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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThat Loving Feeling
Carole Matthews · 428 pages
Juliet Joyce is married with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a 70 year-old mother who just moved in and a father who's announced he is gay. Nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Audrey who jilted her years ago. Can Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling they've lost.
Shoe Addicts Anonymous
Beth Harbison · 327 pages
Four different women, one common shoe size, and a shared lust for fabulous footwear. The wife of a controlling politician, a debt-ridden eBay addict, an agoraphobic phone-sex operator, and a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house) meet Tuesday nights to trade shoes, and, in the process, form friendships that will help th
How To Break Your Own Heart
Maggie Alderson · 382 pages
"Do you always sleep in separate beds?" A question from her outspoken friend Kiki shocks Amelia Bradlow into taking stock of her 'perfect' life. She might haved the adoring husband, the flat in Mayfair and the weekend cottage, but what about the things that really matter? Like the unmentionable matter of the baby they haven't had - back cover.
Single in Suburbia
Wendy Wax · 384 pages
Amanda's husband has just traded her in for an affair with a teenybopper. Brooke is a trophy wife collecting dust. And Candace (Don't call me Candy) has had too many husbands and too little love. What do these three unlikely accomplices have in common besides a Little League team called the Mudhens? A plot to reclaim a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t. And they're going to do it with a mop and a bucket.Maid f
Your Roots Are Showing
Elise Chidley · 366 pages
Lizzie Buckley has a life many women dream of - a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home and darling (when they're not fighting) three-year-old twins. But ever since the birth of her children, she's had a fantasy about locking herself in her bedroom for twenty-four hours with a good book and a box of chocolates. Unfortunately, her husband James doesn't understand her feelings. And when Lizzie unburde
The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs
Christina Hopkinson · 378 pages
What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? This is the funniest, most acutely-observed novel about marriage and motherhood, children and work that's been seen in years.
The Switch
Olivia Goldsmith · 352 pages
Wanneer haar man een maîtresse heeft die sprekend op haar lijkt, volgt een vrouw een afslankkuur en ruilt stiekem met haar van plaats.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Anna Maxted · 464 pages
Cassie is slender, clever, charismatic, successful. The one flaw in her perfect life may be her marriage. Her sister Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier. An aspiring journalist, she's stuck writing embarrassing articles on sex for Ladz Mag. Her one achievement is her relationship with Tim, who thinks she's amusing and smart. Despite Cassie being the favored child, she and Lizbet have always been
Baby Proof
Emily Giffin · 352 pages
Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fa
Babyville
Jane Green · 464 pages
Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship. Julia thinks a baby will help, but perhaps that isn't the answer to her problems. Maeve is totally allergic to commitment - she breaks out in a rash whenever she passes a buggy. A one-night-stand results in an unwanted pregnancy. But just how unwanted is it? Samantha is besotted with her new-born baby. But how is husband Chris coping with his su
The Baby Trail
Sinead Moriarty · 320 pages
Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby - but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.
Best Staged Plans
Claire Cook · 238 pages
A professional home stager in the Boston suburbs, Sandy Sullivan, after reading her family the riot act, takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta where she becomes immersed in other people's lives while trying to fix up her own.
The Opposite of Love
Julie Buxbaum · 360 pages
With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can't explain to even her closest friends why she did it. So
Four Blondes
Candace Bushnell · 307 pages
In her second novel, “Four Blondes”, Bushnell gives readers another uncensored look into the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite. In four novellas, Bushnell uses wry humor and frank portrayals of love and lust to deliver four clever, hilarious and socially relevant stories. “Four Blondes” was a critical and commercial success. With “Sex and the City” and “Four Blondes”, Bushnell’s work spawned a
The Starter Wife
Gigi Levangie Grazer · 407 pages
When her Hollywood studio head husband unexpectedly divorces her to marry a pop starlet, Gracie seeks refuge at a friend's Malibu mansion, witnesses the impact of the divorce on her young daughter, and interacts with a series of dysfunctional men.
The Accidental Mother
Rowan Coleman · 392 pages
Rendered an instant and unlikely mother when her best friend dies and names her the guardian of two young girls, corporate professional Sophie Mills finds her carefully structured life spinning out of control and must profoundly adjust her life philosophies in order to meet parenting challenges.
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Marian Keyes · 338 pages
'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting
Three In A Bed
Carmen Reid · 480 pages
Bella is a high-achieving, go-getting management consultant who seems to have it all. She's brilliant at her job, plays just as hard as she works and has a fantastic, sexy relationship with her husband Don. Then, she realises that something's missing from her life and decides to have a child (even though her husband isn't at all keen on the idea), and her ordered world is turned upside-down. Bella
Wilde Like Me
Louise Pentland · 391 pages
When single mom Robin Wilde decides to change her life, new opportunities are soon on her horizon.
Wedding Night
Sophie Kinsella · 472 pages