Tony Rossiter shows how she makes her readers both smile and hold back tears at the same time
If you like easy-to-read, feel-good romantic comedy, Milly Johnson fits the bill. She’s written eleven novels, one or two a year since 2007, and several have made the Sunday Times top ten bestseller chart. She won the 2014 Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Comedy Award and the 2015 Yorkshire Society’s Award for Arts and Culture. ‘Don’t faff about if you want to be a serious writer,’ she says. ‘You have to work like a bull at it otherwise it’ll always be an unpaid hobby!’