The Happiest Ever After by Milly Johnson

 

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?

The Happiest Ever After has Milly Johnson’s wit and warmth spilling through the pages of her latest book. In this novel we meet Polly Potter who is far from happy with every aspect of her life from her relationship with partner Chris where she is taken for granted and feels no love loss, to her job that she used to love and thrive from only now to be underappreciated and treated appallingly. Not wanting to simply function anymore she is determined to take matters into her own hands and make a new start for herself but what unfolds was not part of her plan at all.

The opening chapters feature the terrible news reports from The Daily Trumpet that make me chuckle each time they feature in Milly’s books, they never get old and provide a touch of humour to each of her books. There are such a vast number of characters in this book that really help to make this book an enjoyable read, from the likes of Jeremy, Chris and Cilla who made my blood boil to the big hearts of Teddy, Flick and Marielle who provide love and support showing what true community spirit is and how a friendship can blossom when you help people in their time of need. As ever there are always more quirky characters in Milly’s novels too and that was found in the likes of Orrible the most idiotic goon.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Polly’s journey and although parts of the book were predictable it didn’t have a negative effect on my reading, I still enjoyed watching the pieces fall into place.

Milly Johnson is an author who you can always rely on to deliver a corker of a read and this book is no exception. This was an uplifting read that held my attention the whole way through there was a bubbling romance, blossoming friendships and a bucket of karma too.

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