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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson Smith1471180158|title=San Marco: The End of the Road|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we [[Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not Forget by Margaret Henderson Smith|last saw ]] Harriet Glover she had just been stood up at the altar by her long-term partner, Mark but rescued and proposed to by the man she has lusted after for quite a while – Joris Sanderson. Harriet knows something else too. She knows that she's pregnant and that the father of the child is not the man she was going to marry, but the man who has now proposed. Complicated? Of course it is. This is the woman who could make Frank Spencer look like a miracle of organisation. She's going to have to do something quite spectacular this time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494687</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Sophie Duffy|title=The Generation GamePenny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=Do you remember Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who''The Generation Game'' TV show, s a control freak with old Brucie and then Larry Grayson managing all the mayhem? subtlety of a half brick. Where were you when Charles and Di got married? What about when Diana died? ThereJamie's plenty of reminiscing to be done in this book as Sophie Duffy takes us from the 1960's to 2006 through the life of her characterson, PhilippaBo, in a book that fleets from funny, heartwarming moments to real sadness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Fallon|title=The Ugly Sister|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Abi hasnhas his problems't really had much of a relationship with her sister Cleo since Cleo was discovered on the street and morphed into a successful and well known model. It He's now asthmatic and the more than 20 years lateryou read, and the sisters are hardly what more you'd call close. But, with a summer to kill and nowhere really to kill it in, Abi takes up her sisterll suspect that he's offer on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to move into her plush Primrose Hill pad and spend some 'quality take time' with the family. Except...Cleooff at short notice - she's idea of quality family time is to go to the gym. Or the spa. Or a comeback casting. Anywhere really, as long as it's away from them all. And with brother frequent flier in law Jon at work during the day, Abi quickly starts feeling like the hired help, shuttling her nieces around town local A&E and seeing to their every need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047259</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Titchmarsh|title=The Haunting|rating=4|genre=Womensometimes Bo's Fiction|summary=We don't know whether or not Harry Flint was a good history teacher – but we do know that he's disenchanted with the job and determined fit enough to make a change. His marriage go to a lawyer only lasted a few months and Harry feels – rightly or wrongly – that he needs a complete changeschool. He buys a ramshackle cottage, determined Missed shifts or the need to spend some be away on time restoring it as well as investigating his family history to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the lives of the saints. Honestly – I know what you're thinking – he is rather more fun than all that soundswrong. Well, he is - some of the timeIt was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340936886</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet ArcherLauren Bravo|title=Persuade MePreloved

|summary=A decade before we meet Anna Elliott she had fallen in love Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with Rick Wentworth when they were both working in France. Her father, Sir Walter Elliott of Kellynch and Minty, a family friend persuaded her to give up the relationship four and take up her place at Oxfordends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. She now lectures about Russian literature, but it still unmarried and largely at Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the bidding toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of her father and her two elder sistersa mid-life crisis. Rick Wentworth, meanwhile, Catharsis is key and Gwen has been in Australia, but he's decided now returned to is the UK on a tour time to promote his best-selling book. It's an academic work about sea take back her life, but the picture of a half-naked Rick on the cover and the title ''Sex in the Sea'' means that Rick – and his book- are in demand.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931216</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristin Hannah0008506337|title=Night RoadThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Lexi The love affair between Margo Garnett and Mia are best friendspoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, and Mia and Zach are twins, and Lexi and Zach hardly hate each other eitherapparently on both sides. They're not so much a couple of friends or brother and sister as Margo was just sixteen when they are a circle that goes round and round and never ends, fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and despite mother Judedescribed by Margo's initial reservations, their unconventional arrangement seems to work. Itmother as 's not like shean older man's not got enough on her plate anyway. It Her parents worried that Richard's senior year of high school influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the pressure of college applications event, they eloped and future plans is driving them all crazy, but when an event on Richard took her away from the eve Isle of graduation changes all their lives forever, there's nothing they wouldn't give Wight. Margo did go to return Oxford and went on to those stressbecome a well-filled days respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays 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'befores mind: '' she would never be able to escape the leave him in charge''after'' that now torments them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330534971</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Linda Gillard|title=Untying the Knot|rating=4Then Richard left them.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I've often wondered why it's not axiomatic that a man should stand by his woman – although perhaps it couldn't be set to music quite so easily – but Fay had failed to stand by her man. To make it worse, she was an army wife and they just don't desert – and Magnus was a hero. He'd been in bomb disposal and despite being blown up had briefed his number two about the bomb before he was taken off to hospital. He was good-looking, charismatic – and divorced. Fay knew that marrying Magnus had been a mistake – but she also admitted that the biggest mistake of all was divorcing him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005JTAMQO</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrika JonssonHadeer Elsbai|title=The Importance Daughters of Being MyrtleIzdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The front cover is lovely; itDaughters of Izdihar''s good enough to frame explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and along weavers – those with the intriguing title will help to draw readers magical abilities - ina society pitted against them. Nehal, I think. The blurb on born into the back cover suggests a cosyupper class, domestic read. I was looking forward wishes to it. We initially get all attend the sorry details leading up Weaving Academy to learn to Austin's untimely death. On control her abilities and then join the local busmilitary, of all places, as he made his way to workbut instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. A kindly Italian/Australian man called Gianni sees it all happening (in fact Austin dies in his arms). We also get a lot of background info Giorgina on Gianni, right at the very beginningother hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, which I thought slowed up whilst secretly attending meetings of the story somewhat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ann Hood|title=The Red Thread|rating=5|genre=WomenDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's Fiction|summary=The Red Thread Adoption Agency has been successfully placing abandoned Chinese girls with loving American families, desperate for children, for many years when we join themrights. Named for the mythical Chinese belief that people who are destined Giorgina also happens to be together are connected by in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an invisible red threadunjust society, an immense amount of work goes in from both countries to make the process as smooth filled with hypocrisy and straightforward as possiblecruelty, and to ensure the matches are, if not magical, then at least perfect. Maya, the agency’s owner, knows all the children she has placed and spends from which blossoms a great deal group of time with the prospective parents before they come anywhere near admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their potential daughterspersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393339769</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice PetersonB0B575J99N|title=Monday to Friday ManBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Gilly (thatElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's with a school in York. It was ''comfortable'G', you notice) was engaged to Ed, but a fortnight before their wedding and with the gifts piling up, he changed his mindshe longed for something more in life. So Gilly She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was left on her own at the age of thirty four with a mortgage time to pay on her house in Hammersmith and only make a shop job to support herselfchange. She really didn't know what she wanted to do with her life but as needed challenges. There was a stop-gap little trepidation when she decided to take applied for the professoressa job in a Monday-to-Friday lodgerBologna. This would give her some incomeAfter a telephone interview, company during she was offered the week position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the house to herself at weekendsbeautiful city. It seemed like an added bonus when the man she finally settled on was, There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well, rather tasty. Jack Baker seemed to have a lot going for him – and a job in reality television.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383248</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tara Hyland0241542405|title=Fallen AngelsMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=The front cover suggests romance with a capital When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'R' along with the rather sugary titleto: in fact, she so nearly does. The blurb Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the back tells us wesafety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie'll be travelling back s a cardiac nurse and forth between various parts full of the globesound common sense. The story opens with the Prologue: In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. San Francisco in 1958 Groceries are online deliveries and there's a newalso an internet-born baby girl taken to a local orphanagebased support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. ItHe's from Holding Hands, a common occurrence sadly but this one stands out. Wecharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith're told why towards the end when all the pieces of the jig-saw come togethers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377017</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Lewis0008441618|title=StolenOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn'Stolen' starts over thirty years ago with t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a harassed young mother and her three small children travelling on house price slump in that part of the tubetown. The children are messing about school had an active Parent Teacher Association and itthe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s no wonder that, when it is time for them all to get offwith two members, things become difficult. This results in the eldest childparticular, Alexandra, being left in causing problems for the carriage while the mother frantically attempts head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to stop Jo's restrictions on the train. A kindly looking man gestures toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that he will get off with the little girl at the next stop and will wait was just a warm-up act for the mother. That is how it is left so the reader cannot be sure exactly what has happened although I definitely had my suspicionstheir real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099550679</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona NeillGiovanna Fletcher|title=What the Nanny SawWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Ali Sparrow Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is twenty-one dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and has just dropped out of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she needs was dying and that they would need help to earn carry on living. Whilst some moneyof the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, so becoming a nanny another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to a rich family seems ideal when she sees Bryony Skinner's advert. Soon Ali finds herself central to the Skinner's vast home take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life on the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent troubles, decide to drop everything in a house that extends way beyond the usual two floorstheir own lives, and go along with him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane LoveringB09FS89KX9|title=Star StruckFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Skye Threppel had a Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of memories wiped out in a car accident which cost her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the lives of owner - regarded her best friend and fiancéfondly: he was a good boss. The physical scars were healing – although they were still very visible – butHollie had moved in with her boyfriend, eighteen months on, she struggled with meeting people Marcus: her mother thought he was great and being anywhere but the cosy womb of her little terrace house he was doing well in Yorkhis career. She used Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to be an actress but the accident has ruined control her career and most of all he wanted her confidenceto leave her job at the diner. It Then there was a massive step when her friend Fe (the fact that's short for Felixhe would be violent, by the way) persuaded her both to go with him to the 'Fallen Skies' TV convention in Nevada - giving her a chance and to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgan, the actor she idolisesother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931690</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor Moran0008421714|title=Breakfast in BedMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=24.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Amber is a chef in The problem began just after the throes publication of a sticky divorce who has quite enough George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on her plate (and the plates of her customerslast page) without seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the terror of working for bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a wunderkind-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chefcharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. So Perhaps this would not have mattered, because this except for the fact that Johanna is chick lit and the inevitable iswhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, welldetestable, inevitablepathetic, that's just where she finds herselfunloved, landing a new job in the kitchen of Oscar Retfordunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154549X</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Marsella1473685745|title=The Baby of BellevilleUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane de RochefoucaultWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, an expat living in Paris Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with her aristocratic husbandyour medical acronyms. When he was born, is just an ordinary mother fighting her way through the challenges left side of early parenthood from nursing to itsyhis heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-bitsy-spideringheart surgery when he was a few days old. HoweverSo, Jane's life certainly Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't all about diaper-changing looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Tupperware. Far from it. When three Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of her Muslim friends decide Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to organise London, parading around a highly dangerous slave emancipation Jane is forced bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to rely the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on her family's history 'the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of lawthat gender into a caste system, ranging from high-breaking brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and dodgy contacts beyond those, right on down to make sure the plan succeedschildless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And on top in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all her maternal , not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and culinary responsibilities Jane becomes so they just get a hefty tweak towards the interpreter/secretary/personal shopper party line before they're stamped ready for a celebrity intellectual employer which isn't all itreprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's cracked up to bevisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846272246</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth NobleRuth Hogan|title=The Way We WereMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Susannah comes across her old flame Rob at This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her brotherfamily's weddingsea-front booth. The singer, she instantly remembers all of the things that she loved about him. She cannot stop thinking about him scryer and by doing so it makes her the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see her partner Doug Imelda fly solo for the first time in not such an attractive lightthe family stall. Doug pays We also see her very little attention and often does not include on her last day, fifty years later, in his plans with his childrenpossession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. They seem to merely co-exist rather than share a life together which causes Susannah to become more and more dissatisfied, especially when Just who is she compares him with Rob. Although Rob has recently married, he starts meeting with Susannah in London on a regular basis and who delivered the flame is soon rekindled. Howeversecrets about her to Imelda, they know that if they take things further, other are bound and why did it have to get hurt.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043113</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela FudgeJennifer Saint |title=Never be LonelyAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=There was This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a moment when Francesca Dudley wondered quite what she was doing in way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a church in Canadamodern audience. SheSaint'd barely recovered s narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from the lengthy flight and here she was listening her childhood to people extol the virtues of Mitchell Browningher death, now deceased. Francesca hadn't seen him since he left allowing the family home when she was four and now, four decades later, she was coming reader to terms really connect with the fact that Ariadne as a character in her father had still been alive, only to find that he was dead – if you see what I mean. Mitchell has not own right rather than just left her fatherless though – there seems to be a whole tribe of people bereaved by his death and at least one prop in the heroics of them doesn't seem all that keen that she should be thereTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709092539</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Fiona Mountain|title=Isabella|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The fate of mutineer, 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 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, John. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099562251</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rowan ColemanLucy Holland|title=Lessons in Laughing Out LoudSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Willow Briars Sistersong is in her thirties part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and cannot exactly claim that her life is successfulfairy tales. Acrimoniously divorcedThese stories, having no contact for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with her stepdaughter fresh eyes and working too many hours for a tyrannical boss, she cannot help but compare her fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life with her twin sister Holly's. But Holly has not had and new meaning to live with the trauma stories that Willow endured as a child even though she has always been there to support are now becoming increasingly narrow and help her. Howeveroutdated, fleshing out characters, one day she stumbles upon examining relationships and old and tucked away second hand shop with re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a wonderful pair perfect example of shoes in a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the window that seem characters to be calling out come to her. The shoes seem life, to transform Willow; not only her stature feel real and looks but also her confidence and the way she sees herself. Alsohuman, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the people who know her appear to be looking at her differently toopre-Saxon age they live in. Transformed, she feels ready to tackle anything life has to throw at her which This is probably a good thing when her fifteen year old stepdaughter turns up on her doorstep, pregnant masterpiece of storytelling and having run away I was captivated from homebeginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099551268</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie ThomasB08NF79QXT|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 in a chest of drawers. Unwrapping the parcel from its tissue paper, Mair discovers an exquisite and expensive, hand woven Indian shawl from Kashmir, intricately woven and full of wonderful colours. Falling out of the shawl is an envelope containing a lock of hair, adding to its already mysterious nature. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007285965</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Elisabeth McNeill|title=East of AdenBrooke Adams

|summary=It was said that something strange happened to women Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when they went east of Adenshe's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. The normal rules of behaviour seemed to have been left at home She's delighted and anything – well just about anything – seemed the two people she's brought with her to gothe event couldn't be more pleased. Back in the early nineteen sixties three women met in BombaySonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. How would Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they fare in the hot climate? It wasn't just the women who changed when they went out to Indiave known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, eitherAva. How Life would the husbands of Jess, Joan and Jackie cope when sex seemed to be freely available wherever they looked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092458</amazonuk>perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen AbbottB08GFSK2WZ|title=A Father For DaisyThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Beatrice Rossall found herself in a difficult positionGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. Her widowed father was an elderly vicar who took in a young unmarried girl who was expecting a baby. Soon after the babyShe's birth the mother died not had sex for eight months and Beashe's father died not long after, leaving Bea stuck in charge the karma trap: an awful lot of Daisy who was only a few weeks old bad luck is being visited on her and with the prospect that she would have no home within has a matter of daysreal talent for attracting drama. She couldnHer life't get work because of Daisy – s chaotic: she dealt with a lot the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of people believing that the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was Daisy's mother – but she wasn't going to let Daisy go to in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the workhousepervy postman. At the end of the nineteenth century this wasnShe only has to take her mother't s dog out for a good position walk for her to be inend up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092415</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chima Njoku-LattyB08CHJLNBS|title=Thoroughly Modern People: The Long Way Home|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover graphics are good: 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 afraid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956600107</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Adele Parks|title=About Last NightBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=IHe've noticed s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a trend in recent womenpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's commercial fiction titles of rather dark subject matters. It seems that the lightEmilia, twenty-hearted romps involving shopping and shoes are out nine, librarian and archivist in the subjects have grown up and become much more seriousheritage library next door. This latest Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from Adele Parks certainly deals with some weighty issuesnew age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Steph and Pip have been best friends since they were at school togetherCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They've supported each other through everythingre obviously not at all compatible, and although they both find themselves living very different lifestyles they are still best so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. Or at least, And given thatEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's what they think until Steph desperately needs Pipsuperficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's help after one eventful night and Pip suddenly obviously a non-starter, isn't sure if she can help her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371291</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle DonnellyHelly Acton|title=The Little Women LettersShelf|rating=4|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=I read the back cover blurb When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with delight and couldnJamie. You can't help really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but applaud Donnelly she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for her ingenuitya surprise trip. I loved the book Could this be it? Is he ''Little Womenfinally'' when I read it many years ago and television adaptations keep it fresh for new generations. So, before I'd even turned going to chapter get down on one, I was loving this book. But will knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it live up to my lofty expectations?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718156587</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Jennifer Weiner|title=Fly Away Home|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Sylvie Serfer married Richard Woodruff girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and from that day on made herself the perfect politiciannow she's wifethe talk of the school. The senator came first Mike was the most popular boy in everythingschool who was always so in love with her, even before their children. That's not to say everyone knew that the girls were neglected – it's just that they never came first. The senator, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don's imaget, his conveniencebut one thing is for sure, his schedule and his clothing were of paramount importance this isn't going to Sylvie. There's a problem though – the senator has been having an affair and as with all such matrimonial earthquakes in political circles it broke on the national news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial homeblow over any time soon. What's Sylvie to do?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847390250</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftKatie Fforde|title=Love and FreedomA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Honor Sontag left her home in the States I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and came to the UK. Her career had hit a sticky patch but she this was pretty much exactly what I was determined to take a fourexpecting -month break in Brighton to think things over and get herself back together again. She needed a job that would help to supplement the money she had - warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and she definitely didn't want anything 'heavy'. The other thing that she didn't want was any sort of romantic entanglementfriendships. She's not even that tempted by This provided two romances for the brother price of her landlady, who's good lookingone, but his sister can't stop commenting about how irregularly he works although someone else mentions it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that he's on the buses. Not much of a starter there thenI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931666</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreview|author=Julia Stagg|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate JohnsonB07W4MNBSG|title=The Untied Kingdom|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Eve Carpenter is having a very bad day, and it is about to get worse. She comes round from a paragliding accident but everything is rather strange. Although she’s still in London, this is a city and a world she hardly recognises. There is just enough 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 of soldiers who take her marching across the country with them. The leader, Major Harker, is obnoxious and scruffy, and is convinced Eve is a spy, or perhaps she is just mad. While they apparently speak the same language, they struggle to understand each other – their worlds are so different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Clare Jacob|title=Ophelia in PiecesLizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Barrister Ophelia Dormandy had been working hard – well, overworking – for the last six months It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and on the eve a group of her thirtysixth-ninth birthday she decided that she form schoolgirls wondered what they would go home early and cook a decent meal for her husband and herself. She even decided that she would wear the red dress which Patrick liked. But be doing when she got home Patrick and their son, Alex, they were eating ice creamsfifty. He didnWhen you't seem in the least interested in dinner and then admitted re only seventeen that he seems positively ancient, but Liz was having an affairconvinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. Ophelia threw him out – The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and then began the long haul idea of trying to be living in a decent single parent in farmhouse and having a job where 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 hours 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 long and too many Elizabeths in the money uncertainclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595147</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Emily Giffin|title=Something Borrowed|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rachel Miller and Darcy Rhone had been friends forever. Rachel was the older by just four months, but it was Darcy who sailed through life getting everything that she wanted. Rachel might have reached her teens first, got her driving licence first and then gone on to become an attorney, but on the eve Move on Rachel's thirtieth birthday Darcy is the one who is having a whale of a time, with her glamorous PR job and ''very'' presentable fiancé. Rachel is very obviously still single – and then an ill-considered birthday fling puts everything in jeopardy and – to cap it all - she begins to realise that her friendship with Darcy might not have been all she thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099557746</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Farahad Zama|title=The Wedding Wallah|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Finishing 'The Wedding Wallah' is like leaving India at the end of a short holiday with myriad impressions of foreignness. I'll remember the crowds of Mumbai, the smells of cooking in small rooms, the colours and textures of saris, the dangerous forest. This may not be the greatest literature published this year – not even the finest romantic fiction – but the sheer novelty of the Indian world portrayed makes it five stars for enjoyment in my book. I imagined Farahad Zama as a female writer beavering away in rural India. Turns out I was wrong: the author is a male investment banker in London with two books previously published in this series. Oops.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349122687</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Glass|title=Run, Mummy, Run|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Aisha is a young, beautiful and successful woman who has worked hard to get where she is. But there is one thing missing in her life: a man. Still living with her parents at the age of thirty and inexperienced when it comes to men, Aisha wonders if she will ever find a husband. But then she spots an ad in the paper and plucking up all her courage and determination, she decides to reply. This could be her only chance at love and she doesn't want to waste it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007299281</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Baker|title=To My Best Friends|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction[[Features|summary=Nicci Morrison had always been the first of the four friends to do everything: fall in love, marry, have children (and twins at that) and develop a successful business. Then, at thirty six, she was the first to die – of cancer. Nicci was an organiser and she couldn't let the opportunity pass to dress her friends for her funeral and to bequeath into their care her most treasured possessions. You're probably thinking in terms of jewellery, or something similar, but Nicci left her friends her garden, her three-year-old daughters and her husband. I mean – just how much more difficult than that can you get?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007305540</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Wiggs|title=Summer at Willow Lake|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Olivia Bellamy does not seem to have a lot of luck with men. When we meet her she's just about to put her third broken engagement under her belt and head of into the wilderness of the Catskills with Freddy. Don't get excited – he really is just a friend. They're going to revamp the family's old summer camp in readiness for her grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary celebrations and right now it seems like the best way to forget about her love life. Things turn from bad to worse though when she finds herself not only stuck up a flagpole but having to be rescued by the man who was her first boyfriend some nine years before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304760</amazonuk>}}latest features]]