Babyface
10 best books like Babyface (Fiona Gibson): The Woman at Number 24, House Broken, Dumped, Actually, The Finishing Touches, The Heart of the Garden, The Orphan Daughter, The School Gate Survival Guide, Almost a Bride, Million Love Songs: The laugh-out-loud, feel-good spring read of 2019, Four Bridesmaids and a White Wedding
| Author | Juliet Ashton |
| ISBN | 1471158896 |
A house holds the hearts of the people who live in it. Under the roof of The Blue House, a now shabby but previously grand Georgian villa in West London, the subdivided space is home to five separate families and five very different lives.
Sarah has just divorced her husband, Leo, and she's feeling...
| Author | Sonja Yoerg |
| ISBN | 0451472136 |
In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family.…
For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They’re also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen,...
| Author | Nick Spalding |
| ISBN | 1978665784 |
From the bestselling author of Checking Out and Dry Hard comes a hilarious story about losing the love of your life, and finding yourself in the aftermath.
When Ollie Sweet is very publicly dumped by ‘The One’, his seemingly perfect world dissolves into misery, self-pity, and a bizarre...
| Author | Hester Browne |
| ISBN | 1416540075 |
In "New York Times" bestselling author Hester Browne's delightful new novel, a fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover. Out with white gloves and flower arranging, in with managing mortgagesand do-it-yourself manicures! Behind this remarkable transformation...
| Author | Victoria Connelly |
| ISBN | 1612187048 |
Morton Hall, with its beautiful, ruined grounds and its reclusive mistress, Emilia Morton, is full of mysteries. For freelance editor Anne Marie, the wild garden has become a serene and secret refuge from her loveless marriage. The only other regular visitor is Cape, the hall’s part-time gardener,...
| Author | Cari Noga |
| ISBN | 1543674763 |
At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life’s twists and turns. Yet she’s shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she’s now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy.
Still nurturing unresolved grief from a marriage bookended by loss,...
The School Gate Survival Guide
A hilarious, straight-talking read for fans of Fiona Neill and Gill Hornby’s ‘The Hive’.Previously published as ‘The Class Ceiling’.Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from...
| Author | Jo Watson |
| ISBN | 1455595500 |
That awkward moment you catch your boyfriend in bed with another woman and then mistakenly get arrested #chargesdropped
Annie knows life isn't always fair. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you get mistaken for a crazed intruder when you come home early and find your boyfriend...
Million Love Songs: The laugh-out-loud, feel-good spring read of 2019
After splitting up with her cheating ex-husband, Ruby Brown is ready for a change. She's single again for the first time in years and she's going to dive into this brave new world with a smile on her face and a spring in her step. The last thing she's looking for is another serious relationship.
Mason...
Four Bridesmaids and a White Wedding
Don’t tell the bride!
Rose, Sal and JoJo have been looking forward to their best friend Wendy’s hen party for ages. A relaxing spa break is the perfect way to escape their crazy careers, grumpy husbands and stroppy children – even if the groom’s straight-laced sister, Tamsin, is coming...
BEST FRIENDS IMOGEN, FRANKIE AND GRACE DECIDE TO TEST WHETHER THE GRASS REALLY IS GREENER ON THE SINGLE SIDE OF THE FENCE…IMOGEN is supposed to be on the most romantic weekend of her life and instead she’s quickly realised that her current boyfriend definitely isn’t ‘The One’ and actually...
It was the summer it all ended . . . It was the summer a new story began.
Linston End has been the summer home to three families for several decades. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the local...
| Author | Fern Britton |
| ISBN | 0008225214 |
She arrived in the village on the spring tide and hoped to be at the heart of it, knowing its secrets and weathering its storms.
It was to be a new beginning…
It’s springtime in the Cornish village of Pendruggan and as the community comes together to say a fond farewell to parish vicar,...
| Author | Harriet Evans |
| ISBN | 1472221346 |
What magic is this?
You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house.
They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder ... and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting all your life to hear.
This...
| Author | Kate McCabe |
| ISBN | 1842232819 |
Looking for a way to pass the cold winter nights – and take her mind off her lying ex – Marian Hunt decides to start a book club. And pretty soon, it begins to take off …
Christy Grimes thinks the book club will help his beloved wife in her recovery from a stroke, but little does he know the effect...
Is There Still Sex in the City?
| Author | Candace Bushnell |
| ISBN | 0802147267 |
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
Set...
| Author | Sibel Hodge |
| ISBN | 1611099498 |
Dean Hudson didn’t look evil…so what could drive an ordinary boy to kill?
When the teenage son of Holly Gold’s school friend brutally murders his parents before killing himself, her sleepy home town is rocked by the sudden tragedy.
Appalled, Holly investigates. What could...
| Author | Kate McCabe |
| ISBN | 1842233556 |
Emma Frazer packs up her job in Dublin and flees to Fuengirola in southern Spain, where she finds refuge in a beautiful little hotel right on the beach - Casa Clara. Here she can escape the mounting pressure from her domineering elder sister Trish who is pushing her into a marriage she herself has grave...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330237837 |
When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs...
| Author | Geraldine O'Neill |
| ISBN | 1842233955 |
Growing up in the 1950s in Kilnagree, a small village in Co Clare, Rose lives a quiet life. Working part-time in the local pub while helping her grandmother at home, Rose’s only ambition is to marry a decent local lad in Kilnagree.
In Offaly, Rose’s pretty, precocious cousin Hannah is hiding...
| Author | Geraldine O'Neill |
| ISBN | 1842234307 |
So excited to find this Eire postmarked book package in my postbox yesterday!
Thankyou to the author, Geraldine O'Neill for signing with lovely thoughts added to remind me of the Irish Fiction Fortnight contest where I discovered both author and novel. I am delighted! and anticipating more Ireland...
THE PERFECT SUMMER READ' Sophie Kinsella
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
A Cornish Summer is the
irresistible
new novel from
the author of About Last Night and Wish You Were Here
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Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years.
The trouble is, he's been...
The Little Village of Happiness
| Author | Holly Martin |
| ISBN | 1916011144 |
Fall head-over-heels in love with the beautiful new novel from bestselling author Holly Martin and let The Little Village of Happiness warm your heart and make your spirits soar.
Willow McKay needs a fresh start. Her recent break-up may not have left her heartbroken but it’s certainly wounded...
The Summer of Second Chances
Lottie is about to discover that even when you think you’ve lost everything, hope and romance can be just around the corner . . .It takes time to build your life. To get into a long-term (OK, a bit boring) relationship. To find a job (you don’t completely hate). Lottie might not be thrilled with the life...
Librarian note: Older cover edition of B006IGCAGC.
Sometimes,
a promise kept
can change your life.
Reeling from the violent death of her husband in war-torn Iraq, Jordan Phillips is at her wit's end, left to fend for herself and her baby. Alone and desperate in backwater...
Two sisters. Two very different lives…
Meg simply doesn’t have time for men in her life. Instead, she has a strictly one-date rule, survives on caffeine and runs one of the biggest model agencies from her smart office in London. That is, until she collapses one day at work and the doctor orders...
The House on Lavender Lane (Hope Cove #5)
One shocking incident forces six friends to re-evaluate everything
Emily only meant to spend a week in Hope Cove. But when the quirky locals involve her in various events, she happily extends her stay. She just wishes Jack were with her and not stuck working back in Oxford.For Lizzie, Emily’s...
Ferne Tollivera is on a mission. Now that Sparrow, her ward, has reached nine years of age, she reckons he needs a male role model in his life. With typical efficiency she sets about finding a father-figure by drawing up a series of checklists for each candidate, and following a strict protocol for interviewing...
I Didn't Do It: Sometimes Proving Your Innocence Can Be Deadly
Jon Boyle, jailed for ten years for the murder of his wife, Lucie, a murder he didn’t commit.
Released, he is determined to find redemption and to track down who did it. He is warned it will take him to dark places best left untouched, but he goes there anyway.
There, he uncovers the grim details...
| Author | Roisin Meaney |
| ISBN | 0340932864 |
As May fits into her new life we meet her friend Pam and her husband Jack -- but why is Pam terrified to tell Jack that she's pregnant? And then there's Denis and Bernard, May's next-door neighbours, going about their business oblivious to the deadly threat that lurks close by. There's Paddy, who lives...
