Award for Best Comedy Romance

Jenny Colgan has won the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance for her novel Meet Me At The Cupcake Café. The Melissa Nathan Award, named in honor of the late author, “is for a book that is suffused with humour, where the jokes are not an added extra, but where the writer’s voice and the comedy are interdependent, . . . and that the romance is utterly believable and so important to the reader that the romance is a page-turner. ” The other shortlisted novels were: An Autumn Crush by Milly Johnson; Girl on the Run by  Jane Costello; Summer Loving by Allie Spencer; You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sarra Manning; and Please Don’t Stop The Music by Jane Lovering.