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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen P Kiernan1471180158|title=The Curiosity|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is a member of an Arctic expedition sent to locate life forms frozen in ice flows. Striking it lucky, she and the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back to their American lab. However new life brings new challenges. The man died over a century earlier and much has changed. The press is now omnipotent, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Kate, though, he's not a problem. He's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need of an ally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Barbara Delinsky|title=Sweet Salt AirPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's ten years since Charlotte and Nicole were closea control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Since then Nicole has married JulianJamie's son, Bo, an eminent surgeon and Charlotte 'has made her way as a writerhis problems'. She has a base in New York, but itHe's little bigger than a cupboard asthmatic and is only a place to stay between foreign assignments. Nicole lives in Philadelphia but still spends her summers at her familythe more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's property off on the coast of Maineautistic spectrum. This year is going Sometimes Jamie needs to be the last take time though. Her father died suddenly and her mother can't bear to go back to Quinniepeague, so Nicole is returning to the island to clear the house for sale. And off at short notice - she's going to write a cookbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472104579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Wonder Women|author=Rosie Fiore|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Hockley has always wanted to run her business but real life has got frequent flier in the way. Married to Lee local A&E and mother sometimes Bo's not fit enough to two small children, she has enough on her plate looking after all of them. However, when she dreams about an innovative kids’ clothing store with play facilities, she cannot let the idea goto school. She is sure that all mums would welcome Missed shifts or the opportunity need to be away on time to shop while their children pick Bo up from school are able to play boisterously supervised by friendly staff. Encouraged by Lee, she investigates occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the idea further and before she knows what is happening, she is renting premises, planning interiors and hiring staffwrong. Holly and Mel It was going to come on board and together, all three women work hard to make Jo’s dream become a realityhead. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389602</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=By My SideLauren Bravo|authortitle=Alice PetersonPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Cass Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a medical student four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm- she loves her work, and she also loves her boyfriend Seannearly-forty. Tired, hung over and rather distracted, she walks into Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the street without noticing toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a fastmid-moving lorry coming her way..life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life is forever changed.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061819</amazonuk>1398510629
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008506337
|title=The Garnett Girls
|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.
{{newreview|title=Things We Need|author=Jennifer Close|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Claire Coffey used to live in New York with a successful job and a great fiancé; her sister Martha used to be a nurse; and her brother Max should have been looking forward to finishing his final year at college before embarking on an exciting and interesting careerThen Richard left them. However, things don’t always turn out the way that one expects which is why all three siblings end up back at the family home needing the support of their parents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186658</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Son In LawHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Charity NormanThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=When someone is released Drawing inspiration from prisonEgypt, after serving time for manslaughter, you don’t necessarily expect their first task to be tracking down ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the victim’s family. Perhaps their own family might lives of two women who could not be a more normal first port different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of callwomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. But when you’re Joseph ScottNehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the victim’s family ''Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is'' your forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her familyand maintain their reputation, because whilst secretly attending meetings of the person you killed is your wife, ZoeDaughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Let out after three years, Joseph is desperate Giorgina also happens to be reunited in love with his childrenNico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, Scarlet, Theo filled with hypocrisy and Bencruelty, but his wife’s parents, who have had custody from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their grandchildren since he was locked away, are determined not to let that happenpersonal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743316682</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=Revenge Wears PradaBeneath the Porticoes|author=Lauren WeisbergerBrooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ten years after her disastrous stint Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was 'Runway'comfortable', playing slave ' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to Queen of Fashion Miranda Priestly make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a job ‘a million girls would die for’telephone interview, Andy Sachs finally has she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her life back on trackfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000731101X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Brooklyn GirlsMeredith Alone|author=Gemma BurgessClaire Alexander
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008441618
|title=Other Parents
|author=Sarah Stovell
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=22-year-old Pia Keller has screwed Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up againto her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. She should be living The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the dream, sharing funds which they raised were a Brooklyn townhouse with her four best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads considerable benefit to her getting sacked from her new jobthe school. After hearing this There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', her parents are ready to summon her to live with them abroadtwo members, in particular, causing problems for the head. They clearly don't think she Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's mature enough to look after herself restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm- can she prove them wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two for JoyGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Helen ChandlerWalking on Sunshine|rating=54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Mike''Two s wife, Pia, who he was with for Joy'' seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is Helen Chandler’s first novel and is immensely enjoyable from the very first pages where the reader meets Julia and her dealing with his grief, so are their best friend Toby who is telling her about how he intends to go down on one knee friends, Vicky and propose Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to his girlfriend, Ruby. Although outwardly delightedfollow, internally Julia experiences some uncomfortable feelings knowing that she doesn’t really recognise was dying and does not want that they would need help to acknowledgecarry on living. Come Whilst some of the big nightrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, she is desperately miserable at the thought another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of Toby’s their trips away, and Vicky and Ruby’s romantic evening Zaza, struggling with their grief and can’t bring herself their own life troubles, decide to do anything other than mope around drop everything in her pyjamastheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769294</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella WhitelawB09FS89KX9|title=Promise to ObeyFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=23.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jessica Harlow let Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her London flat veterinary degree and undertook a - threeyears later -month nursing contract was still working at Upton Hall to fill in BB's diner. Bob - the time before she took up owner - regarded her fondly: he was a permanent post good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in Sheffieldhis career. It didnHollie wasn't start wellquite so certain though: she got soaked waiting Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to be picked up leave her job at the deserted railway station and then she discovered diner. Then there was the fact that she was he would be violent, both to nurse Lady Grace Coleman who was recovering from a hip-replacement operation ''her andto other people.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March'' look after s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her two grandchildrenfirst name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Five-year-old Lily was a delight, Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but overweight and asthmatic. Eight-year-old Daniel was autistic and on top of this Lady Grace that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was, erwrapping the bread, ''difficultbut isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?''. What made She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her stay? mannerisms''. WellPerhaps this would not have mattered, despite except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a humiliating romantic experience with a doctor in London she was rather taken by Lucas Colemanweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, a talented plastic surgeon - and she was obstinate enough to decide that she was going to make a go of itunloveable wretch. Besides, where would she live if she left Upton Hall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719809789</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bee Ridgway1473685745|title=The River of No ReturnUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jelly. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriends, him being a young man and this being America, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain away too. His second lease on life in the 21st century is thanks to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return to the time or home country from which they originated. He doesn't mind as they pay him well for his silence but all this is about to change. Eventually they seem to think that they can send him back and won't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Julia, the girl Nick left behind in England. It's all a bit fishy though.
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Clover
|title=Learn Love in a Week
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The MidgleysWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, who have been married Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for ten years and have three childrenhaving 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 long since past not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the madly passionate stage in their relationship – or at least Polly isleft side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. From her point of viewSo, Polly is drowning in executive domesticitySimon 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, that isand Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, holding down parading around a job while trying bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to organise Arthur the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to be the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as effective we know it, and we are now a parent protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as she would bethe Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, if she were has put all of that gender into a staycaste system, ranging from high-at-home Mumbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Arthur sees his role differently: he’s more interested And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the hearts task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and minds not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of his kids than essential maintenance female protest come to light, with their potential to the fruit bowlspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580446</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill HornbyRuth Hogan|title=The HiveMadame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=There's an old joke thatThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, for parentsall vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), there are only two good days a girl in the school holidays - the first a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the lastthird generation of Madame Burova, but in St Ambrose the ''realTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'' work begins when the children go back , to school at use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the start of scryer and the new school year. Theresufferer's mother will all become staff at a new head at the school (and he'll have to be knocked into shape) revamped holiday camp, but the real power is Beatrice - 'Bea' to those whom she elects to call friends just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time being - who rules the parents, decides who is in or out and what status they should have in the communityfamily stall. And how does she do it? WellWe also see her on her last day, fifty years later, she's the queen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704358</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christina Jones|title=An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jay loves Erin and Erin loves Jay. They live in possession of a picture perfect village pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Nook Green Billie. Just who is she, and are planning their dream weddingwho delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, which is only a few weeks away. The plans are coming along perfectly and everything is running according why did it have to schedule. Life simply couldn’t get any better than remain a secret all this.time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749957131</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ciara GeraghtyJennifer Saint |title=Lifesaving for BeginnersAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A fatal car crash links Kat This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and Milo, two people who otherwise might never have met. After all, they live in different countries, the Minotaur is interesting and she’s old enough to be his motherunusual. He likes lifesaving classes and Jennifer Saint presents the banana muffins story in his mother’s café, while she lives off cigarettes and wine, and writes for a livingway that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. And yet now, because Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of the crashAriadne, they are linked. They don’t realise it yetspanning from her childhood to her death, but allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as time passes their lives will move closer. As secrets are unearthed, they will become bound to one another a character in her own right rather than just a prop in different waysthe heroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998121</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy WoodmanLucy Holland|title=Country LovingSistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Stevie Dunsford receives a call to tell her that her father’s farm Sistersong is in danger part of going undera genre I particularly enjoy, she doesn’t have any idea how bad things really are. Her life is in London with her successful career in accountancy and her good looking boyfriend. She plans to go to the farm in Devon for the weekend to sort things out modern retelling of folk and that will be thatfairy tales. HoweverThese stories, when she discovers the state for most of thingsus, she has no option other to stay are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and try new meaning to make things better even though she stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and her father have been estranged for years. What she does not expect thoughoutdated, fleshing out characters, is how readily examining relationships and happily she fits back into life on re-evaluating the farm and soon her London life and Nick start to lose their attractionrole of women. Of courseSistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, this new contentment has got nothing to do with her blossoming relationship the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the gorgeous local vetcharacters to come to life, Leo. It’s time to move forward feel real and commit to human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the farm pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and Leo. However, just as things are really looking good, Stevie makes an unexpected discovery that threatens I was captivated from beginning to ruin everythingend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891571</amazonuk>1529039037
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fern BrittonB08NF79QXT|title=The Holiday HomeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Pru and Connie might be sisters but theyThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she're as different as chalk s nominated for - and cheesewins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. ItShe's always been like this. Pru is delighted and the elder, although not by much and two people she's a hard-nosed businesswoman who brought with her to the event couldn''always'' gets what she wantst be more pleased. Husband Francis was acquired in much the same way that Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you might employ staff can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty- four and thatLiberty's his function. He looks after Pru best friend: they've known each other since university and their son Jeremy. ConnieLiberty adores Jessica's husband, on the other hand, is a homebody - married to Greg (who runs her parents' family business) Charles and mother to Abigail their sixteenfour-goingyear-on-seventeen year old daughter, Ava. ThereLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn's another difference too. Francis is pure of heart and an honest t for one thing: she misses having a man, largely unappreciated by his wife, but Greg, although Connie believes differently, is a philandering little sh.in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007468539</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella NewmanB08GFSK2WZ|title=LeftoversThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Susie Rosen George Jackson is what a magazine calls a thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She'leftover' - s not had sex for eight months and she's thirty something stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and lacks her dream man, job or homeshe has a real talent for attracting drama. You might Her life''think'' that s chaotic: she has dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the job bottom of her dreams as the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she's an account manager was in advertising, but she finds it unfulfilling - and that's on left her, stark naked, staring at the good dayspervy postman. On the bad days she resurrects She only has to take her plan that shemother's going dog out for a walk for her to get promoted by Christmas and then quit. Boyfriend Jake cheated on end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and although the relationship broke up some time ago she hasn't got over him. Right now life revolves a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the job, minimising the effect of some of the more dreadful colleagues and her girlfriends - but some of them are proving to be not quite as reliable as she might have hopedoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756271X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janey FraserB08CHJLNBS|title=Happy FamiliesCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Happy families areHe's Charles Devereaux, contrary to popular beliefthirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, not all alikethe Mayfair letting agents. Bobbie is a working mum of two children who we’ll call ‘spirited’ for want of a better phrase She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Her husband works late 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 lot so she’s the one left trying to juggle running the house with wrangling the children and still fitting in her own joblittle deeper. Andy Charles is dad to two teens who are perfectly behavedmore of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, or at least they are during the rare moments he spends 's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at home. His wife Pamela is a goddessall compatible, and a Perfect Parent so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to boot. He’s a very lucky guyhis friends. And then there’s Vanessagiven that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, who feels her mothering days are behind her until her young grandwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-daughter comes to stay…and doesn’t leave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580853</amazonuk>starter, isn't it?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenHelly Acton|title=Dear ThingThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Everyone hopes for the happily ever afterWhen we meet Amy, and Claire and Ben expected that once they were married, once they had the house she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a garden big enough for a swingpartnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, that the babies would naturally follow afterwardsyes. So what happens when the babies donHaven'twe all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? How long do you try Is he ''finally'' going to get pregnantdown on one knee? How long do you endure IVF? At what point do you say enough is enough, Was the work (and let go of the dream? And what if, at that moment of feeling you simply cannot take any more, your best friend offered to be a surrogate mother, and carry your babywait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070828</amazonuk>1838770879
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{{Frontpage
|author= Alyssa Sheinmel
|title= What Kind of Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not''
{{newreview|author=Amy Bratley|title=The Antenatal Group|rating=4.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Five women are all looking forward girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to meeting their new babies in a few weeks timeher, her whole world is tipped upside down. Part Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of their preparations involve joining the local antenatal group where they get to meet each otherschool. Little Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do they realisewhat he did? Some people believe her and some don't, when they turn up but one thing is for their first sessionsure, how much they are this isn't going to come to rely on and care for each other. This book is partly a testament to all those lasting friendships that are formed in groups just like this all blow over the countryany time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447218388</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganKatie Fforde|title=The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in ParisA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Anna has been working as a supervisor I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and taster at this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a chocolate factory. She’s 30warm, never much cared about schoolcosy read focused on romance, family and recently split with her boyfriendfriendships. Life isn’t particularly exciting This provided two romances for the price of one, but she’s reasonably content with her lot. Then a freak accident at work, followed by a nasty infection in hospital leaves her unemployed, apathetic and with no idea what her future holdsit was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751549207</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB07W4MNBSG|title=Good Husband MaterialBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Fergal is part It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of a popular pop bandsixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. Regularly in The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the news for various scandals, he is introduced idea of living in the prologue a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to this novel when he recalls his firstCharlotte, somewhat dramatic meeting with 17or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-yearBotham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem -old Tish, and there were too many Elizabeths in the year-long romance which followedclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562817</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Anna Stothard|title=The Art of Leaving|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionMove on to [[Features|summary=Luke's a barrister and Eva? She's a romantic novel editor and habitual leaver. Be it a party or a man, she's working on the exit strategy from the moment everything starts. This makes the fact that Eva and Luke have been together for three years a little abnormal in Eva world. The other abnormality in Eva world is the blonde woman she keeps spotting in random places, almost as if she's being spied upon…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846882370</amazonuk>}}latest features]]