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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Hood1471180158|title=The Red ThreadMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The Red Thread Adoption Agency has been successfully placing abandoned Chinese girls Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with loving American familiesall the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, desperate for childrenBo, for many years when we join them'has his problems'. Named for He's asthmatic and the more you read, the mythical Chinese belief more you'll suspect that people who are destined he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to be together are connected by an invisible red thread, an immense amount of work goes take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in from both countries to make the process as smooth and straightforward as possible, local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to ensure school. Missed shifts or the matches need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are, if not magical, then at least perfect. Maya, the agency’s owner, knows all the children she has placed occasions when Jamie can be controlled and spends a great deal of time with put in the prospective parents before they wrong. It was going to come anywhere near their potential daughtersto a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393339769</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice PetersonLauren Bravo|title=Monday to Friday ManPreloved

|summary=Gilly (Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that's starts with a 'G', you notice) was engaged to Ed, but a fortnight before their wedding and with the gifts piling up, he changed his mind. So Gilly was left on her own at the age of thirty four with a mortgage to pay on her house in Hammersmith and only a shop job to support herself. She really didn't know what she wanted to do ends with her life but as a stopan oh-my-God-gap she decided to take in a MondayI'm-tonearly-Friday lodgerforty. This Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would give her some income, company during argue the week and the house to toss - Gwen finds herself at weekendshaving a bit of a mid-life crisis. It seemed like an added bonus when Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the man she finally settled on was, well, rather tasty. Jack Baker seemed time to have a lot going for him – and a job in reality television.take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857383248</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Tara Hyland|title=Fallen Angels|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover suggests romance with a capital 'R' along with the rather sugary titleThen Richard left them. The blurb on the back tells us we'll be travelling back and forth between various parts of the globe. The story opens with the Prologue: San Francisco in 1958 and there's a new-born baby girl taken to a local orphanage. It's a common occurrence sadly but this one stands out. We're told why towards the end when all the pieces of the jig-saw come together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan LewisHadeer Elsbai|title=StolenThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, 'Stolen' starts over thirty years ago with a harassed young mother and her three small children travelling on the tube. The children are messing about and itDaughters of Izdihar''s no wonder thatexplores the lives of two women who could not be more different, when it is time yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them all to get off. Nehal, things become difficult. This results in born into the eldest childupper class, Alexandra, being left in wishes to attend the carriage while the mother frantically attempts Weaving Academy to learn to stop control her abilities and then join the trainmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. A kindly looking man gestures that he will get off with Giorgina on the little girl at the next stop other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and will wait feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the motherDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. That What follows is how it is left so the reader cannot be sure exactly what has happened although I definitely had my suspicionsa story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099550679</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona NeillB0B575J99N|title=What Beneath the Nanny SawPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Ali Sparrow is twentyElizabeth Miller was thirty-one four and has just dropped out of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as she needs to earn some money, so becoming a nanny to teacher at a rich family seems ideal when she sees Bryony Skinnerprestigious girl's advertschool in York. Soon Ali finds herself central to the SkinnerIt was ''comfortable's vast home and life on the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent in a house that extends way beyond the usual two floors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Lovering|title=Star Struck|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Skye Threppel had a year of memories wiped out but she longed for something more in a car accident which cost the lives of her best friend and fiancélife. The physical scars were healing – although they were She'd ''still very visible – but, eighteen months on, she struggled with meeting people not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and being anywhere but now was the cosy womb of her little terrace house in Yorktime to make a change. She used to be an actress but the accident has ruined her career and her confidenceneeded challenges. It There was a massive step little trepidation when her friend Fe (that's short she applied for Felix, by the way) persuaded her to go with him to the 'Fallen Skies' TV convention professoressa job in Nevada - giving her Bologna. After a chance to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgantelephone interview, the actor she idolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931690</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Moran|title=Breakfast in Bed|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Amber is a chef in was offered the throes of a sticky divorce who has quite enough on her plate (position and the plates of her customers) without the terror of working for a wunderkind-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chef. So, because this is chick lit and the inevitable is, well, inevitable, thatit wasn's just where t long before she finds herself, landing a new job in was exploring the kitchen of Oscar Retford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154549X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Marsella|title=The Baby of Belleville|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jane de Rochefoucault, an expat living in Paris with her aristocratic husband, is just an ordinary mother fighting her way through the challenges of early parenthood from nursing to itsy-bitsy-spideringbeautiful city. However, Jane's life certainly isn't all about diaper-changing and Tupperware. Far from it. When three of There were some natural doubts before her Muslim friends decide to organise a highly dangerous slave emancipation Jane is forced to rely on her family's history of law-breaking and dodgy contacts to make sure the plan succeeds. And on top of all her maternal and culinary responsibilities Jane becomes the interpreter/secretary/personal shopper for a celebrity intellectual employer which isn't all first class but it's cracked up to bewent surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846272246</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Noble0241542405|title=The Way We WereMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Susannah comes across her old flame Rob at her brotherwe first meet Meredith Maggs it's wedding, Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she instantly remembers all of the things that she loved about him. She cannot stop thinking about him and by doing so it makes her see her partner Doug in 's not such an attractive light. Doug pays left her very little attention and often does not include her in his plans with his childrenhome for 1,214 days. They seem She'd ''like'' to merely co-exist rather than share a life together which causes Susannah to become more and more dissatisfied: in fact, especially when she compares him with Robso nearly does. Although Rob has recently married, he starts meeting with Susannah in London Her outdoor clothes are on a regular basis and the flame is soon rekindled. However, they know that she's even considered which shoes to wear if they take things further, other are bound she's going to get hurtcatch her train.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Fudge|title=Never be Lonely|rating=4|genre=Women Then, she can's Fiction|summary=There was a moment when Francesca Dudley wondered quite what she was doing in a church in Canadat. Shesimply can'd barely recovered from the lengthy flight and here she was listening t force herself to people extol leave the virtues safety of Mitchell Browning, now deceasedher home. Francesca hadnShe't seen him since he left the family home when s fortunate that she was four and nowhas a good friend, four decades laterSadie, she was coming to terms who visits regularly with the fact that her father two children, James and Matilda. had still been Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. aliveIn fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, only to Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find that he was dead – if Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you see can guess what I meanshe does in her spare time. Mitchell has not just left her fatherless though – there seems to be a whole tribe of people bereaved by his death and at least one of them doesn't seem all that keen that she should be thereThen Tom McDermott arrives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Mountain|title=Isabella|rating=4|genre=Women He's Fiction|summary=The fate of mutineerfrom Holding Hands, Fletcher Christian in the 18th century remains a mystery even today but Fiona Mountain has pieced together a dramatic and powerful story based on rumours and clues that Fletcher returned to England to be charity which supports people with his long-lost love, Isabella Curwen. Fletcher, the son of a bankrupt family and Isabella, the sole heiress of a huge fortune are prevented from marrying. Their relationship is manipulated by those around them and a young, naïve Isabella is forced to marry her cousin, Johnproblems such as Meredith's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099562251</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan Coleman0008441618|title=Lessons in Laughing Out LoudOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=Willow Briars is in her thirties and cannot exactly claim Jo Fairburn knew that her life is successful. Acrimoniously divorced, having no contact with her stepdaughter and working too many hours for a tyrannical boss, she cannot help but compare her life with her twin sister Hollywas under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn's. But Holly has not had to t live with the trauma that Willow endured as a child even though she has always been there up to support and help her. However, one day she stumbles upon and old and tucked away second hand shop with a wonderful pair of shoes in the window that seem to retired predecessor there could well be calling out to her. The shoes seem to transform Willow; not only her stature and looks but also her confidence and the way she sees herself. Also, the people who know her appear to be looking at her differently too. Transformed, she feels ready to tackle anything life has to throw at her which is probably a good thing when her fifteen year old stepdaughter turns up on her doorstep, pregnant and having run away from home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551268</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosie Thomas|title=The Kashmir Shawl|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mair Ellis and her two siblings are busy clearing out their parents' house shortly after their father's death, when Mair comes across an old package price slump in a chest that part of drawersthe town. Unwrapping the parcel from its tissue paper, Mair discovers The school had an exquisite active Parent Teacher Association and expensive, hand woven Indian shawl from Kashmir, intricately woven and full of wonderful colours. Falling out of the shawl is an envelope containing funds which they raised were a lock of hair, adding to its already mysterious nature. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007285965</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elisabeth McNeill|title=East of Aden|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was said that something strange happened to women when they went east of Aden. The normal rules of behaviour seemed to have been left at home and anything – well just about anything – seemed considerable benefit to go. Back in the early nineteen sixties three women met in Bombayschool. How would There was one difficulty, though - they fare were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the hot climate? It wasn't just the women who changed when they went out to India, eitherhead. How would the husbands of Jess, Joan Laura Spence and Jackie cope when sex seemed Kate Monroe objected to be freely available wherever they looked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092458</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Abbott|title=A Father For Daisy|rating=4|genre=WomenJo's Fiction|summary=Beatrice Rossall found herself in a difficult position. Her widowed father was an elderly vicar who took in a young unmarried girl who was expecting a baby. Soon after the baby's birth restrictions on the mother died and Bea's father died not long after, leaving Bea toys children could bring in charge of Daisy who was only a few weeks old and with the prospect on Toy Day but that she would have no home within a matter of days. She couldn't get work because of Daisy – with a lot of people believing that she was Daisy's mother – but she wasn't going to let Daisy go to the workhouse. At the end of the nineteenth century this wasn't just a good position to be in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092415</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chima Njokuwarm-Latty|title=Thoroughly Modern People: The Long Way Home|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover graphics are goodup act for their real gripe: interesting and refreshingly modern and when I opened the book I liked the easy-on-the-eye print format. And I think that's where my positive comments end. The back cover blurb says that this book is ''A beautifully moving story.'' I found it neither beautiful nor moving, I'm afraidLGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956600107</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele ParksGiovanna Fletcher|title=About Last NightWalking on Sunshine

|summary=I've noticed a trend in recent womenMike's commercial fiction titles of rather dark subject matterswife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. It seems that the light-hearted romps involving shopping and shoes And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are out and the subjects have grown up their best friends, Vicky and become much more seriousZaza. This latest from Adele Parks certainly deals with But Pia left them all some weighty issues. Steph and Pip have been best friends since they were at school together. They've supported each other through everythingrules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and although that they both find themselves would need help to carry on living very different lifestyles they . Whilst some of the rules are still best friends. Or at leastaround practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that's what they think until Steph desperately needs Pip's help after Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one eventful night of their trips away, and Pip suddenly isn't sure if she can help her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371291</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Donnelly|title=The Little Women Letters|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I read the back cover blurb Vicky and Zaza, struggling with delight and couldn't help but applaud Donnelly for her ingenuity. I loved the book ''Little Women'' when I read it many years ago their grief and television adaptations keep it fresh for new generations. Sotheir own life troubles, before I'd even turned decide to chapter onedrop everything in their own lives, I was loving this bookand go along with him. But will it live up to my lofty expectations?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718156587</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer WeinerB09FS89KX9|title=Fly Away HomeFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Sylvie Serfer married Richard Woodruff Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and from that day on made herself the perfect politician- three years later - was still working at BB's wifediner. The senator came first in everything, even before their children. That's not to say that Bob - the girls were neglected – it's just that they never came firstowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. The senator's imageHollie had moved in with her boyfriend, his convenience, his schedule Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his clothing were of paramount importance to Sylviecareer. ThereHollie wasn's a problem t quite so certain though – the senator has been having an affair : Marcus wanted to control her and as with most of all such matrimonial earthquakes in political circles it broke on he wanted her to leave her job at the national news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial homediner. What's Sylvie Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847390250</amazonuk>other people.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Moorcroft0008421714|title=Love and FreedomMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Honor Sontag left her home in The problem began just after the States and came publication of George March's most successful novel to the UKdate. Her career had hit a sticky patch Everyone but she was determined Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to take a four-month break in Brighton to think things over and get herself back together againeither be reading it or had already done so. She needed a job that would help Every day Mrs March went to supplement the money she had - and she definitely didn't want anything 'heavy'. The other thing local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she didn't want was any sort of romantic entanglement. She's not even that tempted by wrapping the brother of her landladybread, who's good looking, 'but his sister canisn't stop commenting about how irregularly he works although someone else mentions that this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the busesprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Not much Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a starter there thenweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931666</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Stagg1473685745|title=L'Auberge|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=L'Auberge des Deux Vallees was sadly neglected but it had been bought, not as everyone expected, by a relative of the mayor, but by an English couple who, by all accounts, had little French and not a lot of experience in running a restaurant. Obviously, such a travesty cannot be allowed to continue, and within hours of hearing the news, mayor Serge Papon has called an emergency council meeting to ensure that the newcomers are forced out as quickly as possible. Unfortunately he hadn't reckoned on Christian Dupuy, whose politics are guided by his conscience rather than his wallet. When it comes down to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444708236</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Kate Johnson|title=The Untied KingdomKatie Marsh|rating=4.5

|summary=Eve Carpenter is having a very bad dayWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and it is about Beth was doing her best to get worseapologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. She comes round from a paragliding accident He wasn't hurt but everything is rather strangeJake has history. Although she’s still in London, this is a city and a world she hardly recognises. There is just enough He has HLHS - that is familiar to be totally confusing. In this world, England is a backward country with a population kept too busy fighting in a civil war to do much else. She is taken captive by a small group 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of soldiers you who take her marching across the country are not ''au fait'' with themyour medical acronyms. The leader, Major Harker, is obnoxious and scruffy When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and is convinced Eve is he needed open-heart surgery when he was a spy, or perhaps she is just madfew days old. While they apparently speak the same language So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they struggle to understand each other – their worlds are so different're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare JacobC J Carey|title=Ophelia in PiecesWidowland

|summary=Barrister Ophelia Dormandy had been working hard – wellIt's April 1953, overworking – for the last six months and on Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the eve state funeral of her thirty-ninth birthday she decided that she would go home early and cook Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a decent meal for her husband bit, and herself. She even decided that she would wear watching over the sanctioned return to the red dress which Patrick likedthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. But when she got home Patrick and their sonFor yes, Alex, were eating ice creams. He Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't seem in happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the least interested in dinner and then admitted that he was having an affairmainland''. Ophelia threw him out – But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and then began the long haul ideas of female purpose, has put all of trying that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to be a decent single parent in a job where the hours were long drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the money uncertain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Giffin|title=Something Borrowed|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rachel Miller husbandless and Darcy Rhone had been friends foreverthe widows. Rachel was the older by just four months, but it was Darcy who sailed through life getting everything that she wantedFemale literacy is actively discouraged. Rachel might have reached her teens firstAnd in this puritanical existence, our heroine, got her driving licence first and then gone on to become an attorneyRose Ransom, but on the eve on Rachel's thirtieth birthday Darcy is employed with the one who is having a whale task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of a timeit – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, with her glamorous PR job and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they''very'' presentable fiancére stamped ready for reprint. Rachel That is very obviously still single – and then an ill-considered birthday fling puts everything in jeopardy and – her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to cap it all - she begins light, with their potential to realise that her friendship with Darcy might not have been all she thoughtspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099557746</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Farahad ZamaRuth Hogan|title=The Wedding WallahMadame Burova

|summary=Aisha is This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a youngbullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), beautiful and successful woman who has worked hard a girl in a humdrum job wanting to get where she is. But there is one thing missing in her life: become a man. Still living with her parents at singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the age third generation of thirty Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and inexperienced when it comes Clairvoyant'', to menuse her family's sea-front booth. The singer, Aisha wonders if she the scryer and the sufferer's mother will ever find all become staff at a husband. But revamped holiday camp, but just before then she spots an ad we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the paper and plucking up all family stall. We also see her on her courage and determinationlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she decides , and who delivered the secrets about her to reply. This could be her only chance at love Imelda, and she doesn't want why did it have to waste it.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007299281</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam BakerJennifer Saint |title=To My Best FriendsAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Nicci Morrison had always been This re-telling of the first myth of Ariadne and the four friends to do everything: fall in love, marry, have children (Minotaur is interesting and twins at that) and develop a successful businessunusual. Then, at thirty six, she was Jennifer Saint presents the first story in a way that is sympathetic to die – of cancerits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Nicci was an organiser and she couldnSaint't let s narrative is told predominantly through the opportunity pass viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to dress her friends for her funeral and death, allowing the reader to bequeath into their care really connect with Ariadne as a character in her most treasured possessions. You're probably thinking own right rather than just a prop in terms the heroics of jewellery, or something similar, but Nicci left her friends her garden, her three-year-old daughters and her husbandTheseus. I mean – just how much more difficult than that can you get?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007305540</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan WiggsLucy Holland|title=Summer at Willow LakeSistersong|rating=45|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Olivia Bellamy does not seem to have Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a lot cornerstone of luck childhood and I relish seeing them retold with menfresh eyes and a fresh perspective. When we meet her she's just about If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to put her third broken engagement under her belt stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and head of into outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the wilderness role of the Catskills with Freddywomen. Don't get excited – he really Sistersong is just a friend. They're going to revamp perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the family's old summer camp in readiness for her grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary celebrations and right now it seems like plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the best way characters to come to forget about her love life. Things turn from bad , to worse though when she finds herself not only stuck up feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a flagpole but having to be rescued by modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the man who pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was her first boyfriend some nine years beforecaptivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304760</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian RuckB08NF79QXT|title=Ragged CliffsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Lise Jacobson was half Danish Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and half Welshwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She lived 's delighted and the two people she's brought with her parents in Denmark but during to the Second World War indulged in an innocent friendship with one of the occupying German soldiersevent couldn't be more pleased. In retribution she had Sonja, her hair shorn off mother, is an ex-model and was raped by two masked menBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. After her fatherJessica's death Lisethirty-four and Liberty's mother brought Lise best friend: they've known each other since university and LiseLiberty adores Jessica's son, born as a result of the rapehusband, back to Swansea Charles and there they did their best to make a living for themselvesfour-year-old daughter, Ava. It was whilst Lise was working as Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a chambermaid that she met William Treharne, who would change man in her life permanently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904323189</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda GillardB08GFSK2WZ|title=House of Silence|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Gwen Rowland was a sensible, cautious kind of girl, but then the only family she'd ever known were all dead from a surfeit of unprotected sex, drink and the sort of drugs that don't come in a child-proof bottle. So – her relationship with an actor was a little out of the ordinary, but they seemed to be friends before they were lovers. The crunch came at Christmas when Alfie said that he was spending it with his family – which would have left Gwen on her own. She did ''slightly'' twist his arm to take her with him and he was obviously reluctant to comply. When they arrived at Creake Hall, home of author Rae Holbrook and her daughters, Gwen sensed a change in Alfie, a lack of warmth towards his family. Then there was the family photo which didn't fit the known facts and the complication of the gardener who said little but was a very good listener.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004USSPN2</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Freya North|title=ChancesLisette Boyd

|summary=Sharing a business with exGeorge Jackson is thirty-loverthree years old, Tim, is a disaster absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for Vita. How can eight months and she possibly move on when he's popping into their souvenir shop every day? Though she shed stuck in the two-timing love rat from her bed over 12 months before, his presence casts dark shadows karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her daysand she has a real talent for attracting drama. But ridding him from her Her life isn't a likely option s chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and escaping into left her precious classic fiction is sometimes , stark naked, staring at the only way she can ignore her troubled thoughtspervy postman. She cannot afford only has to buy his share of the business and she isntake her mother't prepared s dog out for a walk for her to risk losing 'That Shop' end up with its delightful trinkets dog poo spattered across her face - and resident shoplifter!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326661</amazonuk>a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo VerityB08CHJLNBS|title=Not Funny Not CleverCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Elizabeth was rather looking forward to her trip to CardiffHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She 's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and Diane hadnarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she't got together for a really good chat for a long time and with Laurence being away s moved on a cookery course in France it seemed from new age books like the ideal opportunity that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to take advantage something a little deeper. Charles is more of Dianea [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's invitationshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She had visions of girly chats – if you can still have girly chats 's not his usual type at nearly fiftyall: it's obvious to his friends. But her plans were going And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to be disrupted. him? Her son blessed her with his partnerThe relationship's teenage son 'for obviously a few days in an emergencynon-starter, isn' and she had no option but to take Jordan in – and then to take him to Cardiff with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784248</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary MaloneHelly Acton|title=Love is the ReasonThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lucy Ardle was driving home, wondering what sort of a mood her husband would be in. When she'd left earlierwe meet Amy, words had been spoken. She was nearly home when she was overtaken by the fire engine: the house was in flames and it was touch and go as to whether or not Danny would make it. Thankfully Lucy's friend, Carol Black had seen the flames and called the fire brigade or the outcome would have been much worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842234161</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clodagh Murphy|title=Girl in a Spin|rating=4|genre=Womenrelationship with Jamie. You can's Fiction|summary=Jenny Hannigan might look like the original good-time party girl but all she t really wants out of life is call it a settled home and family – mainly partnership, because that's what things tend to get done on his terms, but she's never had. So when sticking around because she begins a relationship with Richard Allam hopes she dares to hope that the dreams might be coming truecan change him. Richard is youngAh, good-looking and leader of Her Majesty's opposition. He has high hopes of becoming Prime Minister after the next electionyes. Jenny isnHaven't exactly the ideal mate we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for someone who expects to a surprise trip. Could this be the next Prime Minister and as Richard has only recently separated from his wife Jenny is it? Is he ''finally'' going to take some selling to get down on one knee? Was the country. Enter publicist Dev Tennant whose job is to make work (and the country fall in love with Jenny.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444705148</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Fern Britton|title=New Beginnings|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Christie Lynch is a widowed mother girlfriend comes into school with a couple of children black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's been keeping the proverbial wolf from talk of the door by doing some journalism – but then she gets the lucky break of an appearance on daytime televisionschool. She's spotted by Julia Keen, ''Mike was the'' most successful agent popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and it seems that the skysome don's the limit. Itt, but one thing is for sure, this isn's not long before Christie has a high-profile presenting jobt going to blow over any time soon. The public loves her. The camera loves her. What's not to like?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007362692</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda BrookfieldKatie Fforde|title=Before I Knew YouA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Two couples agree I've wanted to swap homes read author Katie Fforde for the summerages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, urged cosy read focused on by a mutual friend. Sophie and Andrew are teachers who live in Londonromance, rather jaded with life family and each other, but hoping for a breakfriendships. Their This provided two teenage daughters are on a music tour, but hope to join them romances for the last week.  William and Beth are a newly married coupleprice of one, who live in a gorgeous home in Connecticut in but it was actually the USA. William is rather older than Beth; he's a Brit who has three teenage sons living with their mother in London, not far from Sophie and Andrew's home. William wants family element as opposed to spend time with his sons in the summer, and Beth hopes to get to know them betterromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141039949</amazonuk>1780897561

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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=I'll It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be honest: I had my doubts about this bookdoing when they were fifty. Fanny Blake is a well-known journalist and sheWhen you's also written for programmes such as ''Locationre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, Location, Locationbut Liz was convinced that '' and ''A Place in the Sunyour entire life depends on who you marry''. I wasn't entirely certain how this would fit with a book about The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the lives idea of three middle-aged women who are dealing with change living in their lives – a farmhouse and they're not moving house. I sat down to have having a quick look couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to see Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if it you were Elizabeth who was going determined to be worth reviewing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007359098</amazonuk>marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.

{{newreview|author=Sophie Page|title=To Marry A Prince|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Bella Greenwood has just been away Move on a tropical island doing an eco-job for a man she though she rather fancied. She returned home when she realised that she was being taken for a mug and when it came down to it she didn't really fancy [[Features|the man that much either. Getting back into the swing of things is a little difficult though – he mother and step-father have a full house and can't take her in. Her father is up a mountain somewhere and she's just thankful that her friend Lottie is prepared to take her in at short notice – and to take her to a posh party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099560453</amazonuk>}}latest features]]