==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Adele Parks
|title=Men I've Loved Befoe
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Natalie and Neil are an average thirty-something aspirational couple, living a comfortable life in West London. Having agreed before they married five years ago that they never want children, a chance remark from one of Neil's friends quickly changes his mind. Suddenly being a dad is all Neil can think about and meeting severe resistance from Natalie he tries many methods to persuade her. Feeling under huge pressure, Natalie seeks refuge at her parents' house where she discovers her old address book, or little black book as it became known when she was single. Inside are the old addresses of Natalie's ex-boyfriends and as she reminisces Natalie starts to wonder if Neil is indeed the one, or whether it was just good timing that resulted in them getting together. As Natalie decides meeting up with her exes is the best way to see if indeed ''the'' one slipped through her fingers, Neil embarks on a seedy new hobby and the two practically stop speaking to each other. Will they be able to save their marriage?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371259</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charlotte Moore
|summary=Rowena Moon and her husband Brendan lived on the Cornish coast with their three children, Jenna, Charlie and Olivia. Brendan was an artist – and a reasonably successful one. Rowena ran a local café and the children had the freedom of the local beach. It sounds like, and probably was, an idyllic childhood until one day Rowena disappeared without warning and without explanation. It was devastating and affected each of the children in different ways as they grew up. Twenty two years later the five are reunited and the mystery of their past unravels.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599741</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sandra Heath
|title=A Commercial Enterprise
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Caroline is a Lexham, but she's not one of ''the'' Lexhams as her father made a rather unfortunate marriage. In consequence she's rather surprised to be invited to the reading of her uncle's will. She didn't know him, had no expectations and probably wouldn't have gone to London if she hadn't been trying to escape the attentions of a pressing suitor. The journey there is trying, but she's rescued by Sir Hal Seymour who gives her a lift in his carriage. It might have got Caro to the reading on time, but she made an enemy of his mistress who had hopes of becoming his wife.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070908997X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa Jewell
|title=After the Party
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's been eleven years since Ralph and Jem finally became an item at the end of Lisa Jewell's first novel Ralph's Party. After buying a house in South London and having two children their once exciting, romantic and crazy relationship has gradually become consumed by responsibility and domesticity. Jem has become bogged down with motherhood and running a home and just wishes Ralph would help out a bit as she struggles to start working again. Ralph, unsure of his role in the family, has gradually drifted away both physically and emotionally from Jem and his children, preferring to spend as much time as possible painting in his studio.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846055733</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Eckstein
|title=The Cloths of Heaven
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=We're in West Africa in the early nineteen nineties. There's the usual mix of expatriates and diplomatic staff doing their best to do their best whilst still making the most of the freedoms such a life gives. Isabel is married to iconoclastic photographer Patrick Redmond and copes better than most wives would with her husband's fixation with pendulous black breasts. There is gossip though. The High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both involved in illicit affairs, with more or less discretion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954930983</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Trisha Ashley
|title=Chocolate Wishes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I know one should never judge a book by its cover, but somehow I always do. So I was expecting some light-hearted chick-lit when I began this book. I was a little startled to find several mentions of tarot cards, Mayan charms, and guardian angels - a somewhat bizarre spiritual mixture - within the first pages. What, I wondered, had I got myself into?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561144</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Leroy
|title=The Perfect Mother
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Perfection pervades every corner of Catriona's life She has a beautiful home, a charming husband, a well-behaved stepdaughter, and a cherished daughter of her own, 8-year-old Daisy. When Daisy is taken ill, Catriona does all a good mother would do to help her get better. But as Daisy's condition deteriorates with no sign of improvement, Catriona seeks more and more medical intervention, until eventually she is accused of being responsible for her daughter's illness.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303527</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susannah Bates
|title=Under a Sapphire Sky
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Marianne Cooper is happy. She has a thriving jewellery business with her best friend Gabby and is six months pregnant with Gabby's brother Jay's baby. Marianne enjoys her passion for stones, her unconventional attitude to life and her pregnancy, and her unique relationship with Jay, but when her ex boyfriend, and reformed man, Paul comes back into her life with his fiancée Sophie and a rare padparascha stone he wants Marianne to turn into an engagement ring, she soon finds herself questioning her decision to reject Paul and indeed her way of life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099445441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Louise Harwood
|title=Kiss Like You Mean It
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=This book is a modern-day love story. It's all about trendy characters with trendy names living rather trendy lives in glossy location sets. The title gives a very clear message as to its contents. Romantic fiction which will appeal generally to women. But there's also a story within a story (and for me the more interesting one) which is the Hollywood movie being filmed in Europe. It takes us back to the first World War and the heroic actions of one young man, in particular.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330442090</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laurie Graham
|title=Life According to Lubka
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Buzz Wexler is at the top of her game, working in music PR with all the latest up and coming Urban music bands like Grime Beat and Evil Marsupial. She's forty-two years old but is still out every night, drinking, eating very little and seemingly surviving on a diet of chemical mood enhancers. One day, however, she is called into her manager's office and assigned a tour with a 'World Music' group, the Gorni Grannies, a group of elderly women from Bulgaria who sing together. Buzz finds her life in the fast lane is brought to a sudden halt, as she tries to control a group of elderly ladies touring England who think that lifts are powered by black magic and that Poundland is the best shop ever invented. Yet this is just the beginning of a whole new life for Buzz.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161828</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Janet Mullany
|title=Improper Relations
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Unlucky in love Charlotte Hayden has just lost her best friend and confidante Ann in marriage to the Earl of Beresford. At the wedding she encounters Lord Shadderly, Beresford's best friend, a broodingly handsome man whom she takes an immediate dislike to. Before she knows it Charlotte is caught in a compromising situation with Shadderly and he is forced to propose to her or risk both their reputations.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347803</amazonuk>
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