==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Johnson
|title=The Untied Kingdom
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Eve Carpenter is having a very bad day, and it is about to get worse. She comes round from a paragliding accident but everything is rather strange. Although she’s still in London, this is a city and a world she hardly recognises. There is just enough 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 of soldiers who take her marching across the country with them. The leader, Major Harker, is obnoxious and scruffy, and is convinced Eve is a spy, or perhaps she is just mad. While they apparently speak the same language, they struggle to understand each other – their worlds are so different.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931682</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clare Jacob
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304094</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julie Highmore
|title=The Birthday
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=4 November 2008: That's the date of the US presidential election, and Fran's 60th birthday. Fran is nervous about her milestone birthday – she doesn't feel that old. She is worried about her husband, Duncan, who has become rather down and forgetful. As it turns out though, her planned party will be less a celebration than the catalyst for the revelation of a lifetime of secrets.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343042</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Lace
|title=A Class Act
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Tilly de Liege (that's pronounced 'de Lee', by the way) met Ainsley Driver quite by accident and they just seemed to get on with each other really well. Both were about to do A levels and were hoping to go on to university, but there was a snag. Tilly was from the wrong side of the tracks. She wasn't in the least bit worried about the fact that Ainsley lived in a council house on quite the worst estate in town but when he found out that she lived in the local manor house and went to a private school something snapped. It didn't seem to be about money – as the de Lieges really didn't have any - more about the fact that she hadn't said.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347943</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Monk
|title=Taking the Lead
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Theodora English had left her home in London to move to a tiny Cornish village with her boyfriend Michael, only for him to dump her soon afterwards. You'd expect her to head straight back to London, but you'd be wrong. She buys the cottage next door, moves in and starts getting to know the locals.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345142</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christina Courtenay
|title=Trade Winds
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It is 1731 and Killian Kinross, disgraced heir to the estate is making his way as best he can through the gambling dens of Edinburgh, trading on his skill, ability to hold his drink and the smiling fickle fortunes of lady luck. The Lady is smiling at the moment, although she hasn't always done so.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931232</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali McNamara
|title=From Notting Hill with Love... Actually
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Scarlett loves the movies; in fact that you could easily say that she is obsessed with them, much to the exasperation of her father, her fiancé David and her friends. She can't help dreaming and wishing that her life was more like the films that she loves. So, when the opportunity arises to house sit for a month in Notting Hill (the setting of her favourite film), she grabs it. It's a chance to prove to all those sceptics that life can be like the movies and also for her to examine her feelings about her forthcoming marriage to David.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544957</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucinda Riley
|title=Hothouse Flower
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=In the London Season of 1939 Olivia met the Honourable Harry Crawford, heir to the Wharton country estate in Norfolk and he seemed like the perfect catch. It looked even better when his mother invited her to spend the summer at the estate and before long they were married. There were problems even before Harry went to fight in the Far East, but Olivia was determined that the marriage would work.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141049375</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Dawson
|title=The One That Got Away
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lucy Dawson's latest novel is a cut above run-of-the-mill chick-lit pap. Molly Greene is happily married to Dan, and they live a normal twenty-first century life in a small town. She is a successful salesperson for a medical supplier. The couple struggle with the bills and hope 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 her for long, boozy heart-to-hearts. So far, so predictable.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542520</amazonuk>
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{{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>
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{{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 option.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542296</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Dunn
|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>
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