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the aftermath of the Opium Wars, the fifth novel from the Wiltshire- based Chinese author of Startling Moon.
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Kirsty Capes Girls Orion, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9781398713048 This “searing” third novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Careless follows two sisters on a pan-American road trip, exploring motherhood and friendship.
Rachel Cosyns Gone to Pieces HQ, 9th, £9.99, pbo, 9780008550912
Début Set between London and rural
Suffolk, this “funny and poignant” début charts the mental health crisis of a wife and mother who ends up in therapy, being forced to confront her past. One for fans of Sorrow and Bliss, says HQ.
Lucy Dillon Irresponsible Adult Hodder & Stoughton, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9781399719698 The “warm and witty” new novel from the RNA Award-winning author of Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts and After the Rain is a tale of two sisters, one hyper-efficient, one chaotic. BookScan
Carla Jenkins Fifty Minutes Trapeze, 16th, £20, hb, 9781398715844
Début A young working-class
woman becomes embroiled in an exploit- ative relationship with her older male therapist in this “propulsive and bold” début exploring bulimia
and the murky licencing of therapists.
Kathy Lette The Revenge Club Aria, 9th, £14.99, hb, 9781035901302 When four women of a certain age start being sidelined, they form the Revenge Club. The latest romp from the Australian brand author is subversive and irreverent, says Aria.
stepmother in this “darkly humorous” explo- ration of online privacy, from the Nigerian-British author of Someday, Maybe.
Plum Sykes Wives Like Us Bloomsbury Publishing, 14th, £18.99, hb, 9781408888575 The fourth novel from the author of Bergdorf Blondes is a comedy of errors set in an English country house, featuring an American divorcée, three rich wives, two business tycoons, a pair of minia- ture sausage dogs and one butler.
Onyi Nwabineli Allow Me to Introduce Myself Magpie Books, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9780861546879 A young woman damaged by growing up in the social-media spotlight takes on her mumfluencer
4th Estate, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9780008609498
Début Acquired in a seven-way
auction, this Bristol-set rom-com by Young charts a woman’s dating odyssey as she seeks to discover all the queer experience she missed out on before she came out. Young is the author of the award-winning Little Library Cookbooks series.
Charlotte Butterfield The Second Chance Avon, 9th, £8.99, pbo, 9780008642945 From the author of You Get That from Me, this high-concept romance, Avon’s summer lead, stars a woman who believes she’ll never see 40, follow- ing a psychic’s prediction. The night before her “death date”, she drops some truth bombs that come home to roost. BookScan
Kate Young Experienced
Ruth Reichl The Paris Novel
Magpie Books, 2nd, £9.99, pbo, 9780861548835 From the food writer, memoirist and author of the novel Delicious! comes an “uplifting” story of a woman whose estranged mother leaves her a one-way plane ticket to Paris. There, she rediscov- ers her appetite for life. BookScan
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Lynne Francis The Reluctant Bride Piatkus, 16th, £9.99, pbo, 9780349433714 A new saga from the author of the Margate Trilogy chronicles the life and loves of the uncon- ventional Isabel Cavendish in Regency Kent, as she chafes against society’s conventions.
Sue Moorcroft Under a Summer Skye Avon, 23rd, £8.99, pbo, 9780008636814 From the RNA President and author of The
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