Thought-provoking romance. What is it?

When I was younger, I read every Jaqueline Wilson book about three times over. I loved that she addressed real-issues and opened my small, twelve-year-old mind up to the realities of life but in a very soft, gentle way.

We all love reading books that make us laugh. Guffawing in secret on the packed 8am tube or listening to Audio books that have us chuckling in queues. I love reading about real-life and I love comedians like Michael McIntyre who make us laugh about the mundane aspects of life.

There’s always the crisis, climax and pull-back to the arc of a good romance novel, the moment when we all wonder – what’s going to be the point that they get back together? And we all love it because even though we know what’s going to happen, it still makes us warm and fuzzy on the inside.

I wanted to bring all these aspects together, the romance, the comedy and the grit that we all face in life. I am someone who hates confrontation, who hates talking about real issues and cringes when she thinks about either of her parents reading about a steamy sex scene.

I wanted to take the issues that none of us talk about but are extremely prevalent in our society and bring them to the romantic, comedy scene. To ensure that the books aren’t so serious that people get turned-off after the first chapter, that they still give you that warm and fuzzy feeling when you read the last page and that keeps you giggling like an old friend who knows you better than anyone else.

So we still get what we seek out of reading a romantic, comedy but it makes us think at the same time.