|summary=Up in Yorkshire , Cath and Rich aren’t sure their future can include children following her major illness, which would be ok if she didn’t want a baby so badly. In Brighton, Lou hasn’t had quite the same infertility issues but has problems of her own that might get in the way of the tick tock of her body clock. The two women don’t know each other, and in spite of what you might expect, don’t get to know each other, but their stories sit side by side in this tale of the trials and tribulations of fertility treatment.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330544098</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tess Stimson
|title=The Wife Who Ran Away
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=
Kate's life is far from easy. She earns a great deal more money than her husband Ned, and works long hours... but her boss seems to be trying to edge her out. She pays not just for their mortgage, but for her mother's too, and fees for their teenage children Guy and Agness who are in expensive private schools.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330522019</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzanne Bugler
|title=The Child Inside
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Rachel Morgan feels that she does not fit in anywhere. Certainly not with all of the other mums at her son Jono's posh school. Certainly not with all the happy jolly families on the beaches when they are on holiday. And most of all, she no longer feels that she fits in with her own little family. Nothing ever feels right and she continually feels isolated on the outside looking in. Of course, these feelings lead to an increasing sense of dissatisfaction which she can only deal with by dwelling on what she perceives as her happier past.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510916</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen Harper
|title=Shakespeare's Mistress
|rating=2
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=
The conceit of ''Shakespeare's Mistress'' is that Shakespeare was married to Anne Whateley the day before he was married to Anne Hathaway, and Anne W remained the love of his life, with an affair (if you can have an affair with your 'wife') continued in London where the same Anne was also the famed ''dark lady'' of his sonnets. There is some basis for this theory in that the parish records do show a mysterious entry into the register for just such a contract the day before the Hathaway marriage but although the author claims this is 'faction', it's very much at the fiction end of that scale and is really a 'what if?' piece.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091940427</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giselle Green
|title=Falling for You
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rose is full of worries and insecurities. Her father is frail, her mother died some years previously. Rose is desperately hoping for a letter offering her a place at the university of her dreams... but has no idea how her father will survive without her there to look after him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006KHWSJ8</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer E Smith
|title=The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The story takes place over the course of only twenty four hours but so much happens during that small amount of time. It starts when the reader meets Hadley having missed her flight to London by a mere four minutes. As it turns out, those four minutes are some of the most significant of her life, as they result in her booking a later flight and consequently meeting Oliver with whom she is seated throughout the journey across the Atlantic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755392175</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Courtney Sullivan
|title=Maine
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Kellehers' beach-front holiday home in Maine was built on a plot of land won in a bar-room bet at the end of World War II. It's not in the same league as the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port but there are a couple of substantial properties on the plot and there's still room to spare. It's a place of indulgence, secrets and the sort of burning cruelty which you only get in families who care for each other - some of the time. ''Maine'' is essentially the story of a summer at the property - but the seeds of what happens were, of course, planted long ago.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789496X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Monica Carly
|title=The Golden Thread
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It was a sad day when Claudia Hansom retired as headmistress of Kingdown School. The staff respected her, despite the fact that she was always somewhat distant and the children did well under her charge. She was a stickler for discipline and the pupils accepted this – but once again there was no ''love''. No, the sadness was all Claudia's, for what was she to do with the rest of her life as the ex-head teacher living alone with her cat? Her mother had died when she and her sister were teenagers and her father not long before she retired. There hadn't been any contact with her sister was forty years. She might imagine doing some writing, but the reality was that the life ahead of her was empty.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780880162</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Marsh
|title=The House of Eliott
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=When Evangeline and Beatrice's father dies, the two sisters discover that he has left them with very little money and without any qualifications with which to support themselves. They struggle to find suitable employment before accidentally discovering their talents as seamstresses and fashion designers. The book follows their journey of independence after their father's death, and the new relationships they begin to build without him dominating their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720008X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stella Newman
|title=Pear Shaped
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=One night Sophie was out with her friend Laura. They met a couple of men and there was an immediate chemistry between Sophie and James Stephens. He was good looking, charismatic, great fun and obviously attracted to Sophie. The fact that he was rich (complete with Maserati) didn't matter to her - but it didn't do any harm either. What's not to like? Well, there's nothing 'not to like' but just the odd thing that might give some pause for thought. He's forty five and never been married - and has a history of dating super-slim models. But - he is obviously very taken with Sophie and she falls head-over-heels for him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562701</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Beryl Kingston
|title=Off the Rails
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=A young girl from a Yorkshire village was weeping, begging her mother to be allowed just one more night at home, but the carter was waiting for her. The girl was fifteen, unmarried and pregnant. She was to go any stay with her aunt until the baby was born and she would be Mrs Smith whose husband had died at sea. The father of the baby was actually a village boy, George Hudson, who would prefer to pay a fine for bastardy than make an honest woman of the girl. He too ended up leaving home over the matter. In the years to come the paths of Jane, along with her daughter Milly, would cross and recross with Jane swearing that she would have vengeance.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090951</amazonuk>
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