==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Jules Stanbridge
|title=A Date in Your Diary
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Harry knows that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows there's a difference between what we need and what we want – and she wants a bloke. More specifically, she wants a date for the latest in a string of friend-and-family weddings, a wedding where, thanks to a 'tricky' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sight, Harry comes to the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to go. At best, she'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes and will joyfully accompany her to the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for a magazine journo.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sharon Owens
|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wife, Roz, seemingly like no other man has ever loved a woman – his idolatry is boundless, bordering on theatrical and yet out of this worship, Paul has the germ of an idea. Who would not want to know the ways in which it is possible to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? How could everyone not want to see, to ''share'' the artistic renderings of this act of love?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Monica Carly
|title=Fraser's Line
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=When Edie died Fraser was devastated. They'd been married for thirty one years and he'd been devoted to her. Nothing had been too much trouble and he'd been quite prepared to watch her flirt with other men, to shine in any company. He was, after all, the man she went home with. Her death had come suddenly and weeks later he was still in a state of shock, but he knew that he would have to sort out her affairs and he enlisted the help of a casual acquaintance to support him. He was in for some painful shocks.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438960069</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Dillon
|title=Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lucy Dillon's previous novel, [[The Ballroom Class by Lucy Dillon|The Ballroom Class]], featured three couples whose individual stories end up muddled when they start the same dancing lessons. In ''Lost dogs and Lonely Hearts'' we have three very different families whose lives end up intertwined when they suddenly become involved with the local rescue kennels. Sound familiar? While the premise for the two is similar, the stories share only one common theme: they're both great reads.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919205</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Louise Candlish
|title=Before We Say Goodbye
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Olivia suffered a great deal in her childhood and teenage years. Her mother Maggie would disappear, often for months at a time, leaving Olivia and her brother disorientated, upset and - eventually - very angry. But when her mother lies dying, there's a big question Olivia wants to ask. Did her mother deliberately keep her away from Richie, the young man she fell in love with when she was sixteen?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751540382</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lorraine Jenkin
|title=Eating Blackbirds
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary='Delightful', 'unsophisticated' and 'funny' tags jump to mind for ''Eating Blackbirds'', one of several books published this year, aimed at the women's mainstream market from Welsh publishers Honno. I read it in a couple of sittings, not wanting to put it down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190678406X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Elliott
|title=The Prodigal Sister
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Sisters Rebecca, Julie and Lauren are travelling from Ireland to attend their younger sister's wedding in New Zealand. This is unlikely to be just any family reunion though as no one had heard from Cathy since she fled from their home fifteen years ago. There are many unresolved issues but Cathy has invited them all with the hope that they can achieve some closure and hopefully move on with their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561470</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Campbell
|title=When Good Friends Go Bad
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=A famous designer, a cleanliness-obsessed stay at home mum and a slightly kooky Yank who talks to angels might not be three people you'd pick to be friends in a normal story, but these women haven't met now, as pushing-40 year olds. No, they were good friends, great friends even, all through high school, and though life has evidently taken then in different directions, you can understand how something like surviving their teen years together would form an everlasting bond. Except it didn't, really. They've barely talked in years, and even the reunion organised ten years ago went wrong. So how is it that they've ended up back in each others' lives? What's happened? Why now?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519992</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melissa Hill
|title=Before I Forget
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=At the start of the book, Abby's partner of four years has just left her and, in dealing with her misery, she is becoming a bit of a workaholic and a social recluse. One morning, on her way to work she becomes the victim of a freak accident and suffers a brain injury that is going to affect her long term memory. Faced with the prospect of forgetting all that she holds dear, Abby re-evaluates the way she has been living and makes a list of all the memorable experiences she hopes to create. She also sets about capturing all the memories in a 'memory chest' on her computer so that she will be able to remember all the wonderful experiences. Suddenly she is enjoying life a lot more especially when she meets the handsome and thoughtful Finn. Unexpectedly, Abby's life has never looked better except, of course, for the fact that she keeps forgetting things.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340952997</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lindsey Kelk
|title=I Heart New York
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Holed up in a New York hotel room, Angela is getting a New York make over from her NY NBF, Jenny. And how, we ask ourselves, did our heroine end up in The City That Never Sleeps? Well, if you had caught your boyfriend of ten years having sex with a skinny (grrr!) blonde on the back seat of your car (where the car seats of your future children were supposed to go), during the wedding reception of your best friends, and that everyone – including your best friends - apart from you had known what he had been up to for some considerable time, you may very well have kicked off your Louboutins, hitched up your bridesmaids dress and headed for the nearest airport too!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007288387</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaishree Misra
|title=Secrets and Lies
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Four girls became friendly at school in Delhi. Fifteen years later three of them are in London, but Zeba is still in India. She was a promising actress (on and off the stage) at school but in 2008 she's the reigning queen of Bollywood. Let no one say that she hasn't earned her position; some of those producers can be quite demanding – on and off the stage. Back in London Bubbles is the wife of a millionaire Indian businessman. It was an arranged marriage and although it's never been close Bubbles isn't too unhappy. Sam is the trophy wife and her marriage seems to have ground to a halt, whilst Anita, always the brainiest of the group, seems to have difficulty in keeping a relationship going. There was another girl who had an influence on the girls, but they hated Lily D'Souza – and then she died.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561683</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margot Berwin
|title=Hot House Flower
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Themed fiction, where there is a clear obsession with a specific topic can be a bit hit or miss, but in the past I have enjoyed ones that focus on [[Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack|books]] and [[Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn|shoes]] and especially [[The Food of Love by Anthony Capella|food]]. The key in my mind has always been to write about something other people obsess over, establishing an immediate bond between reader and writer. This title falls into this category but with a rather unusual and specific fixation: tropical plants. I know little about these, and have never really wanted to change that fact, but though I didn't share the author's fascination initially, by the end of the book I was hooked.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091926122</amazonuk>
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