==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Gordon
|title=Landfall
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary='Most people at one time or another of their lives get a feeling that they must kill themselves; as a rule they get over it in a day or two' ('How Girls Can Build Up The Empire: the handbook for Girl Guides' 1912)
Excerpts from the handbook precede each section of ''Landfall'' and it is hard to know what to make of them – other than to take on board that women are not, by any stretch, the weaker sex, just the more emotional one 'They can even…shoot tigers, if they can keep cool'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490828</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kerry Jamieson
|summary=I read the back cover blurb with delight and couldn't help but applaud Donnelly for her ingenuity. I loved the book ''Little Women'' when I read it many years ago and television adaptations keep it fresh for new generations. So, before I'd even turned to chapter one, I was loving this book. But will it live up to my lofty expectations?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718156587</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Weiner
|title=Fly Away Home
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Sylvie Serfer married Richard Woodruff and from that day on made herself the perfect politician's wife. The senator came first in everything, even before their children. That's not to say that the girls were neglected – it's just that they never came first. The senator's image, his convenience, his schedule and his clothing were of paramount importance to Sylvie. There's a problem though – the senator has been having an affair and as with all such matrimonial earthquakes in political circles it broke on the national news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial home. What's Sylvie to do?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847390250</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Moorcroft
|title=Love and Freedom
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Honor Sontag left her home in the States and came to the UK. Her career had hit a sticky patch but she was determined to take a four-month break in Brighton to think things over and get herself back together again. She needed a job that would help to supplement the money she had - and she definitely didn't want anything 'heavy'. The other thing that she didn't want was any sort of romantic entanglement. She's not even that tempted by the brother of her landlady, who's good looking, but his sister can't stop commenting about how irregularly he works although someone else mentions that he's on the buses. Not much of a starter there then.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931666</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Stagg
|title=L'Auberge
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=L'Auberge des Deux Vallees was sadly neglected but it had been bought, not as everyone expected, by a relative of the mayor, but by an English couple who, by all accounts, had little French and not a lot of experience in running a restaurant. Obviously, such a travesty cannot be allowed to continue, and within hours of hearing the news, mayor Serge Papon has called an emergency council meeting to ensure that the newcomers are forced out as quickly as possible. Unfortunately he hadn't reckoned on Christian Dupuy, whose politics are guided by his conscience rather than his wallet. When it comes down to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444708236</amazonuk>
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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
|title=Ophelia in Pieces
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Barrister Ophelia Dormandy had been working hard – well, overworking – for the last six months and on the eve of her thirty-ninth birthday she decided that she would go home early and cook a decent meal for her husband and herself. She even decided that she would wear the red dress which Patrick liked. But when she got home Patrick and their son, Alex, were eating ice creams. He didn't seem in the least interested in dinner and then admitted that he was having an affair. Ophelia threw him out – and then began the long haul of trying to be a decent single parent in a job where the hours were long and the money uncertain.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595147</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Giffin
|title=Something Borrowed
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rachel Miller and Darcy Rhone had been friends forever. Rachel was the older by just four months, but it was Darcy who sailed through life getting everything that she wanted. Rachel might have reached her teens first, got her driving licence first and then gone on to become an attorney, but on the eve on Rachel's thirtieth birthday Darcy is the one who is having a whale of a time, with her glamorous PR job and ''very'' presentable fiancé. Rachel is very obviously still single – and then an ill-considered birthday fling puts everything in jeopardy and – to cap it all - she begins to realise that her friendship with Darcy might not have been all she thought.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099557746</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Farahad Zama
|title=The Wedding Wallah
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Finishing 'The Wedding Wallah' is like leaving India at the end of a short holiday with myriad impressions of foreignness. I'll remember the crowds of Mumbai, the smells of cooking in small rooms, the colours and textures of saris, the dangerous forest. This may not be the greatest literature published this year – not even the finest romantic fiction – but the sheer novelty of the Indian world portrayed makes it five stars for enjoyment in my book. I imagined Farahad Zama as a female writer beavering away in rural India. Turns out I was wrong: the author is a male investment banker in London with two books previously published in this series. Oops.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349122687</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy Glass
|title=Run, Mummy, Run
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Aisha is a young, beautiful and successful woman who has worked hard to get where she is. But there is one thing missing in her life: a man. Still living with her parents at the age of thirty and inexperienced when it comes to men, Aisha wonders if she will ever find a husband. But then she spots an ad in the paper and plucking up all her courage and determination, she decides to reply. This could be her only chance at love and she doesn't want to waste it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007299281</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Baker
|title=To My Best Friends
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Nicci Morrison had always been the first of the four friends to do everything: fall in love, marry, have children (and twins at that) and develop a successful business. Then, at thirty six, she was the first to die – of cancer. Nicci was an organiser and she couldn't let the opportunity pass to dress her friends for her funeral and to bequeath into their care her most treasured possessions. You're probably thinking in terms of jewellery, or something similar, but Nicci left her friends her garden, her three-year-old daughters and her husband. I mean – just how much more difficult than that can you get?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007305540</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Wiggs
|title=Summer at Willow Lake
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|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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