What to read while waiting for the next Milly Johnson

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I generally find chick lit to be a bit like eating too much cake - easy to do, but feel a bit sick and wasteful when I have finished, so I don't really read it often. I do love Milly Johnson though - her sense of humour just lifts the books out of the usual sickliness. If I run out of Milly, I can make do with a Veronica Henry. If you can think of anyone who is as good, can you let me know? I do read lots of other genres too, but am particularly looking for happy books.

Well - that answers my question - obviously Milly is incomparable .

I love Carole Matthews , Heidi Swain, Caroline Rogers and Cathy Bramley along with Milly Johnson

Caroline Roberts, not Rogers!

I recently read a couple of books by NZ writer Danielle Hawkins. She’s probably a chick-lit writer, but she’s a good writer and her books have real heart. Comforting reading without being silly. I particularly enjoyed Dinner at Rose’s.

I have never read any Milly Johnson. She is local to me so I feel I should. What authors are similar?

Thanks everyone - will look out for the ones you have mentioned!

Ginfordinner - not sure who she is like - her heroines are funny and feisty. The books are often about a group of friends. Often they have had bad luck in the relationship department, but move on to new and better romances. Her first one is "The Yorkshire Pudding Club". They don't have to be read in order, though occasionally a character will turn up in a later book (some of the Yorkshire Pudding Club turn up in "A Summer Fling" and several books coincide in "The Mother of All Christmases").

Rowan Coleman, perhaps.