Katie Simmonds wants to be a film director. Last week she wanted to be a writer, the week before that an educational psychologist, and the week before that a florist. Maybe Katie's been waiting at tables - and waiting for Mr Right - for a little too long...
A heartwarming, laugh out loud novel about love, hopes, dreams...
Warm and witty
Pacy, entertaining
Take this book on holiday and you’ll come home bursting with exciting plans to shake up your life
The leading comic romantic novelist of her generation
This is one to gobble up in a single sitting
Melissa Nathan was born and raised in Hertfordshire. A journalist for twelve years, she turned to writing romantic comedy novels full time in 1998 and shortly afterwards
Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field and
Persuading Annie were published
. Melissa discovered she had breast cancer whilst writing her first novel for Random House,
The Nanny, which hit the
Sunday Times Top Ten in the spring of 2003. She went on to write another top ten bestseller,
The Waitress, and finished her fifth novel
The Learning Curve in February 2006. Sadly she died two months later, aged 37. A new literary award, The Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, has been established in her honour. She is survived by her husband, Andrew, and young son, Sam.