Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurie Graham1471180158|title=Life According to LubkaMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Buzz Wexler is at the top of her gameJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, working in music PR for a man who's a control freak with all the latest up and coming Urban music bands like Grime Beat and Evil Marsupialsubtlety of a half brick. SheJamie's forty-two years old but is still out every nightson, drinkingBo, eating very little 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and seemingly surviving the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on a diet of chemical mood enhancersthe autistic spectrum. One day, however, Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she is called into her manager's office a frequent flier in the local A&E and assigned a tour with a sometimes Bo'World Music' group, the Gorni Grannies, a group of elderly women from Bulgaria who sing togethers not fit enough to go to school. Buzz finds her life in Missed shifts or the fast lane is brought need to a sudden halt, as she tries be away on time to control a group of elderly ladies touring England who think that lifts pick Bo up from school are powered by black magic occasions when Jamie can be controlled and that Poundland is put in the best shop ever inventedwrong. Yet this is just the beginning of It was going to come to a whole new life for Buzzhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161828</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet MullanyLauren Bravo|title=Improper RelationsPreloved

|summary=When Jaz discovers a random text message Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on her husband Ian's phone, it does not take a genius to work out the meaning of big number that starts with a message as personal as 'what did you dream last night?', followed by kisses four and a strange womanends with an oh-my-God-I's namem-nearly-forty. Nor does it take Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a genius to figure out the precise nature bit of what Ian has been up to with the sendera mid-life crisis. A subsequent confession and proclamation from Ian that 'it meant nothing; she Catharsis is nothing' does not diminish Jaz's rage key and he is dispatched, forthwith, from the family home. As Gwen has decided now is the norm in these kind of situations, you turn time to the people you most trust to help you through and reinforcements in the shape of Jaztake back her life's mother, Carol, swiftly arrive.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847377505</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreview|author=Louise Douglas|title=Missing You|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sean seemed to have the perfect life. He has a successful career, a beautiful wife to whom he is devoted, a daughter whom he adores and he lives in a dream home. But then one day it all falls apart when Belle announces that she has met someone else and wants Sean to move out. Fen, on the other hand, doesn't have a perfect life. She works in a bookshop and is devoted to her young son, Connor who has cerebral palsy. That's not the least of her problems though as she hides a dreadful secret and fearful that it will be brought out into the open she lives a life drawn in on itself, far from her home and family and reluctant to become close to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454412</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)0008506337|title=Loves Me, Loves Me Not|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=What a feast is presented in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In a Who's Who of the genre, there are writers from every age group, including one or two who might even have been founder members of the RNA, back in 1960. My advice is to sip through the stories slowly, rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Garnett Girls|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Before I FallGeorgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Samantha The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Sam' Kingston isLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisterslove. Today it Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, mother as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Saman older man's not too . Her parents worried about that. She knows sheRichard's part of a group who, by most definitions, influence would be called popular, take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside having a little like an imposter, on glittering career. In the outsideevent, well, she's they eloped and Richard took her away from the definition Isle of ''in''Wight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Suzanne Bugler|title=This Perfect World|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Laura Hamley sees herself as Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a fortunate womanwell-respected journalist. She has a successful husband, two beautiful The couple had three children: Rachel, a big house Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in a good neighbourhoodLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, and a coterie of friends who fall nicely into the category family home on the Isle of people like usWight. She Even then the doubts about Richard's always beautifully turned out, and her position in the social pecking order is drinking were never less than high. She simply shrugs off the occasional moments of dissatisfaction - what on Earth could far from Margo's mind: ''she have would never be able to complain about?leave him in charge''.

And then Mrs Partridge makes an unwelcome phone callThen Richard left them... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>023074401X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenHadeer Elsbai|title=Nina Jones and the Temple The Daughters of GloomIzdihar|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=A sign Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a good booksociety pitted against them. Nehal, for meborn into the upper class, often relates wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to how easily I can put it down. And then how much I want learn to pick it back up again. Nina Jones was a particular challenge for me as after reading it for an hour whilst my toddler napped I kept my thumb in the page whilst getting her out of bed, snuck control her downstairs still saving my page, put on Cbeebies, abilities and then sat next to her on join the sofa to carry on reading for at least another hourmilitary, if not a little bit more than thatbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. I then kept it in Giorgina on the kitchen so I could sneak other hand did not have a few more pages in between stirring the spaghetti. And then once my daughter was in bed I went on privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to absently ignore my poorprovide for her family and maintain their reputation, tired, over-worked husband (who got bored and went for a bath) so that I could read on to whilst secretly attending meetings of the end Daughters of the story. I found myself mentally yelling at Izdihar – a fictional character (I hope it was mentally and I wasngroup campaigning for women't actually shouting out louds rights.Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico..we have very thin walls), I swooned over the heroWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, sniggered often filled with hypocrisy and I even cried a little bit too. Socruelty, from which blossoms a book that induces such family neglect group of admirable women fighting for their rights and an emotional roller coaster of emotions is definitely a good read!overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755341414</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreview|author=Melanie Rose|title=Coming Home|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We meet the narrator of this story drinking coffee from a thermos in a lay-by, on a cold grey day. All her worldly possessions are travelling with her in her car, including her cat. She has clearly made some momentous decision, and is on her way to somewhere new. I assumed that as story unfolded, I'd learn more about her and where she was going.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephanie Tillotson|title=Cut on the Bias|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erica Bauermeister B0B575J99N|title=The Monday Night Cooking School|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The Monday Night Cooking School is the first novel written by American writer Erica Bauermeister and it really is a delicious read in every sense. The novel tells of eight very diverse people who attend a cooking class once a month at Lillian's restaurant. Each has a different reason for being there and each has his or her own story to tell. However, over Beneath the months that the course is run, they start to bond through the learning experience and their love of food. It's not the sort of novel where much happens but if you are interested in people and you love food, I am sure you will enjoy this book. Having said that though, I don't think it is a book that should be read if you are trying to diet because you can virtually smell the food as you turn the pages!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141038837</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Kate Morton|title=The Forgotten GardenBrooke Adams

|summary=Just before the First World War Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a little prestigious girl 's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found abandoned on the wharf after right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to make a dreadful sea voyage from England to Australiachange. She appears not to know her name – or is unwilling to tell it – and all she will say is that needed challenges. There was a mysterious lady little trepidation when she calls applied for the Authoress had promised to look after herprofessoressa job in Bologna. ThereAfter a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn's no trace of her though and t long before she was exploring the little girl was taken in a by a friendly familybeautiful city. She forgot all about the events until many years later when There were some natural doubts before her adopted father told her what had happenedfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330449605</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Marie Buchanan 0241542405|title=The Day The Falls Stood Still|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I imagined this title as a 'Gone With the Wind' sort of novel, a saga-esque historical romance, with a characterful heroine and page-turning story line that necessitates reading late into the night. Well, I wasn't disappointed in this paperback edition of the hardback, already a best-seller in the U.S.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925967</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Nia Pritchard|title=More Than Just A Hairdresser|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's a brand new year, and Liverpudlian hairdresser Shirley is looking forward to the months ahead following one hell of a new year's eve party. What's more, she's going to chronicle her adventures in her brand spanking new diary which she will write in diligently, even when she's feeling a bit 'morning after the night before'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1870206851</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Quinn|title=The Rescue ManClaire Alexander

|summary=This love affair tale with the city of Liverpool is mostly told through the eyes of architect Tom BainesWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. With the Second World War looming She'd ''like'' to: in fact, Baines is desperately working she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on a book 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 capture leave the memory safety of buildings her home. She's fortunate that are at riskshe has a good friend, Sadie, and appears a man more in love who visits regularly with the past and solidher two children, cold structures than mankind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531933</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lorraine Jenkin|title=Chocolate Mousse James and Two Spoons|rating=4Matilda.5|genre=Women Sadie's Fiction|summary=From the first sentence: 'With one hell a cardiac nurse and full of a crashsound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Lettie Howell’s dinner service hit the wall…', I knew that I was going to enjoy this taleFred. An opening thus full of expletive Groceries are online deliveries and resounding Welsh Voice immediately makes it clear who’s the boss and I there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can relax, knowing I’m guess what she does in competent handsher spare time. WelcomeThen Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, Lorraine Jenkin, to my handful of favourite chick-lit authorsa charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1870206959</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ru Freeman0008441618|title=A Disobedient GirlOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=Harry knows Jo Fairburn knew that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there's could well be a difference between what we need house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and what we want – and she wants the funds which they raised were a blokeconsiderable benefit to the school. More specifically There was one difficulty, she wants a date for the latest in a string of friendthough -and-family weddings, a wedding where, thanks to a they were ''devastatingly shockable'tricky' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects with two members, in sightparticular, Harry comes to causing problems for the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to gohead. At best, she'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes Laura Spence and will joyfully accompany her Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a story out of it, never a bad thing warm-up act for a magazine journotheir real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon OwensGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Seven Secrets of HappinessWalking on Sunshine

|summary=It Mike's wife, Pia, who he was hard to think that life wasn't perfect with for Ruby O'Neillseventeen years, has died. She and Jonathan had an idyllic marriage And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and a beautiful homeZaza. There was a job in a dress shop which she enjoyed and although she might not be close But Pia left them all some 'rules' to her parents follow, knowing that she had good friends. It was Christmas Eve dying and the tree had just been delivered by a lovely man that they would need help to carry on behalf living. Whilst some of the garden centre when rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her world fell apart. Jonathan had been killed wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in a car crashtheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141028564</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah DuncanB09FS89KX9|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>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Lesley Pearse|title=StolenPenelope Potts

|summary=The story Life 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''Stolen'' is an interesting ones diner. David Mitchell is walking along Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a beach good boss. Hollie had moved in Selseywith her boyfriend, Sussex in May 2003, when Marcus: her mother thought he comes across a young woman – beautiful, half-drowned was great and barely alivehe was doing well in his career. She is taken Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to hospital control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her photo is featured in job at the newspapers, as the police hope to discover who she isdiner. Meanwhile, Dale, a female hairdresser, sees Then there was the photo and believes the girl to fact that he would be Lotteviolent, 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 both to her and seems to have forgotten almost everythingother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718152859</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Highmore0008421714|title=The MessageMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=''The Messageproblem began just after the publication of George March'' is very much a twenty s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first century tale as it all hinges on a voicemail message made from a mobile phone. It is also based name only on the fact that it is very easy to send a message last page) seemed to one person when either be reading it is actually meant for someone elseor had already done so. This is what happens Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to Jen when buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she receives was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a message from character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her husband Robertmannerisms''. There is nothing particularly special about Perhaps this message; would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is until Jen realises that she is not the intended recipient and then it has whore of Nantes - ''a shattering effect on her marriageweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343018</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Pearlman1473685745|title=The Cookie Club|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Chocolate bonbons with an almond glaze. Peanut butter cookies double dipped in chocolate. Coffee and raisin hermit biscuits. Crisp vanilla fingers with toasted almonds. Thin crunchy crisps flavoured with molasses and ginger.  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 flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847376843</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Eloisa James|title=When the Duke ReturnsKatie Marsh

|summary=Sarah Livingstone's jewellery business When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was struggling but she angry and Beth was still annoyed when doing her father called James Ross best to apologise for helphaving knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. Sarah and James had had a relationship some ten years earlier and Sarah really didnHe wasn't want to work with him, particularly after her marriagehurt but Jake has history. Most people thought He has HLHS - that her husband's death in a plane crash had been Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the cruel end to a good marriage. Only left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few knew that he had been about to leave her to live with another womandays old. ItSo, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they's left Sarah very reluctant to get involved with any manre driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089430</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret ThorntonC J Carey|title=Until We Meet AgainWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In the fateful summer of 1914 Tilly Moon is settled in the midst of the Moon family in Scarborough. It's an extensive clan with the usual close relationshipsApril 1953, unusual situations and slight distances between people for no apparent reason. TillyAdolf Hitler's an accomplished pianist and she longs schedule includes going to Moscow to take her music studies further, but there's someone who's attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to mean more London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to her than her musicthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Her twinFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn's best friendt happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, Dominic Fraser is the apple we share enough of her eye and he feels the same way about herblood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. There are war clouds on But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the horizon though drudges, and when Britain declares war beyond those, right on Germany Tommy down to the childless, the husbandless and Dominic are quick the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to enlist as were many take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the men in and around party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the Moon familyfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007486</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liza PalmerRuth Hogan|title=A Field Guide to Burying Your ParentsMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Grace is reluctantly participating This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a 5k race when she receives the news: her estranged sister is calling to tell her their estranged father has had bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a stroke. That's two lots of estrangement girl in just two generations of family, but a summons is humdrum job wanting to become a summonssinger, and Grace soon finds herself dragged back into chiefly, Imelda, the heart third generation of the Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family she deserted's sea-front booth. The singer, working with the others to discover the many hidden secrets of scryer and the father who deserted them all. Itsufferer's mother will all become staff at a tough jump from revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her happy life last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a good jobwoman called Billie. Just who is she, a new boyfriend and a home of who delivered the secrets about her own to return to the family life she left behind a long time agoImelda, and Grace has why did it have to decide whether she can ignore the pull of her biological siblings once more or whether the remain a secret all this time has come to let bygones be bygones. After all, while there are lots of four letter words she would associate with her family, ''love'' is not one of them.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340962151</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia WilliamsJennifer Saint |title=Last ChristmasAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=With Christmas fast approaching, what better way This re-telling of getting in the spirit myth of things than by reading this excellent book that captures the joys Ariadne and stresses of the festive season so well? The reader follows four different people – Catherine Tinsall and her husband Noel, Marianne Moore Minotaur is interesting and Gabriel Northunusual. Each of these characters have their own reasons for not really looking forward Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to Christmas (mainly because of a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the experience viewpoint of last Christmas) and these reasons slowly become apparent Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the story progressesheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847560865</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla NoliLucy Holland|title=The Mother's TaleSistersong|rating=45|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=''It Sistersong is early evening. part of a genre I am suckling my infant son… We are picture perfect. Madonna particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and child''fairy tales.  No doubt about it: These stories, for most of us, are a new mother totally smitten cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with her sonfresh eyes and a fresh perspective. Zach is adorable. Quiet. Undemanding. A happyIf handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, generally relaxedfleshing out characters, child. Gorgeous.  But Zach isn't her firstexamining relationships and re-bornevaluating the role of women. First there was Cassie. A child who entered Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the world screaming and has since learned exactly what power she can wring plot is handled with such lungs. Not yet two years oldcare, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, Cassie adores her fatherto feel real and human, but even him she manipulatesmost importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. Her mother she terrorisesThis is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409101584</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue MoorcroftB08NF79QXT|title=Starting OverCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=The story opens Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when Tess bumps her old reliable car into a breakdown truckshe's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. That She's rather convenient, since delighted and the two people she isn's brought with her to the event couldn't hurtbe more pleased. Sonja, and the guy driving it is able to tow her to his garagemother, is an ex-model and then give Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her a lift to her new homelooks from. Naturally, since this is the Jessica'chicks thirty-litfour and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica' genres husband, Tess Charles and the trucktheir four-year-driverold daughter, who goes by the unlikely name of Ratty (an abbreviation of his surname) feel mutual antipathy of the sort thatAva. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn's clearly going to lead, sooner or later, to strong attractiont for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931224</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella WhitelawB08GFSK2WZ|title=Midsummer MadnessThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=You'll like Sophie GreshamGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She wanted to be an actress but suffers from paralysing stage fright 's not had sex for eight months 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 stuck in the prompt corner she loves karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her job and most of the cast in the theatre companyshe has a real talent for attracting drama. ItHer life's a bit of a shock though when chaotic: she realises that dealt with the guest producer leak from New York is Joe Harrison, the man shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she helped out when he had nothing to eat was in it and nowhere to sleepleft her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Sophie was a little softer in those days – in the meantime sheShe only has to take her mother's had dog out for a walk for her to develop end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a protective shellphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089147</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer BohnetB08CHJLNBS|title=Follow Your StarCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=ItHe's three years since Nanette Weston left MonacoCharles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She'd been engaged s Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a Formula 1 racing driver and had lived the life little deeper. Charles is more of the wealthy a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but a serious car accident had ended , above all , he's shocked thatEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. The accident could have killed her fiancé and she lost her driving licence because They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of the alcohol shehis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it'd consumeds obvious to his friends. Her slow recovery was hindered And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by the end of her engagement but Charles's superficiality, why does shefeel drawn to him? The relationship's found some contentment in being obviously a nanny to two young children. When her friend and employernon-starter, Vanessa, remarries and takes an extended honeymoon in the Amazon Nanette is asked to take the children back to Monaco where their father lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089090</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miss ReadHelly Acton|title=Christmas at Thrush GreenThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Set in the rural village of Thrush GreenWhen we meet Amy, this book is the latest she's in a series surrounding familiar charactersrelationship with Jamie. There is the feisty Ella BembridgeYou can't really call it a partnership, who is finally having because things tend to admit that old age is creeping up as her eyesight fails. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about herget done on his terms, but she refuses to accept any help. Albert Piggott has decided it's time to retire now that his wife, Nelly, is a successful cafe owner and sticking around because she hopes she can afford to take care of change him! And relative newcomer Phil Hurst and . Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her husband are arranging the local nativity play, despite to pack for a number of set-backssurprise trip. Will everything Could this be in place for Christmasit? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? And will independent Ella make a decision about her futureWas the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Maxine Barry|title=River Deep|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Two young women both have girlfriend comes into school with a love of the Thamesblack eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Melisande RayHer relationship has just ended and now she's beloved hotel, the Ray talk of Sunshine is on the river bankschool. It's here that guests come Mike was the most popular boy in school who want to be pampered and looked after was always so in the way love with her, everyone knew that only the best hotels can , so why did he do wellwhat he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but when Wendell James checks in to the hotel it's not pampering he's looking one thing is for. Hesure, this isn'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 eyet going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah FlemingKatie Fforde|title=Remembrance DayA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=In the year 2000 an old lady in a wheelchair watches the unveiling of the new war memorial in the village square. ThereI's pride in ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what has been achievedI was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, in the family who are gathered around her and there are memories toofriendships. Some are good but many are not.|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's first adult novelprovided two romances for the price of one, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down was actually the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in family element as opposed to the pre-scene years. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, romance that I'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and really enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne BakerB07W4MNBSG|title=Through Rose-Coloured GlassesBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Dinah Radcliffe lived It was coming up to Halloween in one of the poorer parts of Liverpool 1987 and whilst there might not have been a lot group of money to spare she was happy in her job as an apprentice milliner and spent her free time nursing her mother, Sarahsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Her father had been killed in the Great WarWhen you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but it Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the nineteen thirties Young Farmers and the Radcliffes were making the best idea of things. The son of their next door neighbour was living in a jockey farmhouse and it was his free tickets which took Dinah having a couple of children called Will and her friend Olly appealed to a race meeting at Aintree. It was there that she met Richard HaldaneCharlotte, a widowed businessman who swept Dinah off her feet or perhaps William and introduced her to a life of wealth and privilege beyond her wildest dreams. Within weeks they Oliver if you were married - and within hours Dinah discovered that her husband Elizabeth who was not determined to marry the man she thought he wasrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carole Matthews |title=That Loving Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Have you ever wondered what successful authors write about? Since they no longer partake of The place to start their search was obviously the everyday world of work, how do they Young Farmers'write about what they know' while still sounding fresh and up to the minute? Halloween disco that weekend. And how do they think up all those unique plots? Well, Carole Matthews has solved the There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in 'That Loving Feeling' by setting the book in a Public Library, cleverly utilising the hours she must have spent promoting her previous romantic comedies at Libraries up and down the countryclass. To be cruising towards twenty published novels suggests plenty of interest from library readers and it's a rather nice touch, isn't it, to set a book amongst your loyal fan base.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354168</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Sharon Griffiths |title=The Lost Guide Move on to Life and Love|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction[[Features|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living in London and hankering for a more glamorous life than the one she has. She has a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers and models. Little does she know at the time but some of the people she only glimpses that night are about to become very important to her. Just after, she agrees to go on a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in the Pennines. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on her own. Surprisingly though, it is relief rather than fear that she experiences, particularly when she realises that where she is staying has very strong links with her family's history and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen who's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quoting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>}}latest features]]