Women's Fiction

  • Summer Secrets

    When they were girls, Kate, Ashley and Caroline McKenna made headlines with their father Duncan when they sailed around the world and won a prestigious race. The eight years since have been less successful for the McKenna family. Duncan is an alcoholic who lost the family boat. The youngest daughter, Caroline, is a wild child,…

  • Angels

    I’d been curious about Marian Keyes for a while but I wasn’t curious enough to try her books on my own – I waited until one came up for review. My curiosity is assuaged but by no means satisfied. This boring story of a woman’s struggle to put her life back together went nowhere fast….

  • Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes

    Since I often find the plots to be long and terribly slow-moving and the characterization to be both flat and unrealistically glamorous, the family saga is usually one of my least favorite forms of fiction. Sheltering Rain, a debut novel from the United Kingdom, is blessedly different. Joy, her daughter Kate, and her 16-year-old granddaughter…

  • Between Sisters

    I feel cheated. Between Sisters started off boring, but I held out hope that there might be some meaty, emotional issues to make the boring stuff worth it. Nope, just a little emotional manipulation and a convenient miracle. I could read Catherine Anderson for that. Divorce attorney Meghan Dontess is the best at what she…

  • Diary of a Mad Mom-to-Be

    Laura Wolf debuted in the burgeoning chick-lit field last year with Diary of a Mad Bride. The heroine of that book, Amy Thomas Stewart, returns in Mad Mom-to-Be, again clutching a definitive guidebook in one hand and an endless to-do list in the other, her often-befuddled husband, relatives and friends trailing behind. Recovered from the…

  • Slow Hands by Lynne Kaufman

    Slow Hands is the debut novel of playwright Lynne Kaufman, whose uncluttered prose and unique voice make her a welcome addition to contemporary women’s fiction. Sara Russack acts as narrator; she is a marriage and family counselor with an established practice in San Francisco and specializes in women’s issues. Sara is at an impasse with…

  • The Parting Glass

    Emilie Richards’ The Parting Glass, sequel to Whiskey Island, continues the story of the three Donaghue sisters. While it’s not as enthralling as the earlier book, it’s a good, as well as surprising, follow-up. The Parting Glass picks up very near where Whiskey Island left off. Megan Donaghue is preparing to marry her fiancée, Niccolo…

  • Down by the River

    Since I have enjoyed Robyn Carr in the past, I have much of her backlist in the TBR pile. Down by the River is the first book I’ve read in her Grace Valley series, and though it was pleasant, I didn’t feel like I really got to know any of the characters very intimately. I…

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