come educate me about chick-lit ....

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... I'd always thought it meant books which generally appealed more to women than men. But have just been told that Anita Shreve and Anne Tyler are not chick-lit. So I've clearly got it completely wrong ....... please spare my future embarrassment with a definition. Thanks,

I like chic-lit, but some of it is good and some of it is so incredibly awful that it's a miracle the writer had the nerve to take it to a publisher.

I think it must be frustrating for the likes of marian keyes and lisa jewell to be categorised with cecilia ahern for example.

I wouldn't trash the chic-lit format, but I no longer identify with that 'happy ever after, the rest of our lives' stuff.

I like Belinda Jones, nice easy reading for the holidays.

Anyone every read Chris Manby?

Cecilia Ahern, hmm, not sure how I feel about her books. I've read If you could see me now, strange, wasnt about what the title would lead me to believe

Oooooh chick-lit

I like: Katie Fforde, Marion Keyes, Jennifer Weiner (does she count? I think so), Libby Holt, Helen Fielding

I don't like: Lisa Jewel, Jill Mansell, Freya North, Jane Green

Any suggestions for some other authors I might like?

Do Sheila O'Flanagan and Penny Vincenzi count?

I like Jill Mansell, Catherine Alliott, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella and Jenny Colgan.

Another I quite like not mentioned so far here is Rowan Coleman.

On the age thing, I've noticed that some chick lit seems to be turning into what I call "hen lit" - same quite easy reading etc but characters are beginning to have babies and face different dilemmas from those of the pure chick lit.

I was beginning to wonder if I had the definition wrong. I am very fond of Katie Fforde and always assumed she was chick lit, but some fo the definitions of the genre given here didn't seem to fit her all that close. Apart from anything else her heroines are often middle aged.

However, I see at least one other poster includes her.

What about Trisha Ashley anyone? Does she count as chick lit? I quite like most of her stuff but my absolute favourite is "Good Husband Material" which I have read loads of times.