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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Fiona Neill|title=What the Nanny Saw|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Ali Sparrow is twenty-one and has just dropped out of university (albeit hopefully temporarily) as she needs to earn some money, so becoming a nanny to a rich family seems ideal when she sees Bryony Skinner's advert. Soon Ali finds herself central to the Skinner's vast home and life on the rather exclusive Holland Park Crescent in a house that extends way beyond the usual two floors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241952557</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lovering1471180158|title=Star Struck|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Skye Threppel had a year of memories wiped out in a car accident which cost the lives of her best friend and fiancé. The physical scars were healing – although they were still very visible – but, eighteen months on, she struggled with meeting people and being anywhere but the cosy womb of her little terrace house in York. She used to be an actress but the accident has ruined her career and her confidence. It was a massive step when her friend Fe (that's short for Felix, by the way) persuaded her to go with him to the 'Fallen Skies' TV convention in Nevada - giving her a chance to meet Gethryn Tudor-Morgan, the actor she idolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931690</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Eleanor Moran|title=Breakfast in Bed|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Amber is a chef in the throes of a sticky divorce who has quite enough on her plate (and the plates of her customers) without the terror of working for a wunderkind-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chef. So, because this is chick lit and the inevitable is, well, inevitable, that's just where she finds herself, landing a new job in the kitchen of Oscar Retford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075154549X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Marsella|title=The Baby of Belleville|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jane de Rochefoucault, an expat living in Paris with her aristocratic husband, is just an ordinary mother fighting her way through the challenges of early parenthood from nursing to itsy-bitsy-spidering. However, Jane's life certainly isn't all about diaper-changing and Tupperware. Far from it. When three of her Muslim friends decide to organise a highly dangerous slave emancipation Jane is forced to rely on her family's history of law-breaking and dodgy contacts to make sure the plan succeeds. And on top of all her maternal and culinary responsibilities Jane becomes the interpreter/secretary/personal shopper for a celebrity intellectual employer which isn't all it's cracked up to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846272246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Noble|title=The Way We WerePenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Susannah comes across her old flame Rob at her brotherJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's wedding, she instantly remembers a control freak with all the subtlety of the things that she loved about hima half brick. She cannot stop thinking about him and by doing so it makes her see her partner Doug in not such an attractive light. Doug pays her very little attention and often does not include her in Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his plans with his childrenproblems'. They seem to merely co-exist rather than share a life together which causes Susannah to become more He's asthmatic and the more dissatisfied, especially when she compares him with Rob. Although Rob has recently marriedyou read, the more you'll suspect that he starts meeting with Susannah in London 's on a regular basis and the flame is soon rekindledautistic spectrum. However, they know that if they Sometimes Jamie needs to take things further, other are bound to get hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pamela Fudge|title=Never be Lonely|rating=4|genre=Womentime off at short notice - she's Fiction|summary=There was a moment when Francesca Dudley wondered quite what she was doing frequent flier in a church in Canada. She'd barely recovered from the lengthy flight local A&E and here she was listening sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to people extol the virtues of Mitchell Browning, now deceasedschool. Francesca hadn't seen him since he left Missed shifts or the family home need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when she was four Jamie can be controlled and now, four decades later, she was coming to terms with put in the fact that her father wrong. had still been alive, only It was going to find that he was dead – if you see what I mean. Mitchell has not just left her fatherless though – there seems come to be a whole tribe of people bereaved by his death and at least one of them doesn't seem all that keen that she should be therehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092539</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona MountainLauren Bravo|title=IsabellaPreloved

|summary=The fate of mutineer, Fletcher Christian in the 18th century remains Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a mystery even today but Fiona Mountain has pieced together big number that starts with a dramatic and powerful story based on rumours four and clues that Fletcher returned to England to be ends with his longan oh-my-God-I'm-lost love, Isabella Curwennearly-forty. Fletcher, Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the son of toss - Gwen finds herself having a bankrupt family and Isabella, the sole heiress bit of a huge fortune are prevented from marryingmid-life crisis. Their relationship Catharsis is manipulated by those around them key and a young, naïve Isabella Gwen has decided now is forced the time to marry take back her cousin, John. life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099562251</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan Coleman0008506337|title=Lessons in Laughing Out LoudThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Willow Briars is The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in her thirties and cannot exactly claim that her life is successfullove. Acrimoniously divorced, having no contact with her stepdaughter Richard was twenty-one and working too many hours for a tyrannical boss, she cannot help but compare her life with her twin sister Hollydescribed by Margo'smother as 'an older man'. But Holly has not had to live with the trauma Her parents worried that Willow endured as a child even though Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she has always been there could achieve - going to support Oxford and help herhaving a glittering career. However In the event, one day she stumbles upon they eloped and old and tucked Richard took her away second hand shop with a wonderful pair from the Isle of shoes in the window that seem to be calling out to herWight. The shoes seem Margo did go to transform Willow; not only her stature Oxford and looks but also her confidence and the way she sees herself. Also, the people who know her appear to be looking at her differently too. Transformed, she feels ready went on to tackle anything life has to throw at her which is probably become a good thing when her fifteen year old stepdaughter turns up on her doorstep, pregnant and having run away from homewell-respected journalist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551268</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosie Thomas|title= The Kashmir Shawl|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mair Ellis couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and her two siblings are busy clearing out their parents' house shortly after their father's death, when Mair comes across an old package in a chest of drawersSasha. Unwrapping the parcel from its tissue paper, Mair discovers an exquisite Life was lived in London and expensiveholidays were spent at Sandcove, hand woven Indian shawl from Kashmir, intricately woven and full the family home on the Isle of wonderful coloursWight. Falling out of Even then the shawl is an envelope containing a lock of hair, adding doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to its already mysterious natureleave him in charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007285965</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Elisabeth McNeill|title=East of Aden|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was said that something strange happened to women when they went east of Aden. The normal rules of behaviour seemed to have been Then Richard left at home and anything – well just about anything – seemed to go. Back in the early nineteen sixties three women met in Bombay. How would they fare in the hot climate? It wasn't just the women who changed when they went out to India, eitherthem. How would the husbands of Jess, Joan and Jackie cope when sex seemed to be freely available wherever they looked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen AbbottHadeer Elsbai|title=A Father For DaisyThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Beatrice Rossall found herself in a difficult position. Her widowed father was an elderly vicar Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who took could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a young unmarried girl who was expecting a babysociety pitted against them. Soon after Nehal, born into the baby's birth upper class, wishes to attend the mother died Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and Bea's father died not long afterthen join the military, leaving Bea in charge of Daisy who was only a few weeks old and but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the prospect that she would other hand did not have no home within a matter privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of days. She couldn't get work because the Daughters of Daisy Izdihar – with a lot of people believing that she was Daisygroup campaigning for women's mother – but she wasn't going to let Daisy go to the workhouserights. At the end of the nineteenth century this wasn't a good position Giorgina also happens to be inlove with Nico.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092415</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chima Njoku-Latty|title=Thoroughly Modern People: The Long Way Home|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The front cover graphics are good: interesting and refreshingly modern and when I opened the book I liked the easy-on-the-eye print format. And I think that's where my positive comments end. The back cover blurb says that this book What follows is ''A beautifully moving a story.'' I found it neither beautiful nor movingof an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, I'm afraidfrom which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956600107</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele ParksB0B575J99N|title=About Last NightBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=I've noticed Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a trend in recent womenprestigious girl's commercial fiction titles of rather dark subject mattersschool in York. It seems that was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the light-hearted romps involving shopping and shoes are out right man'' and now was the subjects have grown up and become much more serioustime to make a change. This latest from Adele Parks certainly deals with some weighty issuesShe needed challenges. Steph and Pip have been best friends since they were at school togetherThere was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. They've supported each other through everythingAfter a telephone interview, she was offered the position and although they both find themselves living very different lifestyles they are still best friends. Or at least, that's what they think until Steph desperately needs Pip's help after one eventful night and Pip suddenly isnit wasn't sure if long before she can help was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her best friendfirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371291</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabrielle Donnelly0241542405|title=The Little Women LettersMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=I read the back cover blurb with delight When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and couldnshe't help but applaud Donnelly s not left her home for her ingenuity1,214 days. I loved the book She'd ''Little Womenlike'' when I read it many years ago to: in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and television adaptations keep it fresh for new generationsshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. SoThen, before Ishe can't. She simply can'd even turned t force herself to chapter oneleave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, I Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was loving this bookSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. But will it live up to my lofty expectations?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718156587</amazonuk>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 she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Weiner0008441618|title=Fly Away HomeOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=3.5

|summary=Sylvie Serfer married Richard Woodruff and from Jo Fairburn knew that day on made herself she was under intense pressure as the perfect politiciannew head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn's wife. The senator came first t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in everything, even before their children. That's not to say that part of the girls were neglected – it's just that they never came firsttown. The senator's image, his convenience, his schedule school had an active Parent Teacher Association and his clothing the funds which they raised were of paramount importance a considerable benefit to Sylviethe school. Therewas one difficulty, though - they were 's a problem though – the senator has been having an affair and as 'devastatingly shockable'', with all such matrimonial earthquakes two members, in political circles it broke on particular, causing problems for the national news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial homehead. WhatLaura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's Sylvie to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847390250</amazonuk>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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue MoorcroftGiovanna Fletcher|title=Love and FreedomWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=Honor Sontag Mike'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. But Pia left her home in the States and came them all some 'rules' to the UK. Her career had hit a sticky patch but follow, knowing that she was determined to take a four-month break in Brighton to think things over dying and get herself back together again. She needed a job that they would need help to supplement the money she had - and she definitely didn't want anything 'heavy'carry on living. The other thing that she didn't want was any sort Whilst some of romantic entanglement. She's not even that tempted by the brother of rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her landladywardrobe, who's good looking, but his sister can't stop commenting about how irregularly he works although someone else mentions another one that he's on the buses. Not much Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of a starter there thentheir trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931666</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia StaggB09FS89KX9|title=L'AubergeFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts

|summary=LLife 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'Auberge des Deux Vallees s diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was sadly neglected but it a good boss. Hollie had been boughtmoved in with her boyfriend, not as everyone expected, by a relative of the mayor, but by an English couple who, by all accounts, had little French Marcus: her mother thought he was great and not a lot of experience he was doing well in running a restauranthis career. Obviously, such a travesty cannot be allowed Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to continue, control her and within hours most of hearing the news, mayor Serge Papon has called an emergency council meeting all he wanted her to ensure that leave her job at the newcomers are forced out as quickly as possiblediner. Unfortunately Then there was the fact that he hadn't reckoned on Christian Dupuywould be violent, whose politics are guided by his conscience rather than his wallet. When it comes down both to her and to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444708236</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Johnson0008421714|title=The Untied KingdomMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary=Eve Carpenter is having a very bad dayWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and it is about Beth was doing her best to get worseapologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. She comes round from a paragliding accident He wasn't hurt but everything is rather strangeJake has history. Although she’s still in London, this is a city and a world she hardly recognises. There is just enough He has HLHS - that is familiar to be totally confusing. In this world, England is a backward country with a population kept too busy fighting in a civil war to do much else. She is taken captive by a small group 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of soldiers you who take her marching across the country are not ''au fait'' with themyour medical acronyms. The leader, Major Harker, is obnoxious and scruffy When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and is convinced Eve is he needed open-heart surgery when he was a spy, or perhaps she is just madfew days old. While they apparently speak the same language So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they struggle to understand each other – their worlds are so different're driving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare JacobC J Carey|title=Ophelia in PiecesWidowland

|summary=Barrister Ophelia Dormandy had been working hard – wellIt's April 1953, overworking – for the last six months and on Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the eve state funeral of her thirty-ninth birthday she decided that she would go home early and cook Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a decent meal for her husband bit, and herself. She even decided that she would wear watching over the sanctioned return to the red dress which Patrick likedthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. But when she got home Patrick and their sonFor yes, Alex, were eating ice creams. He Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't seem in happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the least interested in dinner and then admitted that he was having an affairmainland''. Ophelia threw him out – But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and then began the long haul ideas of female purpose, has put all of trying that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to be a decent single parent in a job where the hours were long drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the money uncertain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Giffin|title=Something Borrowed|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Rachel Miller husbandless and Darcy Rhone had been friends foreverthe widows. Rachel was the older by just four months, but it was Darcy who sailed through life getting everything that she wantedFemale literacy is actively discouraged. Rachel might have reached her teens firstAnd in this puritanical existence, our heroine, got her driving licence first and then gone on to become an attorneyRose Ransom, but on the eve on Rachel's thirtieth birthday Darcy is employed with the one who is having a whale task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of a timeit – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, with her glamorous PR job and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they''very'' presentable fiancére stamped ready for reprint. Rachel That is very obviously still single – and then an ill-considered birthday fling puts everything in jeopardy and – her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to cap it all - she begins light, with their potential to realise that her friendship with Darcy might not have been all she thoughtspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099557746</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Farahad ZamaRuth Hogan|title=The Wedding WallahMadame Burova

|summary=Aisha is This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a youngbullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), beautiful and successful woman who has worked hard a girl in a humdrum job wanting to get where she is. But there is one thing missing in her life: become a man. Still living with her parents at singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the age third generation of thirty Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and inexperienced when it comes Clairvoyant'', to menuse her family's sea-front booth. The singer, Aisha wonders if she the scryer and the sufferer's mother will ever find all become staff at a husband. But revamped holiday camp, but just before then she spots an ad we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the paper and plucking up all family stall. We also see her on her courage and determinationlast day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she decides , and who delivered the secrets about her to reply. This could be her only chance at love Imelda, and she doesn't want why did it have to waste it.remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007299281</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam BakerJennifer Saint |title=To My Best FriendsAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Nicci Morrison had always been This re-telling of the first myth of Ariadne and the four friends to do everything: fall in love, marry, have children (Minotaur is interesting and twins at that) and develop a successful businessunusual. Then, at thirty six, she was Jennifer Saint presents the first story in a way that is sympathetic to die – of cancerits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Nicci was an organiser and she couldnSaint't let s narrative is told predominantly through the opportunity pass viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to dress her friends for her funeral and death, allowing the reader to bequeath into their care really connect with Ariadne as a character in her most treasured possessions. You're probably thinking own right rather than just a prop in terms the heroics of jewellery, or something similar, but Nicci left her friends her garden, her three-year-old daughters and her husbandTheseus. I mean – just how much more difficult than that can you get?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007305540</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan WiggsLucy Holland|title=Summer at Willow LakeSistersong|rating=45|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Olivia Bellamy does not seem to have 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 lot cornerstone of luck childhood and I relish seeing them retold with menfresh eyes and a fresh perspective. When we meet her she's just about If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to put her third broken engagement under her belt stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and head of into outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the wilderness role of the Catskills with Freddywomen. Don't get excited – he really Sistersong is just a friend. They're going to revamp perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the family's old summer camp in readiness for her grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary celebrations and right now it seems like plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the best way characters to come to forget about her love life. Things turn from bad , to worse though when she finds herself not only stuck up feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a flagpole but having to be rescued by modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the man who pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was her first boyfriend some nine years beforecaptivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304760</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian RuckB08NF79QXT|title=Ragged CliffsCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Lise Jacobson was half Danish and half Welsh. She lived with Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her parents in Denmark but during shop, the Second World War indulged in an innocent friendship with one of the occupying German soldiers. In retribution Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she had her hair shorn off and was raped by two masked men. After her father's death Lise's mother brought Lise nominated for - and Lise's son, born as a result of wins - the rape, back to Swansea and there they did their best to make a living for themselvesRetail Best Newcomer Award. It was whilst Lise was working as a chambermaid that she met William Treharne, who would change her life permanently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904323189</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Gillard|title=House of Silence|rating=4.5|genre=WomenShe's Fiction|summary=Gwen Rowland was a sensible, cautious kind of girl, but then delighted and the only family two people she'd ever known were all dead from a surfeit of unprotected sex, drink and s brought with her to the sort of drugs that donevent couldn't come in a child-proof bottlebe more pleased. So – Sonja, her relationship with mother, is an actor was a little out of the ordinary, but they seemed to be friends before they were lovers. The crunch came at Christmas when Alfie said that he was spending it with his family – which would have left Gwen on ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her ownlooks from. She did Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty'slightlys best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica' twist his arm to take her with him and he was obviously reluctant to comply. When they arrived at Creake Halls husband, home of author Rae Holbrook Charles and her daughters, Gwen sensed a change in Alfietheir four-year-old daughter, a lack of warmth towards his familyAva. Then there was the family photo which didnLife would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't fit the known facts and the complication of the gardener who said little but was for one thing: she misses having a very good listenerman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004USSPN2</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Freya NorthB08GFSK2WZ|title=ChancesThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Sharing a business with exGeorge Jackson is thirty-loverthree years old, Tim, is a disaster absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for Vita. How can eight months and she possibly move on when he's popping into their souvenir shop every day? Though she shed stuck in the two-timing love rat from her bed over 12 months before, his presence casts dark shadows karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her daysand she has a real talent for attracting drama. But ridding him from her Her life isn't a likely option 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 escaping into left her precious classic fiction is sometimes , stark naked, staring at the only way she can ignore her troubled thoughtspervy postman. She cannot afford only has to buy his share of the business and she isntake her mother't prepared s dog out for a walk for her to risk losing 'That Shop' end up with its delightful trinkets dog poo spattered across her face - and resident shoplifter!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326661</amazonuk>a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo VerityB08CHJLNBS|title=Not Funny Not Clever|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Elizabeth was rather looking forward to her trip to Cardiff. She and Diane hadn't got together for a really good chat for a long time and with Laurence being away on a cookery course in France it seemed like the ideal opportunity to take advantage of Diane's invitation. She had visions of girly chats – if you can still have girly chats at nearly fifty. But her plans were going to be disrupted. Her son blessed her with his partner's teenage son 'for a few days in an emergency' and she had no option but to take Jordan in – and then to take him to Cardiff with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784248</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Mary Malone|title=Love is the ReasonBrooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Lucy Ardle was driving homeHe's Charles Devereaux, wondering what sort of thirty-eight and a mood her husband would be partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist inthe heritage library next door. When Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she'd left earliers moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, words had been spokento something a little deeper. Charles is 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 was nearly home when she was overtaken by the fire engine's not his usual type at all: the house was in flames and it was touch and go as 's obvious to whether or not Danny would make ithis friends. Thankfully LucyAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's friendobviously a non-starter, Carol Black had seen the flames and called the fire brigade or the outcome would have been much worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842234161</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clodagh MurphyHelly Acton|title=Girl in a SpinThe Shelf|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny Hannigan might look like the original good-time party girl but all When we meet Amy, she 's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really wants out of life is call it a settled home and family – mainly partnership, because that's what things tend to get done on his terms, but she's never had. So when sticking around because she begins a relationship with Richard Allam hopes she dares to hope that the dreams might be coming truecan change him. Richard is youngAh, good-looking and leader of Her Majesty's opposition. He has high hopes of becoming Prime Minister after the next electionyes. Jenny isnHaven't exactly the ideal mate we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for someone who expects to a surprise trip. Could this be the next Prime Minister and as Richard has only recently separated from his wife Jenny is it? Is he ''finally'' going to take some selling to get down on one knee? Was the country. Enter publicist Dev Tennant whose job is to make work (and the country fall in love with Jenny.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444705148</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Fern Britton|title=New Beginnings|rating=3.5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Christie Lynch is a widowed mother girlfriend comes into school with a couple of children black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's been keeping the proverbial wolf from talk of the door by doing some journalism – but then she gets the lucky break of an appearance on daytime televisionschool. She's spotted by Julia Keen, ''Mike was the'' most successful agent 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 it seems that the skysome don's the limit. Itt, but one thing is for sure, this isn's not long before Christie has a high-profile presenting jobt going to blow over any time soon. The public loves her. The camera loves her. What's not to like?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007362692</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda BrookfieldKatie Fforde|title=Before I Knew YouA Springtime Affair|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Two couples agree I've wanted to swap homes read author Katie Fforde for the summerages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, urged cosy read focused on by a mutual friend. Sophie and Andrew are teachers who live in Londonromance, rather jaded with life family and each other, but hoping for a breakfriendships. Their This provided two teenage daughters are on a music tour, but hope to join them romances for the last week.  William and Beth are a newly married coupleprice of one, who live in a gorgeous home in Connecticut in but it was actually the USA. William is rather older than Beth; he's a Brit who has three teenage sons living with their mother in London, not far from Sophie and Andrew's home. William wants family element as opposed to spend time with his sons in the summer, and Beth hopes to get to know them betterromance that I really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141039949</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fanny BlakeB07W4MNBSG|title=What Women WantBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=I'll It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be honest: I had my doubts about this bookdoing when they were fifty. Fanny Blake is a well-known journalist and sheWhen you's also written for programmes such as ''Locationre only seventeen that seems positively ancient, Location, Locationbut Liz was convinced that '' and ''A Place in the Sunyour entire life depends on who you marry''. I wasn't entirely certain how this would fit with a book about The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the lives idea of three middle-aged women who are dealing with change living in their lives – a farmhouse and they're not moving house. I sat down to have having a quick look couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to see Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if it you were Elizabeth who was going determined to be worth reviewing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007359098</amazonuk>marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. 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 class.

{{newreview|author=Sophie Page|title=To Marry A Prince|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Bella Greenwood has just been away Move on a tropical island doing an eco-job for a man she though she rather fancied. She returned home when she realised that she was being taken for a mug and when it came down to it she didn't really fancy [[Features|the man that much either. Getting back into the swing of things is a little difficult though – he mother and step-father have a full house and can't take her in. Her father is up a mountain somewhere and she's just thankful that her friend Lottie is prepared to take her in at short notice – and to take her to a posh party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099560453</amazonuk>}}latest features]]