Category: Women’s Fic – Chick-lit
11th Feb / 7 Comments
The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland: As their High School Reunion nears, Tara, Melissa, Priya and Suki take stock of the last 25 years, their achievements, their losses and use it as a pivot point to change things in their lives desperately in need of change. As we travel […]
7th Feb / 7 Comments
In The Women by Kristin Hannah, Frances “Frankie” McGrath thought her path in life had been mostly chosen for her, as it typically was for women in 1966: to become a nurse (or teacher or secretary) until she marries and has children. But when her older brother Finley finishes at […]
27th Jan / 7 Comments
The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh: With a frenetic pace that hits crazy crescendos, this family drama/romantic comedy follows the ancient family cruse of the Duong family of women who are destined to have daughters for multiple generations to come.
15th Jan / 11 Comments
In Recipe for a Charmed Life by Rachel Linden, Georgia May Jackson has spent years training and honing her skills in the kitchen with her sights set on becoming head chef in a Paris restaurant. She already has two strikes against her: she’s American and she’s a woman. But just […]
13th Jan / 8 Comments
The Sister’s We Were by Wendy Willis Baldwin: While not a straight up romance, The Sister’s We Were is very much indeed a book about love, self-love, sibling love and the complexity of family love. Pearl, for the most part of her life has struggled with her weight, a product of […]
5th Jan / 9 Comments
The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale: Forced to flee to Dublin after news breaks out about her affair with her professor, Dorothy Dee Gale begins her journey anticipating the worst and hoping for the best after applying for the writing program at Trinity College.
19th Dec / 5 Comments
In The Good Part by Sophie Cousens, If we’re being honest with ourselves, hasn’t everyone had a moment where they just wish to skip over the tougher bits of life and get to the good part? Goodness knows Lucy Young has thought that enough over the past few years. Stuck […]
8th Dec / 6 Comments
In Love, Holly by Emily Stone, Feeling lonely during the holidays is nothing new to Holly since a tragic car accident caused her to be estranged from her family a few years ago. To cope with her grief, she’s become part of a club that writes letters to others who […]
8th Dec / 6 Comments
Guy’s Girl by Emma Noyes: Preferring the company of males, Ginny has some fairly clear boundaries about not stretching things too far when it comes to romantic involvement. Until of course she meets Aidan who she is incredibly attracted to and yet deeper still, feels a genuine connection with. And of […]
21st Oct / 6 Comments
Main Character Energy by Jamie Vernon: Poppy, lucky enough to have a fairy-godmother like Aunt who she is forced to meet secretly due to an eon long family feud, is not fortunate enough to have the self-belief she needs to pull herself out of her rut. Downtrodden, with poor self esteem, […]