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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucinda Riley1471180158|title=Hothouse FlowerMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the London Season subtlety of 1939 Olivia met a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the Honourable Harry Crawfordmore you read, heir to the Wharton country estate in Norfolk and more you'll suspect that he seemed like 's on the perfect catchautistic spectrum. It looked even better when his mother invited her Sometimes Jamie needs to spend the summer take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the estate local A&E and before long they were marriedsometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. There were problems even before Harry went Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to fight pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the Far East, but Olivia wrong. It was determined that the marriage would workgoing to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141049375</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy DawsonLauren Bravo|title=The One That Got AwayPreloved

|summary=Lucy Dawson's latest novel Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a cut above runfour and ends with an oh-ofmy-God-theI'm-mill chicknearly-lit papforty. Molly Greene is happily married to Dan, and they live Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a normal twentymid-first century life in a small towncrisis. She Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is a successful salesperson for a medical supplier. The couple struggle with the bills and hope time to buy their own place. She spends time with two old girlfriends whose situations are different from hers, but who know our heroine inside out and will always be there for take back her for long, boozy heart-to-hearts. So far, so predictable. life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751542520</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Christine Stovell|title=Turning the Tide|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=We're in the seaside location of Spitmarsh. It's seen better days, frankly. And that's putting it mildly. It has ' ... a local economy so depressed it was almost suicidal'. Ms Harry Watling loves her town in spite of the negative vibes. She wouldn't change a thing. You can tell that she's an optimist because even although she's having difficulty keeping her business afloat, she's still happy with her lot. She's not afraid of hard work and seems to work almost round the clock and in all weathers to carry out her boat-building and repairs business. But it's a constant battle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931259</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bernadette Strachan|title=Why DO We Have to Live with Men?|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Cat and her friends often meet up for a drink and a chat, and regularly fantasise about giving up on men, sharing a house and looking after each other. Then one night Germaine calls their bluff – she’s found a house, and wants to know who is going to join her in it. Initially, the answer is no one. Shortly afterwards, though, Cat’s life as she has known it falls apart, as her landlord gives her notice to leave her flat and she loses her job. There is nothing now to keep her in London and moving into Germaine’s commune doesn’t seem like such a mad optionRichard left them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542296</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DunnHadeer Elsbai|title=Secrets to Happiness|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Holly Frick is 35, single and living in New York City. She still thinks she's in love with her ex husband, her career as a TV writer is on a steady downward spiral and she's had limited success as a novelist. She may be having amazing no strings sex with toy boy Lucas, but Holly is unfulfilled and unhappy. Plus, she's surrounded by equally dysfunctional friends, including best friend Amanda, who has no qualms embarking on an extramarital affair, and writing partner Leonard, who is more than happy to self-medicate and find his thrills through the Internet. Plus Spence, the ex before the ex husband has resurfaced in Holly's life and thanks to his new girlfriend Cathleen, Holly finds herself reliving their relationship as Cathleen interrogates her on Spence's past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538302</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Miranda Dickinson|title=Welcome to My WorldThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=LightDrawing inspiration from Egypt, romantic fiction (or that dreadful phrase but which is apt, chick-lit) is not, I have to say, my preferred genre. I wouldn't buy it from a bookshop nor borrow it from 'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the local library. But, having said all that, would you believe the coincidence that chatting with lives of two female friends recently (fortysomething and fiftysomething) they both told me that they wouldn't read anything else. Sowomen who could not be more different, it just goes to show, horses yet find themselves fighting for courses and all that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Evans|title=Harvest Nights|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It is 1920 and London is struggling to deal with the consequences rights of the Great War. Unemployment is high women and money is scarceweavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Clara TrippNehal, a former Land Girl has been forced to return born into the upper class, wishes to attend the city Weaving Academy to work as a waitress, leaving behind the countryside which she loves so much. When Charlie Fenner, an acquaintance from Clara's Land Army days, comes in learn to control her abilities and then join the teashop where she worksmilitary, Clara can't help but feel overjoyedinstead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. He offers her temporary work Giorgina on his parents' orchard in Kent and she gladly accepts. Yet the other hand did not have a serious accident forces Clara to stay longer than expected privileged upbringing like Nehal and it is then that she makes a shocking discovery which threatens feels great pressure to destroy the Fenner provide for her family. Back in London Clara struggles with her confused emotions and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the looming prospect Daughters of her marriage Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to local boy Arnoldbe in love with Nico. When devastating news comes from KentWhat follows is a story of an unjust society, Clara realises she can no longer keep her discovery a secret. But coming face-to-face filled with Charlie again means Clara must acknowledge her buried feelings hypocrisy and make cruelty, from which blossoms a decision between doing the right thing group of admirable women fighting for their rights and following her heartovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755345452</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue MoorcroftB0B575J99N|title=Want to Know a Secret?Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=When you get Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a couple of policemen prestigious girl's school in your kitchen telling you that your husband has been badly injured York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in a helicopter crash you can be forgiven for being upsetlife. On She'd ''still not found the other hand, if your family has right vocation nor met the sort of income which means that your husband right man'' and now was as likely the time to be make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a spaceship as a helicopter then telephone interview, she was offered the position and itwasn's quite permissible to say that t long before she was exploring the policemen have come to the wrong place and this is what Diane Jenner didbeautiful city. Unfortunately There were some natural doubts before her first class but it also means that when they prove that it was your husband you've got quite a big adjustment to makewent surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931267</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Silver0241542405|title=All I Want For ChristmasMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In Amy SilverWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she'All I Want s not left her home for Christmas1,214 days. She'd ''like''to: in fact, the reader meets three very different womenshe so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Bea, who runs the local delicatessen, The Honey Pot Then, is facing Christmas alone with her young son Luca but is determined to make it as good as she possibly can't. Olivia has somewhat rashly offered She simply can't force herself to host all leave the safety of her fiancéhome. She's family from Ireland and it looks like it will be chaotic. On the other handfortunate that she has a good friend, Chloe will be celebrating aloneSadie, as who visits regularly with her boyfriend will be sitting down to Christmas dinner with his wife two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and familyfull of sound common sense. Although on the surface 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, the three women appear to have little so you can guess what she does in commonher spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Christmas approaches they start to form a bond that is likely to last well beyond the festive seasonMeredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553228</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Moorcroft0008441618|title=All That Mullarkey|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|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 is not as it seems as Cleo discovered the night that she'd made up her mind to go to a reunion and Gav said that she shouldn't go. She set off, but wondered if it really was worth causing so much heartache when she wasn't all that keen on going and turned back. When she got home she found that the writing was on the wall for their marriage – quite literally. It said, in marker pen on the bedroom wall 'This Marriage is Over' and Gav had gone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931240</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Parents|author=Julie Cohen|title=Getting Away With ItSarah Stovell

|summary=Julie CohenJo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn's latest book is a different creature t live up to her previous novels. It's not just that it's longer, although the length allows for more characterisation and trickier, complex plots than her ''Little Black Dress'' books, but it also feels different retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in style. There's the same quirky side that Julie writes so well - the heroine this time is a stunt woman, some bizarre ice cream flavours and there's some interesting crop-circle action! But the book feels more serious - more grown up somehow - yet just as readable and compelling as her previous stories have been.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535060X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathleen Schine|title=The Three Weissmanns part of Westport|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The novel begins with Joseph Weissmann, or Josie as he is known, deciding at the age of 78 that he no longer wants to be married to Betty after 48 years togethertown. In The school had an attempt to save Betty's feelings he cites irreconcilable differences, but the truth is he has fallen head over heels in love. Betty is devastated, her life in tatters, with even active Parent Teacher Association and the beautiful Central Park apartment she adores soon lost to her.|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 know. You clear space and you give yourself emotional energy when you get rid of things funds which you don't need. Take stuff to they raised were a charity shop and it's an all-round winner for everyone. That's what Emily did when she began considerable benefit 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 Dylanschool. His sister ran a charity which rescued horses and Dylan There was helping out between jobs. Nowone difficulty, therethough - they were ''s something which you need to know about Dylan. Hedevastatingly shockable's perfect. He's thoughtful, consideratewith two members, in particular, loyal and honestcausing problems for the head. Yes – heLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's ''restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that'' perfectwas just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141028580</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brooke MorganGiovanna Fletcher|title=TrappedWalking on Sunshine

|summary=I blame Bridget JonesMike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. Jane AustenBut Pia left them all some 'rules's six novels have inspired a huge number to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of novels about the romantic dilemmas facing brightrules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, educated middle class women. Does adding literary references another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to chicklit somehow make for better novels? I don't think sotake one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, but I do find these books funstruggling with their grief and their own life troubles, escapist readingdecide to drop everything in their own lives, and the title of this one was irresistiblego along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857210106</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Immodesty BlaizeB09FS89KX9|title=AmbitionFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=Las Vegas Showgirl Sienna Starr has got it madeLife 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 diner. Her career is set to flourish when she lands Bob - the owner - regarded her dream role fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in Vegas' top showwith her boyfriend, she has Marcus: her mother thought he was great friends, a fabulous home, and a red hot sex life with he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her rich and gorgeous boyfriend Max. But as Sienna starts most of all he wanted her to leave her new job at the Follies Casino under diner. Then there was the eyes of Vegas' most powerful showgirl Brandy Alexanderfact that he would be violent, she soon becomes surrounded by people who are not only envious of both to her, but are more ruthless and ambitious than she could ever beto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091930073</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila O'Flanagan0008421714|title=Stand by MeMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Many The problem began just after the publication of us would love George March's most successful novel to be married to a successful, wealthy and attractive businessman and for Dominique Delahaye it becomes a realitydate. Not Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only does she get to live in luxurious houses, go on expensive holidays and wear glamorous clothes, she also gets the last page) seemed to organise and attend wonderful charity events and has her photo in nearly every magazine and newspapereither be reading it or had already done so. Once a spotty and unpopular school girl, she is now Every day Mrs March went to the centre of everyone's attention. Her husbandlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Brendan DelahayePatricia asked, starts out as a builder but soon has his own construction business, Delahaye Developments. The couple become known as the "Dazzling Delahayes" and whilst their lives seem perfect to she was wrapping the outside worldbread, it hasn't always been that way. Brendan and Dominique, who gets given the nickname 'Dominobut isn' from her husband, are quite literally forced to marry through unforeseen circumstances. Their marriage suffers a number of problems and as t this the title "Stand by Me" suggests, both of them are faced with the decision of whether to stay or leave. However, their greatest challenge comes when the perfect life they've built is destroyed. Domino must face an uncertain future and take control of her life but first she has to make some heartbreaking decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343824</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Wilson|title=The Wrong Miss Richmond|rating=3.5|genre=Womentime he's Fiction|summary=Mr Richmond had been married twice. From his first marriage he had based a daughter, Christina and another daughter, Jane from his second marriage. character on you?'' Christina is quietShe mentioned that Johanna, sensible, bookish and, in the principal character had 'her mid-twenties, with no expectations of matrimonymannerisms''. JanePerhaps this would not have mattered, or except for the other hand, fact that Johanna is the heiress whore of her motherNantes - ''s fortunea weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, just a little wild and loves the brightunloved, society lifeunloveable wretch. That's probably not unreasonable as she's not yet twenty and whilst the girls are chalk and cheese they love each other dearly. Christina is pleased when Jane makes a good match – she's to marry Lord St Clement – until she meets her lordship, when she realises that her heart might not be quite so hardened to emotion as she thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090005</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Anne Morris1473685745|title=Vintage MagicUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=With the life she thought When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was before doing her ruined by her fiancébest to apologise for having knocked Simon's cheating waysson, Rose Taylor swiftly leaves her life in London and seeks refuge with her mother Mimi and her sister Lily in the beautiful city of BathJake, off his bike. Reeling from her fiancéHe wasn's deceptions, now is as good a time as any for Rose to reinvent herself, although she is determined to win her fiancé backt hurt but Jake has history. Having always had an eye He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for clothes, starting a vintage dress shop seems like a perfect idea and soon those of you who are not 'Vintage Magic' is opened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354419</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Henderson Smith|title=Ne Obliviscaris: Do Not Forget|rating=3.5|genre=Womenau fait's Fiction|summary=Poor Harriet Glover. She's caught between her attraction to two menwith your medical acronyms. There's Mark (coincidentally When he's a Glover too)was born, her long-term partner and father the left side of her two children. The girls are grown up now but he still hasnhis heart hadn't made up his mind about whether or not developed properly and he and Hat should get married needed open- and truth to tell Hat isn't that certain either. In theory it sounds like heart surgery when he was a good idea and would regularise matters but she's utterly smitten by Joris Sanderson, the headmaster of the school where she's a teacherfew days old. There are times when she thinks thatSo, joy of joys, he's attracted Simon has every right to her, but then there are so many other women in his life that shebe over-protective particularly when someone isn's far from certain whether het looking where they's going to seduce her or sack herre driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845494067</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie ThomasC J Carey|title=Lovers and NewcomersWidowland

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Friendship is precious It's April 1953, and in this book six middle-aged friends put it Adolf 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 test as they go sanctioned return to live the throne of Edward VIII with each other his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in an old country house. Each of them is eager the lead-up to escape the outside world World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and cover up we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the cracks mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of strained relationships and unsuccessful lives. Afraid female purpose, has put all of growing old and leaving dreams unfulfilledthat gender into a caste system, they do their best ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to feel young the drudges, and free once more. Howeverbeyond those, far from being right on down to the wonderful and perfect solution they desiredchildless, living together means only more difficulties the husbandless and new tensions emergethe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. They must battle And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with forbidden desiresthe task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, heartbreaknot every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, broken relationships and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the fear of old ageparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. To make matters worse their isolated retreat That is soon interrupted by an unexpected discovery from the past and with it her job, at least, until the unwelcome attention first emerging signs of the outside world. Friendships are challengedfemale protest come to light, new ones are made and some are lost foreverwith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007285949</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{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 that she is pregnant. Although this is unplanned, Nikki and her partner Spencer welcome the news and look forward to being the best parents that they possibly can be. However Nikki's parents are not so happy especially as they disapprove of Nikki's somewhat bohemian lifestyle and 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 one fateful day, with Zak only a few weeks old, when some devastating news turns her whole world upside down. Life is never going 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele GormanRuth Hogan|title=Single In The CityMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In a rather spontaneous decision to follow her dreams Right This Secondbook lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, Hannah has left Connecticut behind and moved to Londonall vaguely connected. She doesn't So we have a flatbullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), she doesn't have a girl in a humdrum jobwanting to become a singer, and she doesnchiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant''t have any friends, but she has more important things to worry about on arrivaluse her family's sea-front booth. Like how to deal with potential lovers who are too posh to wash The singer, the scryer and how to get the guy 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 sandwich shop to understand family stall. We also see her on her orderlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. As Just who is she navigates , and who delivered the secrets about her way through the highlights to Imelda, and pitfalls of life on why did it have to remain a secret all this side of the pond she chronicles all the little intricacies that we would never consider twice.time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141048263</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nell DixonJennifer Saint |title=Just Look At Me NowAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Big Barb, tub This re-telling of the myth of lard, has turned her life aroundAriadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. No longer overweight with wonky teeth and frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, Jennifer Saint presents the stylish Beauty editor at Platinum magazinestory in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. She has always kept her previous life secretSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, even spanning from her best friends, but then Juliet Goldchildhood to her death, allowing the girl who tormented reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her at school, joins own right rather than just a prop in the magazine as Fashion Editor and suddenly Tia's new life is threatenedheroics of Theseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755354370</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine JenkinLucy Holland|title=Cold Enough To Freeze CowsSistersong|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Lorraine Jenkin Sistersong is already 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 known for her wacky these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters , examining relationships and outrageous plotlinesre-evaluating the role of women. But taking on an archetypical boy next door romantic Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot? I really thought that she would be forced onto is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the cliché-ridden path characters to come to life, to a predictably happy ending. Well happy ending duly arrivedfeel real and human, but via most importantly they feel relatable in a completely unpredictable route, one that I could never have guessed modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in . This is a month masterpiece of Sundays, even by peeking at the last page before storytelling and I startedwas captivated from beginning to end. And she ticked all the writing boxes along the way!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784175</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie SandersB08NF79QXT|title=Famous Last WordsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=The story centres on Lucy Streeter who is a very ordinary woman leading a very ordinary lifeThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She is quite happy running 's delighted and the two people she's brought with her designer clothes shop and being mother to her grown up son Natthe event couldn't be more pleased. However Sonja, one evening her life mother, is thrown into turmoil after meeting Micahan 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, a fortune tellerCharles and their four-year-old daughter, who kindly informs her that she only has a few more days to liveAva. Normally, Lucy Life would dismiss this as absolute rubbish, but unfortunately too many of his other predictions seem to be coming true so perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she has to sit up and take notice. As she does, she comes to the sad realisation that she has not made the most of misses having a man in her life and there are many things that she should or could have done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409112764</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth BuchanB08GFSK2WZ|title=Separate BedsThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Annie George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and Tom Nicholson looked like the sort of people you would envysingle. Both She's not had rewarding jobs, Tom sex for eight months and she's stuck in the World Service karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and Annie in hospital management. They had she has a lovely home and three grown-up childrenreal talent for attracting drama. But all is not as it seems. For five years they have had separate existences after a family row when Tom caused his elder daughter Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to walk out of absorb the water - then the shower fell through the house roof whilst she was in it and never returnleft her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. There hasnShe only has to take her mother't been s dog out for a catalyst which would have caused them walk for her to separate but Tom moved into his daughter's vacated room and he and Annie have lived together end up with dog poo spattered across her face - but apart. It could have gone on indefinitely but then Tom came home one day and dropped a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the bombshell which could well finish them offoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141019891</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca FarnworthB08CHJLNBS|title=A Funny Thing About LoveCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=When He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the reader first meets Carmen Miller 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 struggling more of 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 feel drawn to cope him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with the breakup of her marriage whilst not Jamie. You can't really enjoying her job as call it a comedy agent. Her boss always seems partnership, because things tend to find fault with her and get done on his terms, but she soon discovers that her ex husband's girlfriend is pregnant which comes as quite devastating newssticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. The only thing that lightens Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her days is to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the flirtatious banter that takes place between herself work (and her colleague Will. The problem is though that she is afraid of taking things further and eventually being hurt as she knows too well what that is like.the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099527189</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Margaret Henderson Smith|title=A Question of Answers|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Harriet Glover lives girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her partner who's reluctant to commit himself to marriage, her whole world is tipped upside down. ItHer relationship has just ended and now she's not that he hasn't had time to make up his mind – their two children are at the stage where they might produce grandchildrentalk of the school. His excuse is Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that he can't see the point as they already share a surname through chance, so why did he do what difference would marriage makehe did? MarkSome people believe her and some don's not ''entirely'' insensitive (wellt, some of the time…) but he canone thing is for sure, this isn't understand Harriet's need for that reassuring piece of paper. Until then she's going to be wondering if his eyes are wandering elsewhere. Harriet's not entirely immune either: she finds the headmaster of the school where she teaches quite irresistibleblow over any time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845493281</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tasmina PerryKatie Fforde|title=Kiss Heaven GoodbyeA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A group of students were gathered on a private island in the Bahamas in 1990. TheyI'd just finished their exams – ve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for some it ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was A Levels and for others it marked the end of university – but after expecting - a holiday of indulgence in drugs and alcohol warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and with lots of sexual tension four friends found themselves on the beach on the final dark nightfriendships. In front This provided two romances for the price of them was a bodyone, but they took it was actually the decision family element as opposed to let someone else make the discovery rather than getting involved. When they searched the beach the next day the body had gone – and they had no idea how. They did have a suspicion romance that Miles might have been involved in the deathI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755358406</amazonuk>1780897561

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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Nearly a year on from the death of her beloved husband Nick It was coming up to Halloween in a car crash, Ellie is still not coping very well. She is overwhelmed by debts 1987 and because the accident was a result group 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>}} {{newreview|author=Carole Matthews|title=The Only Way Is Up|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lily and Laurence Lamontsixth-Jones form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were on holiday in Tuscany with their friendsfifty. Lily had enjoyed it When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but she had a nagging suspicion Liz was convinced that Laurence's mind was elsewhere'your entire life depends on who you marry''. Quite how bad his worries The only eligible boys were didn't become apparent until they flew home to find that their house the Young Farmers and car had been repossessed along with all their worldly goods. They were left with the contents idea of their suitcases, the clothes they stood up living in a farmhouse and having a mountain couple of debtschildren called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. After a night The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths 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 estateclass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755373782</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Leonie Fox|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 Move on to find this is anything but.[[Features|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141037059</amazonuk>}}the latest features]]