Womens Fiction

A Scottish Isles Second-Chance Romance in Latest Jenny Colgan Novel

Jenny Colgan is the perfect antidote for anyone experiencing trying times or in need of good cheer. The recently published Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages delivers humor and heart as a mother and daughter rekindle their relationship fractured over time and distance. Her flawed and realistically depicted characters face…

Linda HitchcockAugust 28, 2026

Fiction Listicles

When One Narrator Isn’t Enough to Tell the Whole Story

This month, we’re ready for novels with hidden motives, layered tension, conflicting goals, misunderstandings and the different ways characters experience and understand what's happening, as offered by multiple points of view.

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationAugust 26, 2026

Fiction

Ashley Winstead’s “The Future Saints” Hits an Emotional High Note

The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead is an ambitious novel, expansive in its concerns: sisterhood and family, the highs and lows of the music industry and the long-term consequences of mental illness and addiction. The novel is at its strongest in its close attention to daily interactions—among the band members…

Valerie Taylor, author of the "Venus Bixby Mystery" seriesJanuary 22, 2026

Fiction

A Parisian Affair for Fans of “My Brilliant Friend”

From the very start, I wasn’t sure about Hannah - a small, thin girl playing chess against herself in the damp cloakroom of an all-girls boarding school. It’s here we’re introduced to a budding friendship between the narrator, Claudia, and this mildly enigmatic woman-child who tells her about-to-be-new best friend…

Sherri DaleyJuly 22, 2019

Romance

Romance, Siblings and Family Secrets Intertwine in “Almost Just Friends”

Life happens, whether we like it or not. In her latest novel, Almost Just Friends (William Morrow), Jill Shalvis teaches us how to make room in our crazy lives for love in all forms, and shows us what can happen when we choose to let love in. Piper Manning is…

Krista BegganJanuary 20, 2020

Fiction

Three Frenemies Fulfill Their Best Friend’s Dying Wish in “Brunch and Other Obligations”

Brunch and Other Obligations (She Writes Press) by Suzanne Nugent is a bright and witty debut novel — and what readers will hope is her first of many. Committed to writing about women’s lives and relationships, Nugent has introduced us to four totally disparate young women. Three are grieving the…

Sherri DaleyMay 6, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

“All Adults Here:” A Rich Family Tale of Remembrance, Revision and New Chances

In a family saga about personal awakenings and shape shifting, it’s always best if one finds each character appealing. That surely is the case in Emma Straub’s new novel, All Adults Here (Riverhead Books). The multigenerational clan of Stricks is vivid, understandable and relatable. We know their angst, we understand…

Susan Shapiro BarashMay 6, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

’20s Cotton Crisis Plunges 3 Gritty Women into Survival Mode

After boll weevils devastate the Southern cotton crops in the early 1920s, three diverse Branchville, South Carolina women will do whatever it takes to keep their families safe. In her debut novel Call Your Daughter Home (Park Row Books), Deb Spera plunges readers into life in a small Southern town…

K.L. RomoMay 15, 2019

Fiction

The Courage to Move On in “A Better Next”

How will you determine what comes next? This is the premise of the novel A Better Next (She Writes Press) by Maren Cooper. Forty-five-year-old Jess Lawson is a successful healthcare consultant with two college kids. She and her surgery professor husband, Arthur, live a busy and fulfilling life in St.…

K.L. RomoMay 28, 2019

Fiction

An Epic Tale of War, Refugees and Love in “A Long Petal of the Sea”

A Long Petal of the Sea (Ballantine Books) is author Isabel Allende’s latest family saga, which spans the decades from 1938 to 1994 and continents from Europe to South America. The novel begins with a startling scene involving Victor Dalmau squeezing a soldier’s heart back to life on a cement…

Mary Helen SheriffJanuary 21, 2020

When One Narrator Isn’t Enough to Tell the Whole Story

A Parisian Affair for Fans of “My Brilliant Friend”

Romance, Siblings and Family Secrets Intertwine in “Almost Just Friends”

Three Frenemies Fulfill Their Best Friend’s Dying Wish in “Brunch and Other Obligations”

“All Adults Here:” A Rich Family Tale of Remembrance, Revision and New Chances

’20s Cotton Crisis Plunges 3 Gritty Women into Survival Mode

The Courage to Move On in “A Better Next”

An Epic Tale of War, Refugees and Love in “A Long Petal of the Sea”

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