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|summary=Meg had just lost her job when she received the letter from the Solicitor. It was all very mysterious but when she presented herself in his office she discovered that an Uncle she knew nothing about had left her an inheritance. It wasn't just any inheritance, either – in addition to a substantial sum of money she was now the proud owner of a mill in the Yorkshire Dales. Almost on a whim she decided that she wouldn't sell the property. The more that she saw of the mill, the more that she felt she wanted to live there. She loved the local town and it was a bonus when she made a friend – a fellow Scot – on her first day there.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709099509</amazonuk>
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|author=Katie Price
|title=In the Name of Love
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Charlie Porter is a television sports presenter who's recently broken up with her footballer boyfriend. She and her friend Zoe now refer to him as TFB. The first letter is for 'total' and the last casts doubts on his parentage. I'm sure that you can work the rest out for yourself. On a holiday to Barbados (Zoe's footballer boyfriend forgot her birthday, you see...) she meets Felipe Castillo, a central figure in the Spanish Eventing team and hotly tipped for an Olympic medal. There's an almost immediate attraction - after Charlie has given him a piece of her mind because of his attitude to a waiter - but there are one or two difficulties in the way of their relationship.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059615</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wendy Wallace
|title=The Painted Bridge
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Young bride Anna Palmer places her trust in all the wrong people. One choice that backfires spectacularly is her impulsive marriage to the Reverend Vincent Palmer. Less than a year after their marriage he tells her that they are going to visit some of his friends at a place called Lake House. But Lake House is a privately run asylum 'for genteel women of a delicate nature'. Once there Anna discovers that she is not allowed to leave without Vincent's approval.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melanie Gideon
|title=Wife 22
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Alice and William Buckle have been married for quite a few years and have two teenage children and a dog. With their busy lives, they end up having little time for each other and rarely get the opportunity to talk about the things that matter. In order to do something about her feelings of discontent, Alice googles 'happy marriage?' and although there seem to be no magic secrets for success, a little later she is invited to take part in an online survey about modern marriage. She is given the label, Wife 22, and is assigned to her caseworker, Researcher 101, who sends her questions periodically, and is also available through email to answer any queries. Alice soon enjoys being able to pour her heart out through the questions that she has to answer but also finds that she is becoming more than a little attracted to her faceless caseworker. They start chatting through facebook and Alice finds it quite exciting to mildly flirt with her new friend. However, the more she does so, the more disgruntled she becomes with her own husband. There comes a point though where Alice has to decide whether to take things further and if she does, what will become of her marriage?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481772</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Erin Kaye
|title=Second Time Around
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=When Jennifer and Ben first meet, they really like each other. It doesn't take long before they are dating and although there is over sixteen years difference in age, they get on so well that they can see that they do have a future together. However, as Ben is closer in age to Jennifer's children, Matt and Lucy, she is worried about what they will think. Ben's parents are equally unhappy especially as they feel that if Ben stays with Jennifer, she is not likely to provide them with the grandchildren they so desire. It seems that there's no way to keep everybody happy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847562027</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellen Sussman
|title=French Lessons
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=There are six main characters in this book which is really three stories in one. Nico, Philippe and Chantal know each other, and Nico knows Josie, and Philippe knows Riley, and Chantal knows Jeremy, but Josie and Riley and Jeremy don’t know each other or anyone else. The first three are French tutors who have private lessons with their foreign students on the streets of Paris, using the city as a better backdrop for learning than a stuffy classroom. This week they each have Americans engaging their services, and over the course of one day the lives of students and teachers all change in ways they never expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780333846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley Conran
|title=Lace
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lili might be young but she's a superstar and she's used to getting what she wants. She's just summoned Judy, Kate, Maxine and Pagan to her suite in Manhattan's most exclusive hotel. They might be at the top of ''their'' professions - Fashion, PR and interior design but it's Lili who holds the whip hand here. She has a simple request:
 
''Which one of you bitches is my mother?''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Deborah Harkness
|title=Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy 2)
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Shadow of Night'' moves on from where [[A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness|A Discovery of Witches]] finishes. Matthew Claremont (vampire, intellectual and, even after centuries of life, still looking a pretty decent 37 years old) and Diana Bishop (historian and witch with a pedigree stretching back to the Salem witch trials) are married and have time-walked to 1591 to look for Ashmole 782, the ancient book that Diana let slip through her fingers in 2010. They also need to find Diana a tutor to help her control the powers that she's chosen to ignore for a lifetime. There aren't just supernatural items on the agenda though; Diana thought she knew all there was to know about her new spouse but there are secrets to be discovered, his connection to the historic 'School of the Night' being one of the less dangerous. Oh, and another thing, they discover that the 16th century isn't, perhaps, the best time to visit if you're a witch, especially if you need to advertise for a tutor. (I think we could have told them that if they'd asked!)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755384733</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Timeri N Murari
|title=The Taliban Cricket Club
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We all know, or think we know, how oppressive life was for Afghans, particularly Afghan women, under the Taliban regime, but when you read this novel, boy do you get a sense of how tough it really was.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742378846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Louise Douglas
|title=In Her Shadow
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Hannah has had one nervous breakdown due to unbearable guilt and seems on course for a second. How else can she explain the fact that the still dead Ellen seems to be following her around? It all started two decades earlier...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070216</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Louise Candlish
|title=The Day You Saved My Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Holly, in her early twenties, is a single mother who has had severe post-natal depression since the birth of her son Mikey. He is now a toddler, and they live with Holly's mum, Joanna. She has a somewhat sordid past of her own but has given everything to raising Holly in a loving environment; she has also had to do most of the caring for her small grandson.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543551</amazonuk>
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