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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's 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|author=Holly PetersonLauren Bravo|title=The Idea of HimPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Allie Crawford seemed to have it made. She was married to Wade Gwen is pressing her middle- the sort of man who made other women ‘’drool’’, had aged bosom on a job in big number that starts with a high-profile Manhattan PR firm four and two kids whom she adored. What could be better? What could go wrong? Well, it looked as though something was going wrong when Allie found Wade locked in their laundry room ends with a decidedly glamorous blondean oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. There had Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a blip in their marriage whilst Allie was breastfeeding their younger child, but Allie thought that Wade had learned his lesson mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and would be careful about hurting Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her in future.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the 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''.
{{newreview|title=What I Love About You|author=Rachel Gibson|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie is the girl next door when Blake moves to town but it’s neither love nor even friendship at first sight. Sure, her daughter might have taken a shine to the handsome stranger who likes to keep himself to himself but to Natalie he’s arrogant and obnoxious. Still, you can’t live next door to someone and never run into Then Richard left them, just as you can’t avoid your neighbours in a small town, and since Truly, Idaho fits the bill on both, they’re going to see each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise Douglas|title=Your Beautiful Lies|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married to William, a police superintendent. Although she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides of the divide. It's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on the side you're on but unfortunately Annie isn't permitted to choose. However this is only the start of her problems. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriend, is back on the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah HarknessHadeer Elsbai|title=The Book Daughters of LifeIzdihar|rating=54
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop 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 vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the 21st century upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but now face instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the tragic news Daughters of Aunt SarahIzdihar – a group campaigning for women's partner, Em's deathrights. Hard-Giorgina also happens to-get-along-be in love with Baldwin has taken over as head Nico. What follows is a story of the de Clairmont clan an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and is making life dangerously difficult cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for Diana, Matthew their rights and overcoming their unborn twins. If this isn't enough, they still need to find and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Life. However, they have very dangerous competitionpersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>0356520471
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen NobleB0B575J99N|title=The 49th DayBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=After escaping Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a disastrous marriage, Katherine Walsh travels to an island retreat in Wales prestigious girl's school in order to pick up the pieces of her life, relax and decide future directionYork. However, rest and recreation isnIt was ''comfortable''t all but she discoverslonged for something more in life. During therapy sessions her ancient past is unlocked She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and odd happenings that have haunted her for years start now was the time to make sensea change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Katherine also realises that it may be to her benefit to learn how to trust After a man again but telephone interview, she was offered the chance of love isnposition and it wasn't her biggest surpriselong before she was exploring the beautiful city. She appears to be pregnant so any decisions she makes about her future must include the new life within There were some natural doubts before herfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782795936</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=It Had to Be YouMeredith Alone|author=Ellie AdamsClaire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When 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 fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and 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 home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008441618
|title=Other Parents
|author=Sarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well in her life until it all goes startlingly wrong. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst Jo Fairburn knew that she is dressed was under intense pressure as Henry VIII at a thirtieth birthday party and unfortunately the whole debacle is filmed and ends up on YouTube. She becomes known as 'new head butt girlof West Burntridge First School: if she didn' as she is filmed demonstrating t live up to her furyretired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Her PR job is also going nowhere as she finds herself having The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to try and promote some very strange conceptsthe school. At least she has her There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two best friends for solace and they can all be foundmembers, many eveningsin particular, drinking away their sorrows causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and putting Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the world to rightstoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mill River RedemptionGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Darcie ChanWalking on Sunshine
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rose and Emily are sisters who co-exist rather than interact. In the pastMike's wife, a devastating event drove them apartPia, and now they both have their own liveswho he was with for seventeen years, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew uphas died. When their mother Josie diesAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, they so are brought back together first in their mourning best friends, Vicky and then in their frustration at a message from beyond the grave: their mother is determined to achieve in death what she couldn't while still alive, a sisterly reconciliationZaza. She has But Pia left her estate them all some 'rules' to the girlsfollow, but in order to access the funds knowing that she was dying and that they will would need help to cooperate and coordinate efforts to unearth carry on living. Whilst some of the clues she has left them. With neither in a position rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to walk take one of their trips away from the potential gold mine, they have and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to put aside drop everything in their differencesown lives, if only for the summerand go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>140593560X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Little LiesFall On Me|author=Liane MoriartyPenelope Potts|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Death Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and kindergarten are not two things you would normally think went together, but this time they have- three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Someone is dead Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. A murder investigation has been launched Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. But why are the police finding it Hollie wasn't quite so hard certain though: Marcus wanted to get answers? What actually went on that night? And can an incident in control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the playground on diner. Then there was the first day really have come fact that he would be violent, both to her and to this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918462</amazonuk>other people.
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{{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=Five Days LeftUnbreak Your Heart|author=Julie Lawson TimmerKatie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Mara When Beth Carlyle and Scott are both Simon Withers first met they were on a countdownopposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. Each He wasn't hurt but Jake has five days lefthistory. But when the weekend comes, He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who will be happyare not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, who will be mourningthe left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, and who will Simon has every right to be out of the picture forever?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892136</amazonuk>over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girls from Corona Del MarC J Carey|authortitle=Rufi ThorpeWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Exploring the friendship of Mia It's April 1953, and Lorrie Ann, two girls who grew up together in 1980Adolf Hitler's Corona Del Marschedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, this novel is unexpectedly tragic; definitely not just another trashyparading around a bit, girly work and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of fictionEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Written from the point of view of Mia For yes, it tells Britain caved in the journeys of lead-up to the two friends World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and the events which have led them to where they we are now. a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''The Girls from Corona Del Marthe mainland'' explores not only the subjects of friendship. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, growing apart and growing upideas of female purpose, but also those has put all of deaththat gender into a caste system, warranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, drugsand beyond those, abortion right on down to the childless, the husbandless and coping with a disabled childthe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Andin this puritanical existence, our heroine, in my opinionRose Ransom, Rufi Thorpe does this brilliantly; sometimes is employed with subtlety the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and elegance but often through so they just get a hefty tweak towards the frankparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, brutal honesty at least, until the first emerging signs of the characterfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's narrationvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954193</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rock Chick RescueRuth Hogan|authortitle=Kristen AshleyMadame Burova|rating=24.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jet McAlister is working two jobs This 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-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to help pay for use her motherfamily's medical expensessea-front booth. The singer, after the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a stroke left revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her mostly paralysed on one sideher last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. It's okay - Jet likes taking care of people - but Just who is she can't deal with any more complications in , and who delivered the secrets about her life.to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00J4DPNN8</amazonuk>152937331X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Follow Me HomeJennifer Saint |authortitle=Cathy WoodmanAriadne |rating=24.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cathy Woodman has written a number This re-telling of books about life in the Devon village of Taylton St George. These all tell the tale myth of Ariadne and the comings Minotaur is interesting and goings of unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the different villagers as they go about their daily livesstory in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. You donSaint't have to have read s narrative is told predominantly through the earlier ones in order viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to enjoy her death, allowing the stories although if you have read them you are more likely reader to appreciate really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the bigger pictureheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584921</amazonuk>1472273869
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful DayLucy Holland|authortitle=Elin HilderbrandSistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jenna Sistersong is getting married part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and no one would be more excited than her mother Bethfairy tales. But Beth passed away before she could see These stories, for 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 outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the baby role of women. 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 Carmichael family happily hitched. Knowing she wouldn't live characters to come to see the daylife, she drafted ''The Notebook''to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a guide modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to help Jenna plan her nuptials with wise, motherly advice on every aspectend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444724002</amazonuk>1529039037
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Paper SwansCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Jessica ThompsonBrooke Adams|rating=4.53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ben Lawrence Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has a charmed life it would seem. There’s had her shop, the highly successful Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and lucrative career in PR, wins - the fast car, Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more girlfriends than he can possibly rememberpleased. However Sonja, despite all thisher mother, Ben is sad an ex-model and lonely. He is scared to commit to any woman because of a tragic incident Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from his past. Even visiting his therapist does not seem to make a difference. ThereforeJessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, he is completely taken by surprise whenCharles and their four-year-old daughter, after meeting Effy Jones, the founder of the charity that Ben’s firm is sponsoring, he finds that he cannot stop thinking about Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in herlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776525</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Art of Baking BlindB08GFSK2WZ|author=Sarah Vaughan|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summarytitle=Eaden and Son is looking for the next Mrs Eaden. The original Mrs Eaden, Kathleen, has recently died and in her honour the upmarket grocery store is running a baking competition to find someone to advise the store on its baking products; to write a monthly magazine column; and to front Eaden’s advertising campaign. It’s an extremely appealing prospect and attracts many willing contestants that are eventually whittled down to five who will take part in weekly bake-offs in order to showcase their talents in all aspects of baking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792229</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Any Other Mouth|author=Anneliese Mackintosh|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=With a title like ''Any Other Mouth'', you know from the outset that this is, shall we say, a rather niche book. It’s not all about orifices, though. Partially autobiographical, this is the messy, ludicrous, wildly entertaining story of a girl who’s just a little bit different. Ok, make that a lot different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754575</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Lorraine Jenkin|title=Jam TomorrowLisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Joss Jeffries George Jackson is a farmerthirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. Not a farmerShe's wife not had sex for eight months and general help she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on the farm but the one who her and she has to get out there and make it worka real talent for attracting drama. Her husband departed a while ago leaving her life's chaotic: she dealt with their young son and a mountain the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of debt, so what the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she needs is money coming was in, and preferably as quickly as possible. She it and left her father, Mickstark naked, come up with what seems like a good idea: walking holidays in staring at the magical mid-Wales countrysidepervy postman. It ''looks'She only has to take her mother' s dog out for a walk for her to be quite a sound plan too. They'll take wellend up with dog poo spattered across her face -paying, decent people on great walks and let them experience a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the joy of camping and living close to nature. Only..office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099288490X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W Scott BeavenB08CHJLNBS|title=Train That Carried The Girl: 2 (Riccarton Junction)|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A few years have passed since we last met Kikarin, the then teenager growing up in the wilds of the Scottish borders surrounded by some pretty wild people. Her parents have gone back to live in Japan while her brother has fled abroad as a result of the family's near fatal brush with the criminal underworld. This leaves Kiri to continue her life with her friends Ainslie and Melanie filling the void. Although disappointed to have missed out on her honours degree in archaeology, Kiri finds alternative employment selling double glazing for commercial premises. Some things change but Kiri is still scarred by the past. She wants to settle down but will this past let her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494874601</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Harriet Evans|title=A Place For Us (Part 1)Brooke Adams|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Martha and David Winter live at Winterfold. David Winter is a famous cartoonist but he and his wife are getting on a bit and life isn’t quite as easy as it used to be, or, indeed for their children and grandchildren. As we meet them in August 2012 Martha is sending out invitations for her eightieth birthday and she makes it clear that she’d like them all to be there. Son Bill is the local GP and he’s struggling in his second marriage to the much younger Karen, but he’s still close to his daughter Lucy. The girls are much further away. Florence lives in Florence, just to confuse matters. She’s a Professor, ferociously intelligent and emotionally naive. Daisy is in India. Her childhood was ‘’difficult’’ but she’s now doing charitable work - which isn’t a lot of consolation for her daughter Cat whom she abandoned when she was a few weeks old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KIPSM98</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Proper Family Holiday|author=Chrissie Manby|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Chelsea can think of few things worse than He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a family holidaypartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Except maybe 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 family holiday to little deeper. Charles is more of a cheap hotel in [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''Lanza-grottyThe Guardian''. Or a family holiday where she’ll be constantly ridiculed for her ‘posh London ways’ and her inability 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 manage the most obvious things in life like holding down a boyfriend or starting a family of her ownhis friends. It’s going And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to be him? The relationship's obviously a long week.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742736</amazonuk>non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two Weddings and a BabyHelly Acton|authortitle=Scarlett BaileyThe Shelf|rating=34|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Tamsyn Thorne was not looking forward to returning to Cornwall for her brother RuanWhen we meet Amy, she's weddingin a relationship with Jamie. They had fallen out years ago and had not spoken since. However, for the sake of the familyYou can't really call it a partnership, she had agreed because things tend to attend, and even be a bridesmaidget done on his terms, but as far as she was concerned's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, she would leave 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 little Cornish village at work (and the first opportunity.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953553</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
{{newreview|author=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles|title=Goodbye Piccadilly|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=ItWhen Mike Parker's July 1914 and the girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is becoming unsettledtipped upside down. ThereHer relationship has just ended and now she's fierce unrest brewing in Ireland and Sarajevo is being put on the map for all talk of the wrong reasonsschool. Back Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in England life is continuing as usual – at the moment. Viscount Denelove with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialism. Laura Hunter but one thing is fighting for womensure, this isn's suffrage. As for Beattie Cazalet, her main worry is the rumour concerning the manner in which her servant Ethel is carrying on in public. All fears are about t going to deepen and worries put in sharp relief though: war is coming and a war like none the world has fought beforeblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751556262</amazonuk>0349003297
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maeve HaranKatie Fforde|title=The Time of Their LivesA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The four women had been friends I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for over forty years. Claudia, Ella, Laura ages and Sal had met at university and they know each other well - or think they do. They - like me - are this was pretty much exactly what I call 'upper middle aged' was expecting - those people who are technically olda warm, cosy read focused on romance, but not yet prepared to accept itfamily and friendships. They'd gone their separate ways in life but still lived close enough to meet up each month This provided two romances for drinks and to catch up with what was happening. To the women price of one, but it was one of their strongest relationships - although some of their families thought of actually the group family element as 'opposed to the coven'romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447253892</amazonuk>1780897561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=FalloutBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Sadie JonesLizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Have you ever been It was coming up to Halloween in love? 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Truly, madly, deeply (as the cliché has it) in love? Sincerely, selfishly, selflessly, in love? With the wrong person? If When you haven't then youre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that 'll find 'your entire life depends on who you marry'Fallout'' an exploration . The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of how it happens, children called Will and how we deal with itOlly appealed to Charlotte, or notperhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701188502</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=You're the One that I Want|author=Giovanna Fletcher|rating=4|genre=Women's FictionMove on to [[Features|summary=Maddy, Rob and Ben have been friends forever. There’s nothing unusual about that in general, but it’s less common in literature, perhaps, and I can’t think of another book where two boys and a girl are the trio at the centre of a friendship. As the book starts, Maddy and Rob are about to marry, and Ben stands proudly by as their best man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405909978</amazonuk>}}latest features]]