==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Fallon
|title=The Ugly Sister
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Abi hasn't really had much of a relationship with her sister Cleo since Cleo was discovered on the street and morphed into a successful and well known model. It's now more than 20 years later, and the sisters are hardly what you'd call close. But, with a summer to kill and nowhere really to kill it in, Abi takes up her sister's offer to move into her plush Primrose Hill pad and spend some 'quality time' with the family. Except...Cleo's idea of quality family time is to go to the gym. Or the spa. Or a comeback casting. Anywhere really, as long as it's away from them all. And with brother in law Jon at work during the day, Abi quickly starts feeling like the hired help, shuttling her nieces around town and seeing to their every need.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047259</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Titchmarsh
|summary=Olivia Bellamy does not seem to have a lot of luck with men. When we meet her she's just about to put her third broken engagement under her belt and head of into the wilderness of the Catskills with Freddy. Don't get excited – he really is just a friend. They're going to revamp the family's old summer camp in readiness for her grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary celebrations and right now it seems like the best way to forget about her love life. Things turn from bad to worse though when she finds herself not only stuck up a flagpole but having to be rescued by the man who was her first boyfriend some nine years before.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304760</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julian Ruck
|title=Ragged Cliffs
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lise Jacobson was half Danish and half Welsh. She lived with her parents in Denmark but during the Second World War indulged in an innocent friendship with one of the occupying German soldiers. In retribution she had her hair shorn off and was raped by two masked men. After her father's death Lise's mother brought Lise and Lise's son, born as a result of the rape, back to Swansea and there they did their best to make a living for themselves. It was whilst Lise was working as a chambermaid that she met William Treharne, who would change her life permanently.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904323189</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Linda Gillard
|title=House of Silence
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Gwen Rowland was a sensible, cautious kind of girl, but then the only family she'd ever known were all dead from a surfeit of unprotected sex, drink and the sort of drugs that don't come in a child-proof bottle. So – her relationship with 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 her own. She did ''slightly'' twist his arm to take her with him and he was obviously reluctant to comply. When they arrived at Creake Hall, home of author Rae Holbrook and her daughters, Gwen sensed a change in Alfie, a lack of warmth towards his family. Then there was the family photo which didn't fit the known facts and the complication of the gardener who said little but was a very good listener.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004USSPN2</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Freya North
|title=Chances
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Sharing a business with ex-lover, Tim, is a disaster for Vita. How can she possibly move on when he's popping into their souvenir shop every day? Though she shed the two-timing love rat from her bed over 12 months before, his presence casts dark shadows on her days. But ridding him from her life isn't a likely option and escaping into her precious classic fiction is sometimes the only way she can ignore her troubled thoughts. She cannot afford to buy his share of the business and she isn't prepared to risk losing 'That Shop' with its delightful trinkets and resident shoplifter!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326661</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jo Verity
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Malone
|title=Love is the Reason
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lucy Ardle was driving home, wondering what sort of a mood her husband would be in. When she'd left earlier, words had been spoken. She was nearly home when she was overtaken by the fire engine: the house was in flames and it was touch and go as to whether or not Danny would make it. Thankfully Lucy's friend, Carol Black had seen the flames and called the fire brigade or the outcome would have been much worse.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842234161</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clodagh Murphy
|title=Girl in a Spin
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jenny Hannigan might look like the original good-time party girl but all she really wants out of life is a settled home and family – mainly because that's what she's never had. So when she begins a relationship with Richard Allam she dares to hope that the dreams might be coming true. Richard is young, good-looking and leader of Her Majesty's opposition. He has high hopes of becoming Prime Minister after the next election. Jenny isn't exactly the ideal mate for someone who expects to be the next Prime Minister and as Richard has only recently separated from his wife Jenny is going to take some selling to the country. Enter publicist Dev Tennant whose job is to make the country fall in love with Jenny.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444705148</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fern Britton
|title=New Beginnings
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Christie Lynch is a widowed mother with a couple of children and she's been keeping the proverbial wolf from the door by doing some journalism – but then she gets the lucky break of an appearance on daytime television. She's spotted by Julia Keen, ''the'' most successful agent and it seems that the sky's the limit. It's not long before Christie has a high-profile presenting job. The public loves her. The camera loves her. What's not to like?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362692</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amanda Brookfield
|title=Before I Knew You
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Two couples agree to swap homes for the summer, urged on by a mutual friend. Sophie and Andrew are teachers who live in London, rather jaded with life and each other, but hoping for a break. Their two teenage daughters are on a music tour, but hope to join them for the last week.
William and Beth are a newly married couple, who live in a gorgeous home in Connecticut in 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 to spend time with his sons in the summer, and Beth hopes to get to know them better.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fanny Blake
|title=What Women Want
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I'll be honest: I had my doubts about this book. Fanny Blake is a well-known journalist and she's also written for programmes such as ''Location, Location, Location'' and ''A Place in the Sun''. I wasn't entirely certain how this would fit with a book about the lives of three middle-aged women who are dealing with change in their lives – and they're not moving house. I sat down to have a quick look to see if it was going to be worth reviewing…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007359098</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie Page
|title=To Marry A Prince
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Bella Greenwood has just been away 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 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>
}}
