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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Marsh1471180158|title=Fiennders AbbeyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In was Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the end subtlety of the nineteenth century a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the family at Fiennders Abbey might lead much more leisurely lives than the staff who kept the house running as it shouldyou read, but their fortunes were inextricably linked. Mary Bowden was the tweenie when we first met her – she did all more you'll suspect that he's on the dirty jobs which were beneath those higher up the ladder – as well as being the daughter of the gamekeeperautistic spectrum. She was also intelligent, ambitious and very attractive with her straight, milkSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -blonde hair. As a child she'd always been very friendly with Richard, s a frequent flier in the son of the house, but itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a friendship which either of their mothers wishes to fosterhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447200071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Henderson SmithLauren Bravo|title=San Marco: The End of the RoadPreloved|rating=34

|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 Gwen is pressing her longmiddle-term partner, Mark but rescued aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and proposed to by ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the man she has lusted after for quite toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a while – Joris Sandersonmid-life crisis. Harriet knows something else too. She knows that she's pregnant Catharsis is key and that the father of the child is not the man she was going to marry, but the man who Gwen has decided now proposed. Complicated? Of course it is. This is the woman who could make Frank Spencer look like a miracle of organisation. Shetime to take back her life's going to have to do something quite spectacular this time around.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845494687</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Duffy0008506337|title=The Generation GameGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=Do you remember The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'The Generation Gamean older man'. Her parents worried that Richard' TV shows influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, with old Brucie they eloped and then Larry Grayson managing Richard took her away from the mayhem? Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Where Life was lived in London and holidays were you when Charles and Di got married? spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. What Even then the doubts about when Diana died? ThereRichard's plenty of reminiscing to be done in this book as Sophie Duffy takes us drinking were never far from the 1960Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to 2006 through the life of her character, Philippa, leave him in a book that fleets from funny, heartwarming moments to real sadnesscharge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248017</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jane Fallon|title=The Ugly Sister|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Abi hasn'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's now more than 20 years later, and the sisters are hardly what you'd call close. But, with a summer to kill and nowhere really to kill it in, Abi takes up her sister's offer to move into her plush Primrose Hill pad and spend some 'quality time' with the family. Except...Cleo'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 Then Richard left them all. And with brother in law Jon at work during the day, Abi quickly starts feeling like the hired help, shuttling her nieces around town and seeing to their every need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan TitchmarshHadeer Elsbai|title=The HauntingDaughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=We donDrawing inspiration from Egypt, 't know whether or 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not Harry Flint was a good history teacher be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – but we do know that he's disenchanted those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the job upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and determined to make a changethen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. His marriage to Giorgina on the other hand did not have a lawyer only lasted a few months privileged upbringing like Nehal and Harry feels – rightly or wrongly – that he needs a complete change. He buys a ramshackle cottage, determined great pressure to spend some time restoring it as well as investigating his provide for her family history and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the lives Daughters of the saints. Honestly Izdihar – I know what youa group campaigning for women're thinking – he s rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is rather more fun than all that sounds. Wella story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, he is - some from which blossoms a group of the timeadmirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340936886</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet ArcherB0B575J99N|title=Persuade MeBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=A decade before we meet Anna Elliott she had fallen in love with Rick Wentworth when they were both working Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in FranceYork. Her father, Sir Walter Elliott of Kellynch and Minty, a family friend persuaded her to give up the relationship and take up her place at OxfordIt was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She now lectures about Russian literature, but it 'd ''still unmarried and largely at not found the right vocation nor met the bidding of her father right man'' and her two elder sisters. Rick Wentworth, meanwhile, has been in Australia, but he's now returned was the time to the UK on make a tour to promote his best-selling bookchange. She needed challenges. It's an academic work about sea life, but There was a little trepidation when she applied for the picture of professoressa job in Bologna. After a half-naked Rick on telephone interview, she was offered the cover position and the title it wasn''Sex in t long before she was exploring the Sea'' means that Rick – and his book- are in demandbeautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931216</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristin Hannah0241542405|title=Night Road|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lexi and Mia are best friends, and Mia and Zach are twins, and Lexi and Zach hardly hate each other either. They're not so much a couple of friends or brother and sister as they are a circle that goes round and round and never ends, and despite mother Jude's initial reservations, their unconventional arrangement seems to work. It's not like she's not got enough on her plate anyway. It's senior year of high school and the pressure of college applications and future plans is driving them all crazy, but when an event on the eve of graduation changes all their lives forever, there's nothing they wouldn't give to return to those stress-filled days of the ''before'' to escape the ''after'' that now torments them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330534971</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMeredith Alone|author=Linda Gillard|title=Untying the KnotClaire Alexander

|summary=IWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it've often wondered why its Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not axiomatic that a man should stand by his woman – although perhaps it couldnleft her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like''t be set to music quite : in fact, she so easily – but Fay had failed nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to stand by wear if she's going to catch her mantrain. To make it worseThen, she was an army wife and they just doncan't desert – and Magnus was a hero. HeShe simply can'd been in bomb disposal and despite being blown up had briefed his number two about t force herself to leave the bomb before he was taken off to hospitalsafety of her home. He was She's fortunate that she has a good-lookingfriend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, charismatic – James and divorcedMatilda. Fay knew that marrying Magnus had been Sadie's a mistake – but she also admitted that the biggest mistake cardiac nurse and full of all sound common sense. In fact it was divorcing himSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005JTAMQO</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Ulrika Jonsson|title=The Importance of Being Myrtle|rating=4Frontpage|genreisbn=Women's Fiction0008441618|summary=The front cover is lovely; it's good enough to frame and along with the intriguing title will help to draw readers in, I think. The blurb on the back cover suggests a cosy, domestic read. I was looking forward to it. We initially get all the sorry details leading up to Austin's untimely death. On the local bus, of all places, as he made his way to work. 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 on Gianni, right at the very beginning, which I thought slowed up the story somewhat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043202</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Ann Hood|title=The Red ThreadSarah Stovell

|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 them. Named for Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the mythical Chinese belief that people who are destined new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be together are connected by an invisible red thread, an immense amount a house price slump in that part of work goes in from both countries to make the process as smooth and straightforward as possible, town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to ensure the matches areschool. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', if not magicalwith two members, then at least perfect. Mayain particular, causing problems for the agency’s owner, knows all head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children she has placed and spends could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a great deal of time with the prospective parents before they come anywhere near warm-up act for their potential daughtersreal gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393339769</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice PetersonGiovanna Fletcher|title=Monday to Friday ManWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Gilly (thatMike's with a 'G'wife, Pia, you notice) who he was engaged to Ed, but a fortnight before their wedding and with the gifts piling upfor seventeen years, has died. And whilst he changed is dealing with his mindgrief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. So Gilly was But Pia left on her own at the age of thirty four with a mortgage them all some 'rules' to pay on her house in Hammersmith follow, knowing that she was dying and only a shop job that they would need help to support herselfcarry on living. She really didn't know what she wanted to do with Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her life but as a stop-gap she decided wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take in a Monday-to-Friday lodger. This would give her some incomeone of their trips away, company during the week and the house to herself at weekends. It seemed like an added bonus when the man she finally settled on wasVicky and Zaza, wellstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, rather tasty. Jack Baker seemed decide to have a lot going for drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him – and a job in reality television.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857383248</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tara HylandB09FS89KX9|title=Fallen AngelsFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=The front cover suggests romance with a capital 'R' along with the rather sugary title. Life should have been good for Hollie: The blurb on She was just going into the back tells us wefinal year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB'll be travelling back and forth between various parts of the globes diner. The story opens with Bob - the Prologueowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. San Francisco Hollie had moved in 1958 with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and there's a new-born baby girl taken to a local orphanagehe was doing well in his career. ItHollie wasn's a common occurrence sadly but this one stands outt quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. We're told why towards Then there was the end when all the pieces of the jig-saw come togetherfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377017</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Lewis0008421714|title=StolenMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March'Stolen' starts over thirty years ago with a harassed young mother and s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her three small children travelling first name only on the tubelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. The children are messing about and it's no wonder Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on thatparticular morning, when it is time for them all to get offPatricia asked, things become difficult. This results in as she was wrapping the eldest childbread, Alexandra''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, being left in the carriage while the mother frantically attempts to stop the trainprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. A kindly looking man gestures that he will get off with the little girl at the next stop and will wait Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the mother. That fact that Johanna is how it is left so the reader cannot be sure exactly what has happened although I definitely had my suspicionswhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099550679</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Neill1473685745|title=What the Nanny SawUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Ali Sparrow is twentyWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange -one well, Simon was angry and has just dropped out of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as she needs Beth was doing her best to earn some moneyapologise for having knocked Simon's son, so becoming a nanny to a rich family seems ideal when she sees Bryony SkinnerJake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's advertHypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. Soon Ali finds herself central to When he was born, the Skinnerleft side of his heart hadn's vast home t developed properly and life on the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent in he needed open-heart surgery when he was a house that extends way beyond the usual two floorsfew days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane LoveringC J Carey|title=Star StruckWidowland|rating=3.54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Skye Threppel had a year of memories wiped out in a car accident which cost It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the lives state funeral of her best friend and fiancé. The physical scars were healing – although they were still very visible – butJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, eighteen months onparading around a bit, she struggled with meeting people and being anywhere but watching over the sanctioned return to the cosy womb throne of her little terrace house in YorkEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. She used For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to be an actress but the accident has ruined her career World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and her confidence. It was we are now a massive step when her friend Fe (that's short for Felixprotectorate – well, by we share enough of the way) persuaded her to go with him to same blood as the Germanic peoples on 'Fallen Skies' TV convention in Nevada - giving her a chance to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgan, the actor she idolisesmainland''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931690</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Moran|title=Breakfast in Bed|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Amber But this is most certainly a chef in the throes different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a sticky divorce who has quite enough caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on her plate (down to the childless, the husbandless and the plates of her customers) without widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the terror task of working bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for a wunderkind-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chef. Sofemale emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, because this is chick lit and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the inevitable party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That isher job, wellat least, inevitableuntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, thatwith their potential to spoil Hitler's just where she finds herself, landing a new job in the kitchen of Oscar Retfordvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075154549X</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{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-spidering. However, Jane's life certainly isn't all about diaper-changing and Tupperware. Far from it. When three of 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 it's cracked up to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846272246</amazonuk>}} {{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 her brother's weddingThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, she instantly remembers all of the things that she loved about himvaguely connected. She cannot stop thinking about him and by doing so it makes her see her partner Doug in not such an attractive light. Doug pays her very little attention and often does not include her So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in his plans with his children. They seem to merely co-exist rather than share a life together which causes Susannah humdrum job wanting to become more a singer, and more dissatisfiedchiefly, especially when she compares him with Rob. Although Rob has recently marriedImelda, he starts meeting with Susannah in London on a regular basis and the flame is soon rekindled. Howeverthird generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, they know that if they take things furtherPalmist and Clairvoyant'', other are bound to get hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Fudge|title=Never be Lonely|rating=4|genre=Womenuse her family's Fiction|summary=There was a moment when Francesca Dudley wondered quite what she was doing in a church in Canadasea-front booth. She'd barely recovered from The singer, the lengthy flight scryer and here she was listening to people extol the virtues of Mitchell Browningsufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, now deceasedbut just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. Francesca hadn't seen him since he left the family home when she was four and nowWe also see her on her last day, four decades fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she was coming to terms with , and who delivered the fact that secrets about her father had still been aliveto Imelda, only to find that he was dead – if you see what I mean. Mitchell has not just left her fatherless though – there seems and why did it have to be remain a whole tribe of people bereaved by his death and at least one of them doesn't seem secret all that keen that she should be there.this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709092539</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona MountainJennifer Saint |title=IsabellaAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The fate This re-telling of mutineer, Fletcher Christian in the 18th century remains a mystery even today but Fiona Mountain has pieced together a dramatic myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and powerful unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story based on rumours and clues in a way that Fletcher returned is sympathetic to England its origins but also appealing to be with his long-lost love, Isabella Curwena modern audience. Fletcher, Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the son viewpoint of a bankrupt family and IsabellaAriadne, the sole heiress of a huge fortune are prevented spanning from marrying. Their relationship is manipulated by those around them and a youngher childhood to her death, naïve Isabella is forced allowing the reader to marry really connect with Ariadne as a character in her cousin, Johnown right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099562251</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{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 window that seem to be calling out to her. The shoes seem to transform Willow; not only her stature and looks plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but also her confidence and allowing the way she sees herself. Also, the people who know her appear characters to be looking at her differently too. Transformed, she feels ready come 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 feel real and her two siblings are busy clearing out their parents' house shortly after their father's deathhuman, when Mair comes across an old package most importantly they feel relatable in a chest of drawers. Unwrapping modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the parcel from its tissue paper, Mair discovers an exquisite and expensive, hand woven Indian shawl from Kashmir, intricately woven and full of wonderful colourspre-Saxon age they live in. Falling out of the shawl This is an envelope containing a lock masterpiece of hair, adding storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to its already mysterious natureend. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007285965</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elisabeth McNeillB08NF79QXT|title=East of AdenCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke 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 HomeCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=2.53

|summary=The front cover graphics are good: interesting He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and refreshingly modern and when I opened a partner at Wickham Jones, the book I liked the easy-onMayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the-eye print formatheritage library next door. And I think 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 where my positive comments endphilosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The back cover blurb says that Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this book is woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it'A beautifully moving storys obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship' I found it neither beautiful nor movings obviously a non-starter, Iisn'm afraid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956600107</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele ParksHelly Acton|title=About Last NightThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=IWhen we meet Amy, she've noticed s in a trend in recent womenrelationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's commercial fiction titles of rather dark subject matterssticking around because she hopes she can change him. It seems that the light-hearted romps involving shopping and shoes Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are out and the subjects have grown looking up and become much more seriouswhen he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. This latest from Adele Parks certainly deals with some weighty issues. Steph and Pip have been best friends since they were at school together. TheyCould this be it? Is he ''ve supported each other through everything, and although they both find themselves living very different lifestyles they are still best friends. Or at least, thatfinally's what they think until Steph desperately needs Pip's help after going to get down on one eventful night knee? Was the work (and Pip suddenly isn't sure if she can help her best friend.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755371291</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Donnelly|title=The Little Women Letters|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I read When Mike Parker's 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 now she's the talk of the school. Mike was the back cover blurb most popular boy in school who was always so in love with delight her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and couldnsome don't help , but applaud Donnelly one thing is for her ingenuity. I loved the book ''Little Women'' when I read it many years ago and television adaptations keep it fresh for new generations. Sosure, before Ithis isn'd even turned t going to chapter one, I was loving this bookblow over any time soon. But will it live up to my lofty expectations?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718156587</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer WeinerKatie Fforde|title=Fly Away HomeA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sylvie Serfer married Richard Woodruff and from that day on made herself the perfect politician's wife. The senator came first in everything, even before their children. ThatI's not ve wanted to say that the girls were neglected – it's just that they never came first. The senator's imageread author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, his conveniencecosy read focused on romance, his schedule family and his clothing were of paramount importance to Sylviefriendships. There's a problem though – This provided two romances for the senator has been having an affair and as with all such matrimonial earthquakes in political circles price of one, but it broke on was actually the national news rather than in family element as opposed to the privacy of the matrimonial homeromance that I really enjoyed. What's Sylvie to do?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847390250</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue MoorcroftB07W4MNBSG|title=Love and Freedom|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Honor Sontag left her home in the States and came to the UK. Her career had hit a sticky patch but she was determined to take a four-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 - and she definitely didn't want anything 'heavy'. The other thing that she didn't want was any sort of romantic entanglement. She's not even that tempted by the brother of her landlady, who's good looking, but his sister can't stop commenting about how irregularly he works although someone else mentions that he's on the buses. Not much of a starter there then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931666</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBe Careful Who You Marry|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>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Johnson|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>}} {{newreview|author=Clare Jacob|title=Ophelia in Pieces|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Barrister Ophelia Dormandy had been working hard – well, overworking – for the last six months and on the eve of her thirty-ninth birthday she decided that she 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 when she got home Patrick and their son, Alex, were eating ice creams. He didn't seem in the least interested in dinner and then admitted that he was having an affair. Ophelia threw him out – and then began the long haul of trying to be a decent single parent in a job where the hours were long and the money uncertain.|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 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, RunLizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Aisha is It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a younggroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, beautiful and successful woman but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who has worked hard to get where she isyou marry''. But there is one thing missing The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in her life: a man. Still living with her parents at the age farmhouse and having a couple of thirty children called Will and inexperienced when it comes Olly appealed to menCharlotte, Aisha wonders or perhaps William and Oliver if she will ever find a husbandyou were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. But then she spots an ad There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths 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 itclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007299281</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Sam Baker|title=To My Best Friends|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|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 Move on 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[[Features|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]]