Can anyone suggest any decent funny chick-lit/rom-com type books to me please

[sparklesandnowinefor4months]

I love reading but don't have much time for anything of any real substance these days, and i also have a bit of a guilty secret about liking these types of books

can anyone recommend some good ones for me to read please!

TIA

Anything by Daphne du Maurier!!!

But if you want something really bubble gum and guilty pleasure....

www.petiteanglaise.com/

I haven't read her book but have got a little bit...actually quite mmm honestly...very very addicted to her blog!!!

Tell us what you choose sparklesandnowinefor4months, and we all expect a good review of those choices too now!!!

I've read the petiteanglaise book. I found it really gripping at the beginning, but the end was quite offputting. Can't explain why, but the fact this was like chicklit, but was actually real, was a bit disturbing for me. And it left me a little sad..

Rowan Coleman,

Pauline McLynn (who was Father Ted's housekeeper before she discovered she could write )

and I cannot recommend enough: Dorothy Koomson she is fab!

One that hasn't been mentioned is Hester Browne - I've really enjoyed her three books, which are prob best read in order as the story progresses. First one is "The Little Lady Agency". Rotten-sounding title but genuinely well-written, secondary characters well done, funny and romantic.

Marain Keyes and Sophie Kinsella reliable and good too, although SK's latest seemed a bit thin IMO.

I have to say, I think Jane Green is pretty overrated; some of her books are OK, but quite a few have left me frustrated at the lack of depth to the characters, the pace of the story, etc. Just feel she has become more of a "brand" than an author, a trap I do not think Marian Keyes has fallen into despite being just as (or more) famous and best-selling.

[just my opinion though, obv]

anything by kate harrison.

I'm not at all knowledgeable in this area but I have read a few books by Jennifer Weiner, mentioned by Squilly, and they were all good.

The Ivy Chronicles is one of the funniest books I have ever read - can't remember who wrote it though.

it was karen quinn. her next book, 'wife in the fast lane', i didn't enjoy nearly so much.

Agree with hatjam - Wife in the fast lane was not really funny. The Ivy Chronicles was fab tho!

I was lucky enough to read Zara Kingsley's new Chick Lit Novel as a beta-reader, and it literally had me spitting out my tea with laughter! Hilarious: www.zarakingsley.com