My Review: I read this wonderful book in one sitting, only pausing for coffee and my egg banjo lunch. I loved every moment.

Such a good story, The Daily Trumpet Bulletins had me in stitches. It’s made me want to look into having a name put in one of them.

Polly Potter is a woman who loves her job, hates her new boss and tolerates her Partner Chris, she doesn’t even know why she came back to him after he cheated on her.

The only good thing about him is his son Will who has always been kind and welcoming, unlike his sister who is the complete opposite.

Polly adores her creative writing course, it’s the best thing. She is a bit of a loner, with maybe one good friend called Sheridan and needs this escape that the course offers her.

Then the ‘OH MY GOODNESS PART TWO!!!!’

Something happens and she loses herself to her character Sabrina, a whole new list of people enter her life. Her soul feeding from the strength of the character and truly stepping into her power she finds a sense of happiness long missing from her life.

I loved the quick reference to HRT and the ‘Menopausal friends who had gravitated together, like planets!’ I felt I had found my own pals.

Marielle, Diana, Jackie, Sylvie, Bev and young Flick prove to be such wonderful people.

Of course there are twists and some very ugly moments. The journey of Polly/ Sabrina from who she was to who she is has been written wonderfully and Polly has some incredible people on her side. Especially, restaurant owner Teddy, who really looks out for her.

Part three brings everything together and there’s no going back.

I also felt like making myself a Black forest hot choc in my Velvetiser, but I was too engrossed to step away from the book. 100% recommended read.

What if you could write your own perfect storyline…? The heartwarming, feelgood novel from the much-loved Sunday Times bestselling author, Milly Johnson.

‘Gloriously funny, witty, wise and wonderful, this book is a total joy!’ Alexandra Potter
‘A delicious warm hug of a book’ Jill Mansell
‘Guaranteed to put a spring in your step – I loved it’ Jo Thomas
‘Gorgeous, heartwarming and moving, The Happiest Ever After is so original and brilliantly written in the typically funny and clever Johnson style’ Lucy Vine
‘An escapist, uplifting read full of heart’ Libby Page
‘Funny and brilliant and gorgeously warm, Milly Johnson always, always delivers’ Paige Toon
‘Takes you on a classic transformative journey in the most wonderful and original way. What a joy!’ Julietta Henderson

Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the ­fictional Sabrina Anderson.

But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?

After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.

But what if this new life could belong to her after all?

‘Reading a Milly Johnson book is like spending time with a best friend – you always end up feeling better about the world. Written with genuine warmth and heart, they’re an absolute treat’ Lucy Diamond
‘Milly Johnson always delivers an absolutely cracking read’ Katie Fforde
‘One of those novels that draws you in to its world and makes you wish you could be friends with Shay. A tantalising juicy tale full of twists and turns that kept me gripped. Warm, funny and moving. One to curl up with and devour’ Ruth Jones
‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie Johnson
‘Milly’s writing is like getting a big hug with just the right amount of bite underneath’ Jane Fallon

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