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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|title=One Step Closer To You|author=Alice Peterson|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summaryisbn=Single mum Polly has a lot of baggage, but it all basically boils down to two things, boys and booze. She’s been to hell and back, but for right now, she seems to be doing ok, holding down a job in a café, looking after son Louis and staying off the sauce. She’s even in a position to help those she meets, like her fellow AA-ers and single dad Ben at school who is adjusting to his new role.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782061835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1471180158|title=Indian SummerMaybe Tomorrow|author=Marcia WillettPenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mungo is a retired actor and director. His brother Archie is a landownerJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, struggling to make ends meet. Kit is for a good friend man who comes to stay, wanting 's a safe place while she decides whether or not to get in touch control freak with all the subtlety of a former boyfriendhalf brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. Neighbours include Emma He's asthmatic and the more you read, an army wife with two small children who is tempted the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to an affair with take time off at short notice - she's a friend of her husband’s, frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the elderly brothers Philip need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and Billy who have put in the wrong. It was going to come to a secret that’s been hidden for forty yearshead...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071530</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicci GerrardLauren Bravo|title=The Twilight HourPreloved|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleanor has been persuaded by Gwen is pressing her children to seriously consider sheltered accommodationmiddle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. At Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the age toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of 94 and blind, she isn't considered safe rattling around a big old housemid-life crisis. She doesn't surrender without conditions though: before she considers moving out, a stranger should be employed to sort her photos Catharsis is key and papers before burning them. The family agree and Peter Gwen has decided now is appointed. Gradually he realises why Eleanor doesn’t want the time to take back her children to see the documents as the story of hidden life, love and loss is revealed.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405919833</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Adele Geras|title=Cover Your Eyes|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=For London fashion journalist Megan forbidden love ends suddenly and painfully, just when she thinks it will blossom into something lasting and legitimate. Elsewhere, in the countryside, Eva Conway lives with her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughters in Salix House – the house that Eva used to call her own when she was a famous fashion designer. Now she feels alone, even in the heart of her family. Not only this but she also faces the loss of the home that means so much to her. As Megan and Eva's paths cross they discover that each of them has a dark guilty secret eating away at Then Richard left them, but then Salix House has secrets too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Woman Who Stole My LifeHadeer Elsbai|authortitle=Marian KeyesThe Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Stella is an author working on her second book. Though now back in IrelandDrawing inspiration from Egypt, she talks ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of a life in New York. It sounds fabulous. But something has changed. Whatever it is, we’re two women who could not sure. Maybe the mighty have fallenbe more different, yet find themselves fighting for the stars have stopped collidingrights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Either wayNehal, that adventure is over as born into the book starts. It’s not where upper class, wishes to attend the story starts, though, Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and we’re soon plunged back into then join the pastmilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the events that other hand did not have lead Stella a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to this point. First on provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the list, Daughters of Izdihar – a serious illness, without which nothing that followed would have happened, or at least not group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in the way it didlove with Nico. This may sound confusing but the book What follows is anything buta story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and despite its great lengthcruelty, I sped through itfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155335</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=The Seafront Tea RoomsBeneath the Porticoes|author=Vanessa GreeneBrooke Adams|rating=3.54

|summary=Charlie, Kat Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Seraphine, are strangers brought together a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' 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 Seafront Tea Rooms by their mutual love of afternoon teatime to make a change. Kat is She needed challenges. There was a young, single mum struggling to get by while her ex provides very little help, Charlie is trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a heartbroken journalist writing a tea feature for her magazine while visiting her difficult sistertelephone interview, she was offered the position and French Seraphine has come across it wasn't long before she was exploring the channel to au pair, improve beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her English and get some perspective on a new, complicated relationshipfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552232</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=A Most Desirable MarriageMeredith Alone|author=Hilary BoydClaire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and Lawrence have been married she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly forty yearsdoes. It has been a good marriage and they Her outdoor clothes are both looking forward to spending more time together on and pursuing new interests once Lawrence has retired. However, as the time approaches Jo notices that Lawrence appears more edgy and withdrawn. She puts it down she's even considered which shoes to pre-retirement nerves; nothing wear if she's going to really worry aboutcatch her train. So, when Lawrence makes a confession to her immediately after his retirement party Then, she couldncan't have been more surprised. She realises 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 husband has been living two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a secret life cardiac nurse and that changes everything: instead full of anticipating their rosy future togethersound 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 shedoes in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's now looking forward to the prospect of life from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as a single womanMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067922</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Fitzgerald0008441618|title=ZemindarOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|genre=Historical Women's Fiction|summary=1850s IndiaJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emilyif she didn's husband Charles t live up to the exotic sub-continent for her retired predecessor there could well be a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskine. Although none of the travellers have ever met Oliver, many of the people they encounter have heard house price slump in that part of him and the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindartown. These stories tantalise Laura as The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the information conflicts and she's unable funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to develop a mental picture of the manschool. ThatThere was one difficulty, though - they were 's not all that's conflicting: theredevastatingly shockable''s an increasing feeling of unrest , with two members, in this furthest outpost of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead to one of particular, causing problems for the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British historyhead. Laura, Emily Spence and Charles are naïve, Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that won't save them from what's to come – something beyond was just a warm-up act for their worst nightmaresreal gripe: LGBTQ education. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly PetersonGiovanna Fletcher|title=The Idea of HimWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Allie Crawford seemed to have it made. She was married to Wade - the sort of man who made other women ''drool'Mike's wife, had a job in a high-profile Manhattan PR firm and two kids whom she adored. What could be better? What could go wrong? WellPia, it looked as though something who he was going wrong when Allie found Wade locked in their laundry room with a decidedly glamorous blondefor seventeen years, has died. There had been a bit of a blip in their marriage And whilst Allie was breastfeeding he is dealing with his grief, so are their younger childbest friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, but Allie thought knowing that Wade had learned his lesson she was dying and that they would be careful about hurting need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in futuretheir own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00IWTXWJ2</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=What I Love About YouFall On Me|author=Rachel GibsonPenelope Potts|rating=3.5

|summary=Natalie is Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the girl next door when Blake moves to town but it’s neither love nor even friendship final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at first sightBB's diner. Sure, Bob - the owner - regarded her daughter might have taken fondly: he was a shine to the handsome stranger who likes to keep himself to himself but to Natalie he’s arrogant and obnoxiousgood boss. Still Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, you can’t live next door to someone Marcus: her mother thought he was great and never run into them, just as you can’t avoid your neighbours he was doing well in a small town, his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and since Trulymost of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, Idaho fits the bill on both, they’re going to see each her and to otherpeople.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552170550</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas0008421714|title=Your Beautiful LiesMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to William, a police superintendenteither be reading it or had already done so. Although Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she and their daughter have all was wrapping the societal and financial status they could needbread, Annie's life is becoming very uncomfortable as 'but isn't this the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides of the divide. Itfirst time he's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending based a character on the side you?'re on but unfortunately Annie isn't permitted to choose. However this is only She mentioned that Johanna, the start of principal character had 'her problemsmannerisms''. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriendPerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is back on the streets after serving whore of Nantes - ''a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with herweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifeunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Harkness1473685745|title=The Book of Life|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Historian witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back home in the 21st century but now face the tragic news of Aunt Sarah's partner, Em's death. Hard-to-get-along-with Baldwin has taken over as head of the de Clairmont clan and is making life dangerously difficult for Diana, Matthew and their unborn twins. If this isn't enough, they still need to find and remove the secret manuscript, Ashmole 782 – the Book of Life. However, they have very dangerous competition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384776</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnbreak Your Heart|author=Helen Noble|title=The 49th DayKatie Marsh

|summary=After escaping When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon'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 not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a disastrous marriagefew days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, Katherine Walsh travels and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to an island retreat in Wales in order Moscow to pick up attend the pieces state funeral of her lifeJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, relax and decide future directionwatching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. HoweverFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, rest and recreation isnwe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''t all she discovers. During therapy sessions her ancient past But this is unlocked most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and odd happenings ideas of female purpose, has put all of that have haunted her for years start gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to make sensethe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Katherine also realises that 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 may – after all, not every book can be to her benefit to learn how to trust banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a man again but hefty tweak towards the chance of love isnparty line before they't her biggest surprisere stamped ready for reprint. She appears to be pregnant so any decisions she makes about That is her future must include job, at least, until the new life within herfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782795936</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It Had to Be YouRuth Hogan|authortitle=Ellie AdamsMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Lizzy thinks everything is going well This book lets us discover several people in her different stages of life until it in the early 1970s, all goes startlingly wrongvaguely connected. Her boyfriend dumps her very publicly whilst she is dressed So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as Henry VIII at he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a thirtieth birthday party singer, and unfortunately chiefly, Imelda, the whole debacle is filmed third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and ends up on YouTube. She becomes known as Clairvoyant'head butt girl' as she is filmed demonstrating , to use her furyfamily's sea-front booth. Her PR job is also going nowhere as she finds herself having to try The singer, the scryer and promote some very strange conceptsthe 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. At least she has We also see her on her two best friends last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for solace a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and they can all be found, many eveningswho delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, drinking away their sorrows and putting the world why did it have to rights.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552166855</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mill River RedemptionJennifer Saint |authortitle=Darcie ChanAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rose This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and Emily are sisters who co-exist rather than interact. In the past, a devastating event drove them apart, Minotaur is interesting and now they both have their own lives, far away from sleepy Mill River, Vermont, where they grew upunusual. When their mother Josie dies, they are brought back together first Jennifer Saint presents the story in their mourning and then in their frustration at a message from beyond the grave: their mother way that is determined sympathetic to achieve in death what she couldnits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint't while still alives narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, a sisterly reconciliation. She has left spanning from her estate childhood to the girlsher death, but in order to access allowing the funds they will need reader to cooperate and coordinate efforts to unearth the clues she has left them. With neither really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a position to walk away from the potential gold mine, they have to put aside their differences, if only for prop in the summerheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L845NR2</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Little LiesLucy Holland|authortitle=Liane MoriartySistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Death Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, 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 kindergarten new meaning to stories that are not two things you would normally think went togethernow becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, but this time they haveexamining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Someone Sistersong is dead. A murder investigation has been launched. But why are a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the police finding it so hard characters to get answers? What actually went on that night? And can an incident come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the playground on the first day really have come pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to this?end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405918462</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Five Days LeftCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Julie Lawson TimmerBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Mara Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and Scott are both on a countdownwins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Each has five days left She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. But when the weekend comes Sonja, who will be happyher mother, who will be mourningis an 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 who will their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be out of the picture forever?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892136</amazonuk>perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Girls from Corona Del MarKarma Trap|author=Rufi ThorpeLisette Boyd

|summary=Exploring the friendship of Mia George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and Lorrie Ann, two girls who grew up together in 1980single. She's Corona Del Mar, this novel is unexpectedly tragic; definitely not just another trashy, girly work had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of fictionbad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Written Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the point of view shower by putting something down at the bottom of Mia, it tells the journeys of stairs to absorb the two friends and water - then the events which have led them to where they are now. ''The Girls from Corona Del Mar'' explores not only shower fell through the subjects of friendship, growing apart roof whilst she was in it and growing upleft her, but also those of deathstark naked, war, drugs, abortion and coping with staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a disabled child. And, in my opinion, Rufi Thorpe does this brilliantly; sometimes walk for her to end up with subtlety dog poo spattered across her face - and elegance but often through a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the frank, brutal honesty of the character's narrationoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954193</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Rock Chick RescueCapturing Emilia|author=Kristen AshleyBrooke Adams|rating=23

|summary=Jet McAlister is working two jobs to help pay for her motherHe's medical expensesCharles Devereaux, after thirty-eight and a stroke left her mostly paralysed on one sidepartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. It She's okay Emilia, twenty- Jet likes taking care nine, librarian and archivist in the 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, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of people - a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but , above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she canfeel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't deal with any more complications in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J4DPNN8</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Follow Me HomeHelly Acton|authortitle=Cathy WoodmanThe Shelf|rating=24|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cathy Woodman has written When we meet Amy, she's in a number of books about life in the Devon village of Taylton St Georgerelationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. These all tell the tale of the comings and goings of the different villagers as they go about their daily livesAh, yes. You donHaven't have we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to have read the earlier ones in order pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to enjoy get down on one knee? Was the stories although if you have read them you are more likely to appreciate work (and the bigger picture.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584921</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|title=Beautiful Day|author=Elin Hilderbrand|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Jenna girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is getting married tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and no one would be more excited than her mother Beth. But Beth passed away before now she could see 's the baby talk of the Carmichael family happily hitchedschool. Knowing she wouldnMike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't live to see the day, she drafted but one thing is for sure, this isn''The Notebook'', a guide t going to help Jenna plan her nuptials with wise, motherly advice on every aspectblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444724002</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paper SwansKatie Fforde|authortitle=Jessica ThompsonA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Ben Lawrence has I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a charmed life it would seem. There’s the highly successful and lucrative career in PRwarm, the fast carcosy read focused on romance, family and more girlfriends than he can possibly rememberfriendships. However, despite all this, Ben is sad and lonely. He is scared to commit to any woman because This provided two romances for the price of a tragic incident from his past. Even visiting his therapist does not seem to make a difference. Therefore, he is completely taken by surprise when, after meeting Effy Jonesone, but it was actually the founder of family element as opposed to the charity that Ben’s firm is sponsoring, he finds romance that he cannot stop thinking about herI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776525</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreview|title=The Art of Baking Blind|author=Sarah VaughanFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Eaden and Son is looking for the next Mrs Eaden. The original Mrs Eaden, Kathleen, has recently died and in her honour the upmarket grocery store is running a baking competition to find someone to advise the store on its baking products; to write a monthly magazine column; and to front Eaden’s advertising campaign. 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-offs in order to showcase their talents in all aspects of baking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444792229</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB07W4MNBSG|title=Any Other MouthBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Anneliese MackintoshLizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=With It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a title like group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''Any Other Mouthyour entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you know from were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the outset that this is, shall we say, a rather niche booksuperior Patrick Shepley-Botham. It’s not all about orifices, though The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. Partially autobiographical, this is There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the messy, ludicrous, wildly entertaining story of a girl who’s just a little bit differentclass. Ok, make that a lot different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908754575</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Lorraine Jenkin|title=Jam Tomorrow|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Joss Jeffries is a farmer. Not a farmer's wife and general help Move on the farm but the one who has to get out there and make it work. Her husband departed a while ago leaving her with their young son and a mountain of debt, so what she needs is money coming in, and preferably as quickly as possible. She and her father, Mick, come up with what seems like a good idea: walking holidays in the magical mid-Wales countryside. It ''looks'' to be quite a sound plan too. They'll take well-paying, decent people on great walks and let them experience [[Features|the joy of camping and living close to nature. Only...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099288490X</amazonuk>}}latest features]]