The Romantic Novel Awards showcase some of the very best of romantic fiction, and I am delighted and proud to be part of an industry that gives so much happiness to so many people.”
Mrs Hardy wrote her first romantic book, A Baby of Her Own, while her six-week-old daughter Chloe was being treated for bronchiolitis in hospital during a Christmas period over 20 years ago.
Her daughter recovered and the book was published by Mills and Boon Medical on Chloe s second birthday.
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A Will, A Wish and a Wedding is the writer s 90th Mills and Boon book over her 20-year career of writing for the romantic fiction publisher.
2021 Romantic Novel Awards
TV star Larry Lamb
Announcing the winners was TV legend Larry Lamb, full of his down to earth wit, he entertained throughout, alongside compère author and broadcaster Jane Wenham-Jones.
There were tears, giggles and a few technical hitches but nothing could stop the feel good factor of authors supporting each other. As Milly Johnson said, “It’s like being in a room full of mates.”
Unsurprisingly, one topic that most winners referred to was the difficulties that lockdown had posed – to authors, as well as readers.
Winner of the Katie Fforde debut award Clare Pooley said readers told her that her novel,