seem its origins but also appealing to have everything – comfort, money, beauty and an easy life, in great contrast to the poverty around thema modern audience. Not far from JosiahSaint's department store are narrative is told predominantly through the workhouse viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with its brutality and Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the blocks heroics of slum flats infested with ratsTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Silver Lucy Holland|title=Confessions of a Reluctant RecessionistaSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Cassie may be 'just' a PA and living and working in one Sistersong is part of the most expensive cities on the planet, but thanks to a flair for fashiongenre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and a generous banker boyfriend you'd never know it from looking at herfairy tales. ButThese stories, in the fickle world for most of fashionus, friendships are a cornerstone of childhood and fat-cat bonuses, things can change in an instantI relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Let go from her job, If handled well these retellings give new life and from her relationship by her rhymes-with-banker new meaning to stories that are now exbecoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, she is forced to fend for herself examining relationships and make some cut backs (*shudder*)re-evaluating the role of women. Forget the Louboutins and the fancy, on-fashion beltsSistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the only buckling she'll be doing any time soon plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the buckling down characters to get a new jobcome to life, reduce her outgoingsto feel real and human, and maintain most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the smidge pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of self-respect she has leftstorytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099543559</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreview|author=Emily Barr|title=The Life You Want|rating=4.5Frontpage|genreisbn=Women's FictionB08NF79QXT|summary=Many good writers have a signature style and for me, Emily Barr's has always been the utterly authentic travel details all her books have been peppered with, whether it be the lazy life in a lush French farmhouse, or the excitement of backpacking across Asia. Her new title is no exception, and this time the destination is India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755335600</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Tatiana Boncompagni|title=Hedge Fund Wives|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Chick lit is about finding a man in order to live happily ever after: not just any man, of course, but Mr Right himself. ''Hedge Fund Wives'' is as pink cotton-wooly as any self-respecting chick lit novel in search of a hero. But... it also flies in the face of this convention. In the story, marrying money does not secure the fairy tale ending. It's really amazing that Tatiana Boncompagni has managed to deliver a rags-to-riches happy ending for her heroine while roundly denouncing the riches along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756187X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janette Jenkins |title=Angel of BrooklynBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=On the eve of Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Great WarCherry Blossom Boutique, Jonathan Crane arrives home to for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the unyielding grey of his home town of Anglezarke, Lancashire with a beautiful new bride on his armRetail Best Newcomer Award. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received into She's delighted and the embrace of two people she's brought with her to the women of this alien place - event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her beauty mother, is captivating an ex-model and the stories about Brazilian: you can see where she grew up, enchanting; Jonathan CraneLiberty got her looks from. Jessica's new foreign wife is not ordinary among these folk thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they are suspicious of her 've known each other since university and as sometimes only grittyLiberty adores Jessica's husband, British women know howCharles and their four-year-old daughter, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in herlife. Who is this stunning creature that is trying to infiltrate their lives?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Santa MontefioreB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Italian MatchmakerKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=LucaGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, a halfabsolutely gorgeous to look at -Italian, rich banker and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has been through a painful divorce and has decided to take stock of his real talent for attracting drama. Her life. He decides to leave 's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the City behind and, shower by putting something down at the suggestion bottom of a friend (the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it andleft her, inevitablystark naked, ex-lover) he decides staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take off her mother's dog out for a walk for the summer her to visit his parents end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who have, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in (the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on shares it around the Amalfi coast. Here, his parents live with a rich assortment of eccentric friends in residence, including a pet pigoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340840544</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Kate Harrison |title=The Secret Shopper Unwrapped|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Glamourous Grazia, sassy Sandie and enthusiastic Emily first got together in Harrison's earlier title, 'The Secret Shopper's Revenge'. Now they're back but this time there are many more hassles to deal with than just a bit of simple, secret shopping. Think toy boys and sugar daddies and the odd A-lister, a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefully, reformed criminals and criminal exes, long lost mothers and potential new mothers in law (in the same room! At the same time!) and the delight or dread that comes from finding yourself unexpectedly in the family way. Combine all these factors with the run up to Christmas and you have three good friends run off their feet in every direction but, because friendship is really all that matters, resolutely there for each other in a pinch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarra Manning |title=Unsticky|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Low paid but with big dreams, talented fashionista Grace is in the process of being dumped by a boy whom she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enough, he's doing it on her birthday, and if even ''that's'' not bad enough, he's doing it in Liberty's. Right by the new season Marc Jacobs bags. It's just wrong. And yet, as one door closes, another opens right next to it. And this one is bigger, older and a lot more expensive. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace as the tears begin to fall, whisking her off to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cake. There are worse things I can think of, that's for sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila O'FlanaganB08CHJLNBS|title=The Perfect Man|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I've read many of Sheila O'Flanagan's books and have always found them light enjoyable reads with interesting storylines and likeable characters. This is what I was expecting from ''The Perfect Man'', and I wasn't at all disappointed.  Unlike most of O'Flanagan's books, this one is not set in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship in the Caribbean. Britt McDonagh, the successful author of a novel also entitled ''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present a series of talks and workshops about successful romantic writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Meg Wolitzer |title=The Position|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wife, Roz, seemingly like no other man has ever loved a woman – his idolatry is boundless, bordering on theatrical and yet out of this worship, Paul has the germ of an idea. Who would not want to know the ways in which it is possible to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? How could everyone not want to see, to ''share'' the artistic renderings of this act of love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Monica Carly |title=Fraser's LineBrooke Adams

|summary=When Edie died Fraser was devastated. TheyHe'd been married for s Charles Devereaux, thirty one years -eight and he'd been devoted to hera partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. Nothing had been too much trouble and heShe'd been quite prepared to watch her flirt with other mens Emilia, twenty-nine, to shine librarian and archivist in any companythe heritage library next door. He wasEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, after allwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, the man she went home withto something a little deeper. Her death had come suddenly and weeks later he was still in Charles is more of a state of shock[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but , above all, he knew 's shocked that he would have to sort Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out her affairs and he enlisted the help of a casual acquaintance his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to support him. ? He was in for some painful shocks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438960069</amazonuk>The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy DillonHelly Acton|title=Lost Dogs and Lonely HeartsThe Shelf|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lucy DillonWhen we meet Amy, she's previous novelin a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, [[The Ballroom Class by Lucy Dillon|The Ballroom Class]]but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, featured three couples whose individual stories end yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up muddled when they start the same dancing lessonshe tells her to pack for a surprise trip. In Could this be it? Is he ''Lost dogs and Lonely Heartsfinally'' we have three very different families whose lives end up intertwined when they suddenly become involved with the local rescue kennels. Sound familiargoing to get down on one knee? While Was the premise for work (and the two is similar, the stories share only one common theme: they're both great reads.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340919205</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Louise Candlish |title=Before We Say Goodbye|rating=4.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Olivia suffered girlfriend comes into school with a great deal in black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her childhood and teenage yearswhole world is tipped upside down. Her mother Maggie would disappear, often for months at a time, leaving Olivia relationship has just ended and her brother disorientated, upset and - eventually - very angry. But when her mother lies dying, therenow she's a big question Olivia wants to askthe talk of the school. Did her mother deliberately keep her away from Richie, Mike was the young man she fell most popular boy in school who was always so in love with when she was sixteenher, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did?Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751540382</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine Jenkin Katie Fforde|title=Eating BlackbirdsA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I'Delightful', 'unsophisticated' and 'funny' tags jump ve wanted to mind read author Katie Fforde for ''Eating Blackbirds''ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, one of several books published this yearcosy read focused on romance, aimed at the women's mainstream market from Welsh publishers Honnofamily and friendships. I read it in a couple This provided two romances for the price of sittingsone, not wanting but it was actually the family element as opposed to put it downthe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190678406X</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Elliott B07W4MNBSG|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>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Ellie Campbell |title=When Good Friends Go BadLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=A famous designer, a cleanliness-obsessed stay at home mum and a slightly kooky Yank who talks It was coming up to angels might not be three people you'd pick to be friends Halloween in 1987 and a normal story, but these women haven't met now, as pushinggroup of sixth-40 year olds. No, form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were good friends, great friends even, all through high school, and though life has evidently taken then in different directions, fifty. When you can understand how something like surviving their teen years together would form an everlasting bond. Except it didn'tre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, really. Theybut Liz was convinced that 've barely talked in years, and even the reunion organised ten years ago went wrong. So how is it that they've ended up back in each othersyour entire life depends on who you marry' 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 only eligible boys were the start of Young Farmers and the book, Abby's partner idea of four years has just left her and, living in dealing with her misery, she is becoming a bit of a workaholic farmhouse and having a social recluse. One morning, on her way to work she becomes the victim couple of a freak accident children called Will and suffers a brain injury that is going Olly appealed to affect her long term memory. Faced with the prospect of forgetting all that she holds dearCharlotte, Abby re-evaluates the way she has been living or perhaps William and makes a list of all Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the memorable experiences she hopes to createrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She also sets about capturing all the memories in a 'memory chest' on her computer so that she will be able The place to remember all the wonderful experiences. Suddenly she is enjoying life a lot more especially when she meets start their search was obviously the handsome and thoughtful Finn. Unexpectedly, AbbyYoung Farmers's life has never looked better except, of course, for the fact Halloween disco that she keeps forgetting things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340952997</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lindsey Kelk |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, Jennyweekend. And how, we ask ourselves, did our heroine end up There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths 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>class.

{{newreview|author=Jaishree Misra |title=Secrets and Lies|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Four girls became friendly at school in Delhi. Fifteen years later three of them are in London, but Zeba is still in India. She was a promising actress (Move on and off the stage) at school but in 2008 she's the reigning queen of Bollywood. Let no one say that she hasn't earned her position; some of those producers can be quite demanding – on and off the stage. Back in London Bubbles is the wife of a millionaire Indian businessman. It was an arranged marriage and although it's never been close Bubbles isn't too unhappy. Sam is the trophy wife and her marriage seems to have ground to a halt, whilst Anita, always the brainiest of the group, seems to have difficulty in keeping a relationship going. There was another girl who had an influence on the girls, but they hated Lily D'Souza – and then she died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561683</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margot Berwin|title=Hot House Flower|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Themed fiction, where there is a clear obsession with a specific topic can be a bit hit or miss, but in the past I have enjoyed ones that focus on [[Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen MackFeatures|booksthe latest features]] and [[Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn|shoes]] and especially [[The Food of Love by Anthony Capella|food]]. The key in my mind has always been to write about something other people obsess over, establishing an immediate bond between reader and writer. This title falls into 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 didn't share the author's fascination initially, by the end of the book I was hooked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091926122</amazonuk>}}