==Women's Fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Chima Njoku-Latty
|title=Thoroughly Modern People: The Long Way Home
|rating=2.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The front cover graphics are good: interesting and refreshingly modern and when I opened the book I liked the easy-on-the-eye print format. And I think that's where my positive comments end. The back cover blurb says that this book is ''A beautifully moving story.'' I found it neither beautiful nor moving, I'm afraid.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956600107</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adele Parks
|summary=Cavalley's creates the most luxurious hats in the world along with a host of other items without which the rich cannot survive. At the company's head is Violet Cavalley, now celebrating her sixtieth birthday with her family about her. She looks as though she could go on forever, but Violet and one or two others know differently. There are a few other people who know that Violet isn't who she says she is and that he background wouldn't stand a lot of close examination. From the villa in Capri, to the London homes of the family and the private jet, it's all good living, but there are plenty of secrets which are going to be aired.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755370325</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Lovering
|title=Please Don't Stop the Music
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jemima Hutton makes jewelled belt buckles and she's determined to make a success of the business – and to keep a dark secret which she's shared with no one. She's camping out in her friend's spare room and another friend is allowing her workshop space. It is ''just'' working until the woman she supplies exclusively decides that she's not going to stock her any more. Jemima is down to walking the streets of York looking for someone who will stock her buckles. She's all but given up when she meets Ben who says that he'll stock the buckles in his guitar shop. But Ben has secrets too – and he's determined that, come what may, he's not going to share them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931275</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Bohnet
|title=Rendezvous in Cannes
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's the beginning of the Cannes Film Festival and for two women life is going to change completely in the coming weeks. Anna Carson has found the love that she thought would always elude her and can't quite believe her happiness. Daisy, here to cover the Festival as a journalist is coming to terms with being single. It's time for her to make some decisions, but what will she decide? The hurly-burly of the Festival is not the most peaceful time to make big decisions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091400</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marian Keyes
|title=The Brightest Star in the Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Marian Keyes can usually be relied upon for a funny, moving story full of life-like, likeable characters. I was eager to read her latest novel, although somewhat daunted by the 600 odd pages! Here she takes us to an old, multi-storey house in Dublin that is the home of a variety of different characters. An unknown, magical narrator takes us through the house as we meet each tenant and discover what's happening in their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014102867X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allison Pearson
|title=I Think I Love You
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's the 70s, and 13 year old Petra is in love, and not with a silly boy at school, but with a man. He's not from Wales like she is, or even from Britain. He's much more mysterious and alluring. He comes from across the pond and his name is David Cassidy. ''The'' David Cassidy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946859X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lesley Pearse
|title=Belle
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Belle's story begins in London in 1910. She is fifteen years old and lives an innocent life in her mother's brothel, with no understanding of what really takes place there. Her mother has encouraged her to read and write, wanting her kept away from the harsh realities of the brothel and the rough streets of London that surround her. But Belle's innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the brothel's most popular girls, and is subsequently grabbed from the street and trafficked to Paris as a prostitute.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718157028</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Jones
|title=The Kydd Inheritance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Nell's Kydd's father died in a hunting accident and her brother, Kit was uncontactable, seemingly lost, on his way back from India. This left her uncle, Jasper Kydd in charge of the family estate and he appeared to be doing all in his power to wreck Kydd Court and make Nell's life a misery. Her mother coped with it all by retreating into her own world, where she couldn't be reached either. When an unwelcome offer of marriage is forced upon her, Nell knows that she has to take action and that's when the very unsettling Captain Hugo Derringer arrives. He's an old friend of Kitt's, but what exactly is he doing in the area and can Nell trust him?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091710</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allegra Goodman
|title=The Cookbook Collector
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''The Cookbook Collector'' is all about emotions. Concentrating on two, young, American women who are vastly different in many areas of their lives and also on their outlook on life, Goodman digs deeper to find out what makes them tick - what makes them get up in the morning.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848875398</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lulu Taylor
|title=Beautiful Creatures
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Everyone has heard of the Beaufort twins Octavia and Flora, but few have ever seen them, and on the night of their twenty-first birthday party the girls are finally launched into society amongst a crowd anxious to see the two girls who are about to inherit a vast fortune. Octavia and Flora have been kept out of the public eye for their entire young lives by their aunt Frances after their father died and their mother seemingly abandoned them. Now that the girls have come of age Frances has no choice but to hand over the girls' vast inheritance from their father and take a step back from running their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099550458</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rekha Waheed
|title=My Bollywood Wedding
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Maya Malik set her heart on a big, glamorous wedding to Jhanghir Khan but organising it was difficult as the groom-to-be was working as a doctor in New York and Maya was arranging the wedding in London. Maya's family are rich, but Jhanghir's family are – seriously so – and this is only part of the tensions which looked to be on track to derail the wedding. There's a sister-in-law who's determined to take over all the arrangements – without disguising her dislike of Maya – and a George-Clooney-lookalike cousin whom Maya finds far too attractive for her own good. And Jhanghir? Well, he's a man. He's busy and he's not that good at communicating. Is there any wonder that Maya begins to wonder if she's doing the right thing?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356144</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Leroy
|title=The River House
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Ginnie Holmes is a child-psychologist, working to help children and young people damaged by what they have experienced or what they have seen. She is also the mother of two typical, happy teenage daughters – one just about to leave for university the other, trying hard not to work for her GCSE's. Her life is outwardly as near perfect as it gets. Her husband is a successful academic. She has a solid circle of friends old and new. The cottage by the river might be whimsical rather than elegant but it suits her and in the right light and the right company it is charming.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304094</amazonuk>
}}
