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|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on sevenJamie Matson works in an upper-year-old Jacobclass grocery store, for a man who's birthdaya control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. His elder sisterJamie's son, Bo, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but 'has his little sister isnproblems't feeling well. Four-year-old Issy has retreated to bed and sheHe's rather hoping that her mother will come asthmatic and make her betterthe more you read, but Claire is trying the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to cope with Jacobtake time off at short notice - she's birthday party a frequent flier in the local A&E and itsometimes Bo's quite a while before the family realise that Issy is very illnot fit enough to go to school. She has meningitis Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and that night she dies put in hospitalthe wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen ChandlerLauren Bravo|title=To Have and to HoldPreloved

|summary=We're looking at Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a few months in the lives of three women. On the face of it Ella has it all. She's got big number that starts with a happy marriage four and two gorgeous children along ends with a home in the villagean oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-y part of Walthamstowforty. But she ''wants'' something more Having been made unexpectedly redundant - and her husband doesn't agree that another child is any HR officer worth their salt would argue the answer. Her friend Imogen and partner Pete used to have toss - Gwen finds herself having a fun relationship but after the birth bit of Indigo things changed, with Imogen needing to focus on the baby and Pete becoming more distant and less involved. Then there's Phoebea mid-life crisis. She's just fifteen years old and bullied at school: she's that unfortunate girl in the class who Catharsis is overweight key and under cool. She and her mother simply don't get on - Liz Gwen has decided now is a model and a size eight - but she's close to her father, but round about the time of to take back her GCSEs her parents split up and that closeness was lost.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444786776</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=No-one Ever Has Sex on a TuesdayThe Garnett Girls|author=Tracy BloomGeorgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Matthew The love affair between Margo Garnett and Katy were together as teenagers but now years later both are with other significant otherspoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, and apparently on both Katy sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and Matthew’s wife, Alison are pregnantdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Oh, Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and they’re in having a glittering career. In the same antenatal class. Andevent, oh yes, Katy’s not 100% sure who they eloped and Richard took her away from the father Isle of her baby is, current boyfriend Ben or, you’ve guessed it, long lost flame MatthewWight. Cue Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a comedy of errorswell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, misunderstandings, fisticuffs Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and emotional outburstsholidays were spent at Sandcove, not all triggered by swarming hormonesthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594757</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Nicole Mary Kelby|title=The Pink Suit|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In November 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of President John F Kennedy, but the picture which brought home to us the horror of what had happened was not of JFK but of his wife in the iconic pink suit, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let Then Richard left them see what they have done', she said. I've always assumed that the suit was new for the occasion - but it had a back story too and it's told in ''The Pink Suit'', a work of historical fiction based on facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=After The HoneymoonHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Janey FraserThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=A TV star Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and his makeweavers – those with magical abilities -up artist wifein a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and a dinner lady and her husband are not two couples you would expect to end up honeymooning at then join the same placemilitary, but through instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a twist of fate (ok, a teacher at the school one works at privileged upbringing like Nehal and the other sends feels great pressure to provide for her kids to) both women family and maintain their new husbands end up on reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the same secluded Greek island at the same time. It’s run by Daughters of Izdihar – a British woman who left group campaigning for the continent 15 years ago, and it’s the perfect spot women's rights. Giorgina also happens to get away from it allbe in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, be it your toddler's safely left filled with grandmahypocrisy and cruelty, or the paparazzi who are desperate from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for an exclusivetheir rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580845</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead CrowleyB0B575J99N|title=Can Anybody Help Me?Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|genre=ThrillersWomen's Fiction|summary=Yvonne Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Gerry are proud new parentsa teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. However, as theyShe'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man've only recently moved to Gerry's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns and now was the lack of time to make a support networkchange. She needed challenges. This all changes There was a little trepidation when she turns to Mammynet, a web-based online forum and chat room applied for new and soon-to-be mumsthe professoressa job in Bologna. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes After a local online friend but then telephone interview, she was offered the friend disappears without warning. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the murder of a young womanbeautiful city. There may be a connection were some natural doubts before her first class but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>went surprisingly well.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=TaraShea Nesbit0241542405|title=The Wives of Los AlamosMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=1943When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: In the US a group of menin fact, women and children she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice on and after being sworn she's even considered which shoes to total secrecywear if she's going to catch her train. Their destination is a hastily knocked upThen, unfinished small town in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside down for nearly 3 yearsshe can't. This isnShe simply can't mass abduction by a malevolent power but force herself to leave the US governmentsafety of her home. She's plan to end WWIIfortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. The men (Sadie's a cardiac nurse and some full of the women) sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are scientists, the place is Los Alamos, the site of the project that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'Nowll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, I am become Death, the destroyer of worldsso you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos WivesHe's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kirsty Wark0008441618|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth PringleOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't actually know live up to herretired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Anna just happened to walk past The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and ask the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to buy the house decades earlierschool. Elizabeth hadnThere was one difficulty, though - they were 't said yes but always remembered the young lady, walking past with the baby in the pram. The baby, Martha, is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Annadevastatingly shockable's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through the belongings that Elizabeth left , with ittwo members, Martha sees glimpses of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven in particular, causing problems for her mother before it's too late and while she still has a mind to take her back to the good times. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vanora Bennett|title=Midnight in St Petersburg|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Inna Feldman is in the Kiev theatre the night that Prime Minister Stolypin is assassinated in front of the Tsarhead. Fearing the retribution against the Jews in general Laura Spence and being picked out as a suspect in particular, Inna flees Kate Monroe objected to St Petersburg and her landlordJo's cousin Yasha. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but Yasha is that was just a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation in Russia during 1911. The family that Yasha is living with takes her in anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead warm-up act for all of themtheir real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie ThomasGiovanna Fletcher|title=The IllusionistsWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Devil Wix is a great Victorian illusionist. Admittedly Lady Luck hasn’t been too good to him lately and he may look a little ragged but heMike's talented and repeatedly tells himself sowife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. One particular night as And whilst he's reassuring himself over a drink or threeis dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, he runs into Carlo BoldoniVicky and Zaza. (Or rather Carlo runs into him as heBut Pia left them all some 's picking Devilrules's pocket at the time.) Formerly Charlie Morris and a dwarf to the Victorians/person of restricted growth to usfollow, Carlo knowing that she was part of a performing troupe but now finds himself alone due dying and that they would need help to tragic circumstancescarry on living. They join forces but little do they know Whilst some of the future nor the part rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that a certain young lady will play in it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007512015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Single Breath|author=Lucy Clarke|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Eva is blissfully content with life. She has a fulfilling career in her job as a midwife and a happy marriage Mike discovers one day encourages him to the man take one of her dreams who clearly adores her. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil whentheir trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, early one morningstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, her beloved husband Jackson is swept out decide to sea whilst fishing on the Dorset coast. It seems that drop everything in one fell swooptheir own lives, all of her hopes and dreams have been washed away into the cold, white watergo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007481365</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally WraggB09FS89KX9|title=LoxleyFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Jen doesn’t Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the happiest final year of families, so she’s immediately drawn to her husband Jason’sveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Luckily they welcome Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with open arms her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and she’s soon like a fourth child to Charles and Ameliahe was doing well in his career. So when she discovers a secret that could tear lives apart, it’s as devastating Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her as if it were and most of all he wanted her own parents. She has a choice to make: share leave her job at the burden and ruin relationships in diner. Then there was the processfact that he would be violent, or keep it both to herself her and shoulder it all aloneto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047267</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntosh0008421714|title=The French PromiseMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=A few years on from [[The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh|The Lavender Keeper]] Luc problem began just after the former resistance fighter and Lisette publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the former British spy have survived the ravages of war and start a new life together in England with their little boy Harrylast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. However Luc canEvery 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 settle, missing this the lavender farming thatfirst time he's in his blood. based a character on you?'' This is remedied when She mentioned that Johanna, the freshly transplanted family move again, this time to Tasmaniaprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Nonetheless they still Perhaps this would not have a lot to learn; mattered, except for the biggest lessons being fact that no one can outrun Johanna is the past and that fate isnwhore of Nantes - ''t always kinda weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015659</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Little Beach Street BakeryUnbreak Your Heart|author=Jenny ColganKatie Marsh

|summary=Polly is disconsolate. She thought she had it allWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, the perfect yuppie lifestyle in Plymouth. She is 32 Simon was angry and has worked tirelessly marketing and managing Beth was doing her artist boyfriend’s graphic design consultancy. Nowbest to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, with the sudden economic downturn and the competitive nature of new technologiesJake, the bank off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has foreclosedhistory. Chris just wants to shut out the world and slink back to his motherHe has HLHS - that's, leaving Polly bereft, homeless and confused as she struggles to start over again away from the rat raceHypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. Faced with When he was born, the prospect left side of grungy student flat shares, she looks further afield for new affordable accommodation his heart hadn't developed properly and finds he needed open-heart surgery when he was a neglected tidal island in Cornwall connected by a causeway to the mainlandfew days old. In the harbour So, there is a dirty, derelict building for rent. The upstairs loft is Simon has every right to be over a disused bakery-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549215</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mrs Sinclair's SuitcaseC J Carey|authortitle=Louise WaltersWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Every family has its storiesIt'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 anecdotes passed down lead-up to the generations World War Two that help to explain who certainly didn't happen as we think know it, and we arenow a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Roberta But this is sure most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that she knows all there 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 know about her family until she comes across 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 letter written to her grandmother in 1941hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. The contents cast doubt on all That is her assumptions about job, at least, until the pastfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777424</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Wife's HandbookRuth Hogan|authortitle=Hannah BeckermanMadame Burova|rating=4.5

|summary=Rachel wasn't ready to drop dead at thirty-fiveThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. It's been So we have a year since bullied half- cast boy (as he would have been called then), a year she's spent trapped girl in some sort of netherworld that allows her briefa humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, tantalising glimpses of the lives third generation of those sheMadame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's left behindsea-front booth. There The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's no apparent rhyme or reason to 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 glimpsesfamily stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and Rachel wishes they were more often who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and lasted longer.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718178149</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan TitchmarshJennifer Saint |title=Bring Me HomeAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we first meet Charlie Stuart he's half wishing that This re-telling of the guests at his annual summer party at his Scottish castle would hurry up myth of Ariadne and leave - the Minotaur is interesting and half hoping unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that he could delay what he knows will have is sympathetic to be done once everyone has goneits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. He knows that life will never again be Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the sameviewpoint of Ariadne, but spanning from her childhood to understand why we have her death, allowing the reader to go back from June 2000 to 1960 when Charlie was really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a young boy being shown prop in the ways heroics of the loch and the surrounding land by the ghillie, who, oddly enough, was also his uncleTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340936916</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mother of the YearLucy Holland|authortitle=Karen RossSistersong

|summary=The Thirty-one person who could best judge a -year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she'Mother of s brought with her to the Yearevent couldn' competition would surely t be a nominee’s daughtermore pleased. Sonja, her mother, right? And yet is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where threeLiberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-time winner Beth Jackson is concernedfour and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, her Charles and their four-year-old daughter JJ is the , Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one person who remains unconvinced the accolade is warrantedthing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956404</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet GreenwoodB08GFSK2WZ|title=We That Are LeftThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Hugo and Elin are settling down George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to life look at home in Hiram Hall now Hugo is back from the Boer War- and single. He refuses to speak about his experiences She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in Africa but carries the psychological effectskarma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. However, appearances count for a lot so they both continue Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to run absorb the water - then the shower fell through the houseroof whilst she was in it and left her, gardens and staff while Elin tries to ignore stark naked, staring at the deficiencies in their marriagepervy postman. She succeeds as well but then two things change only has to take her outlook: the arrival of daring adventurer Lady Margaret ('Mousemother' s dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her friends) face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the less welcome outbreak of World War Ioffice. Both will leave their indelible mark so that, for Hugo, Elin and many others around that time, there'll be no going back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190678499X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=The One Plus OneCapturing Emilia|author=Jojo MoyesBrooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Jess is He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a single mum of a rather smart little girlpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. She’s also single step mum Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, if there’s such a thingwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a rather troubled teenage boylittle deeper. This Charles is the story more of this unusual a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but endearing family of three, and a road trip to the other end of the countryabove all, showing he's shocked that even with few resourcesEmilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, mums will go so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to the ends of the earth for their childrenhis friends. It’s also the story of Ed 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?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a wealthy businessman whose life interacts relationship with theirs in an unconventional wayJamie. A single mum meets You can't really call it a single manpartnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but in an unpredictable wayshe's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip.Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405915579</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|title=The Memory Book|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=4.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=When Claire Ryan first hears the devastating news that she has Early-onset Alzheimer’s diseasegirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her first instinct whole world is to run awaytipped upside down. However, Her relationship has just ended and now she does not get far before she realises that she is already forgetting where she lives and 's the names talk of simple everyday objects that she has always taken for grantedthe school. The worst implication of Mike was the news though is that soon she will no longer remember the special events most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her life such as giving birth to her daughters nor will she recognise their faces or remember how much she loves the man , everyone knew that is , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her husband. Not only and some don't, but one thing is this traumatic for hersure, the effect on her family is unbearable. This is a modern day tragedy with seemingly, no happy endingthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091951372</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Darling GirlsKatie Fforde|authortitle=Emma BurstallA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Leo Bruck, a world famous conductor, died suddenly of a heart attack. Amongst many mourners at his funeral are three women I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for whom Leo ages and this was pretty much more than an acquaintance. Victoria exactly what I was his long term partner and mother of his two childrenexpecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, Ralph family and Salomefriendships. However, Maddy has also shared much This provided two romances for the price of her life with Leo and he is father to her daughter Pheobe. Then there is Catone, who met Leo about eighteen months ago and they also formed a relationship. All three were aware of but it was actually the others and, for whatever reasons, had tolerated family element as opposed to the parallel lives romance that Leo was leading. However, they had never met before the funeral and there is instant dislike particularly between Victoria and MaddyI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781857865</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Left and LeavingBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Jo VerityLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Set It was coming up to Halloween in modern day London, this novel explores the lives 1987 and a group of two central characters whosixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on the surface, could not be any differentwho you marry''. However, after a catastrophic incident in The only eligible boys were the city, Gil Young Farmers and Vivian are thrown together through the rather annoying, interfering character idea of Irene. Spending time with each other living in the run up a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to ChristmasCharlotte, both Gil or perhaps William and Vivian find themselves having Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to face up marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to various family issues and responsibilities start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that, before, they weekend. There was just one problem - there were able to ignoretoo many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784981</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Come Move on to Me Quietly|author=A L Jackson|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction[[Features|summary=Aleena hasn't seen Jared for six years. Not since he hit the very bottom of his downward spiral and ended up in prison. She's trying to move on, let go of the boy she secretly loved all her life. Just as she's starting to make progress, Jared reappears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403309</amazonuk>}}latest features]]