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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heidi Swain1471180158|title= Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas FairMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= Having just discovered author Heidi Swain and her series of novels featuring Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the residents subtlety of Wynbridgea half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, I couldn't wait to has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read this book and it certainly didn, the more you'll suspect that he't disappoint being every bit as good as s on the previous bookautistic spectrum. Yet again Heidi Swain has managed Sometimes Jamie needs to combine an original mix of characters with take time off at short notice - she's a feel-good storyline frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to create a totally compelling readschool. But, don't worry if you haven't read any of Missed shifts or the other instalments as each one focuses need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a different lead character and story so it really won't matterhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164853</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa PimentelLauren Bravo|title=Jenny Sparrow Knows the FuturePreloved|rating=4.5

|summary=Jenny Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and Isla were focused teenagersends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. So much so in fact that they decided to write a life plan for Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their futures right down to predicting the year in which Jenny would marry the man of her dreams. As luck salt would have it, as argue the predicted year arrives Jenny toss - Gwen finds herself living with Chris – kind, dependable Chris. The sort having a bit of guy with whom she would happily walk down the aisle. Then that fateful long girly weekend with Isla happens in Vegasa mid-life crisis. A cocktail or two Catharsis is key and voila, a sudden, very different husband. Can Jenny get a divorce in Gwen has decided now is the time for to take back her wedding to Chris without Chris finding out about this little…errr... glitch? Jennylife's working on it!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718186443</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa Hill0008506337|title= Keep You SafeThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 45|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= This is the story of two mothers The love affair between Margo Garnett and two daughterspoet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and the virus described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that binds them. Widowed mum Kate is Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a nurseglittering career. She has a daughter, Rosie In the event, they eloped and Rosie is ill with measlesRichard took her away from the Isle of Wight. As Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a nurse, Kate knows exactly how dangerous this can be, but because Rosie has a rare allergy that prevents vaccinationwell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, there was nothing she could do except cross her fingers Imogen and hope herd immunity would carry her throughSasha. Married mum Madeleine is a ''mummy blogger'' Life was lived in London and tells holidays were spent at Sandcove, the world, or at least family home on the internet, Isle of Wight. Even then the dodoubts about Richard's and do notdrinking were never far from Margo's of parenting. Theremind: 's one thing she didn't do, though, and that is get her daughter Clara vaccinated. Dubious of the MMR, she and her husband decided would never be able to forgo the jabs for their childrenleave him in charge''. And now, like Rosie, she has measles Then Richard left them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008217122</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chrissie ManbyHadeer Elsbai|title= The Worst Case Scenario Cookery ClubDaughters of Izdihar|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= I love Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a good romcom society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and so was excited to read Chrissie Manby's latest novelthen join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. It certainly didn't disappoint Giorgina on the comedy value other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and pleasingly it was more maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women'relationship comedy' than just s rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a romcom story of an unjust society, filled with unlikely friendships hypocrisy and day-to-day family relations providing the best laughscruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473639778</amazonuk>0356520471

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly HepburnB0B575J99N|title= The Picture House by Beneath the SeaPorticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a close, I found myself craving teacher at a fix of literary sunshine and sea kissed romanceprestigious girl's school in York. In such a mood it It was then, that I came across the cover ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''The Picture House by still not found the Searight vocation nor met the right man''and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. Perfect blue skies After a telephone interview, glistening sea, a she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful Art Deco building and to top city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartwent surprisingly well. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471161714</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susi Osborne0241542405|title=Angelica StoneMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=IWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friends, but s Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not big on friendsleft her home for 1,214 days. She has the sort of background you dread hearing about'd ''like'' to: sexually abused as a childin fact, grabbed by the care system she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and didnshe's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she can't. She simply can't so much fall through force herself to leave the cracks as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to copesafety of her home. She's been told fortunate that shehas a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's tainteda cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, that she ruins every relationship without intending to Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and that there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what shedoes in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's best staying away from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'decents.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women' people. One s Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her jobs is working retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in a supermarket and it's there that she meets Lola Moriarty part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''shedevastatingly shockable's', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo' s restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a completely different kettle of fishwarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katy ColinsGiovanna Fletcher|title= Chasing the SunWalking on Sunshine|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Author Katy Colins became BritainMike's most famous jilted bride when 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 them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the true story rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of her subsequent lonely hearts backpacking trip went viraltheir trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, before becoming a romantic comedy book series and go along with this the latest onehim. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008202192</amazonuk>140593560X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heidi SwainB09FS89KX9|title= Coming Home to Cuckoo CottageFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating= 3.5|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I absolutely loved this bookLife 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. It Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was utterly enchanting a good boss. Hollie had moved in with its charming feel-good storylineher boyfriend, delightful characters Marcus: her mother thought he was great and innocent romancehe was doing well in his career. It was also an easy read with short chapters making it easy Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to pick up control her and put down (not that I most of all he wanted her to) throughout leave her job at the diner. Then there was the dayfact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147282</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Chance0008421714|title= Killer AffairMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 34.5|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Rebecca ChanceThe problem began just after the publication of George March's much anticipated and praised latest most successful novel is definitely worth a 'chance' to date. Everyone but for me Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it was a very mixed reador had already done so. The cover blurb describes it Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, 'irresistibly readable' and but isn'a glittering page-turnert this the first time he' which it most certainly was, starting with s based a famed but as yet unidentified woman character on a revengeful warpath against a second glamorous mystery woman. you?'' The story then restarts from the beginning setting the sceneShe mentioned that Johanna, characters and events that will eventually lead up to the revengeful opening actprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. It's Perhaps this would not until the end of have mattered, except for the book fact that this mystery betrayal Johanna is fully revealed which is what kept me hooked throughout what is quite the whore of Nantes - ''a long bookweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282914</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Sophie Divry Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Alison Anderson (translator)Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsWidowland|rating=2.54

|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'It starts with becoming s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a homeownerbit, then settling inand watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, then reproducingQueen Wallis.'' WellFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it actually starts , and we are now a lot before thenprotectorate – well, with a set we share enough of fractured memories of our heroinethe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''s childhood – things she recalls her parents and relatives saying both to and about her. It goes through her childhoodBut this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and pen letters ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to a best friend conveying her wishes for her lifethe drudges, and beyond those wishes being revised , right on down to the childless, the husbandless and affirmed by the liberty of university yearswidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, those wishes being met is employed with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out that you should of it – after all, not every book can be careful what you wish forbanned, but and not even our wiseevery story excised immediately from British civilisation, modern woman could not see and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the next step after party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front first emerging signs of the refrigerator'female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise PentlandRuth Hogan|title=Wilde Like MeMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=World famous fashion and beauty vlogger Louise PentlandThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, also known all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as Sprinkle of Glitterhe would have been called then), takes on a new challenge girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the form third generation of her touching debut novelMadame Burova, ''Wilde Like MeTarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. You The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will be transported into 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 last day, fifty years later, in possession of a world full pair of exasperating drama with letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the PSMs (Posh School Mums)secrets about her to Imelda, heartand why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-warming mother daughter moments telling of the myth of Ariadne and self-righteous men who you realise aren't the be all Minotaur is interesting and end allunusual. Now enters Robin Wilde, Jennifer Saint presents the story in a single mum way that is sympathetic to Lyla and make-up artist living in her grannyits origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's house simply just trying narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to get by. The novel follows really connect with Ariadne as a character in her journey own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of self discovery, which even she'd admit sounds like some awful cliche, and shows you that only '''you''' can make you happyTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762931</amazonuk>1472273869

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonLucy Holland|title=The FriendSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=MaxieSistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Anayathe modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffeemost of us, wine, gossip are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and momentary escape from their respective livesa fresh perspective. Nothing unusual about If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that until Yvonne is found battered are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and halfre-dead in evaluating the playgroundrole of women. Three weeks later Cece moves into Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the areaplot is handled with care, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the orbit of Maxiecharacters to come to life, Anaya to feel real and Hazel and hears what happened to human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the still comatose Yvonnepre-Saxon age they live in. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator This is one a masterpiece of the three remaining friends storytelling and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position I was captivated from beginning to be inend.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>1529039037

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora RobertsB08NF79QXT|title=Come SundownCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Bodine LongbowThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's family has learnt to live with tragedynominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. A quarter of a century earlier BodineShe's Aunt Alice disappeared without a trace. Nothing has softened the pain but life goes on delighted and the family business (a ranch-style resort) certainly keeps them all busy. Bo is fully focussed as the resorttwo people she's manager but distraction is on brought with her to the horizon in the form of Callen Skinnerevent couldn't be more pleased. Local lad Callen comes home with a successful Hollywood film career on his CV Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and an eye for a certain Longbow ladyBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. However, when a womanJessica's body is found on resort land Callen is implicated. Is history repeating itself? Can Callen thirty-four and Bo shake themselves free of a lawmanLiberty's prejudice in order to discover the truth? The clockbest friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's ticking as Bo husband, Charles and Callen try to solve their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a mystery while putting themselves man in the firing line and then Aunt Alice returns..her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny ColganB08GFSK2WZ|title=Spandex and the CityThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary= Touted as a superGeorge Jackson is thirty-hero romantic comedythree years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Spandex s stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and the City'' features she has a girl-next-door Holly, a typically insecure 20-something rom-com heroine, enjoying her real talent for attracting drama. Her life in Centerton (Colgan's stand in for Gotham). When a handsome stranger chaotic: she meets at a bar turns out to be dealt with the ''Ultimate Man'', a vigilante superhero straight leak from the Marvel or DC universe (shower by putting something down at the superpowers are more bottom of a Marvel kind, but the character stairs to absorb the water - both of then the shower fell through the UM roof whilst she was in it and of his adversary - reference Batmanleft her, among others)stark naked, she canstaring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother't help falling s dog out for a walk for himher to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505448</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/6 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Isabella DavidsonB08CHJLNBS|title=The Beta Mum: Adventures in Alpha LandCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=To say that Sophie Bennett didnHe't want to move to London is something of an understatements Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's a shy person who doesn't make friends easily Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the thought of losing all her support systems and having to start again fills her with dreadheritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she''But''s moved on from new age books like that, husband Michael has been offered a big job which leave you dependent on Londonsomeone else's RailLink project and it's not philosophies, to something a chance he can turn down - even if he wanted to, and he doesn'tlittle deeper. So before long their three-year old daughterCharles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, Kayaabove all, has been left with Sophiehe's parents and Michael and Sophie have found a flat in west London and theyshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They've even, against re obviously not at all the oddscompatible, managed to secure a place for Kaya so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at Londonall: it's most exclusive nursery schoolobvious to his friends. Well, when I say And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship'they'' managed to secure the place, I actually mean that they required the services of s obviously a nursery consultantnon-starter, who has a double-barrelled name and a friendship with the headmistress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781326525</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nora RobertsHelly Acton|title=The ObsessionShelf|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. Naomi's life had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday present. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurks. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find she's the target.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kaela Coble|title=Friends and Liars|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Kaela Coble's debut novel ''Friends and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells the tale of 'the crew', a group of friends who once made a pact to ''always be honest with eachother''. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at the wake of one of their own, Danny Deuso, who has left a haunting suicide note along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the grave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= The Last Piece of my Heart|rating= 3.54

|summary= Bridget is a travel writer and blogger with dreams of writing a bookWhen we meet Amy, but so far that has remained just a dream. Then an opportunity arises: not to write a book of her own, but to ghost write someone elseshe's. Nicole died with a bestseller in print and plans for a sequel, and her publishers are keen that Bridget picks up where she left offrelationship with Jamie. ItYou can's an unusual propositiont really call it a partnership, even more so because she will need things tend to go and spend time with Nicole's husband and baby daughter as part of her researchget done on his terms, but it might be the foot in the door she needs to segway into that book she's been planning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162559</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Falvey|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that sticking around because she hopes she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forevercan change him. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in the House and thoseAh, like Rosieyes. Haven's family, who have t we all been brought there? Things are looking up merely when he tells her to serve thempack for a surprise trip. The days of innocence are coming Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to an end in many ways. Soon, as get down on one knee? Was the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be work (and the same again.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Colleen OakleyAlyssa Sheinmel|title= Close Enough to TouchWhat Kind of Girl

|summary=''One time, a boy kissed me and I almost died...My lips started tingling. My tongue swelled to fill my mouth. My throat closed; I couldnDoing something when you't breathe. Everything went black.re scared is braver than doing something when you're not''

So begins the tale of an unlikely romantic heroine: When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a girl who black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is allergic to other human beingstipped upside down. After the extreme humiliation suffered in Her relationship has just ended and now she's the aftermath talk of the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse and hides herself away from school. Mike was the world for nine years. When most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her source of income suddenly dries up, Jubilee needs to overcome everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her fears, step out into the world and find a job. Working at the local librarysome don't, she meets divorced dad Eric and his quirky adopted sonbut one thing is for sure, Aja and strikes up a friendship with them. As their mutual attraction starts this isn't going to grow, can there be blow over any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?time soon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760294136</amazonuk>0349003297

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy RevellKatie Fforde|title=Shipyard Girls at War: (Shipyard Girls 2) A Springtime Affair|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Warning: This review contains spoilers I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for [[The Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell|Book 1]] in the series from the beginning.The war bites deeper ages and the shipyard girls at Thompsons have more to contend with than this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a heavier workload. The Elliott household is in mourning now Teddy has been killed in Africawarm, muting the celebrations when his twincosy read focused on romance, Joe, comes home, albeit injuredfamily and friendships. Rosie is getting over her horrendous episode with her murderous uncle but she's still not back to full health. Working shifts at This provided two romances for the yard during the day and secretly by night as a brothel manager to afford her little sister's school fees is a bit price of a strain at times one, but it was actually the worst seems family element as opposed to be over. The complications in Rosie's life aren't over yet though. A complication of the heart is on the horizon: can she afford to fall in love with a police detective? Meanwhile Gloria attempts to move on from her abusive husband aren't romance that easy. The war is taking more than its share of casualties but then so is lifeI really enjoyed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784754641</amazonuk>1780897561

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney CosteloeB07W4MNBSG|title=The New NeighboursBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey

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