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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove {{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 ->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=Jenny ColganLauren Bravo|title=The Christmas SurprisePreloved

|summary=I do like Jenny Colgan’s books. At least, that’s Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my impression although I’m surprised to discover that -God-I had only previously read two of them'm-nearly-forty. Her titles seem to feature food Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss -related topics, and this particular one is third in Gwen finds herself having a series about bit of a young woman called Rosie Hopkinsmid-life crisis. She lives in a small village in Derbyshire with Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her boyfriend Stephen, and runs a sweet shop.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751553956</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Delia Franklin|title=Almost Perfect|rating=2Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Almost Perfect is the debut novel for Delia Franklin, and comes with a delightfully quirky front cover, which is part of what attracted me to it. It starts well, too. Gloria, who works as housekeeper for a late middle-aged farmer called Will, is happily surveying her vegetable patch. The tractor approaches and as Will climbs down, his mobile phone alerts him to the fact that his only granddaughter Lucy has had a fall, and is in a serious state in hospital.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992886309</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleyHadeer Elsbai|title=The Baron Next DoorDaughters of Izdihar|rating=3.54|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy a relaxing break in BathDrawing inspiration from Egypt, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmother, Lady Effington. Charity doesn't just love music, she 'The Daughters of Izdihar''explores the lives'' music; it is an intrinsic part of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her very being abilities and then join the military, but instead she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianoforteforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns up Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her doorstepfamily and maintain their reputation, demanding that she keep whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women''infernal racket s rights. Giorgina also happens to a minimum'', she declares war on the insufferably rude Baron next doorbe in love with Nico. The result What follows is a light-hearted story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin to bondcruelty, despite from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their differencespersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=The Year I Met YouBeneath the Porticoes|author=Cecelia AhernBrooke Adams|rating=34

|summary=Jasmine is the main protagonist of this book, Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and also the narratora teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. She’s single and has just lost her job, much to her dismay It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She’s She'd ''still not found the kind of person who likes to be busy right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to have make a purpose change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in lifeBologna. After a telephone interview, but she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the conditions of beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her former employment mean that she’s on a year’s ‘gardening leave’: she receives a full salary first class but is not allowed to start another job for a full yearit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501765</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=The Last AnniversaryMeredith Alone|author=Liane MoriartyClaire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=For yearsWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1, Scribbly Gum has been a tourist trap214 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, with crowds flocking from the mainland she can't. She simply can't force herself to visit leave the untouched site safety of the Munro Baby mystery, when a newborn was found abandoned on the island, her parents vanishedhome. The baby is now She's fortunate that she has a grandmother herselfgood friend, Sadie, but the mystery lingers onwho visits regularly with her two children, James and, well, it’s quite Matilda. Sadie's a good business for the residents. Silver linings cardiac nurse and all thatfull of sound common sense. But now Connie, one of two sisters In fact it was Sadie who found the babygave Meredith her cat, has passed awayFred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, and left so you can guess what she does in her house to spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a stranger, an outsider, someone who doesncharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith't really belong on the islands. Will Sophie’s arrival disturb the peace? Are long hidden secrets about to surface? And what will it mean for the extended family if they do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918519</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hall0008441618|title=The RepercussionsOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=ItJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn's England t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in 1380 and 17 year old Elizabeth of Lancaster has always dreamt that part of her betrothal and the sort of love of which balladeers singtown. So when she meets The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the person her father has lined up, her face drops funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to say the leastschool. The Earl of Pembroke is eight years old so sheThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s not pleased, with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. However one day love will find her Laura Spence and cruelly cause her Kate Monroe objected to choose between Jo's restrictions on the love of her life and family with fatal consequencestoys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=One Step Closer To YouGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Alice PetersonWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Single mum Polly Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has a lot of baggagedied. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, but it Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all basically boils down some 'rules' to two thingsfollow, boys knowing that she was dying and boozethat they would need help to carry on living. She’s been Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to hell take one of their trips away, and backVicky and Zaza, but for right nowstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, she seems decide to be doing ok, holding down a job drop everything in a cafétheir own lives, looking after son Louis and staying off the sauce. She’s even in a position to help those she meets, like her fellow AA-ers and single dad Ben at school who is adjusting to his new rolego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061835</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Indian SummerFall On Me|author=Marcia WillettPenelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Mungo is a retired actor Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and director- three years later - was still working at BB's diner. His brother Archie is Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a landowner, struggling to make ends meetgood boss. Kit is a good friend who comes to stay, wanting a safe place while she decides whether or not to get Hollie had moved in touch with a former her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Neighbours include Emma, an army wife with two small children who is tempted Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to an affair with a friend control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her husband’sjob at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and the elderly brothers Philip and Billy who have a secret that’s been hidden for forty years..to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071530</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicci Gerrard0008421714|title=The Twilight HourMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Eleanor has been persuaded by The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her children first name only on the last page) seemed to seriously consider sheltered accommodationeither be reading it or had already done so. At Every day Mrs March went to the age of 94 and blindlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't considered safe rattling around this the first time he's based a big old house. character on you?'' She doesnmentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 't surrender without conditions though: before she considers moving out, a stranger should be employed to sort her photos and papers before burning themmannerisms''. The family agree and Peter Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is appointed. Gradually he realises why Eleanor doesn’t want her children to see the documents as the story whore of hidden lifeNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, love and loss is revealedpathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405919833</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Geras1473685745|title=Cover Unbreak Your EyesHeart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=54

|summary=For London fashion journalist Megan forbidden love When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends suddenly of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and painfullyBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, just the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when she thinks it will blossom into something lasting and legitimatehe was a few days old. ElsewhereSo, in Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the countrysidestate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, Eva Conway lives with her daughterparading around a bit, son-in-law and granddaughters in Salix House – watching over the house that Eva used sanctioned return to call her own when she was a famous fashion designerthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Now she feels aloneFor yes, even Britain caved in the heart 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 her familythe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Not only But this but she also faces the loss is most certainly a different Britain, 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 home that means so much drudges, and beyond those, right on down to herthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. As Megan And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and Eva's paths cross so they discover that each of them has just get a dark guilty secret eating away hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at themleast, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, but then Salix House has secrets toowith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782066071</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Woman Who Stole My LifeRuth Hogan|authortitle=Marian KeyesMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Stella is an author working on her second This book. Though now back lets us discover several people in Ireland, she talks different stages of a life in New York. It sounds fabulous. But something has changed. Whatever it isthe early 1970s, we’re not sureall vaguely connected. Maybe the mighty So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have fallenbeen called then), the stars have stopped colliding. Either waya girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, that adventure is over as the book starts. It’s not where the story startsthird generation of Madame Burova, though''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and we’re soon plunged back into the pastClairvoyant'', with the events that have lead Stella to this pointuse her family's sea-front booth. First on the list The singer, a serious illness, without which nothing that followed would have happened, or at least not in the way it did. This may sound confusing but scryer and the book is anything but, and despite its great length, I sped through it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155335</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Seafront Tea Rooms|author=Vanessa Greene|rating=3.5|genre=Womensufferer's Fiction|summary=Charliemother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, Kat and Seraphine, are strangers brought together but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the Seafront Tea Rooms by their mutual love of afternoon teafamily stall. Kat is a young We also see her on her last day, single mum struggling to get by while her ex provides very little helpfifty years later, Charlie is in possession of a heartbroken journalist writing pair of letters that will change everything for a tea feature for her magazine while visiting her difficult sisterwoman called Billie. Just who is she, and French Seraphine has come across who delivered the channel secrets about her to au pairImelda, improve her English and get some perspective on why did it have to remain a new, complicated relationship.secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552232</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Most Desirable MarriageJennifer Saint |authortitle=Hilary BoydAriadne |rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and Lawrence have been married for nearly forty years. It has been a good marriage the Minotaur is interesting and they are both looking forward to spending more time together and pursuing new interests once Lawrence has retiredunusual. However, as Jennifer Saint presents the time approaches Jo notices story in a way that Lawrence appears more edgy and withdrawn. She puts it down is sympathetic to pre-retirement nerves; nothing its origins but also appealing to really worry abouta modern audience. SoSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, when Lawrence makes a confession spanning from her childhood to her immediately after his retirement partydeath, she couldn't have been more surprised. She realises that allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her husband has been living own right rather than just a secret life and that changes everything: instead of anticipating their rosy future together, she's now looking forward to prop in the prospect heroics of life as a single womanTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067922</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie FitzgeraldLucy Holland|title=ZemindarSistersong

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emily's husband Charles to the exotic sub-continent for Sistersong is part of a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskine. Although none of the travellers have ever met Olivergenre I particularly enjoy, many of the people they encounter have heard modern retelling of him folk and the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindarfairy tales. These stories tantalise Laura as the information conflicts , for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and she's unable to develop a mental picture of the manfresh perspective. That's not all If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that's conflicting: there's an increasing feeling are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of unrest in this furthest outpost of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead to one women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British history. Laura, Emily and Charles are naïveplot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but that won't save them from what's allowing the characters to come – something beyond their worst nightmares. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Holly Peterson|title=The Idea of Him|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Allie Crawford seemed to have it made. She was married life, to Wade - the sort of man who made other women ''drool''feel real and human, had a job most importantly they feel relatable in a highmodern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-profile Manhattan PR firm 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 Saxon age they live in their laundry room with a decidedly glamorous blonde. There had been This is a bit masterpiece of a blip in their marriage whilst Allie storytelling and I was breastfeeding their younger child, but Allie thought that Wade had learned his lesson and would be careful about hurting her in futurecaptivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=What I Love About YouCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Rachel GibsonBrooke Adams

|summary=Natalie is the girl next door when Blake moves to town but it’s neither love nor even friendship at first sight. SureThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, 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 themCherry Blossom Boutique, for just as you can’t avoid your neighbours in a small town, six months when she's nominated for - and since Truly, Idaho fits wins - the bill on both, they’re going to see each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 superintendentRetail Best Newcomer Award. Although she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, AnnieShe's life is becoming very uncomfortable as delighted and the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides of the divide. Ittwo people she's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on brought with her to the side you're on but unfortunately Annie isnevent couldn't permitted to choosebe more pleased. However this is only the start of Sonja, her problems. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriendmother, is back on the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter an ex-model and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifelooks from.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Harkness|title=The Book of Life|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop Jessica's thirty-four and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in the 21st century but now face the tragic news of Aunt SarahLiberty's partner, Embest friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's death. Hardhusband, Charles and their four-toyear-get-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan and is making life dangerously difficult for Dianaold daughter, Matthew and their unborn twinsAva. If this isnLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't enough, they still need to find and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Life. However, they have very dangerous competitionfor one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen NobleB08GFSK2WZ|title=The 49th DayKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=After escaping a disastrous marriageGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, Katherine Walsh travels absolutely gorgeous to an island retreat in Wales look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in order to pick up the pieces karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her life, relax and decide future directionshe has a real talent for attracting drama. However, rest and recreation isnHer life't all s chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she discovers. During therapy sessions her ancient past is unlocked was in it and odd happenings that have haunted left her for years start to make sense, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Katherine also realises that it may be She only has to take her benefit to learn how to trust mother's dog out for a man again but the chance of love isn't walk for her biggest surprise. She appears to be pregnant so any decisions she makes about end up with dog poo spattered across her future must include face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the new life within heroffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782795936</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=It Had to Be YouCapturing Emilia|author=Ellie Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in her life until it all goes startlingly wrongthe heritage library next door. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst 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 dressed as Henry VIII at more of a thirtieth birthday party and unfortunately the whole debacle is filmed and ends up on YouTube[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She becomes known as 'head butt girls not his usual type at all: it' as she is filmed demonstrating her furys obvious to his friends. Her PR job is also going nowhere as And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she finds herself having feel drawn to try and promote some very strange conceptshim? 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 relationship with Jamie. At least You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she has '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 two best friends to pack for solace and they can all a surprise trip. Could this be found, many evenings, drinking away their sorrows it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and putting the world to rights.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|title=The Mill River Redemption|author=Darcie Chan|rating=4|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Rose and Emily are sisters who co-exist rather than interact. In the pastgirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, a devastating event drove them apartclaiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now they both have their own lives, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew upshe's the talk of the school. When their mother Josie dies, they are brought back together first Mike was the most popular boy in their mourning and then school who was always so in their frustration at a message from beyond the grave: their mother is determined to achieve in death love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what she couldnhe did? Some people believe her and some don't while still alive, a sisterly reconciliation. She has left her estate to the girls, but in order to access the funds they will need to cooperate and coordinate efforts to unearth the clues she has left them. With neither in a position to walk away from the potential gold mineone thing is for sure, they have this isn't going to put aside their differences, if only for the summerblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Little LiesKatie Fforde|authortitle=Liane MoriartyA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Death I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and kindergarten are not friendships. This provided two things you would normally think went togetherromances for the price of one, but this time they have. Someone is dead. A murder investigation has been launched. But why are the police finding it so hard to get answers? What was actually went on that night? And can an incident in the playground on family element as opposed to the first day romance that I really have come to this?enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405918462</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Five Days LeftBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Julie Lawson TimmerLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mara It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and Scott are both on a countdowngroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. Each has five days left When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. But when The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the weekend comes, who will be happy, who will be mourningidea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who will be out of 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 picture forever?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892136</amazonuk>class.

{{newreview|title=The Girls from Corona Del Mar|author=Rufi ThorpeMove on to [[Features|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Exploring the friendship of Mia and Lorrie Ann, two girls who grew up together in 1980's Corona Del Mar, this novel is unexpectedly tragic; definitely not just another trashy, girly work of fiction. Written from the point of view of Mia, it tells the journeys of the two friends and the events which have led them to where they are now. ''The Girls from Corona Del Mar'' explores not only the subjects of friendship, growing apart and growing up, but also those of death, war, drugs, abortion and coping with a disabled child. And, in my opinion, Rufi Thorpe does this brilliantly; sometimes with subtlety and elegance but often through the frank, brutal honesty of the character's narration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954193</amazonuk>}}latest features]]