"Women's" Fiction

Distributors like Amazon have a genre called women’s fiction (used to be called romance), and it is obvious they treat this as light reading.  According to our Book Mole, Larry Bowlden, so-called women’s fiction (including many romance novels) are often excellent at describing relationships. Contemporary writers such as Jojo Moyes are particularly perceptive in their analyses of relationships and how they go wrong and how they can be mended.