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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=WomenGeneral Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's Fiction==asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local 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 head.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina CourtenayLauren Bravo|title=Highland StormsPreloved

|summary=The publisher, Choc Lit Limited, gives Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a fair idea of what kind of read this book is. Romance big number that starts with a capital Rfour and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Courtenay decides to go back in time to Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a Scotland rather weary bit of battles but strong in image especially in terms of the countrysidea mid-life crisis. Is Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the book's purple hue suggestive of the purple heather time to be found all over this area of Scotland, I wonder. It all conjures up a deeply romantic setting for many, myself included. Add in the odd fairy-tale castle or two and ittake back her life's even better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931712</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreview|author=Jean Marsh|title=Fiennders Abbey|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In was the end of the nineteenth century and the family at Fiennders Abbey might lead much more leisurely lives than the staff who kept the house running as it should, but their fortunes were inextricably linked. Mary Bowden was the tweenie when we first met her – she did all the dirty jobs which were beneath those higher up the ladder – as well as being the daughter of the gamekeeper. She was also intelligent, ambitious and very attractive with her straight, milk-blonde hair. As a child she'd always been very friendly with Richard, the son of the house, but it's not a friendship which either of their mothers wishes to foster.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447200071</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Henderson Smith0008506337|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>}} {{newreviewGarnett Girls|author=Sophie Duffy|title=The Generation GameGeorgina 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 in France. Her father, Sir Walter Elliott of Kellynch Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Minty, a family friend persuaded her to give up the relationship and take up her place teacher at Oxford. She now lectures about Russian literature, but it still unmarried and largely at the bidding of her father and her two elder sisters. Rick Wentworth, meanwhile, has been in Australia, but hea prestigious girl's now returned to the UK on a tour to promote his best-selling bookschool in York. It's an academic work about sea life, but the picture of a half-naked Rick on the cover and the title was ''Sex in the Seacomfortable'' means that Rick – and his book- are but she longed for something more in demandlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931216</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristin Hannah|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 She'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 Juded 's initial reservations, their unconventional arrangement seems to work. It's still not like shefound the right vocation nor met the right man's not got enough on her plate anyway. It's senior year of high school and now was the pressure of college applications and future plans is driving them all crazy, but time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when an event on she applied for the eve of graduation changes all their lives foreverprofessoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, there's nothing they wouldnshe was offered the position and it wasn't give to return to those stress-filled days of long before she was exploring the ''beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before'' to escape the ''after'' that now torments themher first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330534971</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Gillard0241542405|title=Untying the KnotMeredith Alone|author=Claire 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 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 just dropped out HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as she needs to earn some moneyyou who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, so becoming the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a nanny few days old. So, Simon has every right to a rich family seems ideal be over-protective particularly when she sees Bryony Skinnersomeone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's advertschedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Soon Ali finds herself central For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the SkinnerWorld War Two that certainly didn's vast home t happen as we know it, and life we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent in mainland''. But this is most certainly a house different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that extends way gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the usual two floorschildless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreview|author=Jane Lovering|title=Star Struck|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Skye Threppel had a year of memories wiped out in a car accident which cost the lives of her best friend and fiancé. The physical scars were healing – although they were still very visible – but, eighteen months on, she struggled with meeting people and being anywhere but the cosy womb of her little terrace house in York. She used to be an actress but the accident has ruined her career and her confidence. It was a massive step when her friend Fe (that's short for Felix, by the way) persuaded her to go with him to the 'Fallen Skies' TV convention in Nevada - giving her a chance to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgan, 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 the throes of a sticky divorce who has quite enough on her plate (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, that's just where she finds herself, landing a new job in 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-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 women's commercial fiction titles of rather dark subject matters. It seems that the light-hearted romps involving shopping and shoes are out and the subjects have grown up and become much more serious. This latest from Adele Parks certainly deals relationship with some weighty issuesJamie. Steph and Pip have been best friends since they were at school together. TheyYou can've supported each other through everythingt really call it a partnership, and although they both find themselves living very different lifestyles they are still best friends. Or at leastbecause things tend to get done on his terms, thatbut she's what they think until Steph desperately needs Pip's help after one eventful night and Pip suddenly isn't sure if sticking around because she hopes she can help her best friendchange him. Ah, yes.|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 with delight and couldnHaven't help but applaud Donnelly 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]]