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|summary=Is there Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a greater change in control freak with all the life subtlety of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage half brick. Jamie's son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old SilasBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and try and move the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Samautistic spectrum. But Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a greater change occurs on frequent flier in the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to his grave – something very weird happens go to the universeschool. She pops from one car Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to another, pick Bo up from under a cloudless sky school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa come to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>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=Pack Up Your Troubles|author=Pam Weaver|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This book opens on VE DayThen Richard left them. Connie - who has been doing war work - and some friends are on their way to Trafalgar Square to celebrate. Connie had hoped her boyfriend would be with her, but he’s stood her up... however she’s determined to enjoy herself anyway. She meets some other girls, and gets chatting to Eva. They find themselves parted from the rest of their group, but have fun anyway, including playing in a fountain with some soldiers... and are caught on camera doing so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563627</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Midsummer MagicHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Julia WilliamsThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=14|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=After a whirlwind romanceDrawing inspiration from Egypt, Josie and Harry are engaged to ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be married more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and she is putting every waking hour weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into planning the wedding down upper class, wishes to attend the finest detail. This includes taking Harry, bridesmaid Diana and best man Ant down Weaving Academy to learn to control her parents’ home in Cornwall for abilities and then join the weekend as that military, but instead she is where forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the wedding is going other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to be taking place. It should be a weekend of excited planning provide for her family and preparations butmaintain their reputation, unfortunately, things don’t turn out entirely as Josie hopes. She turns into whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women'bride from Hell' driving all her friends crazy s rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with boredom as she talks non-stop about the wedding plans in the minutest Nico. What follows is a story of details. In order to liven things upan unjust society, Harry filled with hypocrisy and Ant persuade the girls to take part in cruelty, from which blossoms a hypnosis experiment which will make them plight group of admirable women fighting for their troths to rights and overcoming 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 sharedpersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847563570</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina GreenB0B575J99N|title=As Beneath the Cards FallPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=34

|summary=At the end of the nineteenth century Bella Reed Elizabeth Miller was working as thirty-four and a companion to teacher at a lady prestigious girl's school in Exeter and she had a gentleman friend, Jack CourtneyYork. Jack It was a solicitor and their friendship seemed to grow steadily - the the extent that Bella suspected he might be about to propose. The letter from her cousin rather upset the applecart, not least because she had no idea that she ''hadcomfortable'' a cousinbut she longed for something more in life. Since the deaths of her parents sheShe'd thought of herself as an orphan without any relatives - but Lizzie asked that she visit ''still not found the right vocation nor met the family home on Dartmoor as her Uncle William was ill and wanted to see her. A weekend trip didnright man''t seem unreasonable and Jack escorted her to now was the station and said that he would meet her on Monday when she returned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719809355</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen P Kiernan|title=The Curiosity|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is a member of an Arctic expedition sent time to locate life forms frozen in ice flows. Striking it lucky, she and the team find 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 Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in New York with a successful job her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and a great fiancé; most of all he wanted her sister Martha used to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be a nurse; violent, both to her and to other people.}}{{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 brother Max should have been looking forward 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 finishing his final year at college before embarking 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 an exciting and interesting careeryou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. However Perhaps this would not have mattered, things don’t always turn out except for the way fact that one expects which Johanna is why all three siblings end up back at the family home needing the support whore of their parentsNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186658</amazonuk>''

 {{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-yearcast 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-old Pia Keller has screwed up againReader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. She should be living The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the dreamfamily stall. We also see her on her last day, sharing fifty years later, in possession of a Brooklyn townhouse with pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her four best friends to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re- telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but one too many drunken escapades leads also appealing to her getting sacked from her new joba modern audience. After hearing thisSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her parents are ready childhood to summon her death, allowing the reader to live really connect with them abroadAriadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. They clearly don't think she's mature enough to look after herself - can she prove them wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two for JoyLucy Holland|authortitle=Helen ChandlerSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=''Two Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for Joy'' is Helen Chandler’s first novel most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and is immensely enjoyable from the very first pages where the reader meets Julia a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and her best friend Toby who is telling her about how he intends new meaning to go down on one knee stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and propose to his girlfriendoutdated, Ruby. Although outwardly delightedfleshing out characters, internally Julia experiences some uncomfortable feelings that she doesn’t really recognise examining relationships and does not want to acknowledgere-evaluating the role of women. Come Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the big nightcharacters to come to life, she to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is desperately miserable at the thought a masterpiece of Toby’s storytelling and Ruby’s romantic evening and can’t bring herself I was captivated from beginning to do anything other than mope around in her pyjamasend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769294</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella WhitelawB08NF79QXT|title=Promise to ObeyCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=2.53

|summary=Jessica Harlow let Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her London flat shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and undertook a threewins -month nursing contract at Upton Hall to fill in the time before she took up a permanent post in SheffieldRetail Best Newcomer Award. It didnShe't start well: s delighted and the two people she got soaked waiting 's brought with her to the event couldn't be picked up at the deserted railway station more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and then she discovered that she was to nurse Lady Grace Coleman who was recovering Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from a hip. Jessica's thirty-replacement operation four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university andLiberty adores Jessica'' look after her two grandchildren. Five-year-old Lily was a delights husband, but overweight Charles and asthmatic. Eighttheir four-year-old Daniel was autistic and on top of this Lady Grace wasdaughter, er, ''difficult''Ava. What made her stay? Well, despite a humiliating romantic experience with Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a doctor man 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 ither life. Besides, where would she live if she left Upton Hall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719809789</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bee RidgwayB08GFSK2WZ|title=The River of No ReturnKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=The MidgleysGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, who have been married absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for ten years eight months and have three children, are long since past she's stuck in the madly passionate stage in their relationship – or at least Polly karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck isbeing visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. From her point Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of view, Polly is drowning the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in executive domesticityit and left her, that isstark naked, holding down staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a job while trying walk for her to organise Arthur to be as effective a parent as she would be, if she were a stay-atend up with dog poo spattered across her face -home Mum. Arthur sees his role differently: he’s more interested in the hearts and minds of his kids than essential maintenance to a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the fruit bowloffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580446</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill HornbyB08CHJLNBS|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>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Christina Jones|title=An Enormously English Monsoon WeddingBrooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=Jay loves Erin He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and Erin loves Jaya partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. They live She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in a picture perfect village called Nook Green and are planning their dream weddingthe heritage library next door. 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 philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is only more of a few weeks away. [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The plans are coming along perfectly and everything is running according to scheduleGuardian''. Life simply couldn’t They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get any better than thiswoman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957131</amazonuk> And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ciara GeraghtyHelly Acton|title=Lifesaving for BeginnersThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A fatal car crash links Kat and MiloWhen we meet Amy, two people who otherwise might never have metshe's in a relationship with Jamie. After allYou can't really call it a partnership, they live in different countries, and she’s old enough because things tend to be his mother. He likes lifesaving classes and the banana muffins in get done on his mother’s caféterms, while but she lives off cigarettes and wine's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, and writes yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a livingsurprise trip. And yet now, because of the crash, they are linked. They don’t realise Could this be it yet, but as time passes their lives will move closer. As secrets are unearthed, they will become bound ? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one another in different ways.knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998121</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Cathy Woodman|title=Country Loving|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=When Stevie Dunsford receives girlfriend comes into school with a call black eye, claiming he gave it to tell her that , her father’s farm whole world is in danger of going under, she doesn’t have any idea how bad things really aretipped upside down. Her life is in London with her successful career in accountancy relationship has just ended and her good looking boyfriend. She plans to go to now she's the farm in Devon for talk of the weekend to sort things out and that will be thatschool. However, when she discovers Mike was the state of things, she has no option other to stay and try to make things better even though she and most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her father have been estranged for years. What she does not expect though, is how readily and happily she fits back into life on the farm and soon her London life and Nick start to lose their attraction. Of courseeveryone knew that, this new contentment has got nothing to so why did he do with what he did? Some people believe her blossoming relationship with the gorgeous local vet, Leo. It’s time to move forward and commit to the farm and Leo. Howeversome don't, just as things are really looking goodbut one thing is for sure, Stevie makes an unexpected discovery that threatens this isn't going to ruin everythingblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891571</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fern BrittonKatie Fforde|title=The Holiday HomeA Springtime Affair|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Pru and Connie might be sisters but theyI're as different as chalk ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and cheese. It's always been like this. Pru is the elder, although not by was pretty much and she's a hard-nosed businesswoman who ''always'' gets exactly what she wants. Husband Francis I was acquired in much the same way that you might employ staff expecting - and that's his function. He looks after Pru and their son Jeremy. Conniea warm, cosy read focused on the other handromance, is a homebody - married to Greg (who runs her parents' family business) and mother to Abigail their sixteen-going-on-seventeen year old daughterfriendships. There's another difference too. Francis is pure This provided two romances for the price of heart and an honest man, largely unappreciated by his wifeone, but Greg, although Connie believes differently, is a philandering little sh.it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007468539</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella NewmanB07W4MNBSG|title=LeftoversBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=3.54|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Susie Rosen is what It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a magazine calls a 'leftover' group of sixth- she's thirty something and lacks her dream man, job or homeform schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. You might ''think'When you' re only seventeen that she has the job of her dreams as she's an account manager in advertisingseems positively ancient, but she finds it unfulfilling - and Liz was convinced that's 'your entire life depends on the good dayswho you marry''. On The only eligible boys were the bad days she resurrects her plan that she's going Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to get promoted by Christmas Charlotte, or perhaps William and then quitOliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. Boyfriend Jake cheated on her and although The place to start their search was obviously the relationship broke up some time ago she hasnYoung Farmers't got over himHalloween disco that weekend. Right now life revolves around the job, minimising There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the effect of some of the more dreadful colleagues and her girlfriends - but some of them are proving to be not quite as reliable as she might have hopedclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756271X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Janey Fraser|title=Happy FamiliesMove on to [[Features|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Happy families are, contrary to popular belief, not all alike. Bobbie is a working mum of two children who we’ll call ‘spirited’ for want of a better phrase. Her husband works late a lot so she’s the one left trying to juggle running the house with wrangling the children and still fitting in her own job. Andy is dad 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 leave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580853</amazonuk>}}latest features]]