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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{adsense2}}Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction__NOTOC__ <!|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 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 - Remove -->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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Walk Me HomeLauren Bravo|authortitle=Catherine Ryan HydePreloved|rating=54

|summary=Carly and Jen’s mother Gwen is dead pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and they have no other living relativeends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Scared that they will be placed in care in separate homes, Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the sisters decide that they have to find their mother’s former boyfriend, Teddy, one toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of the only people to have shown them any care and affection in their short livesa mid-life crisis. The only problem Catharsis is that they are not sure where he key and Gwen has decided now is now, other than in California, and have no money or means of getting there. They decide the time to walk but how long will it take and what will they find waiting for them when they finally reach their destination?back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055277801X</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|title=Midsummer Magic|author=Julia Williams|rating=1|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=After a whirlwind romance, Josie and Harry are engaged to be married and she is putting every waking hour into planning the wedding down to the finest detail. This includes taking Harry, bridesmaid Diana and best man Ant down to her parents’ home in Cornwall for the weekend as that is where the wedding is going to be taking place. It should be a weekend of excited planning and preparations but, unfortunately, things don’t turn out entirely as Josie hopes. She turns into the 'bride from Hell' driving all her friends crazy with boredom as she talks non-stop about the wedding plans in the minutest of details. In order to liven things up, Harry and Ant persuade the girls to take part in a hypnosis experiment which will make Then Richard left them plight their troths to their true loves at midnight on Midsummer Night’s Eve. As you might imagine, all sorts of mayhem occurs as well as a few home truths shared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563570</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina GreenHadeer Elsbai|title=As the Cards FallThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=34|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=At Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the end lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the nineteenth century Bella Reed was working as a companion to a lady rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in Exeter and she had a gentleman friendsociety pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, Jack Courtney. Jack was a solicitor and their friendship seemed wishes to grow steadily - attend the the extent that Bella suspected he might be about Weaving Academy to learn to propose. The letter from control her cousin rather upset abilities and then join the applecartmilitary, not least because but instead she had no idea that she ''had'' a cousinis forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Since Giorgina on the deaths of other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her parents she'd thought family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of herself as an orphan without any relatives - but Lizzie asked that she visit the family home on Dartmoor as her Uncle William was ill and wanted Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to see herbe in love with Nico. A weekend trip didn't seem unreasonable What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and Jack escorted her to the station cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and said that he would meet her on Monday when she returnedovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719809355</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen P KiernanB0B575J99N|title=The CuriosityBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|genre=Science Women's Fiction|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a member of an Arctic expedition sent to locate life forms frozen prestigious girl's school in ice flowsYork. Striking it lucky, It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the team find time to make a human whom they reanimate once they get him back to their American labchange. However new life brings new She needed challenges. The man died over There was a century earlier and much has changedlittle trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. The press is now omnipotentAfter a telephone interview, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists she was offered the position and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Kate, though, heit wasn's not a problemt long before she was exploring the beautiful city. He's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need of an allyThere were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Delinsky0241542405|title=Sweet Salt AirMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|summary=ItWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's ten years since Charlotte Wednesday 14 November 2018 and Nicole were closeshe's not left her home for 1,214 days. Since then Nicole has married JulianShe'd ''like'' to: in fact, an eminent surgeon she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and Charlotte has made 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 safety of her way as a writerhome. She 's fortunate that she has a base in New Yorkgood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, but it's little bigger than a cupboard James and is only a place to stay between foreign assignmentsMatilda. Nicole lives in Philadelphia but still spends her summers at her familySadie's property off the coast a cardiac nurse and full of Mainesound common sense. This year is going to be the last time thoughIn fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Her father died suddenly Groceries are online deliveries and her mother canthere's also an internet-based support group where you't bear to go back to Quinniepeaguell find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so Nicole is returning to the island to clear the house for saleyou can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. And sheHe's going to write from Holding Hands, a cookbookcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472104579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Wonder WomenOther Parents|author=Rosie FioreSarah Stovell

|summary=Jo Hockley has always wanted Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to run her business but real life has got retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the waytown. Married to Lee The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and mother the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to two small childrenthe school. There was one difficulty, she has enough on her plate looking after all of them. Howeverthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', when she dreams about an innovative kids’ clothing store with play facilitiestwo members, in particular, she cannot let causing problems for the idea gohead. She is sure that all mums would welcome Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the opportunity to shop while their toys children are able to play boisterously supervised by friendly staff. Encouraged by Lee, she investigates the idea further and before she knows what is happening, she is renting premises, planning interiors and hiring staff. Holly and Mel come could bring in on board and together, all three women work hard to make Jo’s dream become Toy Day but that was just a realitywarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389602</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=By My SideGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Alice PetersonWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Cass Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is a medical student - she loves her workdealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she also loves was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her boyfriend Sean. Tiredwardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, hung over and rather distractedVicky and Zaza, she walks into the street without noticing a fast-moving lorry coming her way... struggling with their grief and her their own life is forever changedtroubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061819</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Things We NeedFall On Me|author=Jennifer ClosePenelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Claire Coffey used to live in New York with a successful job and a great fiancé; her sister Martha used to be a nurse; and her brother Max Life should have been looking forward to finishing his good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at college before embarking on an exciting BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and interesting he was doing well in his career. However, things don’t always turn out the way that one expects which is why Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all three siblings end up back he wanted her to leave her job at the family home needing diner. Then there was the support of their parentsfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186658</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) 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 bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=The Son In LawUnbreak Your Heart|author=Charity NormanKatie Marsh

|summary=When someone is released from prisonBeth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, after serving time Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for manslaughterhaving knocked Simon's son, you don’t necessarily expect their first task to be tracking down the victim’s familyJake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. Perhaps their own family might be a more normal first port He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of call. But when you’re Joseph Scott, the victim’s family you who are not ''isau fait'' with your familymedical acronyms. When he was born, because the person you killed is your wife, Zoe. Let out after three years, Joseph is desperate to be reunited with left side of his children, Scarlet, Theo heart hadn't developed properly and Ben, but his wife’s parents, who have had custody of their grandchildren since he needed open-heart surgery when he was locked awaya few days old. So, are determined not Simon has every right to let that happenbe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743316682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Revenge Wears PradaC J Carey|authortitle=Lauren WeisbergerWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Ten years after her disastrous stint at It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule 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. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to 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 ''Runwaythe mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, playing slave for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, 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 Queen take all encouragement for female emancipation out of Fashion Miranda Priestly in 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 ‘a million girls would die for’, Andy Sachs finally has her life back on trackat least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000731101X</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brooklyn GirlsRuth Hogan|authortitle=Gemma BurgessMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=22This 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-yearReader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-old Pia Keller has screwed up againfront booth. She should be living The singer, the scryer and the dreamsufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, sharing a Brooklyn townhouse with her four best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads to just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her getting sacked from on her new joblast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. After hearing this Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her parents are ready to summon her Imelda, and why did it have to live with them abroad. They clearly don't think she's mature enough to look after herself - can she prove them wrongremain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two for JoyJennifer Saint |authortitle=Helen ChandlerAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=''Two for Joy'' This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is Helen Chandler’s first novel interesting and is immensely enjoyable from unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the very first pages where the reader meets Julia and her best friend Toby who story in a way that is telling her about how he intends sympathetic to go down on one knee and propose its origins but also appealing to his girlfriend, Rubya modern audience. Although outwardly delightedSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, internally Julia experiences some uncomfortable feelings that she doesn’t really recognise and does not want spanning from her childhood to acknowledge. Come the big nighther death, she is desperately miserable at allowing the thought of Toby’s and Ruby’s romantic evening and can’t bring herself reader to do anything other really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than mope around just a prop in her pyjamasthe heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769294</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Stella Whitelaw|title=Promise to Obey|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jessica Harlow let her London flat and undertook a three-month nursing contract at Upton Hall to fill in the time before she took up a permanent post in Sheffield. It didn't start well: she got soaked waiting to be picked up at the deserted railway station and then she discovered that she was to nurse Lady Grace Coleman who was recovering from a hip-replacement operation ''and'' look after her two grandchildren. Five-year-old Lily was a delight, but overweight and asthmatic. Eight-year-old Daniel was autistic and on top of this Lady Grace was, er, ''difficult''. What made her stay? Well, despite a humiliating romantic experience with a doctor in London she was rather taken by Lucas Coleman, a talented plastic surgeon - and she was obstinate enough to decide that she was going to make a go of it. Besides, where would she live if she left Upton Hall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719809789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bee Ridgway|title=The River of No Return|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jelly. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriends, him being a young man and this being America, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain away too. His second lease on life in the 21st century is thanks to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return to the time or home country from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence but all this is about to change. Eventually they seem to think that they can send him back and won't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Julia, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all a bit fishy though.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718176987</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew CloverLucy Holland|title=Learn Love in a WeekSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The MidgleysSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, who have been married for ten years most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and have three childrenoutdated, fleshing out characters, are long since past examining relationships and re-evaluating the madly passionate stage in their relationship – or at least Polly role of women. Sistersong is. From her point a perfect example of viewa modern retelling done well, Polly the plot is drowning in executive domesticityhandled with care, that iskeeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, holding down a job while trying to organise Arthur to be as effective a parent as she would befeel real and human, if she were most importantly they feel relatable in a staymodern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-at-home MumSaxon age they live in. Arthur sees his role differently: he’s more interested in the hearts This is a masterpiece of storytelling and minds of his kids than essential maintenance I was captivated from beginning to the fruit bowlend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580446</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill HornbyB08NF79QXT|title=The Hive|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=There's an old joke that, for parents, there are only two good days in the school holidays - the first and the last, but in St Ambrose the ''real'' work begins when the children go back to school at the start of the new school year. There's a new head at the school (and he'll have to be knocked into shape) but the real power is Beatrice - 'Bea' to those whom she elects to call friends for the time being - who rules the parents, decides who is in or out and what status they should have in the community. And how does she do it? Well, she's the queen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704358</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Christina Jones|title=An Enormously English Monsoon WeddingBrooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=Jay loves Erin Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and Erin loves Jaywins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. They live in a picture perfect village called Nook Green She's delighted and are planning their dream weddingthe two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, which is only a few weeks awayan ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. The plans are coming along perfectly Jessica's thirty-four and everything is running according to scheduleLiberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life simply couldn’t get any better than thiswould be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957131</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ciara GeraghtyB08GFSK2WZ|title=Lifesaving for BeginnersThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=A fatal car crash links Kat and Milo, two people who otherwise might never have met. After all, they live in different countriesGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and she’s old enough to be his mothersingle. He likes lifesaving classes She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the banana muffins in his mother’s café, while karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she lives off cigarettes and wine, and writes has a real talent for a livingattracting drama. And yet now, because Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the crashstairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, they are linked. They don’t realise it yetstark naked, but as time passes their lives will move closerstaring at the pervy postman. As secrets are unearthed, they will become bound She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to one another in different waysend up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340998121</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy WoodmanB08CHJLNBS|title=Country LovingCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=When Stevie Dunsford receives He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a call to tell her that her father’s farm is in danger of going underpartner at Wickham Jones, she doesn’t have any idea how bad things really arethe Mayfair letting agents. Her life is in London with her successful career in accountancy She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and her good looking boyfriend. She plans to go to the farm archivist in Devon for the weekend to sort things out and that will be thatheritage library next door. However, when she discovers the state of things, she Emilia has no option other to stay and try to make things better even though read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she and her father have been estranged for years. What she does not expect though's moved on from new age books like that, is how readily and happily she fits back into life which leave you dependent on the farm and soon her London life and Nick start someone else's philosophies, to lose their attractionsomething a little deeper. Of course Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, this new contentment has got nothing to do with her blossoming relationship with the gorgeous local vetbut, above all, Leohe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. It’s time They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to move forward and commit to the farm and Leohis friends. However And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, just as things are really looking goodwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, Stevie makes an unexpected discovery that threatens to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891571</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fern BrittonHelly Acton|title=The Holiday HomeShelf|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Pru and Connie might be sisters but theyWhen we meet Amy, she're as different as chalk and cheeses in a relationship with Jamie. ItYou can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's always been like thissticking around because she hopes she can change him. Pru is the elderAh, although not by much and sheyes. Haven's t we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a hard-nosed businesswoman who surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''alwaysfinally'' gets what she wants. Husband Francis was acquired in much going to get down on one knee? Was the same way that you might employ staff - work (and that's his function. He looks after Pru and their son Jeremy. Connie, on the other hand, is a homebody - married to Greg (who runs her parents' family businesswait) and mother to Abigail their sixteen-going-on-seventeen year old daughter. There's another difference too. Francis is pure of heart and an honest man, largely unappreciated by his wife, but Greg, although Connie believes differently, is a philandering little sh..worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007468539</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Stella Newman|title=Leftovers|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Susie Rosen is what girlfriend comes into school with a magazine calls a 'leftover' - she's thirty something and lacks black eye, claiming he gave it to her dream man, job or homeher whole world is tipped upside down. You might ''think'' that she Her relationship has the job of her dreams as just ended and now she's an account manager in advertising, but she finds it unfulfilling - and that's on the good daystalk of the school. On Mike was the bad days she resurrects most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her plan , everyone knew that she's going to get promoted by Christmas and then quit. Boyfriend Jake cheated on , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and although the relationship broke up some time ago she hasndon't got over him. Right now life revolves around the job, minimising the effect of some of the more dreadful colleagues and her girlfriends - but some of them are proving one thing is for sure, this isn't going to be not quite as reliable as she might have hopedblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184756271X</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janey FraserKatie Fforde|title=Happy FamiliesA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Happy families areI've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, contrary to popular beliefcosy read focused on romance, not all alikefamily and friendships. Bobbie is a working mum of This provided two children who we’ll call ‘spirited’ romances for want the price of a better phrase. Her husband works late a lot so she’s the one left trying to juggle running , but it was actually the house with wrangling the children and still fitting in her own job. Andy is dad family element as opposed to two teens who are perfectly behaved, or at least they are during the rare moments he spends at home. His wife Pamela is a goddess, and a Perfect Parent to boot. He’s a very lucky guy. And then there’s Vanessa, who feels her mothering days are behind her until her young grand-daughter comes to stay…and doesn’t leaveromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580853</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie CohenB07W4MNBSG|title=Dear ThingBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Everyone hopes for the happily ever after, It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and Claire and Ben expected that once a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were marriedfifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, once they had but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the house with idea of living in a garden big enough for farmhouse and having a swingcouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, that or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the babies would naturally follow afterwardsrather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. So what happens when The place to start their search was obviously the babies donYoung Farmers't? Halloween disco that weekend. How long do you try to get pregnant? How long do you endure IVF? At what point do you say enough is enough, and let go of There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the dream? And what if, at that moment of feeling you simply cannot take any more, your best friend offered to be a surrogate mother, and carry your baby?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070828</amazonuk>class.

{{newreview|author=Amy Bratley|title=The Antenatal Group|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Five women are all looking forward to meeting their new babies in a few weeks time. Part of their preparations involve joining the local antenatal group where they get to meet each other. Little do they realise, when they turn up for their first session, how much they are going to come to rely Move on and care for each other. This book is partly a testament to all those lasting friendships that are formed in groups just like this all over [[Features|the country.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218388</amazonuk>}}latest features]]