This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A gentle, genuinely warm romance between two 51-year-old women who meet over a crochet hook, held back by a pace that tests patience and a cruel boyfriend subplot that some … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A gentle, closed-door butch/femme short story about a newly out band mom and a butch orchestra director snowed in at a music competition, warm and easy to love but held back by a length … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A funny, tender, genuinely grown-up coming-out romance between two women near sixty, with some of the best character work in this year’s sapphic releases, held back by a love story … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A fated-meeting, double-coming-out romance between two women in their forties with a genuinely unforgettable opening and real warmth, undercut by a missing-mother mystery that never sits comfortably beside the love story. Best for: Readers … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A big, funny, sorrowful 1980s Kentucky family saga with a married woman’s love for another woman at its centre, rich in character work and let down by a slow middle … Read more
The rare age-gap romance built on two people rather than a premise. 4.30 across 884 Goodreads ratings, four years on. Here is what the reviews actually say.
Updated on October 5, 2026 This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A thoughtful 1996 forbidden-love romance about a Catholic scholar falling for her boyfriend’s lesbian sister in the middle of a Senate race, carried by Kallmaker’s … Read more