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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In Amy SilverJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'All I Want for Christmashas his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the reader meets three very different womenmore you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Bea, who runs the local delicatessen, The Honey Pot, is facing Christmas alone with her young son Luca but is determined Sometimes Jamie needs to make it as good as take time off at short notice - she possibly can. Olivia has somewhat rashly offered to host all of her fiancé's family from Ireland a frequent flier in the local A&E and it looks like it will be chaoticsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. On Missed shifts or the other hand, Chloe will need to be celebrating alone, as her boyfriend will away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be sitting down to Christmas dinner with his wife controlled and familyput in the wrong. Although on the surface, the three women appear It was going to have little in common, as Christmas approaches they start come to form a bond that is likely to last well beyond the festive seasonhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553228</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftLauren Bravo|title=All That MullarkeyPreloved

|summary=Cleo and Gav seemed to have the perfect marriage. Neither of them wanted children and their lives seemed to be full of fun, enjoyment and love. But sometimes all Gwen is not as it seems as Cleo discovered the night pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that she'd made up her mind to go to starts with a reunion four and Gav said that she shouldnends with an oh-my-God-I't gom-nearly-forty. She set off, but wondered if it really was Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth causing so much heartache when she wasn't all that keen on going and turned back. When she got home she found that their salt would argue the writing was on the wall for their marriage – quite literallytoss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisis. It said, in marker pen on Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the bedroom wall 'This Marriage is Overtime to take back her life' and Gav had gone.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931240</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen0008506337|title=Getting Away With ItThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=The novel begins with Joseph Weissmannlove affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, or Josie apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as he is known'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, deciding at they eloped and Richard took her away from the age Isle of 78 that he no longer wants Wight. Margo did go to be married Oxford and went on to Betty after 48 years togetherbecome a well-respected journalist. In an attempt to save Betty's feelings he cites irreconcilable differencesThe couple had three children: Rachel, but the truth is he has fallen head over heels in loveImogen and Sasha. Betty is devastated, her life Life was lived in tattersLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, with even the beautiful Central Park apartment family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she adores soon lost would never be able to herleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015716</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Sharon Owens|title=A Winter's Wedding|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Decluttering: it's a great thing to do, you knowThen Richard left them. You clear space and you give yourself emotional energy when you get rid of things which you don't need. Take stuff to a charity shop and it's an all-round winner for everyone. That's what Emily did when she began to clear out her flat. Her friend Augusta had given her quite a few gadgets which she knew that she would never use. And it was at the charity shop that she met Dylan. His sister ran a charity which rescued horses and Dylan was helping out between jobs. Now, there's something which you need to know about Dylan. He's perfect. He's thoughtful, considerate, loyal and honest. Yes – he's ''that'' perfect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141028580</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brooke MorganHadeer Elsbai|title=TrappedThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Ellie Walters is 36, divorced and keen to start a new life away Drawing inspiration from her cheating and control-freak ex-husband. Fulfilling a life-long dreamEgypt, she decides to take her 15-year-old son''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, Tim, to live with her in yet find themselves fighting for the small town rights of Bourne. As she soon becomes good friends women and weavers – those with her nextmagical abilities -door neighbourin a society pitted against them. Nehal, Louisa Amoryborn into the upper class, Ellie finally feels she is making a life of her own. She begins wishes to feel a sense of freedom and independence but for how long? When strange events start occurring Ellie is forced attend the Weaving Academy to face some painful and guilty memories connected learn to a tragic accident nineteen years ago; memories which she would rather forget. It is clear that someone has discovered control her well-kept secret abilities and then join the military, but instead she is reluctant to let her forget about itforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. As Giorgina on the other hand did not have a campaign of terror against Ellie unfolds she must come to terms with what happened all those years ago privileged upbringing like Nehal and try feels great pressure to discover who provide for her tormentor is. Vulnerable family and afraidmaintain their reputation, she relies on Louisawhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's friendship rights. Giorgina also happens to help her through the ordealbe in love with Nico. However, when What follows is a misunderstanding causes a rift between Ellie and Louisa's sonstory of an unjust society, Joe, the women's friendship is threatened. Alone filled with hypocrisy and afraidcruelty, she suddenly finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which she must do all she can to escapeblossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099536285</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreview|author=Beth Pattillo|title=Jane Austen Ruined My Life|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I blame Bridget Jones. Jane Austen's six novels have inspired a huge number of novels about the romantic dilemmas facing bright, educated middle class women. Does adding literary references to chicklit somehow make for better novels? I don't think so, but I do find these books fun, escapist reading, and the title of this one was irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857210106</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Immodesty BlaizeB0B575J99N|title=Ambition|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Las Vegas Showgirl Sienna Starr has got it made. Her career is set to flourish when she lands her dream role in Vegas' top show, she has great friends, a fabulous home, and a red hot sex life with her rich and gorgeous boyfriend Max. But as Sienna starts her new job at Beneath the Follies Casino under the eyes of Vegas' most powerful showgirl Brandy Alexander, she soon becomes surrounded by people who are not only envious of her, but are more ruthless and ambitious than she could ever be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091930073</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Sheila O'Flanagan|title=Stand by MeBrooke Adams

|summary=Many of us would love to be married to a successful, wealthy Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and attractive businessman and for Dominique Delahaye it becomes a reality. Not only does she get to live in luxurious houses, go on expensive holidays and wear glamorous clothes, she also gets to organise and attend wonderful charity events and has her photo in nearly every magazine and newspaper. Once teacher at a spotty and unpopular school prestigious girl, she is now the centre of everyone's attentionschool in York. Her husband, Brendan Delahaye, starts out as a builder It was ''comfortable'' but soon has his own construction business, Delahaye Developmentsshe longed for something more in life. The couple become known as She'd ''still not found the "Dazzling Delahayes" and whilst their lives seem perfect to right vocation nor met the outside world, it hasnright man''t always been that way. Brendan and Dominique, who gets given now was the nickname 'Domino' from her husband, are quite literally forced time to marry through unforeseen circumstancesmake a change. Their marriage suffers She needed challenges. There was a number of problems and as little trepidation when she applied for the title "Stand by Me" suggests, both of them are faced with the decision of whether to stay or leaveprofessoressa job in Bologna. However After a telephone interview, their greatest challenge comes when she was offered the perfect life theyposition and it wasn've built is destroyedt long before she was exploring the beautiful city. Domino must face an uncertain future and take control of There were some natural doubts before her life first class but first she has to make some heartbreaking decisionsit went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343824</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Wilson0241542405|title=The Wrong Miss RichmondMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mr Richmond had been married twice. From his When we first marriage he had a daughter, Christina meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and another daughtershe's not left her home for 1, Jane from his second marriage214 days. Christina is quietShe'd ''like'' to: in fact, sensible, bookish she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and, in she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her mid-twentiestrain. Then, with no expectations she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of matrimonyher home. JaneShe's fortunate that she has a good friend, or the other handSadie, is the heiress of who visits regularly with her mothertwo children, James and Matilda. Sadie's fortune, just a little wild cardiac nurse and loves the brightfull of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, society lifeFred. ThatGroceries are online deliveries and there's probably not unreasonable also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she's not yet twenty and whilst the girls are chalk and cheese they love each other dearlydoes in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. Christina is pleased when Jane makes a good match – sheHe's to marry Lord St Clement – until she meets her lordshipfrom Holding Hands, when she realises that her heart might not be quite so hardened to emotion a charity which supports people with problems such as she thoughtMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090005</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Anne Morris0008441618|title=Vintage MagicOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=45

|summary=With Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the life new head of West Burntridge First School: if she thought was before her ruined by her fiancédidn's cheating ways, Rose Taylor swiftly leaves t live up to her life retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in London that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and seeks refuge with her mother Mimi and her sister Lily in the beautiful city of Bathfunds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. Reeling from her fiancéThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''s deceptions, now is as good a time as any with two members, in particular, causing problems for Rose to reinvent herself, although she is determined to win her fiancé backthe head. Having always had an eye for clothes, starting a vintage dress shop seems like a perfect idea Laura Spence and soon Kate Monroe objected to Jo'Vintage Magic' is openeds restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354419</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Margaret Henderson Smith|title=Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not Forget|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Poor Harriet Glover. She's caught between her attraction to two men. There's Mark (coincidentally he's a Glover too), her long-term partner and father of her two children. The girls are grown up now but he still hasn't made up his mind about whether or not he and Hat should get married - and truth to tell Hat isn't that certain either. In theory it sounds like a good idea and would regularise matters but she's utterly smitten by Joris Sanderson, the headmaster of the school where she's a teacher. There are times when she thinks that, joy of joys, he's attracted to her, but then there are so many other women in his life that she's far from certain whether he's going to seduce her or sack her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494067</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie ThomasGiovanna Fletcher|title=Lovers and NewcomersWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Friendship is precious and in this book six middle-aged friends put it to the test as they go to live with each other in an old country house. Each of them is eager to escape the outside world and cover up the cracks of strained relationships and unsuccessful lives. Afraid of growing old and leaving dreams unfulfilled, they do their best to feel young and free once more. HoweverMike's wife, far from being the wonderful and perfect solution they desiredPia, living together means only more difficulties and new tensions emerge. They must battle who he was with forbidden desiresfor seventeen years, heartbreak, broken relationships and the fear of old agehas died. To make matters worse their isolated retreat And whilst he is soon interrupted by an unexpected discovery from the past and dealing with it the unwelcome attention of the outside world. Friendships his grief, so are challengedtheir best friends, new ones are made Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some are lost forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007285949</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Lewis|title=The Choice|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The book tells the story of Nikki Grant who at the age of twenty one discovers rules' to follow, knowing that she is pregnant. Although this is unplanned, Nikki and her partner Spencer welcome the news was dying and look forward to being the best parents that they possibly can bewould need help to carry on living. However Nikki's parents Whilst some of the rules are not so happy especially around practicalities such as they disapprove of Nikki's somewhat bohemian lifestyle and clearing out her relationship with Spencer. They virtually turn their backs on their daughter and don't even visit baby Zak when he is born. Nikki enjoys being a mum though even without her parents' support and could not be happier. That is until wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one fateful day, with Zak only a few weeks old, when some devastating news turns her whole world upside down. Life is never going encourages him to be the same again and in fact things just seem to get worse and worse for Nikki as the story unfolds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525690</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michele Gorman|title=Single In The City|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=In a rather spontaneous decision to follow her dreams Right This Secondtake one of their trips away, Hannah has left Connecticut behind and moved to London. She doesn't have a flat, she doesn't have a job, Vicky and she doesn't have any friendsZaza, but she has more important things to worry about on arrival. Like how to deal struggling with potential lovers who are too posh to wash their grief and how their own life troubles, decide to get the guy drop everything in the sandwich shop to understand her order. As she navigates her way through the highlights their own lives, and pitfalls of life on this side of the pond she chronicles all the little intricacies that we would never consider twicego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141048263</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nell DixonB09FS89KX9|title=Just Look At Fall On Me Now|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Big Barb, tub Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of lard, has turned her life aroundveterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. No longer overweight Hollie had moved in with wonky teeth her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at Platinum magazinehe was doing well in his career. She has always kept Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her previous life secret, even from and most of all he wanted her best friends, but then Juliet Gold, the girl who tormented to leave her job at schoolthe diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, joins the magazine as Fashion Editor both to her and suddenly Tia's new life is threatenedto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354370</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Jenkin0008421714|title=Cold Enough To Freeze CowsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Lorraine Jenkin is The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already well known for her wacky characters and outrageous plotlinesdone so. But taking Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on an archetypical boy next door romantic plot? I really thought that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she would be forced onto was wrapping the cliché-ridden path to a predictably happy ending. Well happy ending duly arrivedbread, ''but via isn't this the first time he's based a completely unpredictable route, one character on you?'' She mentioned that I could never have guessed in a month of SundaysJohanna, even by peeking at the last page before I startedprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. And she ticked all Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the writing boxes along fact that Johanna is the way!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784175</amazonuk>whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Sanders1473685745|title=Famous Last WordsUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4.5

|summary=The story centres When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on Lucy Streeter who is a very ordinary woman leading a very ordinary life. She is quite happy running opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her designer clothes shop and being mother best to her grown up apologise for having knocked Simon's son Nat. However, one evening her life is thrown into turmoil after meeting Micah, a fortune tellerJake, 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 kindly informs her that she only has a few more days to liveare not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. Normally When he was born, Lucy would dismiss this as absolute rubbish, but unfortunately too many the left side of his other predictions seem to be coming true so she has to sit up heart hadn't developed properly and take noticehe needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. As she does So, she comes Simon has every right to the sad realisation that she has not made the most of her life and there are many things that she should or could have donebe over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409112764</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth BuchanC J Carey|title=Separate BedsWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Annie It's April 1953, and Tom Nicholson looked like Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the sort state funeral of people you would envyJoseph 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. Both had rewarding jobsFor yes, Tom Britain caved in the lead-up to the World Service War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and Annie in hospital managementwe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. They had But this is most certainly a lovely home different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and three grownideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-up childrenbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. But all Female literacy is not as it seemsactively discouraged. For five years they have had separate existences after a family row when Tom caused his elder daughter And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to walk 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 just get a hefty tweak towards the house and never returnparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. There hasn't been a catalyst which would have caused them That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to separate but Tom moved into his daughterspoil Hitler's vacated room and he and Annie have lived together - but apart. It could have gone on indefinitely but then Tom came home one day and dropped the bombshell which could well finish them offvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141019891</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca FarnworthRuth Hogan|title=A Funny Thing About LoveMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the reader first meets Carmen Miller she is struggling early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to cope with become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the breakup third generation of her marriage whilst not really enjoying her job as a comedy agent. Her boss always seems Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to find fault with her and she soon discovers that use her ex husbandfamily's girlfriend is pregnant which comes as quite devastating newssea-front booth. The only thing that lightens up her days is singer, the flirtatious banter that takes place between herself 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 on her colleague Willlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. The problem Just who is though that she is afraid of taking things further , and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and eventually being hurt as she knows too well what that is like.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099527189</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Henderson SmithJennifer Saint |title=A Question of AnswersAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Harriet Glover lives with her partner who's reluctant This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to commit himself its origins but also appealing to marriagea modern audience. ItSaint's not that he hasn't had time to make up his mind – their two children are at the stage where they might produce grandchildren. His excuse narrative is that he can't see told predominantly through the point as they already share a surname through chanceviewpoint of Ariadne, so what difference would marriage make? Mark's not ''entirely'' insensitive (wellspanning from her childhood to her death, some of allowing the time…) but he can't understand Harriet's need for that reassuring piece of paper. Until then she's going reader to be wondering if his eyes are wandering elsewhere. Harriet's not entirely immune either: she finds really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the headmaster heroics of the school where she teaches quite irresistibleTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845493281</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasmina PerryLucy Holland|title=Kiss Heaven GoodbyeSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=A group Sistersong is part of students were gathered on a private island in genre I particularly enjoy, the Bahamas in 1990modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. They'd just finished their exams – for some it was A Levels and These stories, for others it marked the end most of university – but after us, are a holiday cornerstone of indulgence in drugs childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and alcohol outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and with lots re-evaluating the role of sexual tension four friends found themselves on the beach on the final dark nightwomen. In front Sistersong is a perfect example of them was a bodymodern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but they took allowing the decision characters to let someone else make the discovery rather than getting involved. When come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they searched the beach the next day feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the body had gone – and pre-Saxon age they had no idea howlive in. They did have This is a suspicion that Miles might have been involved in the deathmasterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358406</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan ColemanB08NF79QXT|title=The Happy Home For Broken Hearts|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Nearly a year on from the death of her beloved husband Nick in a car crash, Ellie is still not coping very well. She is overwhelmed by debts and because the accident was a result of Nick's own dangerous driving, the insurance company won't pay up. How can she keep the London house she lives in with her son Charlie? Her bossy sister Hannah comes up with a solution – three very different lodgers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525224</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Carole Matthews|title=The Only Way Is UpBrooke Adams|rating=3.5

|summary=Lily and Laurence LamontThirty-one-Jones were on holiday in Tuscany with their friends. Lily year old Liberty Rossini has had enjoyed it but her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she had a nagging suspicion that Laurence's mind was elsewherenominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Quite how bad his worries were didnShe't become apparent until they flew home to find that their house s delighted and car had been repossessed along the two people she's brought with all their worldly goodsher to the event couldn't be more pleased. They were left with the contents of their suitcasesSonja, her mother, the clothes is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they stood up in 've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and a mountain of debtstheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. After Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a night man in the cheapest motel they can find the family of four is moved into the only available accommodation – a very scruffy council house on a sink estateher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755373782</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonie FoxB08GFSK2WZ|title=Up Close and Personal|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I had high hopes for a bright and breezy bonkbuster from Leonie Fox's third novel, having read some favourable reviews of her first two books. The title, cover art and blurb suggest a frothy, fun, flirty and sexy read, so I was very disappointed to find this is anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141037059</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKarma Trap|author=Susan Wiggs|title=Just Breathe|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Sarah may be struggling to make a living off it, but she does enjoy her job as a cartoonist. She's been through a lot recently, including her husband's battle with cancer, and her alter ego Shirl provides an outlet for a lot of the emotions and confusion she's feeling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303543</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Hore|title=A Place Of SecretsLisette Boyd

|summary=A collection 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 karma trap: an awful lot of 18th century books offers Jude an opportunity to combine work bad luck is being visited on her and she has a visit real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her family in Norfolk, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She works as only has to take her mother's dog out for a valuer at walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a London auction house, and photo being taken by someone who shares it has been a while since she went homearound the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391427</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra HeathB08CHJLNBS|title=Counterfeit KissesCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Stephen Holland was gullible He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and certainly no match for the Duke of Exton who was a proficient cheat partner at cards when there was something which he wantedWickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. In this instance what he wanted was She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the Holland Tiara and despite all 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 Sir Gareth Carew could do, Hollandwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, in his cups to the point something a little deeper. Charles is more of being unable to get a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself home, lost the tiarabut, 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. When Carew took the drunk home Holland blamed Carew for the loss and Susannah Holland swore And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she would regain the tiara and have her revenge on Carew. feel drawn to him? Such is the fate of those who do good turns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089961</amazonuk>The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary CarterHelly Acton|title=My Sister's VoiceThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Twenty-eight year old Lacey Gears is When we meet Amy, she's in a fiercely independent deaf artist living in Philadelphia relationship with her boyfriend Alan and her puggle RookieJamie. Lacey is proud You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to be deaf and has no desire to become hearing. When she finds a note in her mailbox telling her she has an identical twin called Monicaget done on his terms, Lacey dismisses it as a joke but curiosity gets the better of her when she sees a picture of Monica, and 's sticking around because she hopes she soon finds herself confronting Margaretcan change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her orphanage house mother who confirms Monica’s existence to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and their separation twenty-five years ago.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755348389</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Katie Flynn|title=Heading Home|rating=4|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Claudia girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is seven when this book opens, in Liverpool in 1926tipped upside down. SheHer relationship has just ended and now she's a careful girl, perhaps a little spoilt, although clearly not wealthythe talk of the school. She enjoys Mike was the protection of thirteen-year-old Danny most popular boy in school who comes from a poorer family, and evidently has something of a crush on Claudia. Even was always so in this first chapterlove with her, she comes across as somewhat self-centredeveryone knew that, wanting so why did he do what he did? Some people to think well of believe herand some don't, but not naturally generous or empathicone thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099520265</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha Scott-JeffriesKatie Fforde|title=The Final HitchA Springtime Affair|rating=34|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Following her first outing in Samantha Scott-Jeffries ''I Do I Do I Do'', Izzy Mistry is back ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and comfortably settled into her life in Majorca as this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a wedding planner. Izzy loves her job and certainly isn’t expecting to be planning her own wedding anytime soonwarm, so is rather surprised when she finds herself being proposed to by two different men cosy read focused on the same night. One of these men is her ex-boyfriend, Harrissonromance, family and Izzy soon finds herself back in his arms, planning to start a new life together on the islandfriendships. But as they start to renovate their beautiful new home in This provided two romances for the mountain town price of Soller, the sheen on their relationship starts to fade, and Izzy is left wondering whether she made the right decision.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352831</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adele Parks|title=Men I've Loved Before|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Natalie and Neil are an average thirty-something aspirational couple, living a comfortable life in West London. Having agreed before they married five years ago that they never want children, a chance remark from one of Neil's friends quickly changes his mind. Suddenly being a dad is all Neil can think about and meeting severe resistance from Natalie he tries many methods to persuade her. Feeling under huge pressure, Natalie seeks refuge at her parents' house where she discovers her old address book, or little black book as but it became known when she was single. Inside are actually the old addresses of Natalie's ex-boyfriends and family element as she reminisces Natalie starts opposed to wonder if Neil is indeed the one, or whether it was just good timing romance that resulted in them getting together. As Natalie decides meeting up with her exes is the best way to see if indeed ''the'' one slipped through her fingers, Neil embarks on a seedy new hobby and the two practically stop speaking to each otherI really enjoyed. Will they be able to save their marriage?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755371259</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte MooreB07W4MNBSG|title=Grandmother's FootstepsBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Verity's husband has died suddenly and she decides It was coming up to sell Knighton, the house she has lived Halloween in for large parts 1987 and a group of her lifesixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, where she but Liz was born convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and brought up the idea of living in a farmhouse and where she has lived for thirty years with her husband having a couple of children called Will and daughter. She must sort out all the possessions and papers stored thereOlly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and this prompts her reflections on Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the past, including her not so happy marriagerather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She also realises The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that now Simeon is dead, she can reveal a family secret to her daughter Hesterweekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140278311</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Rosy Thornton|title=The Tapestry of Love|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Catherine Parkstone has sold her home in England and moved, lock, stock and tomato plants, to a tiny hamlet in the Cevennes mountains in France's Massif Central. It's eight years since her divorce and her children are now grown and (reasonably) independent, so it's time for her to do what pleases her. Her aim is to set up a sewing business in the hamlet – doing upholstery, soft furnishings and tapestry – but she has to come to terms with the extremes of the weather, French bureaucracy and the understandable reserve of her neighbours who are not keen Move on to see more tourism taking over the area. It's not long before Catherine falls in love – with the landscape and a way of life.[[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beverley Eikli|title=Lady Farquhar's Butterfly|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Olivia - Lady Farquhar - has recently been widowed. This does not upset her in the least; indeed, as becomes clear through the novel, her husband was an unpleasant bully who subjected her to all kinds of abuse. Unfortunately, however, the terms of his will have ensured that her beloved toddler Julian has been taken away to live with his uncle Max until such time as Olivia marries someone considered to be above reproach. For that reason, she is seriously considering marrying Nathaniel, a clergyman who has helped her for many years. The only problem with that is that she finds him increasingly repulsive...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wendy Kremer|title=No Matter What|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Wealthy American Jason Tyler needs a wife fast to stop his cousin Calvin from taking over the family oil business. After responding to his advert English girl Amy Courtland meets Jason in London to discuss his proposal. Amy is desperate for the money Jason is offering her to be his wife so she can pay off the debts her father has left behind. Her feet barely touch the ground in Los Angeles before Amy finds herself with a new surname and new life as Jason's fake wife. But unlike the rest of Jason and Amy's families, Calvin is not convinced by the marriage and is determined to prove it is a sham. When Jason decides to take Amy into the Venezuelan jungle with him on a business field trip Amy soon finds her life in danger on more than one occasion, leaving Jason to wonder if someone is behind these strange events. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090757</amazonuk>}}latest features]]