Lisa Jewell

You might like The Mega Pig File by David Jordan , it has plots and twists, also nonfiction !

Also Maggie o Farrell is great for past secrets themes.
Also got into Jane fallon although her books tend to take the secret life/affair path.
Looking forward to the new Lisa Jewell book.
Liane moriarty is fab. Big little lies I think is the best!

I enjoy many of these writers and would also suggest Emily Barr and Rowan Coleman

Do you mind an author jumping in with a recommendation? Everything But The Truth by Gillian McAllister is amazing. I was sent it as a preview in summer while I was on holiday. I said I wouldn't be able to read it for a few months and only opened the file to check it had worked. Fast forward 48 hours and I'd finished it! It is a real page turner and it really makes you question yourself and your relationships cleverly. Like, how far would you go to uncover the truth about your partner, even if you loved them? And how much 'bending of the truth' would you accept before you snap? I don't want to give anything away but I definitely recommend it.

Can't stand cecelia ahern - tripe!

Marian Keyes is one of my favourites. Read one of Dorothy Koomson once one that everyone hyped up didn't think much of it, it was good but nothing special. Don't know if her others are better, it put me off.
Same for Cecilia ahern. Read ps i love you but actually thought that was like reading a child's book so never read any more of hers. Couldn't understand why everyone raved about her.
Read the last letter from my love by JoJo Moyes really liked that one got really into it. Got me before you on my shelf to read

Not impressed with Jojo Moyes at all. The Paris story is so obvious!
Liked Freya North, Adele Parks for a lght read. Cecelia Ahern & Marian Keyes, no... LJ is always top of my list. Must check out some of the others mentioned, though.

I love lisa jewell and following for other recommended authors.

Really like lisa jewell, good writer, but found the sequal to Ralph's party really depressing! I wondered whether she'd had personal bad experiences of aspects of motherhood/fertility problems/relationships in between writing the books. If not then she's an even better writer than I thought.

Dorothy Koombson is good too.

Freya Parks doesn't compare at all IMO, readable, escapist pulp but ridiculous characters and stories, eg people able to survive financially working sporadically as clowns, craft jewellers and castle sitters!

Dorothy Koomson - I love her! Re- reading goodnight beautiful at the moment

I thought Jane Green was standard chic lit really. Happy to read it , good but nothing special.

But i don't think Lisa Jewell is standard chic lit at all. Think she's one of the best authors.

Not heard of Lolly Winston that's interesting.

I went through a stage of being hooked on chic-lit a few years ago, and Lisa Jewel was one of my favourites. Her books seem to have slightly more substance than the typical pretty but ditsy heroine moves to the country to follow her dream of running her own cake shop, and ends up falling for local wholesome, but still very hunky vet who has a cute dog.

I also enjoyed Jane Green's books, but eventually they all became very, very samey and saccharine and it felt like I was overdosing on candy floss when I read them.

But, my all time favourite good chic lit author is Lolly Winston. She has only written 3 books so far, but they're sooooooooooo excellent. My favourite is 'Sophie's Bakery For The Broken Hearted' which is a lot deeper, and richer than the title suggests (but yes, she does bake a few cakes, I confess).

Another LJ fan here, never read one I didn't like.

I've read all of Lisa Jewells books, but I think her earlier books are better than her last 3. Was really disappointed with The Third Wife, and, although The Girls is good, her other books are better.

I've never read Lisa Jewell but heard The Girls being discussed on A Good Read on Radio 4. It really appealed to me.

I am also a big fan of Adele Parks so will certainly try Lisa Jewell now.

I love Lisa Jewel and Adele Parks. Especially the early stuff by Adele Parks. Some of the characters appear again in later Parks books so read them in order.

I also love Jane Greens early stuff. Mr Maybe and Jemima J and Babyville were probably 3 of my all time favourite books at one point. However I found some of the later stuff a bit rubbish and too cliched. The stuff based in America gets progressively boring and I couldn't finish the last one.

Freya North is very similar to LJ stuff. Clever chiclit with fantastic writing. North writes beautifully IMO. Very vivid descriptions and all her characters have a likeability about them that has you wanting everything to be ok.

I enjoy a bit of Jojo Moyes when I am in the mood. But Jewel and North both write better 'stories' I think.

I just recently read The Girls and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite authors 😊

Liane Moriarty for sure.

Fell in love with Lisa's books when I arrived in London 17 yeras ago. My friend lived in Clapham where Ralphs Party was set and she recommended it. Another friend at the same time told me about Jane Green who I also love dearly now and was originally from West Hampstead right near me. More recently I fell on love with Dorothy Koomson who is great at tear jerkers but has branched out to the darker stuff on her last few. Lastly try Cecelia Ahern.....she brilliant and magical :)

My favourite Lisa Jewell is 'vince and joy'. I like all of hers really, they are well written and not all about cupcakes and affairs which most chick lit seems to be.

Have you tried Dorothy koomson? Her earlier ones are more 'chick lit' ish, but again not too girly, more like women's issues. Good night beautiful is the saddest book I have ever read. The ice cream girls was made into a tv series but the book is better. Her later stuff is quite gritty, but still easy to read, like 'the girl he loved before'- they have a sort of crime/mystery edge. I really love her books, excellently written.

Avoid Amanda Prowse! Her book "Poppy Day" was the most unrealistic, over-hyped, poorly-edited book I've ever wasted money on.

Utter shite (and she appears to have written a series of books based on that one).

My favourite Lisa Jewell book is One Hit Wonder, about a girl trying to find out about the life of her ex pop star sister in London after her death. I loved it.

Emily Barr is good too.

I loved Black Rabbit Hall, well written and poignant.