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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rosie Blake1471180158|title= How to Find your (First) HusbandMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary=Isobel Graves hasnJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who't got s a control freak with all the life she envisionedsubtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. She moved to LA to become a star-soaked television presenter He's asthmatic and the more you read, instead shethe more you'll suspect that he's dressing up everyday in a series of wacky promotional costumes on the streetsautistic spectrum. She thought Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she'd be married to s a gentleman, instead shefrequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's fallen into a lacklustre relationship with a pilot, whose booty calls do not send her sky highfit enough to go to school. So when Isobel sees a man from her past Missed shifts or the need to be away on TV, someone she was once married time to on the playground at pick Bo up from school, she wonders what her life would are occasions when Jamie can be like if they were married nowcontrolled and put in the wrong. With everything It was going to gain and nothing come to lose, Isobel attempts to find her first husband and take back control of her lifea head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398627</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonLauren Bravo|title= The One We Fell In Love WithPreloved|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm not sure whether it -nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would be flattering or stressful to have 3 beautiful women lusting after you. In argue the case toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of Angus, it's itchy footed Phoebe who'd rather be flitting around the French Alps than stagnating in suburban Sale, boho musician Eliza who's still waiting for her big break, a mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and former nurse Rose who Gwen has decided now is leaving behind an unsuitable boyfriend and a life in the city time to move take back up north… and live with her mother. Itlife's a complicated situation, made only more complex by the fact that the girls know each other. In the past they've shared a room, and a womb. Hello, triplets.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471138437</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lambert0008506337|title=Kiss and KinThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating=45

|summary=ItThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband GeorgeLeary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Looking back she's concluded that she Margo was fond of, but probably not ''just sixteen when they fell in love'', with him. They had two sons Richard was twenty-one and itdescribed by Margo's the elder of these, Roderick whomother as 'an older man's married to Jennifer. They have three children, but thereHer parents worried that Richard's been influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a rather silly feud between glittering career. In the Capels event, they eloped and Jennifer's family, Richard took her away from the Gaunts, which dates back Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to the become a well-respected journalist. The couple's weddinghad three children: Rachel, when Clarissa GauntImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one family home on the Isle of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn'tWight. Honours (or should it be Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: 'dishonours'she would never be able to leave him in charge'?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother and was overheard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514301</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Liz FenwickHadeer Elsbai|title= Under a Cornish SkyThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating= 3.54|genre= General FictionFantasy|summary=Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''Under a Cornish SkyThe Daughters of Izdihar'' is explores the story lives of two very different women who are forced to work together to complete a common goal. Their personalities couldn't could not be more different, so expect fireworks along yet find themselves fighting for the way! Shy Demi is as timid as a mouse rights of women and although she is weavers – those with magical abilities - in a skilled architectsociety pitted against them. Nehal, she is never able born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to succeed in control her career because others take credit for her work. In relationshipsabilities and then join the military, but instead she is easily manipulated forced into doing things she doesn't always feel comfortable an arranged marriage with; a fact that is not lost on her sleazy current boyfriend, MattNico. Lady-of-the-Manor Victoria, Giorgina on the other hand, simply oozes self confidence. Although she is in did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her sixtiesfamily and maintain their reputation, she has whilst secretly attending meetings of the body Daughters of Izdihar – a much younger woman and has no trouble getting men group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to do exactly what she wantsbe in love with Nico. Despite What follows is a long list story of younger lovers providing a pleasurable distractionan unjust society, her one true love is the family home of Boscawenfilled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a glorious estate set in the picturesque Cornish countryside, not far from the seagroup of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409148289</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronica HenryB0B575J99N|title=How to Find Love in a Book ShopBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=It is with a heavy heart that Emilia Nightingale returns 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 the pretty Cotswold town of Peasebrook: in fact, she so nearly does. Her beloved father Julius has just passed away; his legacyoutdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, a well-loved bookshop that serves as a beating heart she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the communitysafety of her home. Julius was loved by all: he always had time to listen to his customers She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and share Matilda. Sadie's a recuperative cuppa in times cardiac nurse and full of needsound common sense. However In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, his finances were another matter entirely Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and Emilia wonders how she can keep the bookshop open with there's also an everinternet-mounting pile of debt. Greedy property developer Ian Mendip would be only based support group where you''too'' happy to help outll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, but so you can Emilia really give up on guess what she does in her fatherspare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's dream?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914688X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juliet Ashton0008441618|title= These Days of OursOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=Not everything Jo Fairburn knew that looks like love is loveshe was 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 house price slump in that part of the town. Kate The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and Charlie the funds which they raised were childhood sweetheartsa considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, so what went wrong? How has he ended up marrying her wayward cousin causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate marrying her wayward cousinMonroe objected to Jo's pretentious ex-boyfriend? How can they still be four friends? Follow Kate through her life where she experiences all kinds of love restrictions on the toys children could bring in all kinds of places and learns that not everything that looks like love is love, on Toy Day but that was just sometimes what looks like love might be the a warm-up act for their real dealgripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471155056,/amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eliza KennedyGiovanna Fletcher|title= I Take YouWalking on Sunshine|rating= 24|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= In a week from nowMike's wife, Pia, Lily and Will are getting married! This weekendwho he was with for seventeen years, they'll be leaving New York and jetting down to Florida to spend the week has died. And whilst he is dealing with her familyhis grief, preparing for the big dayso are their best friends, Vicky and itZaza. But Pia left them all some 's all brilliantly exciting. Theyrules're quite the golden couple, her a lawyer at a big firm, him an archaeologist at a top museum, young, attractiveto follow, knowing that she was dying and that they bring the world would need help to its kneescarry on living. And then sometimes Lily gets on her knees, but, ooops, it's just as likely to be in front Whilst some of her boss or a random from the bar rules are around practicalities such as it is clearing out her fiancé. Lilywardrobe, you see, is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type. Instead she likes another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to sleep aroundtake one of their trips away, drinkand Vicky and Zaza, take drugs struggling with their grief and breakdown their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in tearstheir own lives, all while keeping this a secret from the man she's supposed to love and while holding down a substantial professional job of coursego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593661</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Esther Gerritsen and Michele Hutchison (translator)B09FS89KX9|title= RoxyFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 3.5|genre= General Women's Fiction|summary= I liked the premise Life should have been good for this novelHollie: a young wife (Roxy) is told at She was just going into the beginning final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the book that owner - regarded her much older husband has been killed in fondly: he was a car accidentgood boss. To add to the shock of thisHollie had moved in with her boyfriend, the revelation that Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he died was doing well in the arms of his (naked) lover in the car, on the hard shoulder, is a further blow to Roxycareer. I found this an interesting set-up for a story, Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and wondered how this was going most of all he wanted her to goleave her job at the diner. As Then there was the blurb on the back of the novel tells us, ''she is looking for revenge'', I thought the book fact that he would be a development of the character of Roxy into a self-motivatingviolent, strong characterboth to her and to other people. But this wasn't the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380643</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Beazley0008421714|title= Keep Me PostedMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March'Keep me Posted' is written in a light-hearteds 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, informal styleas she was wrapping the bread, narrated by ''but isn't this the first time he's based a young mother called Cassie who lives in New York. character on you?'' She and her husband Leo have twin toddlersmentioned that Johanna, and the principal character had 'her life is busy, full of technology and fast foodmannerisms''. Her older sister Sid Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is more laid back, and something the whore of Nantes - ''a technophobe; although they used to be closeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, they havenunloveable wretch.''t really been in touch much since Sid and her family moved to Singapore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elisa Albert1473685745|title= After Birth|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= This book is definitely not for anyone who has a rosy picture of new motherhood. In fact, 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, however, or a partner of somebody who is going through it, it is an astounding 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 birth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Kathryn Flett|title=OutstandingKatie Marsh

|summary=Ivy House is a preparatory school with When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon'outstandings son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn' Ofsted reportt hurt but Jake has history. Eve Sturridge is 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, the head teacher left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and she puts he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, 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 soul into making certain that itAdolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the best lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it can possibly be - , and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as far as shethe Germanic peoples on ''s allowed to by the ownermainland''. But it looks as though she's getting this 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 drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the big time when Stefan husbandless and Anette Sorensen (A-list billionaires) choose Ivy House 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 take all encouragement for their son female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and daughterso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. ThereThat is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's another bonus too: 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 Sorensens run early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a hedge fund 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 EveClairvoyant'', to use her family's seventeensea-year-old daughter Zoe is keen to have front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a career revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in financethe family stall. What could be more natural than We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that some work experience could be on offerwill change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784298247</amazonuk>152937331X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erica JamesJennifer Saint |title= Song of the SkylarkAriadne |rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary='Song This re-telling of the Skylark' has quite a cast myth of characters, Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and I found it unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a little difficult, at first, way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to keep track of everyonea modern audience. Lizzie Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the main protagonist; we meet viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her trying in vain childhood to apply for new jobs after losing her previous one. We quickly learn that she was sacked for rather blatant immoral behaviour death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her boss, own right rather than just a married manprop in the heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159558</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel HoreLucy Holland|title= The House on Bellevue GardensSistersong|rating= 45|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Leonie was left Sistersong is part of a largegenre I particularly enjoy, somewhat run-down London house by a friendthe modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, some years previously. She's an artistfor most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and something of a bohemianfresh 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 lets out rooms at low price to people in needre-evaluating the role of women. There's PeterSistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, who occupies the basement and lives in squalorplot is handled with care, which - occasionally - she tries keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to clean up. There are also an elderly Indian couplelife, Hari to feel real and Belahuman, who have been there most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for some time, and the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a young masterpiece of storytelling and rather shy man called Rick who is writing a graphic novelI was captivated from beginning to end. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471130789</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny ColganB08NF79QXT|title=The Little Shop of Happy Ever AfterCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 43|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I loved Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the introduction to this book. It explains that itCherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's a story nominated for readers who love books, - and outlines with light humour wins - the places where Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the author recommends settling down two people she's brought with a good book. I related strongly her to the idea of reading in bed, and forgetting who is who as I drop off to sleep; this is my usual modeevent couldn't be more pleased. Travelling is also Sonja, in my experienceher mother, is an excellent time to readex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. I donJessica't read in the bath s thirty- four and the authorLiberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's description of books drying out on radiators conjured up husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a depressing image - but I enjoyed all man in her other suggestionslife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075155393X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C G MettsB08GFSK2WZ|title=Waltzing in ViennaThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Filmmaker C G Metts has written four nonfiction booksGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, several of them of local interest absolutely gorgeous to South Carolina natives look at - and visitorssingle. This is his first novel, however, She's not had sex for eight months and you may be surprised to learn that it is an enjoyable chick lit/womenshe's fiction romp. Three girlfriends meet up again stuck in Charleston; in their early forties, they're facing turning points in their professional the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and personal livesshe has a real talent for attracting drama. As they reminisce about summers spent together Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at Folly Beach during college the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and resume their communal marijuana smoking habitleft her, stark naked, they summon staring at the courage pervy postman. She only has to decide what they want from middle age take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and refresh their sex livesa photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692533346</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hanneke Hendrix and David Doherty (translator)B08CHJLNBS|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>}}{{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Jane L Gibson|title=The Gessami ResidenceBrooke Adams

|summary=Jenny Walker has been He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a widow for three yearspartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's had support from her parents (Dad's still a bit protective)Emilia, her two sons, who are at universitytwenty-nine, librarian and her three girl friendsarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The four women have had a meal together every week Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but now theyshe's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else've decided s philosophies, to go on holiday for something a fortnightlittle deeper. One Charles is more of the women - Rose - is in the business so shea [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's in charge of making the arrangements and she insists shocked that they have to turn up at the airport before they find out their destination. Ibiza wasnEmilia reads 't 'The Guardian'quite'. They' what they were expectingre obviously not at all compatible, but then three so why can Charles not get this woman out of the four women are unattached (Amanda is married - in an unenthusiastic sort of way) and they his mind? She's not his usual type at all like : it's obvious to drink and flirthis friends. What couldnAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't go rightit?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784625035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda BrookeHelly Acton|title= The Child's SecretShelf

|summary= There are obvious suspects When we meet Amy, she's in any missing child case, a relationship with the parents often at the top of the listJamie. In the case of 8 year old JasmineYou can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, thoughbut she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally''s someone else who catches going to get down on one knee? Was the police's eye: local park worker Sam who has something of an unconventional relationship with work (and the girl.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008116490</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane FallonAlyssa Sheinmel|title= Strictly Between UsWhat Kind of Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary= Tamsin and Michelle have been friends for decades. Aside from parents, they'' Doing something when you're the longest relationship in the book, longer scared is braver than Michelle and Patrickdoing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's marriagegirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, longer than Bea claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has worked as Tamsinjust ended and now she's assistantthe talk of the school. All four characters feature heavilyMike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, thoughso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, in a story that but one thing is always moving and never boringfor sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917679</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara DelinskyKatie Fforde|title=BlueprintsA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Everyone - even Jamie MacAfee - thinks that her life is perfect. She's engaged to Brad, a lawyer with her family's building firm and is sure that she'll manage to set a wedding date as soon as work pressure eases up. She's employed by the family firm too, as an architect, and appears as one of the presenters on a television renovation show. Her best friend is her mother who's a master carpenter and the host on the same television show - and Caroline has managed to build up her confidence again after a messy divorce. What can go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sasha suffers from nightmares. The scary details may vary but the gist of the contents remain the same: the voice of a stranger, the presence of evil and the faces of five people on an island, none of which/whom she knows. She tries all she can to exorcise the darkness including transferring the faces and locations into her art but even the refuge of her talent and livelihood doesn't work. In a moment of bravery Sasha discovers the identity of the island and travels to where she knows it will all begin and possibly end. For there somewhere on Crete the other five wait and the evil materialises along with the events that three goddesses began eons ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Sisters on Bread Street|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world war. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's son, Thomas. She's an apprentice milliner and beautiful, but both sisters have a disadvantage and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is German.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane McLoughlin|title= The Unfriended|rating= 3.5

|summary= The Unfriended lays its cards out on the table right from the first page: I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this is was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a novel all about feminism. It's going to have those conversationswarm, cosy read focused on romance, family and it's going to deliver some opinionsfriendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, and but it's not going was actually the family element as opposed to apologise for doing sothe romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373947</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB07W4MNBSG|title=Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy Book 2)Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Spoilers ahead for Book 1, ''Dark Witch''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.Life goes on for the O When you'Dwyer cousins re only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that doesn’t mean they've given up 'your entire life depends on Cabahn, the evil one who has stalked their family for centuries. He hasnyou marry''t given up on them either unfortunately. As The only eligible boys were the cousins' resolve increases so does their links with their 13th century ancestors from when their powers – as well as their problems – originated. Meanwhile Young Farmers and the problem idea of their friend Meara Quinn may seem paltry by comparison but it's still living in a farmhouse and having a problemcouple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She's desperate not The place to fall in love with Connor Ostart their search was obviously the Young Farmers'DwyerHalloween disco that weekend. Good luck with that Meara!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958618</amazonuk>There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.

{{newreview|author= Jenny Stallard|title= Boyfriend by Christmas|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Genie works as a writer for an online women's lifestyle site, the sort that tells you to eat at the cereal café down the street (before everyone starts rioting outside), advises you Move on where to get the best seasonal homewares, reviews getaways from cottages in the Cotswolds to mansions in Miami, and throws in interviews with important/influential/IT women for good measure. Genie, though, has a rather niche role. She writes on dating and love and being single in the city. But since she's been single a while, her editor is getting fed up with it and sets her a challenge: find a boyfriend by Christmas, and blog about [[Features|the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405922486</amazonuk>}}latest features]]