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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debby Holt1471180158|title=Recipe For Scandal|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=There's evidently a market for scandalous tales, or else many a women's weekly would have gone out of business by now, but this book, though full of scandal, is slightly different. This isn't council estate scandal or even trashy celebrity scandal, it's juicy, firmly middle class scandal of the type [[:Category:Zoe Heller|Zoë Heller]] might write about, and it's wickedly captivating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847396542</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Jules Stanbridge|title=A Date in Your DiaryPenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Harry knows that a woman needs Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows therewho's a difference between what we need and what we want – and she wants control freak with all the subtlety of a blokehalf brick. More specifically Jamie's son, she wants a date for the latest in a string of friend-and-family weddings, a wedding whereBo, thanks to a 'trickyhas his problems' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex... He's asthmatic and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sightthe more you read, Harry comes to the conclusion more you'll suspect that internet dating might be he's on the way autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to go. At best, take time off at short notice - she'll find s a guy who ticks all her boxes frequent flier in the local A&E and will joyfully accompany her sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the wedding before they live happily ever after, need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for put in the wrong. It was going to come to a magazine journohead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon OwensLauren Bravo|title=The Seven Secrets of HappinessPreloved

|summary=It was hard to think Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that life wasn't perfect for Ruby O'Neill. She starts with a four and Jonathan had ends with an idyllic marriage and a beautiful homeoh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. There was Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a job in bit of a dress shop which she enjoyed and although she might not be close to her parents she had good friendsmid-life crisis. It was Christmas Eve Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the tree had just been delivered by a lovely man on behalf of the garden centre when time to take back her world fell apart. Jonathan had been killed in a car crash.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141028564</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreview|author=Sarah Duncan|title=A Single to Rome|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie is in love with Michael. They've been together 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 a new girlfriend. Devastated, Natalie consoles herself with the help of her friends, who persuade her to go speed dating. There she meets Guy, a friendly man, who like her is trying to get over someone – his new ex-wife Vanessa. But Guy is one of the nice ones, and before she knows it, he has been invited to her friend’s wedding as Natalie’s date. At least she won’t be going alone and Michael will be there. But her love life isn’t her only worry. Past actions have come to light that have put her career in danger. At a loss, Natalie turns to Guy for help, who offers her the use of his flat in Rome. A place to escape? Or a place to dwell? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345932</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Pearse|title=Stolen|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The story of ''Stolen'' is an interesting one. David Mitchell is walking along a beach in Selsey, Sussex in May 2003, when he comes across a young woman – beautiful, half-drowned and barely alive. She is taken to hospital and her photo is featured in the newspapers, as the police hope 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 Dale's colleague Scott – who also knew Lotte – they visit the girl, but she has amnesia and seems to have forgotten almost everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718152859</amazonuk>}} {{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 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 Christmas|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=With Christmas fast approaching, what better way of getting in the spirit of things than by reading this excellent book that captures the joys and stresses of the festive season so well? The reader follows four different people – Catherine Tinsall and her husband Noel, Marianne Moore and Gabriel North. 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 as the story progresses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Camilla Noli|title=The Mother's TaleSarah Stovell|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=''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 with her son. Zach is adorable. Quiet. Undemanding. A happy, generally relaxed, child. Gorgeous.  But Zach isn't her first-born. First there was Cassie. A child who entered the world screaming and has since learned exactly what power she can wring with such lungs. Not yet two years old, Cassie adores her father, but even him she manipulates. Her mother she terrorises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Moorcroft|title=Starting Over|rating=45

|summary=The story opens when Tess bumps her old reliable car into a breakdown truck. That's rather convenient, since Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she isndidn't hurt, and the guy driving it is able live up to tow her to his garage, retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and then give her the funds which they raised were a lift considerable benefit to her new homethe school. Naturally There was one difficulty, since this is the though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'chick-lit' genre, Tess and the truck-driverwith two members, in particular, who goes by causing problems for the unlikely name of Ratty (an abbreviation of his surname) feel mutual antipathy of head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the sort toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that's clearly going to lead, sooner or later, to strong attractionwas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931224</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stella WhitelawGiovanna Fletcher|title=Midsummer MadnessWalking on Sunshine

|summary=YouMike'll like Sophie Greshams wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. She wanted to be an actress but suffers from paralysing stage fright And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and when the side effects became too much for her she worked behind the scenesZaza. SheBut Pia left them all some 'rules's a very good prompt despite the fact to follow, knowing that she was dying and that you they would need help to wrap up very warmly to survive in the prompt corner she loves her job and most of the cast in the theatre companycarry on living. It's a bit Whilst some of a shock though when she realises that the guest producer from New York is Joe Harrisonrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, the man she helped out when he had nothing another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to eat take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and nowhere their own life troubles, decide to sleep. Sophie was a little softer drop everything in those days – in the meantime she's had to develop a protective shelltheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089147</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer BohnetB09FS89KX9|title=Follow Your StarFall On Me|author=Penelope 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

 {{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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janette Jenkins B08CHJLNBS|title=Angel of BrooklynCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=On the eve of the Great WarHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, Jonathan Crane arrives home to the unyielding grey of his home town of Anglezarke, Lancashire with a beautiful new bride on his armMayfair letting agents. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received into the embrace of the women of this alien place She's Emilia, twenty- her beauty is captivating nine, librarian and archivist in the stories about where heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she grew up's moved on from new age books like that, enchanting; Jonathan Cranewhich leave you dependent on someone else's new foreign wife philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is not ordinary among these folk and they are suspicious more of her and as sometimes only grittya [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, British women know howabove all, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward herhe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. Who is They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this stunning creature woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that is trying Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to infiltrate their liveshim? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Santa MontefioreHelly Acton|title=The Italian MatchmakerShelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=LucaWhen we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a half-Italianpartnership, rich banker has been through a painful divorce and has decided because things tend to take stock of get done on his lifeterms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. He decides Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to leave the City behind and, at the suggestion of pack for a friend (and, inevitably, ex-lover) surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he decides ''finally'' going to take off for get down on one knee? Was the summer to visit his parents who have, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in work (and the sadly fictitiouswait) Incantellaria on the Amalfi coast. Here, his parents live with a rich assortment of eccentric friends in residence, including a pet pig.worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340840544</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Kate Harrison |title=The Secret Shopper Unwrapped|rating=4|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Glamourous Graziagirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, sassy Sandie her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and enthusiastic Emily first got together in Harrisonnow she'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 the talk of simple, secret shoppingthe school. Think toy boys and sugar daddies and Mike was the odd A-listermost popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefullyeveryone knew that, reformed criminals so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and criminal exessome don't, 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 one thing is really all that mattersfor sure, resolutely there for each other in a pinchthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarra Manning Katie Fforde|title=UnstickyA Springtime Affair|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 I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a boy whom she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enoughwarm, he's doing it cosy read focused on her birthdayromance, family and if even ''that's'' not bad enough, he's doing it in Liberty'sfriendships. Right by This provided two romances for the new season Marc Jacobs bags. It's just wrong. And yet, as price of one door closes, another opens right next to but it. And this one is bigger, older and a lot more expensive. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace was actually the family element as opposed to the tears begin to fall, whisking her off to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cake. There are worse things romance that I can think of, that's for surereally enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila O'FlanaganB07W4MNBSG|title=The Perfect ManBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=I've read many It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of Sheila Osixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you'Flanagan's books and have always found them light enjoyable reads with interesting storylines and likeable characters. This is what I re only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was expecting from convinced that ''The Perfect Manyour entire life depends on who you marry'', . The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and I wasn't at all disappointed.  Unlike most the idea of O'Flanagan's books, this one is not set living in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship in farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the Caribbeanrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Britt McDonagh, The place to start their search was obviously the successful author of a novel also entitled Young Farmers''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present a series of talks and workshops about successful romantic writingHalloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>

{{newreview|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 Move 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'' [[Features|the artistic renderings of this act of love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>}}latest features]]