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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Two Weddings and a BabyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Scarlett BaileyPenny Parkes|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Tamsyn Thorne was not looking forward to returning to Cornwall Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for her brother Ruana man who's weddinga control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. They had fallen out years ago He's asthmatic and had not spoken since. Howeverthe more you read, for the sake of more you'll suspect that he's on the family, autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she had agreed 's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to attend, 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 even be put in the wrong. It was going to come to a bridesmaid, but as far as she was concerned, she would leave the little Cornish village at the first opportunityhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953553</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia Harrod-EaglesLauren Bravo|title=Goodbye PiccadillyPreloved
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=ItGwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I's July 1914 and the world is becoming unsettledm-nearly-forty. There's fierce unrest brewing in Ireland and Sarajevo is being put on Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the map for all the wrong reasons. Back in England toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life is continuing as usual – at the moment. Viscount Dene, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialismcrisis. Laura Hunter Catharsis is fighting for women's suffrage. As for Beattie Cazalet, her main worry key and Gwen has decided now is the rumour concerning the manner in which time to take back her servant Ethel is carrying on in public. All fears are about to deepen and worries put in sharp relief though: war is coming and a war like none the world has fought before.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751556262</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|author=Maeve Haran|title=The Time of Their Lives|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The four women had been friends for over forty yearsThen Richard left them. Claudia, Ella, Laura and Sal had met at university and they know each other well - or think they do. They - like me - are what I call 'upper middle aged' - those people who are technically old, but not yet prepared to accept it. They'd gone their separate ways in life but still lived close enough to meet up each month for drinks and to catch up with what was happening. To the women it was one of their strongest relationships - although some of their families thought of the group as 'the coven'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447253892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FalloutHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Sadie JonesThe Daughters of Izdihar
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Have you ever been in love? TrulyDrawing inspiration from Egypt, madly''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, deeply (as yet find themselves fighting for the cliché has it) rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in love? Sincerelya society pitted against them. Nehal, selfishly, selflesslyborn into the upper class, in love?  With wishes to attend the wrong person? If you haven't Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then you'll find ''Fallout'' join the military, but instead she is forced into an exploration arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of how it the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happensto be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and how we deal with itcruelty, or notfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701188502</amazonuk>0356520471
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=You're Beneath the One that I WantPorticoes|author=Giovanna FletcherBrooke Adams
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Maddy, Rob Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Ben have been friends forevera teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. There’s nothing unusual about that in general, It was ''comfortable'' but it’s less common she longed for something more in literature, perhaps, and I can’t think of another book where two boys life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and a girl are now was the trio at the centre of time to make a friendshipchange. She needed challenges. As There was a little trepidation when she applied for the book startsprofessoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, Maddy she was offered the position and Rob are about to marry, and Ben stands proudly by as their best manit wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405909978</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carys Bray0241542405|title=A Song for Issy BradleyMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Bradley family 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 constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-year-old Jacoband she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's birthdaygoing to catch her train. His elder sisterThen, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but his little sister isnshe can't feeling well. Four-year-old Issy has retreated She simply can't force herself to bed and sheleave the safety of her home. She's rather hoping fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her mother will come two children, James and make her better, but Claire is trying to cope with JacobMatilda. Sadie's birthday party a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it's quite a while before the family realise that Issy is very illwas Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. She has meningitis Groceries are online deliveries and that night there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she dies does in hospitalher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Chandler0008441618|title=To Have and to HoldOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=WeJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn're looking at t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a few months house price slump in the lives that part of three women. On the face of it Ella has it alltown. She's got a happy marriage The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and two gorgeous children along with the funds which they raised were a home in considerable benefit to the village-y part of Walthamstowschool. But she There was one difficulty, though - they were ''wantsdevastatingly shockable'' something more - and her husband doesn't agree that another child is the answer. Her friend Imogen and partner Pete used to have a fun relationship but after the birth of Indigo things changed, with Imogen needing to focus on two members, in particular, causing problems for the baby and Pete becoming more distant and less involved. Then there's Phoebehead. She's just fifteen years old Laura Spence and bullied at school: sheKate Monroe objected to Jo's that unfortunate girl restrictions on the toys children could bring in the class who is overweight and under cool. She and her mother simply don't get on - Liz is a model and Toy Day but that was just a size eight warm- but she's close to her father, but round about the time of her GCSEs her parents split up and that closeness was lostact for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786776</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No-one Ever Has Sex on a TuesdayGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Tracy BloomWalking on Sunshine|rating=54
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Matthew and Katy were together as teenagers but now Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years later both , has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are with other significant otherstheir best friends, Vicky and both Katy and Matthew’s wife, Alison are pregnantZaza. OhBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and they’re in the same antenatal classthat they would need help to carry on living. And, oh yes, Katy’s not 100% sure who Whilst some of the father of rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her baby iswardrobe, current boyfriend Ben oranother one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, you’ve guessed itand Vicky and Zaza, long lost flame Matthew. Cue a comedy of errorsstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, misunderstandingsdecide to drop everything in their own lives, fisticuffs and emotional outbursts, not all triggered by swarming hormonesgo along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594757</amazonuk>140593560X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole Mary KelbyB09FS89KX9|title=The Pink SuitFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In November 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of President John F Kennedy, but the picture which brought home to us the horror of what had happened was not of JFK but of his wife in the iconic pink suit, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let them see what they have done', she said. I've always assumed that the suit was new for the occasion - but it had a back story too and it's told in ''The Pink Suit'', a work of historical fiction based on facts.
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{{newreview
|title=After The Honeymoon
|author=Janey Fraser
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=A TV star Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and his make-up artist wife, and a dinner lady and her husband are not two couples you would expect to end up honeymooning three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the same place, but through owner - regarded her fondly: he was a twist of fate (okgood boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, a teacher at the school one works at Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and the other sends most of all he wanted her kids to) both women and their new husbands end up on the same secluded Greek island leave her job at the same timediner. It’s run by a British woman who left for Then there was the continent 15 years agofact that he would be violent, both to her and it’s the perfect spot to get away from it all, be it your toddler's safely left with grandma, or the paparazzi who are desperate for an exclusiveother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580845</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead Crowley0008421714|title=Can Anybody Help Me?|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parents. However, as they've only recently moved to Gerry's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns the lack of a support network. This all changes when she turns to Mammynet, a web-based online forum and chat room for new and soon-to-be mums. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then the friend disappears without warning. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of a young woman. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMrs March|author=TaraShea Nesbit|title=The Wives of Los AlamosVirginia Feito|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1943: In The problem began just after the US a group publication of men, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn George March's most successful novel to total secrecydate. Their destination is a hastily knocked up, unfinished small town in Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside down for nearly 3 yearslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. This Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't mass abduction by this the first time he's based a malevolent power but character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the US governmentprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''s plan to end WWII. The men (and some of the women) are scientistsPerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the place fact that Johanna is Los Alamos, the site whore of the project that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating Nantes - ''Nowa weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, I am become Deathunloved, the destroyer of worldsunloveable wretch." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreview|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know her. Anna just happened to walk past and ask to buy the house decades earlier. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but always remembered the young lady, walking past with the baby in the pram. The baby, Martha, is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through the belongings that Elizabeth left with it, Martha sees glimpses of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before it's too late and while she still has a mind to take her back to the good times. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vanora Bennett1473685745|title=Midnight in St Petersburg|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Inna Feldman is in the Kiev theatre the night that Prime Minister Stolypin is assassinated in front of the Tsar. Fearing the retribution against the Jews in general and being picked out as a suspect in particular, Inna flees to St Petersburg and her landlord's cousin Yasha. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected but Yasha is a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation in Russia during 1911. The family that Yasha is living with takes her in anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Rosie Thomas|title=The IllusionistsKatie Marsh
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Devil Wix is a great Victorian illusionistWhen 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's son, Jake, off his bike. Admittedly Lady Luck hasn’t been too good to him lately and he may look a little ragged He wasn't hurt but heJake has history. He has HLHS - that's talented and repeatedly tells himself soHypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. One particular night as When hewas born, the left side of his heart hadn's reassuring himself over t developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a drink or threefew days old. So, he runs into Carlo BoldoniSimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. (Or rather Carlo runs into him as he}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's picking DevilApril 1953, and Adolf Hitler's pocket at 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 timethrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis.) Formerly Charlie Morris For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a dwarf to protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the Victorians/person mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of restricted growth to usfemale purpose, Carlo was part has put all of that gender into a performing troupe but now finds himself alone due caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to tragic circumstancesthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. They join forces but little do 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 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 know just get a hefty tweak towards the future nor party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the part that a certain young lady will play in itfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512015</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Single BreathRuth Hogan|authortitle=Lucy ClarkeMadame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eva is blissfully content with This book lets us discover several people in different stages of lifein the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. She has So we have a fulfilling career bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in her a humdrum job as wanting to become a midwife singer, and a happy marriage to chiefly, Imelda, the man third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her dreams who clearly adores herfamily's sea-front booth. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil when The singer, early one morningthe 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 first time in the family stall. We also see her beloved husband Jackson is swept out to sea whilst fishing on the Dorset coasther last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. It seems that in one fell swoop Just who is she, all of and who delivered the secrets about her hopes to Imelda, and dreams why did it have been washed away into the cold, white water.to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007481365</amazonuk>152937331X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggJennifer Saint |title=LoxleyAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=Harry, This re-telling of the eleventh Duke myth of Loxley, fell in love with Bronwyn Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and they marriedunusual. It wasn't Jennifer Saint presents the match story in a way that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn was, after all, nothing more than the daughter of the local doctor and even Harry and Bronwyn wondered whether or not they'd done the right thing as they struggled is sympathetic to come its origins but also appealing to terms with married lifea modern audience. Katherine, Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the dowager Duchessviewpoint of Ariadne, didn't make Bronwyn's life any easier - I meanspanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the girl wasn't above starting reader to clear really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''that'' sort of thing. And - to cap it all - she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was heroics of paramount importanceTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>1472273869
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SkeletonsLucy Holland|authortitle=Jane FallonSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jen doesn’t have Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the happiest modern retelling of familiesfolk and fairy tales. These stories, so she’s immediately drawn to her husband Jason’s. Luckily they welcome her for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with open arms fresh eyes and she’s soon like a fourth child fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to Charles stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and Ameliare-evaluating the role of women. So when she discovers Sistersong is a perfect example of a secret that could tear lives apartmodern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, it’s as devastating keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to her as if it were her own parents. She has a choice life, to make: share the burden feel real and ruin relationships human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the process, or keep it pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to herself and shoulder it all aloneend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141047267</amazonuk>1529039037
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntoshB08NF79QXT|title=The French PromiseCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=A few years on from [[The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh|The Lavender Keeper]] Luc Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the former resistance fighter Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and Lisette wins - the former British spy have survived the ravages of war and start a new life together in England with their little boy HarryRetail Best Newcomer Award. However Luc canShe't settle, missing s delighted and the lavender farming thattwo people she's in his bloodbrought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. This Sonja, her mother, is remedied when the freshly transplanted family move againan ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where 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 their four-year-old daughter, this time to TasmaniaAva. Nonetheless they still have a lot to learn; the biggest lessons being that no one can outrun the past and that fate isnLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't always kindfor one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015659</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=Little Beach Street BakeryThe Karma Trap|author=Jenny ColganLisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Polly George Jackson is disconsolatethirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She thought 's not had sex for eight months and she had it all, 's stuck in the perfect yuppie lifestyle in Plymouth. She karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is 32 being visited on her and she has worked tirelessly marketing and managing her artist boyfriend’s graphic design consultancya real talent for attracting drama. Now, Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the sudden economic downturn and leak from the shower by putting something down at the competitive nature bottom of new technologiesthe stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the bank has foreclosedpervy postman. Chris just wants She only has to shut out the world and slink back to his take her mother's, leaving Polly bereft, homeless and confused as she struggles dog out for a walk for her to start over again away from the rat race. Faced end up with the prospect of grungy student flat shares, she looks further afield for new affordable accommodation dog poo spattered across her face - and finds a neglected tidal island in Cornwall connected photo being taken by a causeway to the mainland. In someone who shares it around the harbour, there is a dirty, derelict building for rent. The upstairs loft is over a disused bakeryoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549215</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Mrs Sinclair's SuitcaseCapturing Emilia|author=Louise WaltersBrooke Adams|rating=43
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Every family has its storiesHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the anecdotes passed down Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the generations heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that help , which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to explain who we think we aresomething a little deeper. Roberta Charles is sure more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that she knows 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 not his usual type at all there is : it's obvious to know about her family until his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she comes across a letter written feel drawn to her grandmother in 1941. him? The contents cast doubt on all her assumptions about the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777424</amazonuk>relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Wife's HandbookHelly Acton|authortitle=Hannah BeckermanThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=Rachel wasnWhen we meet Amy, she't ready to drop dead at thirty-fives in a relationship with Jamie. ItYou can's been t really call it a year since - a year partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's spent trapped in some sort of netherworld that allows her briefsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, tantalising glimpses of the lives of those sheyes. Haven's left behindt we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. ThereCould this be it? Is he ''s no apparent rhyme or reason finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the glimpses, work (and Rachel wishes they were more often and lasted longer.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718178149</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=Alan Titchmarsh|title=Bring Me Home|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When we first meet Charlie Stuart heMike Parker's half wishing that the guests at his annual summer party at his Scottish castle would hurry up and leave - and half hoping that he could delay what girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he knows will have gave it to be done once everyone her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has gone. He knows that life will never again be the same, but to understand why we have to go back from June 2000 to 1960 when Charlie was just a young boy being shown ended and now she's the ways talk of the loch and school. Mike was the surrounding land by the ghilliemost popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, whoso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, oddly enoughbut one thing is for sure, was also his unclethis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340936916</amazonuk>0349003297
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mother of the YearKatie Fforde|authortitle=Karen RossA Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The one person who could best judge a I'Mother of the Year' competition would surely be ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a nominee’s daughterwarm, right? And yet where three-time winner Beth Jackson is concernedcosy read focused on romance, her daughter JJ is family and friendships. This provided two romances for the price of one person who remains unconvinced , but it was actually the family element as opposed to the accolade is warrantedromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956404</amazonuk>1780897561
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet GreenwoodB07W4MNBSG|title=We That Are LeftBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey
|rating=4
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Hugo and Elin are settling down It was coming up to life at home Halloween in Hiram Hall now Hugo is back from the Boer War1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. He refuses to speak about his experiences in Africa When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but carries the psychological effectsLiz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. However, appearances count for The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a lot so they both continue couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to run the houseCharlotte, gardens or perhaps William and staff while Elin tries Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to ignore marry the deficiencies in their marriagerather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She succeeds as well but then two things change her outlook: The place to start their search was obviously the arrival of daring adventurer Lady Margaret (Young Farmers'Mouse' to her friends) and the less welcome outbreak of World War IHalloween disco that weekend. Both will leave their indelible mark so that, for Hugo, Elin and There was just one problem - there were too many others around that time, there'll be no going backElizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190678499X</amazonuk>
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