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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=The Art Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of Baking Blinda half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah VaughanLauren Bravo|title=Preloved|rating=54

|summary=Eaden and Son Gwen is looking for the next Mrs Eaden. The original Mrs Eaden, Kathleen, has recently died and in pressing her honour the upmarket grocery store is running middle-aged bosom on a baking competition to find someone to advise the store on its baking products; to write big number that starts with a monthly magazine column; four and to front Eaden’s advertising campaignends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. It’s an extremely appealing prospect and attracts many willing contestants that are eventually whittled down to five who will take part in weekly bake Having been made unexpectedly redundant -offs in order to showcase any HR officer worth their talents in all aspects salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of bakinga mid-life crisis. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444792229</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|title=Any Other Mouth|author=Anneliese Mackintosh|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=With a title like ''Any Other Mouth'', you know from the outset that this is, shall we say, a rather niche bookThen Richard left them. It’s not all about orifices, though. Partially autobiographical, this is the messy, ludicrous, wildly entertaining story of a girl who’s just a little bit different. Ok, make that a lot different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754575</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine JenkinHadeer Elsbai|title=Jam TomorrowThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Joss Jeffries is Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a farmersociety pitted against them. Not a farmer's wife and general help on Nehal, born into the farm but upper class, wishes to attend the one who has Weaving Academy to learn to get out there and make it work. Her husband departed a while ago leaving control her with their young son abilities and a mountain of debtthen join the military, so what but instead she needs is money coming in, and preferably as quickly as possibleforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. She Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her fatherfamily and maintain their reputation, Mick, come up with what seems like whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a good idea: walking holidays in the magical mid-Wales countrysidegroup campaigning for women's rights. It ''looks'' Giorgina also happens to be quite in love with Nico. What follows is a sound plan too. They'll take well-payingstory of an unjust society, decent people on great walks filled with hypocrisy and let them experience the joy cruelty, from which blossoms a group of camping admirable women fighting for their rights and living close to nature. Only..overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099288490X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W Scott BeavenB0B575J99N|title=Train That Carried The Girl: 2 (Riccarton Junction)Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.54

|summary=A few years have passed since we last met Kikarin, the then teenager growing up Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in the wilds of the Scottish borders surrounded by some pretty wild peopleYork. Her parents have gone back to live It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in Japan while her brother has fled abroad as a result of life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the familyright man''s near fatal brush with and now was the criminal underworldtime to make a change. This leaves Kiri to continue her life with her friends Ainslie and Melanie filling the voidShe needed challenges. Although disappointed to have missed out on her honours degree There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in archaeology, Kiri finds alternative employment selling double glazing for commercial premisesBologna. Some things change but Kiri is still scarred by After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the pastbeautiful city. She wants to settle down There were some natural doubts before her first class but will this past let her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494874601</amazonuk>it went surprisingly well.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Evans0241542405|title=A Place For Us (Part 1)Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Martha When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and David Winter live at Winterfoldshe's not left her home for 1,214 days. David Winter is a famous cartoonist but he and his wife are getting on a bit and life isn’t quite as easy as it used She'd ''like'' to be: in fact, or, indeed for their children and grandchildrenshe so nearly does. As we meet them in August 2012 Martha is sending out invitations for her eightieth birthday Her outdoor clothes are on and she makes it clear that she’d like them all 's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to be therecatch her train. Son Bill is the local GP and he’s struggling in his second marriage to the much younger KarenThen, but he’s still close to his daughter Lucyshe can't. The girls are much further awayShe simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. Florence lives in FlorenceShe's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, just to confuse mattersJames and Matilda. She’s Sadie's a Professor, ferociously intelligent cardiac nurse and emotionally naivefull of sound common sense. Daisy is in IndiaIn fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Her childhood was ‘’difficult’’ but she’s now doing charitable work Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet- which isn’t a lot of consolation for based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her daughter Cat whom she abandoned when she was spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a few weeks oldcharity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KIPSM98</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=A Proper Family HolidayOther Parents|author=Chrissie ManbySarah Stovell

|summary=Chelsea can think Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of few things worse than West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a family holidayhouse price slump in that part of the town. Except maybe The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a family holiday considerable benefit to a cheap hotel in the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''Lanza-grottydevastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Or a family holiday where she’ll be constantly ridiculed for her ‘posh London ways’ Laura Spence and her inability Kate Monroe objected to manage Jo's restrictions on the most obvious things toys children could bring in life like holding down on Toy Day but that was just a boyfriend or starting a family of her own. It’s going to be a long weekwarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742736</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two Weddings and a BabyGiovanna Fletcher|authortitle=Scarlett BaileyWalking on Sunshine|rating=34

|summary=Tamsyn Thorne Mike's wife, Pia, who he was not looking forward to returning to Cornwall with for her brother Ruan's weddingseventeen years, has died. They had fallen out years ago And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and had not spoken sinceZaza. HoweverBut Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, for the sake knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the familyrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, she had agreed another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to attendtake one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and even be a bridesmaidtheir own life troubles, but as far as she was concerneddecide to drop everything in their own lives, she would leave the little Cornish village at the first opportunityand go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953553</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cynthia Harrod-EaglesB09FS89KX9|title=Goodbye PiccadillyFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=ItLife should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's July 1914 and the world is becoming unsettleddiner. There's fierce unrest brewing in Ireland and Sarajevo is being put on Bob - the map for all the wrong reasonsowner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Back Hollie had moved in England life is continuing as usual – at the moment. Viscount Denewith her boyfriend, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialismMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Laura Hunter is fighting for womenHollie wasn's suffrage. As for Beattie Cazalet, t quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her main worry is job at the rumour concerning the manner in which her servant Ethel is carrying on in publicdiner. All fears are about Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to deepen her and worries put in sharp relief though: war is coming and a war like none the world has fought beforeto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556262</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maeve Haran0008421714|title=The Time of Their LivesMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=The four women had been friends for over forty yearsproblem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Claudia, Ella, Laura and Sal had met at university and they Everyone but Mrs March (we know each other well - her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or think they dohad already done so. They - like me - are what I call 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, 'upper middle aged' - those people who are technically old, but not yet prepared to accept it. isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' TheyShe mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''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 Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the women it was one fact that Johanna is the whore of their strongest relationships Nantes - although some of their families thought of the group as 'the coven'a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447253892</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=FalloutUnbreak Your Heart|author=Sadie JonesKatie Marsh

|summary=Have you ever been in love? TrulyWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, madlySimon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, deeply (as the cliché has it) in love? SincerelyJake, selfishly, selflessly, in love?  With the wrong person? If you havenoff his bike. He wasn't then hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of youwho are not 'll find 'au fait'Fallout'with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn' an exploration of how it happens, t developed properly and how we deal with ithe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, or notSimon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701188502</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=You're the One that I WantC J Carey|authortitle=Giovanna FletcherWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=MaddyIt's April 1953, Rob and Ben have been friends foreverAdolf 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. There’s nothing unusual about For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that in generalcertainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, but it’s less common in literaturewe share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, perhapsfor Nazi-styled phrenology, and I can’t think ideas of another book where two boys female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and a girl are beyond those, right on down to the childless, the trio at husbandless and the centre of a friendshipwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. As 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 startscan be banned, Maddy and Rob are about 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 female protest come to marrylight, and Ben stands proudly by as with their best manpotential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405909978</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carys BrayRuth Hogan|title=A Song for Issy BradleyMadame Burova|rating=4.5

|summary=The Bradley family are constantly busy as you might expect when there are four children but their most testing time comes on seven-year-old Jacob's birthdayThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. His elder sisterSo we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, Zippy and elder brother Alma have other things going on in their lives but his little sister isnchiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''t feeling well. FourTarot-year-old Issy has retreated to bed Reader, Palmist and sheClairvoyant''s rather hoping that her mother will come and make her better, but Claire is trying to cope with Jacobuse her family's birthday party sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and itthe sufferer's quite mother will all become staff at a while revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family realise stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that Issy is very illwill change everything for a woman called Billie. She has meningitis Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and that night she dies in hospital.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954371</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen ChandlerJennifer Saint |title=To Have and to HoldAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We'This re looking at a few months in the lives -telling of three women. On the face myth of it Ella has it all. She's got a happy marriage Ariadne and two gorgeous children along with a home in the village-y part of WalthamstowMinotaur is interesting and unusual. But she ''wants'' something more - and her husband doesn't agree Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that another child is the answer. Her friend Imogen and partner Pete used sympathetic to have a fun relationship its origins but after the birth of Indigo things changed, with Imogen needing also appealing to focus on the baby and Pete becoming more distant and less involveda modern audience. Then thereSaint's Phoebe. She's just fifteen years old and bullied at school: she's that unfortunate girl in narrative is told predominantly through the class who is overweight and under cool. She and viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her mother simply don't get on - Liz is a model and a size eight - but she's close childhood to her fatherdeath, but round about allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the time heroics of her GCSEs her parents split up and that closeness was lostTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444786776</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No-one Ever Has Sex on a TuesdayLucy Holland|authortitle=Tracy BloomSistersong

|summary=Matthew and Katy were together as teenagers but now years later both are with other significant othersThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and both Katy and Matthew’s wife, Alison are pregnantwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Oh, She's delighted and they’re in the same antenatal classtwo people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. And Sonja, oh yesher mother, Katy’s not 100% sure who the father of is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her baby islooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, current boyfriend Ben orCharles and their four-year-old daughter, you’ve guessed Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it, long lost flame Matthew. Cue wasn't for one thing: she misses having a comedy of errors, misunderstandings, fisticuffs and emotional outbursts, not all triggered by swarming hormonesman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594757</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole Mary KelbyB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Pink SuitKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=In November 1963 George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the world was shocked karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the assassination bottom of President John F Kennedy, but the picture which brought home stairs to us absorb the water - then the horror of what had happened shower fell through the roof whilst she was not of JFK but of his wife in the iconic pink suitit and left her, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let them see what they have done'stark naked, she saidstaring at the pervy postman. IShe only has to take her mother've always assumed that the suit was new s dog out for a walk for the occasion her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - but it had and a back story too and photo being taken by someone who shares it's told in ''The Pink Suit'', a work of historical fiction based on factsaround the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=After The HoneymoonCapturing Emilia|author=Janey FraserBrooke Adams|rating=53

|summary=A TV star and his makeHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-up artist wife, eight and a dinner lady and her husband are not two couples you would expect to end up honeymooning partner at Wickham Jones, the same placeMayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but through she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a twist little deeper. Charles is more of fate (oka [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, a teacher he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at the school one works all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at and the other sends her kids all: it's obvious to) both women and their new husbands end up on the same secluded Greek island at the same timehis friends. It’s run And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by a British woman who left for the continent 15 years agoCharles's superficiality, and it’s the perfect spot why does she feel drawn to get away from it all, be it your toddlerhim? The relationship's safely left with grandmaobviously a non-starter, or the paparazzi who are desperate for an exclusive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580845</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sinead CrowleyHelly Acton|title=Can Anybody Help Me?The Shelf|rating=4|genre=ThrillersWomen's Fiction|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parentsWhen we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. HoweverYou can't really call it a partnership, as they've only recently moved because things tend to Gerryget done on his terms, but she's native Dublinsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, Yvonne mourns the lack of a support networkyes. This Haven't we all changes been there? Things are looking up when she turns he tells her to Mammynet, a web-based online forum and chat room pack 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 womansurprise trip. There may Could this be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=TaraShea Nesbit|title=The Wives of Los Alamos|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=1943: In the US a group of men, women and children are uprooted from their homes with hardly any notice and after being sworn Is he ''finally'' going to total secrecy. Their destination is a hastily knocked up, unfinished small town in the New Mexico desert; a place where muddy water drips from the taps and their lives are turned upside get down for nearly 3 years. This isn't mass abduction by a malevolent power but on one knee? Was the US government's plan to end WWII. The men work (and some of the womenwait) are scientists, the place is Los Alamos, the site of the project that will result in Robert Oppenheimer stating ''Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His story has been well documented in the past; now the voices belong to the Los Alamos Wives.worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845997</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know , herwhole world is tipped upside down. Anna Her relationship has just happened to walk past ended and ask to buy now she's the talk of the house decades earlierschool. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always remembered the young ladyso in love with her, walking past with the baby in the pram. The babyeveryone knew that, Marthaso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through the belongings that Elizabeth left with itfor sure, Martha sees glimpses of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before itisn's too late and while she still has a mind t going to take her back to the good timesblow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanora BennettKatie Fforde|title=Midnight in St PetersburgA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Women's 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 I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and being picked out as this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a suspect in particularwarm, Inna flees to St Petersburg cosy read focused on romance, family and her landlord's cousin Yashafriendships. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected This provided two romances for the price of one, but Yasha is a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation in Russia during 1911. The it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that Yasha is living with takes her in anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of themI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosie ThomasB07W4MNBSG|title=The IllusionistsBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|summary=Eva is blissfully content with life. She has a fulfilling career It was coming up to Halloween in her job as a midwife 1987 and a happy marriage to the man group of her dreams who clearly adores her. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when, early one morning, her beloved husband Jackson is swept out to sea whilst fishing on the Dorset coast. It seems that in one fell swoop, all of her hopes and dreams have been washed away into the cold, white water.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=Loxley|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Harry, the eleventh Duke of Loxley, fell in love with Bronwyn and they marriedwere fifty. It wasnWhen you't the match re only seventeen that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn seems positively ancient, but Liz 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 to come to terms with married life. Katherine, the dowager Duchess, didnconvinced that 't make Bronwyn's your entire life any easier - I mean, the girl wasn't above starting to clear the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''thatdepends on who you marry'' sort of thing. And - to cap it all - she still wasn't pregnant The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and an heir for Loxley was of paramount importance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skeletons|author=Jane Fallon|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jen doesn’t have the happiest idea of families, so she’s immediately drawn to her husband Jason’s. Luckily they welcome her with open arms living in a farmhouse and she’s soon like having a fourth child couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charles Charlotte, or perhaps William and Amelia. So when she discovers a secret that could tear lives apart, it’s as devastating to her as Oliver if it you were her own parentsElizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She has a choice The place to make: share start their search was obviously the burden and ruin relationships Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the process, or keep it to herself and shoulder it all aloneclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047267</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Fiona McIntosh|title=The French Promise|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A few years Move on from to [[The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntoshFeatures|The Lavender Keeperthe latest features]] Luc the former resistance fighter and Lisette the former British spy have survived the ravages of war and start a new life together in England with their little boy Harry. However Luc can't settle, missing the lavender farming that's in his blood. This is remedied when the freshly transplanted family move again, this time to Tasmania. Nonetheless they still have a lot to learn; the biggest lessons being that no one can outrun the past and that fate isn't always kind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015659</amazonuk>}}