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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Duncan1471180158|title=A Single to RomeMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Natalie is Jamie Matson works in love with Michael. They've been together an upper-class grocery store, for three years, but Michael wants some space. He hasn’t said he doesn’t love her, so there is still a chance he could come back… Then he goes and finds himself man who's a new girlfriend. Devastated, Natalie consoles herself control freak with all the help subtlety of her friends, who persuade her to go speed datinga half brick. There she meets Guy Jamie's son, a friendly manBo, who like her is trying to get over someone – 'has his new ex-wife Vanessaproblems'. But Guy is one of He's asthmatic and the nice ones, and before she knows itmore you read, the more you'll suspect that he has been invited 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to her friend’s wedding as Natalie’s date. At least take time off at short notice - she won’t be going alone 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and Michael will sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be there. But her love life isn’t her only worry. Past actions have come away on time to light that have pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put her career in dangerthe wrong. At a loss, Natalie turns It was going to Guy for help, who offers her the use of his flat in Rome. A place come to escape? Or a place to dwell? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345932</amazonuk>head.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley PearseLauren Bravo|title=StolenPreloved|rating=3.54

|summary=The story of ''Stolen'' Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an interesting oneoh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. David Mitchell is walking along Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a beach in Selsey, Sussex in May 2003, when he comes across bit of a young woman – beautiful, halfmid-drowned and barely alivelife crisis. She Catharsis is taken to hospital key and her photo Gwen has decided now is featured in the newspapers, as the police hope time to discover who she is. Meanwhile, Dale, a female hairdresser, sees the photo and believes the girl to be Lotte, who she befriended on a cruise they were working on. Along with Daletake back her life's colleague Scott – who also knew Lotte – they visit the girl, but she has amnesia and seems to have forgotten almost everything.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718152859</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Highmore0008506337|title=The Message|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=''The Message'' is very much a twenty first century tale as it all hinges on a voicemail message made from a mobile phone. It is also based on the fact that it is very easy to send a message to one person when it is actually meant for someone else. This is what happens to Jen when she receives a message from her husband Robert. There is nothing particularly special about this message; that is until Jen realises that she is not the intended recipient and then it has a shattering effect on her marriage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343018</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGarnett Girls|author=Ann Pearlman|title=The Cookie ClubGeorgina 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 love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and Africa works perfectly and Simeoncruelty, His Grace Duke from which blossoms a group of Conway is now back in England, ready to claim his estate admirable women fighting for their rights and, as Isidore presumes, ready to claim his beautiful wifeovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340961104</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreview|author=Nia Pritchard |title=More Than Just A Wedding|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=If you like novels in which little happens as the story strolls towards its happy ending, then Nia Pritchard's sequel to 'More Than Just a Hairdresser' may suit you. If the Liverpudlian vernacular and setting pushes your buttons, then maybe you'll enjoy its light-hearted picture 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Porter B0B575J99N|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 for help. Sarah 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 Beneath 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 man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089430</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Margaret Thornton|title=Until We Meet AgainBrooke Adams

|summary=In the fateful summer of 1914 Tilly Moon is settled Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in the midst of the Moon family 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 when Britain declares war on Germany Tommy and Dominic are quick to enlist as were many of the men in and around the Moon family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007486</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Liza Palmer|title=A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Grace is reluctantly participating in was a 5k race little trepidation when she receives applied for the news: her estranged sister is calling to tell her their estranged father has had a strokeprofessoressa job in Bologna. That's two lots of estrangement in just two generations of family, but a summons is After a summonstelephone interview, and Grace soon finds herself dragged back into the heart of the family she deserted, working with was offered the others to discover the many hidden secrets of the father who deserted them all. Itposition and it wasn's a tough jump from her happy life of a good job, a new boyfriend and a home of her own to return to the family life she left behind a t long time ago, and Grace has to decide whether before she can ignore the pull of her biological siblings once more or whether was exploring the time has come to let bygones be bygonesbeautiful city. After all, while there are lots of four letter words she would associate with There were some natural doubts before her family, ''love'' is not one of themfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340962151</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Williams0241542405|title=Last ChristmasMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=With Christmas fast approachingWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, what better way of getting 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 train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the spirit safety of things than by reading this excellent book her home. She's fortunate that captures the joys she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and stresses full of the festive season so well? The reader follows four different people – Catherine Tinsall and sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her husband Noelcat, Marianne Moore Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and Gabriel Norththere'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. Each of these characters have their own reasons for not really looking forward to Christmas (mainly because of the experience of last Christmas) and these reasons slowly become apparent to the reader He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as the story progressesMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560865</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Noli0008441618|title=The Mother's TaleOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=''It is early evening. I am suckling my infant son… We are picture perfect. Madonna and child''.  No doubt about itJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: a new mother totally smitten with her son. Zach is adorable. Quiet. Undemanding. A happy, generally relaxed, child. Gorgeous.  But Zach isnif she didn't live up to her first-born. First retired predecessor there was Cassiecould well be a house price slump in that part of the town. A child who entered The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the world screaming and has since learned exactly what power she can wring with such lungsschool. Not yet There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two years oldmembers, Cassie adores her fatherin particular, but even him she manipulatescausing problems for the head. Her mother she terrorisesLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftGiovanna Fletcher|title=Starting OverWalking on Sunshine

|summary=The story opens when Tess bumps her old reliable car into a breakdown truck. ThatMike's rather convenientwife, Pia, since she isn't hurtwho he was with for seventeen years, and the guy driving it has died. And whilst he is able to tow her to dealing with his garagegrief, so are their best friends, Vicky and then give her a lift to her new homeZaza. Naturally, since this is the But Pia left them all some 'chick-litrules' genreto follow, Tess knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the truck-driverrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, who goes by the unlikely name of Ratty (an abbreviation of his surname) feel mutual antipathy of the sort another one that's clearly going Mike discovers one day encourages him to leadtake one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, sooner or laterstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to strong attractiondrop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931224</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{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 the latest in a series surrounding familiar charactersGeorge March's most successful novel to date. There is Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the feisty Ella Bembridge, who is finally having last page) seemed to admit that old age is creeping up as her eyesight failseither be reading it or had already done so. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about her, but she refuses Every day Mrs March went to accept any help. Albert Piggott has decided it's time the local patisserie to retire now buy olive bread but on that his wifeparticular morning, NellyPatricia asked, is a successful cafe owner and can afford to take care of him! And relative newcomer Phil Hurst and her husband are arranging as she was wrapping the local nativity playbread, despite a number of set-backs. Will everything be in place for Christmas? And will independent Ella make a decision about her future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maxine Barry|title=River Deep|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Two young women both have a love of 'but isn't this the Thames. Melisande Rayfirst time he's beloved hotel, the Ray of Sunshine is based a character on the river bank. you?'' It's here that guests come who want to be pampered and looked after in the way She mentioned that only the best hotels can do wellJohanna, but when Wendell James checks in to the hotel itprincipal character had 'her mannerisms's not pampering he's looking for. He's buying a piece of land Perhaps this would not far from have mattered, except for the Ray of Sunshine and he's sussing out the competition. There's something personal in there too – if his new hotel means fact that Johanna is the Ray whore of Sunshine goes under then that would be an added bonus. ThereNantes - ''s just a slight doubt in his mind when a red-haired maid catches his eyeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah Fleming1473685745|title=Remembrance DayUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie 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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily BarrB08NF79QXT|title=The Life You WantCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Many good writers have a signature style Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and for me, Emily Barrwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's has always been delighted and the utterly authentic travel details all two people she's brought with her books have been peppered withto the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, whether it be the lazy life in a lush French farmhouseher mother, or the excitement of backpacking across Asiais an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Her new title is no exceptionJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and this time the destination is Indiatheir four-year-old 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>0755335600</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tatiana BoncompagniB08GFSK2WZ|title=Hedge Fund WivesThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Chick lit George Jackson is about finding a man in order thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to live happily ever after: not just any man, of course, but Mr Right himselflook at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Hedge Fund Wives'' is as pink cotton-wooly as any self-respecting chick lit novel s stuck in search the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a heroreal talent for attracting drama. But... it also flies in Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the face bottom of this convention. In the storystairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, marrying money does not secure staring at the fairy tale endingpervy postman. ItShe only has to take her mother's really amazing that Tatiana Boncompagni has managed to deliver dog out for a rags-walk for her toend up with dog poo spattered across her face -riches happy ending for her heroine while roundly denouncing the riches along and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the wayoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756187X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Janette Jenkins |title=Angel of Brooklyn|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=On the eve of the Great War, Jonathan Crane arrives home to the unyielding grey of his home town of Anglezarke, Lancashire with a beautiful new bride on his arm. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received into the embrace of the women of this alien place - her beauty is captivating and the stories about where she grew up, enchanting; Jonathan Crane's new foreign wife is not ordinary among these folk and they are suspicious of her and as sometimes only gritty, British women know how, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward her. Who is this stunning creature that is trying to infiltrate their lives?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Santa Montefiore|title=The Italian Matchmaker|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Luca, a half-Italian, rich banker has been through a painful divorce and has decided to take stock of his life. He decides to leave the City behind and, at the suggestion of a friend (and, inevitably, ex-lover) he decides to take off for the summer to visit his parents who have, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in (the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on the Amalfi coast. Here, his parents live with a rich assortment of eccentric friends in residence, including a pet pig.|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>}} {{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Wolitzer B08CHJLNBS|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>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|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, to shine in any company. He was, after alltwenty-nine, the man she went home with. Her death had come suddenly librarian and weeks later he was still archivist in a state of shock, but he knew that he would have to sort out her affairs and he enlisted the help of a casual acquaintance to support himheritage library next door. He was in for some painful shocks.Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438960069</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy Dillon|title=Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts|rating=4.5|genre=WomenThe Secret]] but she's Fiction|summary=Lucy Dillonmoved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's previous novelphilosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[The Ballroom Class Personal by Lucy DillonLee Child|The Ballroom ClassJack Reacher]]man himself, but, above all, featured three couples whose individual stories end up muddled when they start the same dancing lessons. In he's shocked that Emilia reads ''Lost dogs and Lonely HeartsThe Guardian'' we have three very different families whose lives end up intertwined when they suddenly become involved with the local rescue kennels. Sound familiar They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? While the premise for the two is similar, the stories share only one common theme She's not his usual type at all: theyit're both great readss obvious to his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919205</amazonuk> And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise Candlish Helly Acton|title=Before We Say GoodbyeThe Shelf|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Olivia suffered When we meet Amy, she's in a great deal in her childhood and teenage yearsrelationship with Jamie. Her mother Maggie would disappearYou can't really call it a partnership, often for months at a timebecause things tend to get done on his terms, leaving Olivia and her brother disorientatedbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, upset and - eventually - very angryyes. But Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her mother lies dying, thereto pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally''s a big question Olivia wants going to ask. Did her mother deliberately keep her away from Richie, get down on one knee? Was the work (and the young man she fell in love with when she was sixteenwait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751540382</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Lorraine Jenkin |title=Eating Blackbirds|rating=4When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down.5|genre=WomenHer relationship has just ended and now she's Fiction|summary='Delightful'the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, 'unsophisticated' so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don'funny' tags jump to mind t, but one thing is for ''Eating Blackbirds''sure, one of several books published this year, aimed at the womenisn's mainstream market from Welsh publishers Honno. I read it in a couple of sittings, not wanting t going to put it downblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190678406X</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura Elliott Katie Fforde|title=The Prodigal SisterA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sisters RebeccaI've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, Julie family and Lauren are travelling from Ireland to attend their younger sister's wedding in New Zealandfriendships. This is unlikely to be just any provided two romances for the price of one, but it was actually the family reunion though element 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 opposed to the hope romance that they can achieve some closure and hopefully move on with their livesI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561470</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Campbell B07W4MNBSG|title=When Good Friends Go BadBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy 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. They've barely talked in years, and even the reunion organised ten years ago went wrong. So how is it but Liz was convinced 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=Womenyour entire life depends on who you marry'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 only eligible boys were the victim of a freak accident Young Farmers and suffers a brain injury that is going to affect her long term memory. Faced with the prospect idea 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 farmhouse 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>}} {{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, 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 couple of your future children were supposed called Will and Olly appealed to go), during the wedding reception of your best friendsCharlotte, or perhaps William and that everyone – including your best friends - apart from Oliver if you had known what he had been up were Elizabeth who was determined to for some considerable time, you may very well have kicked off your Louboutins, hitched up your bridesmaids dress and headed for marry the nearest airport too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007288387</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaishree Misra |title=Secrets and Lies|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Four girls became friendly at school in Delhirather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Fifteen years later three of them are in London, but Zeba is still in India. She The place to start their search was a promising actress (on and off obviously the stage) at school but in 2008 sheYoung Farmers's the reigning queen of Bollywood. Let no one say Halloween disco that she hasn't earned her position; some of those producers can be quite demanding – on and off the stageweekend. Back in London Bubbles is the wife of a millionaire Indian businessman. It There was an arranged marriage and although it's never been close Bubbles isn't just one problem - there were 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 many Elizabeths 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 diedclass.|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 Move on to [[Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen MackFeatures|books]] and [[Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn|shoes]] and especially [[The Food of Love by Anthony Capella|foodthe latest features]]. 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>}}