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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juliet Ashton1471180158|title= These Days of OursMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary=Not everything that looks like love is loveJamie 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'. Kate He's asthmatic and Charlie were childhood sweetheartsthe more you read, so what went wrong? How has the more you'll suspect that he ended up marrying her wayward cousin and Kate marrying her wayward cousin's pretentious exon the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice -boyfriend? How can they still be four friends? Follow Kate through her life where she experiences all kinds of love 's a frequent flier in all kinds of places the local A&E and learns that sometimes Bo's not everything that looks like love is love, but that just sometimes what looks like love might 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 real dealwrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eliza KennedyLauren Bravo|title= I Take YouPreloved|rating= 24|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= In Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a week from now, Lily and Will are getting married! This weekend, they'll be leaving New York big number that starts with a four and jetting down to Florida to spend the week ends with her family, preparing for the big day, and itan oh-my-God-I's all brilliantly excitingm-nearly-forty. They're quite Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the golden couple, her toss - Gwen finds herself having a lawyer at a big firm, him an archaeologist at bit of a top museum, young, attractive, they bring the world to its kneesmid-life crisis. And then sometimes Lily gets on her knees, but, ooops, it's just as likely to be in front of her boss or a random from the bar as it Catharsis is her fiancé. Lily, you see, key and Gwen has decided now is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type. Instead she likes time to sleep around, drink, take drugs and breakdown in tears, all while keeping this a secret from the man sheback her life's supposed to love and while holding down a substantial professional job of course.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)0008506337|title= RoxyThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 35|genre= General Fiction|summary= I liked the premise for this novel: a young wife (Roxy) is told at the beginning of the book 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 much older husband has been killed in away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a car accidentglittering career. To add to In the shock of thisevent, they eloped and Richard took her away from the revelation that he died in the arms Isle of his (naked) lover in the car, Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on the hard shoulder, is to become a further blow to Roxywell-respected journalist. I found this an interesting set-up for a storyThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and wondered how this was going to goSasha. As Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the blurb family home on the back Isle of Wight. Even then the novel tells us, doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo'she is looking for revenges mind: '', I thought the book she would never be a development of the character of Roxy into a self-motivating, strong character. But this wasnable to leave him in charge''t the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa BeazleyHadeer Elsbai|title= Keep Me PostedThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'Keep me Posted' is written explores the lives 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 light-heartedsociety pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, informal stylewishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, narrated by but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a young mother called Cassie who lives in New York. She privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her husband Leo have twin toddlers, family and her life is busymaintain their reputation, full whilst secretly attending meetings of technology and fast food. Her older sister Sid is more laid back, and something the Daughters of Izdihar – a technophobe; although they used group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be close, they haven't really been in touch much since Sid and her family moved to Singaporelove with Nico. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elisa Albert|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book What follows is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture story of new motherhood. In factan unjust society, I would probably avoid it if you are contemplating giving birth in the near future. For any woman who has ever struggled through the first few months of motherhood, howeverfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, or from which blossoms a partner group of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding admirable women fighting for their rights and revelatory read. Never before have I read a more searing, honest and open discussion of the emotional upheaval a woman often goes through after giving birthovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn FlettB0B575J99N|title=OutstandingBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Ivy House is Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a preparatory teacher at a prestigious girl's school with an in York. It was 'outstanding' Ofsted reportcomfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. Eve Sturridge is She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the head teacher and she puts heart right man'' and soul into making certain that it's now was the best that it can possibly be - well, as far as she's allowed time to by the ownermake a change. She needed challenges. But it looks as though There was a little trepidation when she's getting into applied for the big time when Stefan and Anette Sorensen (A-list billionaires) choose Ivy House for their son and daughterprofessoressa job in Bologna. There's another bonus too: After a telephone interview, she was offered the Sorensens run a hedge fund position and Eveit wasn's seventeen-year-old daughter Zoe is keen to have a career in financet long before she was exploring the beautiful city. What could be more There were some natural than that some work experience could be on offer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298247</amazonuk>doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erica James0241542405|title= Song of the SkylarkMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it'Song 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 the Skylarkher home. She' s fortunate that she has quite a cast of charactersgood friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and I found it Matilda. Sadie's a little difficult, at first, to keep track cardiac nurse and full of everyonesound common sense. Lizzie is the main protagonist; we meet In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her trying 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 vain to apply for new jobs after losing her previous onespare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. We quickly learn that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour with her boss He's from Holding Hands, a married mancharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rachel Hore0008441618|title= The House on Bellevue GardensOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 45|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Leonie Jo Fairburn knew that she was left under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a large, somewhat run-down London house by a friend, some years previouslyprice slump in that part of the town. She's The school had an artist, active Parent Teacher Association and something of the funds which they raised were a bohemian, and lets out rooms at low price considerable benefit to people in needthe school. There's Peterwas one difficulty, who occupies the basement and lives in squalor, which though - occasionally - she tries to clean up. There are also an elderly Indian couple, Hari and Bela, who have been there for some time, and a young and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenny Colgan|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever After|rating= 4|genre= Womenthey were ''devastatingly shockable's Fiction|summary= I loved the introduction to this book. It explains that it's a story for readers who love books, and outlines with light humour the places where the author recommends settling down with a good book. I related strongly to the idea of reading in bed, and forgetting who is who as I drop off to sleep; this is my usual mode. Travelling is alsotwo members, in my experienceparticular, an excellent time to readcausing problems for the head. I don't read in the bath - Laura Spence and the authorKate Monroe objected to Jo's description of books drying out restrictions on the toys children could bring in on radiators conjured up Toy Day but that was just a depressing image warm- but I enjoyed all her other suggestionsup act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C G MettsGiovanna Fletcher|title=Waltzing in ViennaWalking on Sunshine

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has written four nonfiction books, several of them of local interest to South Carolina natives and visitorsdied. This And whilst he is dealing with his first novelgrief, howeverso are their best friends, Vicky and you may be surprised Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to learn follow, knowing that it is an enjoyable chick lit/women's fiction rompshe was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Three girlfriends meet up again in Charleston; in Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their early fortiestrips away, they're facing turning points in and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their professional and personal lives. As they reminisce about summers spent together at Folly Beach during college grief and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitown life troubles, they summon the courage decide to decide what they want from middle age and refresh drop everything in their sex own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)B09FS89KX9|title= The Dyslexic Hearts Club|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= I recently reviewed a novel by another Scandinavian novelist, Helle Helle, [[This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|This Should be Written in the Present Tense]], and I expected this novel by Hanneke Hendrix to be very similar. It wasn't. That's not totally a bad thing – many people will enjoy the fast-paced, dialogue driven novel that ''The Dyslexic Hearts Club'' is. It just wasn't exactly what I was expecting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380678</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFall On Me|author=Jane L Gibson|title=The Gessami ResidencePenelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=Jenny Walker has Life should have been a widow good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three yearslater - was still working at BB's diner. She's Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had support from moved in with her parents (Dad's still a bit protective)boyfriend, Marcus: her two sons, who are at university, mother thought he was great and her three girl friendshe was doing well in his career. The four women have had a meal together every week but now theyHollie wasn've decided t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to go on holiday for a fortnight. One control her and most of the women - Rose - is in the business so she's in charge of making the arrangements and she insists that they have all he wanted her to turn up leave her job at the airport before they find out their destinationdiner. Ibiza wasn't ''quite'' what they were expectingThen there was the fact that he would be violent, but then three of the four women are unattached (Amanda is married - in an unenthusiastic sort of way) both to her and they all like to drink and flirtother people. What couldn't go right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amanda Brooke0008421714|title= The Child's SecretMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= There are obvious suspects in any missing child case, with the parents often at The problem began just after the top publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the listlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. In Every day Mrs March went to the case of 8 year old Jasminelocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, thoughas she was wrapping the bread, there's someone else who catches 'but isn't this the policefirst time he's eye: local park worker Sam who has something of an unconventional relationship with based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the girlprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Fallon|title= Strictly Between Us|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Tamsin and Michelle Perhaps this would not have been friends mattered, except for decades. Aside from parents, they're the longest relationship in fact that Johanna is the bookwhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, longer than Michelle and Patrick's marriagedetestable, longer than Bea has worked as Tamsin's assistant. All four characters feature heavilypathetic, thoughunloved, in a story that is always moving and never boringunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Delinsky1473685745|title=BlueprintsUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Everyone When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - even Jamie MacAfee well, Simon was angry and Beth 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 - thinks that her life is perfect's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. SheSo, 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 engaged schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to BradLondon, parading around a lawyer bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with her familyhis wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn's building firm t happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is sure most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that she'll manage 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 set 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 wedding date as soon as work pressure eases uphefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. SheThat is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's employed by visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the family firm tooearly 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as an architecthe would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and appears as one chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the presenters first time in the family 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 television renovation showwoman called Billie. Her best friend Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her mother whoto Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a master carpenter and modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the host on viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the same television show - and Caroline has managed reader to build up really connect with Ariadne as a character in her confidence again after own right rather than just a messy divorceprop in the heroics of Theseus. What can go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405042</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsLucy Holland|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)Sistersong

|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the voice of a strangerCherry Blossom Boutique, the presence of evil for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knowsRetail Best Newcomer Award. She tries all 's delighted and the two people she can 's brought with her to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesnevent couldn't workbe more pleased. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and travels to Brazilian: you can see where she knows it will all begin Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and possibly endtheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons agoLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances BrodyB08GFSK2WZ|title=Sisters on Bread StreetThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sistersGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, struggling absolutely gorgeous to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in Leeds just before the outbreak karma trap: an awful lot of the first world war. Well, Julia bad luck is strugglingbeing visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragetteHer life's sonchaotic: 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 was in it and left her, stark naked, Thomasstaring at the pervy postman. Sheonly has to take her mother's an apprentice milliner dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and beautiful, but both sisters have a disadvantage and photo being taken by someone who shares it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is Germanaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane McLoughlinB08CHJLNBS|title= The Unfriended|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= The Unfriended lays its cards out on the table right from the first page: this is a novel all about feminism. It's going to have those conversations, and it's going to deliver some opinions, and it's not going to apologise for doing so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373947</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Nora Roberts|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Spoilers ahead for Book 1He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, ''Dark Witch''the Mayfair letting agents.Life goes on for the O She'Dwyer cousins but that doesn’t mean they've given up on Cabahns Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the evil one who has stalked their family for centuriesheritage library next door. He hasnEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she't given up s moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on them either unfortunately. As the cousinssomeone else' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors from when their powers – as well as their problems – originateds philosophies, to something a little deeper. Meanwhile the problem Charles is more of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry a [[Personal by comparison Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but it, above all, he's still a problemshocked 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's desperate not his usual type at all: it's obvious to fall in love with Connor O'Dwyerhis friends. Good luck with And given that Meara!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny StallardHelly Acton|title= Boyfriend by ChristmasThe Shelf|rating= 4.5

|summary= Genie works as When we meet Amy, she's in a writer for an online womenrelationship with Jamie. You can's lifestyle sitet really call it a partnership, the sort that tells you because things tend to eat at the cereal café down the street (before everyone starts rioting outside), advises you get done on where to get the best seasonal homewareshis terms, reviews getaways from cottages in the Cotswolds to mansions in Miami, and throws in interviews with important/influential/IT women for good measurebut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. GenieAh, though, has a rather niche roleyes. She writes on dating and love and being single in the city. But since sheHaven's t we all been single a while, her editor is getting fed there? Things are looking up with it and sets when he tells her to pack for a challenge: find a boyfriend by Christmas, surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and blog about the process.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405922486</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica SpindlerAlyssa Sheinmel|title= The First WifeWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary= I should have guessed from their names (''Bailey'' and ''Logan'Doing something when you') that this story was set in the States, but initially I was too busy identifying with the blurb on the back to notice. 10 year age gap? Check. Magnificent estate? Check. First wife? Check. Even if that doesn't make you feel as if you are reading about your own life, which re scared is of course how it made me feel, there's a lot to drag braver than doing something when you in to this one immediately and I was utterly delighted that my initial eagerness to read this one was sustained to the very last page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pamela Hart|title=The Soldier's Wife|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''...none of it was real, until the last moment when his hand, the tips of his fingers, left the tips of hers and he was gone.re not''

When Mike Parker''Turned s girlfriend comes into just another soldier.'' Ruby and Jimmy are newly-weds full of big dreams and plans for the futureschool with a black eye, but all of that will have claiming he gave it to wait. It is 1915 and the her, her whole world is in the grip Great War, sweeping Jimmy away to fight battles in far-off Gallipolitipped upside down. Ruby feels like Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in limbo; no longer an innocent child but not quite a fully-fledged married lady. Not wanting to return home, she decides to stay school who was always so in Sydneylove with her, to keep herself occupied as she waits out the wareveryone knew that, longing for the return of so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her beloved husband. She rents a room from a local landlady and finds a job as a bookkeeper at a Timber Merchant. Although she initially takes the job some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to keep herself occupied and earn a little money, she blow over any time soon falls into a comfortable routine and starts to enjoy her new-found independence and responsibility.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410186</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marianne KavanaghKatie Fforde|title= Don't Get Me WrongA Springtime Affair|rating= 34

|summary=DonI't get me wrong, ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was an enjoyable read but it's not one you'll rush and tell your friends about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marina Warner|title=Fly Away Home|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=How would you subvert pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a fairy tale? You know enough of them and enough about them to do itwarm, so think cosy read focused on it. Would you give a mermaid a smartphone? Would you pepper them with pop starsromance, family and perhaps let them be witness to the Schadenfreude caused by a cave that's sacred to native Canadians? friendships. Would you, in This provided two romances for the light price of their characters usually being routineone, interchangeable tropes, give them a closely-observed personality – as seen here in a teacher's interior thoughts when faced with a piece of East Anglian lore? Would you take the exoticism of the east, and Egypt in particular, and see but it in was actually the light of a musical teacher on a zero-hours contract who ends up muttering family element as opposed to himself, directing traffic in the middle of the road, or from the remove of an elderly man with ''swollen feet in orthopaedic sandals'' with a message from the past? Certainly these two are not the standard Arabian Nights-styled pieces…romance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630381</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo MoyesB07W4MNBSG|title=After Be Careful Who YouMarry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=After writing the massively popular It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-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 'Me Before You'your entire life depends on who you marry', all of Jojo Moyes' readers were clamouring for more. Having been on The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the edge idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of our armchairs during the storychildren called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, we all wanted or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to know what happened marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place to Lou nextstart their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. Would she be okay? Would she live her life with passion? Where would she go next? So the arrival of this story is a special treat, as it continues the tale of Lou, although perhaps not There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the way we had imagined…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718179617</amazonuk>class.