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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Moore1471180158|title=Grandmother's Footsteps|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Verity's husband has died suddenly and she decides to sell Knighton, the house she has lived in for large parts of her life, where she was born and brought up and where she has lived for thirty years with her husband and daughter. She must sort out all the possessions and papers stored there, and this prompts her reflections on the past, including her not so happy marriage. She also realises that now Simeon is dead, she can reveal a family secret to her daughter Hester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140278311</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Rosy Thornton|title=The Tapestry of LovePenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Catherine Parkstone has sold her home Jamie Matson works in England and movedan upper-class grocery store, lock, stock and tomato plants, to for a man who's a tiny hamlet in control freak with all the Cevennes mountains in Francesubtlety of a half brick. Jamie's Massif Centralson, Bo, 'has his problems'. ItHe's eight years since her divorce asthmatic and her children are now grown and (reasonably) independentthe more you read, so itthe more you'll suspect that he's time for her to do what pleases heron the autistic spectrum. Her aim is Sometimes Jamie needs to set up take time off at short notice - she's a sewing business frequent flier in the hamlet – doing upholstery, soft furnishings local A&E and tapestry – but she has sometimes Bo's not fit enough to come go to terms with school. Missed shifts or the extremes of the weather, French bureaucracy need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the understandable reserve of her neighbours who are not keen to see more tourism taking over the areawrong. It's not long before Catherine falls in love – with the landscape and was going to come to a way of lifehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345568</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beverley EikliLauren Bravo|title=Lady Farquhar's ButterflyPreloved|rating=34

|summary=Olivia Gwen is pressing her middle- Lady Farquhar - has recently been widowed. This does not upset her in the least; indeed, as becomes clear through the novel, her husband was an unpleasant bully who subjected her to all kinds of abuse. Unfortunately, however, the terms of his will have ensured aged bosom on a big number that her beloved toddler Julian has been taken away to live starts with his uncle Max until such time as Olivia marries someone considered to be above reproach. For that reason, she is seriously considering marrying Nathaniel, a clergyman who has helped her for many years. The only problem four and ends with that is that she finds him increasingly repulsive...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wendy Kremer|title=No Matter What|rating=3|genre=Womenan oh-my-God-I's Fiction|summary=Wealthy American Jason Tyler needs a wife fast to stop his cousin Calvin from taking over the family oil businessm-nearly-forty. After responding to his advert English girl Amy Courtland meets Jason in London to discuss his proposal. Amy is desperate for Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the money Jason is offering her to be his wife so she can pay off the debts her father has left behind. Her feet barely touch the ground in Los Angeles before Amy toss - Gwen finds herself with having a bit of a new surname and new mid-life as Jason's fake wifecrisis. But unlike the rest of Jason Catharsis is key and Amy's families, Calvin Gwen has decided now is not convinced by the marriage and is determined to prove it is a sham. When Jason decides time to take Amy into the Venezuelan jungle with him on a business field trip Amy soon finds back her life in danger on more than one occasion, leaving Jason to wonder if someone is behind these strange events. '|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709090757</amazonuk>1398510629

{{newreview|author=Sarah Duncan|title=Kissing Mr Wrong|rating=4Then Richard left them.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Kissing Mr Wrong is the first book I have read by Sarah Duncan and it has definitely given me an appetite to read more. It tells an absorbing tale with many different threads that bind together well and with a main character that I loved. Indeed, it has all of the ingredients for a riveting read – one that I didn't want to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345959</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kirsty RobinsonHadeer Elsbai|title=Grass StainsThe Daughters of Izdihar

|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Being Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the editor rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a style magazine has its perks: free ticketssociety pitted against them. Nehal, free gigsborn into the upper class, endless partieswishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, alcohol and drugs. And that but instead she is what Louisa's life consists of – one continuous bingeforced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Louisa spends Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her life going from one party to anotherfamily and maintain their reputation, but itwhilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's not all it's cracked up rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and her life is starting to fall apartcruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009954119X</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela FudgeB0B575J99N|title=A Change For The BetterBeneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams

|summary=Jo Farrell had spent all her life caring for other peopleElizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. After she lost her alcoholic husband and her demanding, hypochondriac mother It was ''comfortable'' but she had time longed for herself, but when she looked something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the mirror she wasnright man''t particularly impressed by what she saw. The middle-aged, slightly plump woman with grey curls reminded her of her mother and now was the clothes she was wearing did little time to help eithermake a change. She needed challenges. It There was something odd which helped her to changea little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. The very scruffy man from downstairs (After a telephone interview, she was offered the sort you would cross position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the road to avoid) came to borrow a newspaper and somehow they got talking about what needed to be done to change beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her lifefirst class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090609</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cath Staincliffe0241542405|title=The Kindest ThingMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=Imagine that your partner of twenty or so years discovers that they are dying from a terminal diseaseWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. Now imagine that theyShe'd ''like''ve asked you to help them to die a little sooner: in fact, on their own termsshe so nearly does. What would you do? This is the dilemma that faced Deborah Her outdoor clothes are on and, after she went ahead and helped her husband Neil 's even considered which shoes to die, wear if she found herself charged and standing trial for murder with 's going to catch her own teenage daughtertrain. Then, Sophie, testifying against hershe can't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012083</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Cornick|title=Confessions of a Duchess|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dowager Duchess Laura Cole has come She simply can't force herself to leave the village safety of Fortune’s Folly to live a quiet life as a widow with her young daughterhome. But when the village squire decides to invoke the Dames’ TaxShe's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, a law requiring every unmarried woman to give up half who visits regularly with her wealth to himtwo children, the town becomes James and Matilda. Sadie's a hotbed cardiac nurse and full of men searching for heiresses now desperate to marrysound common sense. Joining the men is Dexter AnstrutherIn fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, sent to secure a rich wife Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and carry out a murder inquiry on behalf of Lord Liverpoolthere's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. The last thing Laura and Dexter expect is to see each other again after their steamy encounter four years agoThen Tom McDermott arrives. But their passion for each other is reawakened and looks set to ruin them bothHe's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303802</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Williams0008441618|title=The Bridesmaid PactOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell

|summary=I recently read [[Last Christmas by Julia Williams]] and enjoyed it so much Jo Fairburn knew that I she was determined to read more by this fabulous author. The opportunity presented itself in under intense pressure as the shape new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn'The Bridesmaid Pact', t live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a truly wonderful book house price slump in that not only met but also exceeded all my expectations. In fact it was so good that I read part of the last 200 pages in just one day, totally ignoring my family whilst doing sotown. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Abby McDonald|title= The Liberation of Alice Love|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=You can just picture Alice Love standing before school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the panel on Britain's Got Talent. 'And what do you do?' funds which they like raised were a considerable benefit to ask.<br>'I work in the film industryschool...'<br>'Oooh There was one difficulty, really?'<br>'...as a lawyer.though - they were '<br>'Oh.devastatingly shockable' Like all those accountants they're always showing, you can imagine that Alice too would receive a rather luke-warm welcome on the show. And Alice would concur that her job isn't all that glamwith two members, in particular, even if her industry itself is a bit swish. But it's an appropriate job causing problems for her, since Alice is very sensible and by-the-bookhead. She Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's certainly not restrictions on the type of person to go overdrawn, or run into any kind of trouble financially, so when her card is declined one day she's pretty sure it's toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a computer errorwarm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533928</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lulu TaylorGiovanna Fletcher|title=Midnight GirlsWalking on Sunshine

|summary=Best friends Allegra McCorquodaleMike's wife, Pia, Imogen Heath and Romily de Lislewho he was with for seventeen years, known as the Midnight Girlshas died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, spend so are their nights at the exclusive Westfield Boarding School for Girls up in the attic rooms smoking best friends, Vicky and bitchingZaza. But when Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the girls rules are witness around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to a tragic accidenttake one of their trips away, they become bound together forever by what they have seen and vow never Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to telldrop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524929</amazonuk>140593560X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly McQueenB09FS89KX9|title=Confetti ConfidentialFall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=43.5

|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB''Confetti Confidential'' is s diner. Bob - the third book owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in the Isabel serieswith her boyfriend, but the first one I've readMarcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Even without that grand claim on the front, you couldn Hollie wasn't help but draw comparisons between Kinsella's series quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and this one from most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the very first pagediner. The writing style is virtually identical – Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to the point where you do actually wonder if this is just a pseudonym – her and while the chatty, chummy, conversational approach is not for everyone, if it's the sort of thing you like then this is the sort of book you'll loveto other people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099545756</amazonuk>

SS{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sabrina Broadbent0008421714|title=You Don't Have To Be GoodMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Bea Kemp has reached a crisis point in her lifeThe problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. She is in Everyone but Mrs March (we know her forties, childless, enjoying a tedious job and a lacklustre marriage with Frank. She seems first name only on the last page) seemed to have spent her entire life 'being good' and either be reading it really does not seem to have got her anywhereor had already done so. Her only pleasure seems Every day Mrs March went to come from the time she spends with her niece and nephewlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Laura and AdrianPatricia asked, and as her successful sister Katharine has no qualms about using her as an unpaid childmindershe was wrapping the bread, that''but isn't this the first time he's quite based a lot! Howevercharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, all the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that looks set to change when Katharine announces that she Johanna is moving away with the children so she does not need Bea to look after themwhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535556</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rekha Waheed1473685745|title=Saris and the CityUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh

|summary=Yasmin Yusuf is a likeable main character with a group When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of Sexan angry exchange -well, Simon was angry andBeth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS -that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, theleft side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-Cityheart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-style friendsprotective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving. The story begins with Yasmin splitting up with }} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the man she was convinced was going sanctioned return to proposethe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, rapidly followed by losing her jobQueen Wallis. We then follow her For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as she determines to become successful we know it, and make her mark in her new jobwe are now a protectorate – well, whilst holding out for we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the packagemainland'' in her personal life. I particularly liked the way each chapter But this is most certainly a lesson different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and lets ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the reader know what Yasmin will be learning or proving through events played out drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in that chapter. For examplethis puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, chapter one is ''Lesson One: If he's employed with the bad boy task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and youso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the good girlfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, you will get burntwith their potential to spoil Hitler'', hence the resulting ex-boyfriends visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755356136</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreview|author=Joan M Moules|title=Fragile Memories|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Maura was surprised when she inherited the manor house at Picton near Salisbury. She hadn't been close to her Uncle Tom for many years and he had a stepson, Jim, whom she thought would have inherited in preference to her. It was five years since she's been back to Picton and when she returned to put the property on the market she was surprised by the extent of her longing to return there. Money was going to be a problem though. She worked as a model and couldn't really to this from the manor – and she didn't have the money for the property's upkeep. Her boyfriend, Nick, had an answer. He already had three successful restaurants and was looking to extend into the countryside – what better place could there be for his new restaurant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090587</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienRuth Hogan|title=Virgin WidowMadame Burova

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The mighty Richard Neville, Earl This book lets us discover several people in different stages of Warwicklife in the early 1970s, is famous throughout England as one of King Edward IV’s most trusted advisorsall vaguely connected. But So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as Edward is lured towards another influential family when he falls would have been called then), a girl in love with Elizabeth Woodvillea humdrum job wanting to become a singer, Warwick responds by backing the alliance between Margaret of Anjou and King Louis XI of Francechiefly, aiming to put Margaret’s husband Henry VI back on the English throne. A helpless pawnImelda, Anne is torn away from the man she lovesthird generation of Madame Burova, who will grow up to become Richard III, to be used as political capital by her father and his allies as they try to regain the kingdom of England.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303756</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=Playing for Keeps|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=The Vernon family have been involved with Rislington Rovers Football Club – The Rogues 'Tarot- for generations. Presently there are three generations actively involved with the Club, although Eleanor Vernon, the matriarch of the familyReader, wishes that husband Landon would spend a little more time with her. As the Rogues are facing relegation Palmist and a police investigation into their financesClairvoyant'', stalwart Landon isn’t likely to be doing that any time soon and when the Club needs a new Chief Executive the appointment is one which divides the Vernon use her family and it seems that there’s not one of them whose personal life isn't in turmoil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Debbie Macomber|title=Hannah's List|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was a year since Dr Michael Everett's wife Hannah died from ovarian cancer and his grief was still as painful as ever. He certainly wasn't ready for what his brother-insea-law, Hannah's brother, handed himfront booth. It was a letter which Hannah had written some time before her death and not only did she suggest that he should remarryThe singer, she went on to name three women she thought would make a good wife for him. Winter Adams was the chef who owned scryer and the café on blossom Street, Leanne Lancaster had been Hannahsufferer's nursemother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but who was Macy Roth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303799</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hester Browne|title=The Finishing Touches|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As the daughter of its owner, and a highly experience management consultant to boot, Betsy is the obvious choice to call just before then we see Imelda fly solo for help in turning around a finishing school failing to make the grade first time in 21st century London. Except... Betsy never attended the school as a student, and she's not so much 'management consultant' as she is 'shop assistant' – a distinction many a proud parent could be forgiven for missingfamily stall. With the Tallimore Academy facing financial ruin, however, Betsy isn't so much their best hope as she is their only hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340937807</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Allie Spencer|title=The Not-So Secret Diary of a City Girl|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Banking analyst, Laura McGregor has We also see her secret diary accidentally uploaded to the Internet. The diary contains on her thoughts about her lacklustre relationship with atraderlast day, fifty years later, her attraction towards a “dirt-digging journalist” and massive discrepancies in the accounts possession of her new manager.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352947</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Fforde|title=A Perfect Proposal|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I have read most a pair of Katie Fforde's books and each and every one has proved to be enjoyable and entertaining. A Perfect Proposal comes up to the same high standard and, having just finished reading it, it has left me wanting more! Her style is very relaxed and easy going and she always creates believable characters letters that you can't help caring about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846054494</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Wilson|title=A Change of Fortune|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Leonie Conyngham seemed to have will change everything going for hera woman called Billie. She was beautiful Just who is she, and set to be who delivered the belle of the forthcoming season, but a family disaster stripped secrets about her of her position as the most important pupil in her school and placed her there as the lowliest teacherto Imelda, there to do the bidding of those above her. Her possessions stolen and in debt she had little choice in the matter. Her physical attractions why did it have not left her though, but now the young rakes of London are not looking at her as to remain a possible wife, but to see who can be the first to deprive her of her virtue.secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089996</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian MorganJennifer Saint |title=Salt BlueAriadne |rating=34.5 |genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I always judge This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a book by way that is sympathetic to its coverorigins but also appealing to a modern audience. The eyes in Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the pretty face on the cover viewpoint of ''Salt Blue'' are arrestingAriadne, but difficult spanning from her childhood to assign her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a period, though it’s clearly women’s or teen fiction. I imagine that prop in the cover might attract fiction readers heroics of mainstream women’s magazines such as Women’s Weekly or Woman’s Own, so it’s spot on for the story insideTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784159</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LawsonLucy Holland|title=Mother of the BrideSistersong

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=This Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the story modern retelling of Jess Foster who is busily preparing folk and fairy tales. These stories, for her forthcoming marriage most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to Max Porter, willingly aided by her mumstories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, Mollyfleshing out characters, examining relationships and her stepmother, Marnie. It soon becomes apparent though that re-evaluating the role of women have different ideas, particularly opinionated Marnie who seems set on Jess having the society wedding . Sistersong is a perfect example of the year and even goes as far as hiring a wedding planner. Mollymodern retelling done well, on the other handplot is handled with care, agrees with Jess that things should really be kept simple. Thus keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the scene is well set for all the moods and mayhem which occurs when arranging a wedding. Will Jess be able characters to stick come to her guns life, to feel real and arrange human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the type pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of wedding that she wants or will it just be easier storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to give in to other suggestions?end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561179</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreview|author=Liane Moriarty|title=What Alice Forgot|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary='This wasn't the worst thing that had ever happened to her…it was just the most ridiculous' laments thirty nine year old mother of three, Alice, who has had the last ten years of her life struck from her memory by a blow to the head in her step aerobics class. Alice now thinks she's twenty nine, newly pregnant with her first child and happily married to Nick and furthermore she hasn't a clue what she's doing at an aerobics class in the first place. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043768</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elin HilderbrandB08NF79QXT|title=The Castaways|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=On the island of Nantucket, four couples have forged strong bonds of friendship. Together they live and love, raise their children, share their dreams. It's an idyllic existence and at the same time a very purposeful one. The couples have worked hard to create the quality of life they now enjoy and nothing can take it away from them. Until now. Greg and Tess are dead, the result of what appears to be a sailing accident. They leave behind two young children, and six devastated friends, all of whom have to come to terms with what has happened. For some there is guilt over final words said or final warnings left unsaid. For others, there is the knowledge that secret relationships will now have to stay that way evermore. 'The Castaways' is the book of that fateful summer, the accident and its aftermath, but it's more than just that. It's a look at the precious role friends and family play in our lives, and how innocent actions or words can change the course of history forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919825</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Karen Abbott|title=A Most Rebellious DebutanteBrooke Adams

|summary=Lucy TempletonThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, daughter of Lord Templetonthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, fell in love with her dancing master. It wasn't entirely unusual for a seventeen year old girl to feel this way, but it was better that it was unheard of just six months when she was caught in his arms's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. A substantial sum of money for She's delighted and the dancing master ensured that he would disappear and Lucy was sent to stay two people she's brought with her married sister as punishmentto the event couldn't be more pleased. She was not to attend parties or social functions Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and must spend Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her time looking after her sisterlooks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's young children best friend: they've known each other since university and doing good worksLiberty adores Jessica's husband, until such time as the Templetons could get her married offCharles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. All might have gone according to their plan had Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she not had misses having a chance encounter with the notorious Lord Rockhaven and a stolen kiss catches man in her heartlife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090315</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo MoyesB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Horse DancerKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|summary=Only two things in life matter George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to fourteenlook at -year-old Sarahand single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her horse Boo and her grandfather Henri Lachapelleshe has a real talent for attracting drama. Henri sees SarahHer life's skill chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at horsemanship as the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her way , stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out of their inner city London life and wants for a walk for her to follow in his footsteps end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and become a member of France's elite equestrian academy Le Cadre Noirphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961600</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mavis CheekB08CHJLNBS|title=Truth to Tell|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Robert Porter was angry. The politician filling the television screen was lying. He knew it. He railed against it and said politician would have thought himself lucky not to be there in person. Nina only managed to calm her husband by enquiring whether he would like red or white wine with the meal and had that been the end of the matter then that would have been the end of the matter – if you see what I mean. But the telephone rang and it was Robert's boss with details of the team-bonding office trip to Florida. Robert assured him that he was really keen to go (he wasn't) and Nina was looking forward to it too (she wasn't). And then Nina started wondering about the difference between the politician's lies and Robert's, er, evasions. Surely it must be possible to tell the truth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091931673</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCapturing Emilia|author=Jojo Moyes|title=The Last Letter From Your Lover|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I do love a story that wraps me up completely within its little world, making me want to ignore my long list of things to do and just curl up reading all day. Jojo Moyes' new novel certainly managed it. I felt transported back to the 1960's, entirely caught up in the characters' lives, riding their highs and lows alongside of them, and I ended up desperately foisting my just-woken-up toddler onto my husband so that I could just read the last four pages without her hanging off my arm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961627</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Woodman|title=Trust Me, I'm a Vet|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Though I'm not a pet owner and as such had never thought too much about it, I believed this book when it told me there are two types of vets (three if you count the Vietnam kind, though for these purposes let's not). No, I mean the city type who look after poodles and hamsters and maybe the odd depressed gold fish, and the country kind who stick their hands up cows' bottoms for fun, and think horses are man's second best friend, as well as essential equipment for extracurricular activities. Maz definitely falls into the first category, but when her love life gets as sticky as a cancerous canine tumour, she realises that London is not the place to be any more. An opportunity arises at the rather tweely named ''Otter'' ''House'' ''Veterinary'' ''Clinic'', and she seizes it, pleased to have a reason to flee the capital, at least temporarily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099543567</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Jeannie Machin|title=My Lady DominoBrooke Adams

|summary=Adele Russell serves behind He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the counter Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in a haberdashers and lives over the shopheritage library next door. It wasnEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she't always s moved on from new age books like that though as it, which leave you dependent on someone else's only philosophies, to something a few years since she was little deeper. Charles is more of a wealthy heiress engaged to marry an earl[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but after her father, above all, he's financial ruin and shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his death in a fire her fiancé broke off the relationship and Adele was lucky to be taken in by her old nurse. mind? ItShe's not his usual type at all: it's taken some time obvious to come to terms with what happened and Adele has reconciled herself to her lowly position until she finds an invitation to a masked ballhis friends. What harm would there be in her wearing her motherAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's ball gown and dominosuperficiality, just for a taste of how things used why does she feel drawn to behim?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089988</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Val Harris|title=Sea Creatures|rating=3.5|genre=Women The relationship's Fiction|summary=Rowena Moon and her husband Brendan lived on the Cornish coast with their three children, Jenna, Charlie and Olivia. Brendan was an artist – and obviously a reasonably successful one. Rowena ran a local café and the children had the freedom of the local beach. It sounds likenon-starter, and probably was, an idyllic childhood until one day Rowena disappeared without warning and without explanation. It was devastating and affected each of the children in different ways as they grew up. Twenty two years later the five are reunited and the mystery of their past unravels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599741</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra HeathHelly Acton|title=A Commercial EnterpriseThe Shelf|rating=3.54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Caroline is a LexhamWhen we meet Amy, but she's not one of ''the'' Lexhams as her father made in a rather unfortunate marriagerelationship with Jamie. In consequence sheYou can's rather surprised t really call it a partnership, because things tend to be invited to the reading of her uncleget done on his terms, but she's willsticking around because she hopes she can change him. She didn't know himAh, had no expectations and probably wouldn't have gone to London if she hadnyes. Haven't we all been trying there? Things are looking up when he tells her to escape the attentions of pack for a pressing suitorsurprise trip. The journey there is trying, but sheCould this be it? Is he ''finally''s rescued by Sir Hal Seymour who gives her a lift in his carriage. It might have got Caro going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the reading on time, but she made an enemy of his mistress who had hopes of becoming his wife.wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>070908997X</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Lisa Jewell|title=After the Party|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Itgirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's been eleven years since Ralph and Jem finally became an item at the end talk of Lisa Jewell's first novel Ralph's Partythe school. After buying a house Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in South London and having two children their once exciting, romantic and crazy relationship has gradually become consumed by responsibility and domesticity. Jem has become bogged down love with motherhood and running a home and just wishes Ralph would help out a bit as she struggles to start working again. Ralphher, unsure of his role in the familyeveryone knew that, has gradually drifted away both physically so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and emotionally from Jem and his childrensome don't, but one thing is for sure, preferring this isn't going to spend as much blow over any time as possible painting in his studiosoon.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846055733</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue EcksteinKatie Fforde|title=The Cloths of HeavenA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=WeI're in West Africa in the early nineteen ninetiesve wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. There's This provided two romances for the usual mix price of expatriates and diplomatic staff doing their best one, but it was actually the family element as opposed to do their best whilst still making the most of the freedoms such a life gives. Isabel is married to iconoclastic photographer Patrick Redmond and copes better than most wives would with her husband's fixation with pendulous black breasts. There is gossip though. The High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both involved in illicit affairs, with more or less discretionromance that I really enjoyed. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0954930983</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha AshleyB07W4MNBSG|title=Chocolate WishesBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=I know one should never judge It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a book by its covergroup of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but somehow I always do. So I Liz was expecting some light-hearted chick-lit when I began this bookconvinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''. I was The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a little startled couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to find several mentions of tarot cards, Mayan charmsCharlotte, or perhaps William and guardian angels Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley- a somewhat bizarre spiritual mixture Botham. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - within there were too many Elizabeths in the first pagesclass. What, I wondered, had I got myself into?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561144</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Margaret Leroy|title=The Perfect Mother|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Perfection pervades every corner of Catriona's life She has a beautiful home, a charming husband, a well-behaved stepdaughter, and a cherished daughter of her own, 8-year-old Daisy. When Daisy is taken ill, Catriona does all a good mother would do to help her get better. But as Daisy's condition deteriorates with no sign of improvement, Catriona seeks more and more medical intervention, until eventually she is accused of being responsible for her daughter's illness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303527</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susannah Bates |title=Under a Sapphire Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Marianne Cooper is happy. She has a thriving jewellery business with her best friend Gabby and is six months pregnant with Gabby's brother Jay's baby. Marianne enjoys her passion for stones, her unconventional attitude to life and her pregnancy, and her unique relationship with Jay, but when her ex boyfriend, and reformed man, Paul comes back into her life with his fiancée Sophie and a rare padparascha stone he wants Marianne to turn into an engagement ring, she soon finds herself questioning her decision Move on to reject Paul and indeed her way of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099445441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Harwood[[Features|title=Kiss Like You Mean It|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This book is a modern-day love story. It's all about trendy characters with trendy names living rather trendy lives in glossy location sets. The title gives a very clear message as to its contents. Romantic fiction which will appeal generally to women. But there's also a story within a story (and for me the more interesting one) which is the Hollywood movie being filmed in Europe. It takes us back to the first World War and the heroic actions of one young man, in particular.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330442090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Graham|title=Life According to Lubka|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Buzz Wexler is at the top of her game, working in music PR with all the latest up and coming Urban music bands like Grime Beat and Evil Marsupial. She's forty-two years old but is still out every night, drinking, eating very little and seemingly surviving on a diet of chemical mood enhancers. One day, however, she is called into her manager's office and assigned a tour with a 'World Music' group, the Gorni Grannies, a group of elderly women from Bulgaria who sing together. Buzz finds her life in the fast lane is brought to a sudden halt, as she tries to control a group of elderly ladies touring England who think that lifts are powered by black magic and that Poundland is the best shop ever invented. Yet this is just the beginning of a whole new life for Buzz.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Mullany|title=Improper Relations|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Unlucky in love Charlotte Hayden has just lost her best friend and confidante Ann in marriage to the Earl of Beresford. At the wedding she encounters Lord Shadderly, Beresford's best friend, a broodingly handsome man whom she takes an immediate dislike to. Before she knows it Charlotte is caught in a compromising situation with Shadderly and he is forced to propose to her or risk both their reputations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347803</amazonuk>}}features]]