==Women's Fiction==
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|author=Lauren Oliver
|title=Before I Fall
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about that. She knows she's part of a group who, by most definitions, would be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Tilly Flint is a food journalist living in London and hankering for a more glamorous life than the one she has. She has a taste of this when her boyfriend Jake takes her to an upmarket nightclub frequented by top footballers and models. Little does she know at the time but some of the people she only glimpses that night are about to become very important to her. Just after, she agrees to go on a working holiday with Jake and they book an isolated cottage in the Pennines. However, an almighty row leads to Jake storming out and Tilly being left on her own. Surprisingly though, it is relief rather than fear that she experiences, particularly when she realises that where she is staying has very strong links with her family's history and that everyone knows of her Great Granny Allen who's sayings Tilly's mother is so fond of quoting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560911</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Freda Lightfoot
|title=House of Angels
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The novel focuses on the Angel family who live in the Lake District in the late 1900s. Josiah Angel is the head of the family and appears to be a respectable business man, bringing up his three daughters after the death of his wife. The family live in a beautiful house and – to outsiders – the daughters seem to have everything – comfort, money, beauty and an easy life, in great contrast to the poverty around them. Not far from Josiah's department store are the workhouse with its brutality and the blocks of slum flats infested with rats.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy Silver
|title=Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Cassie may be 'just' a PA and living and working in one of the most expensive cities on the planet, but thanks to a flair for fashion, and a generous banker boyfriend you'd never know it from looking at her. But, in the fickle world of fashion, friendships and fat-cat bonuses, things can change in an instant. Let go from her job, and from her relationship by her rhymes-with-banker now ex, she is forced to fend for herself and make some cut backs (*shudder*). Forget the Louboutins and the fancy, on-fashion belts, the only buckling she'll be doing any time soon is the buckling down to get a new job, reduce her outgoings, and maintain the smidge of self-respect she has left.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543559</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Barr
|title=The Life You Want
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Many good writers have a signature style and for me, Emily Barr's has always been the utterly authentic travel details all her books have been peppered with, whether it be the lazy life in a lush French farmhouse, or the excitement of backpacking across Asia. Her new title is no exception, and this time the destination is India.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755335600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tatiana Boncompagni
|title=Hedge Fund Wives
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Chick lit is about finding a man in order to live happily ever after: not just any man, of course, but Mr Right himself. ''Hedge Fund Wives'' is as pink cotton-wooly as any self-respecting chick lit novel in search of a hero. But... it also flies in the face of this convention. In the story, marrying money does not secure the fairy tale ending. It's really amazing that Tatiana Boncompagni has managed to deliver a rags-to-riches happy ending for her heroine while roundly denouncing the riches along the way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756187X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Janette Jenkins
|title=Angel of Brooklyn
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=On the eve of the Great War, Jonathan Crane arrives home to the unyielding grey of his home town of Anglezarke, Lancashire with a beautiful new bride on his arm. Beatrice is not immediately warmly received into the embrace of the women of this alien place - her beauty is captivating and the stories about where she grew up, enchanting; Jonathan Crane's new foreign wife is not ordinary among these folk and they are suspicious of her and as sometimes only gritty, British women know how, they are openly and unashamedly hostile toward her. Who is this stunning creature that is trying to infiltrate their lives?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516551</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Santa Montefiore
|title=The Italian Matchmaker
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Luca, a half-Italian, rich banker has been through a painful divorce and has decided to take stock of his life. He decides to leave the City behind and, at the suggestion of a friend (and, inevitably, ex-lover) he decides to take off for the summer to visit his parents who have, fortuitously, recently renovated an old palazzo in (the sadly fictitious) Incantellaria on the Amalfi coast. Here, his parents live with a rich assortment of eccentric friends in residence, including a pet pig.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340840544</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Harrison
|title=The Secret Shopper Unwrapped
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Glamourous Grazia, sassy Sandie and enthusiastic Emily first got together in Harrison's earlier title, 'The Secret Shopper's Revenge'. Now they're back but this time there are many more hassles to deal with than just a bit of simple, secret shopping. Think toy boys and sugar daddies and the odd A-lister, a choice between aging gracefully or disgracefully, reformed criminals and criminal exes, long lost mothers and potential new mothers in law (in the same room! At the same time!) and the delight or dread that comes from finding yourself unexpectedly in the family way. Combine all these factors with the run up to Christmas and you have three good friends run off their feet in every direction but, because friendship is really all that matters, resolutely there for each other in a pinch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409107302</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarra Manning
|title=Unsticky
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Low paid but with big dreams, talented fashionista Grace is in the process of being dumped by a boy whom she was too good for anyway. If that's not bad enough, he's doing it on her birthday, and if even ''that's'' not bad enough, he's doing it in Liberty's. Right by the new season Marc Jacobs bags. It's just wrong. And yet, as one door closes, another opens right next to it. And this one is bigger, older and a lot more expensive. The mysterious Vaughn rescues Grace as the tears begin to fall, whisking her off to dry her eyes over four types of chocolate cake. There are worse things I can think of, that's for sure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347374</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sheila O'Flanagan
|title=The Perfect Man
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I've read many of Sheila O'Flanagan's books and have always found them light enjoyable reads with interesting storylines and likeable characters. This is what I was expecting from ''The Perfect Man'', and I wasn't at all disappointed.
Unlike most of O'Flanagan's books, this one is not set in Dublin but mainly takes place on a romantic cruise ship in the Caribbean. Britt McDonagh, the successful author of a novel also entitled ''The Perfect Man'', has been invited on board to present a series of talks and workshops about successful romantic writing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343794</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Meg Wolitzer
|title=The Position
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Paul Mellow loves his wife, Roz, seemingly like no other man has ever loved a woman – his idolatry is boundless, bordering on theatrical and yet out of this worship, Paul has the germ of an idea. Who would not want to know the ways in which it is possible to pleasure a wife as beautiful and perfect as his? How could everyone not want to see, to ''share'' the artistic renderings of this act of love?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099485052</amazonuk>
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