Milly Johnson Books in Order (the Four Seasons, The Woman In The Middle)

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All of Milly Johnson’s Books in Order!

Who is Milly Johnson?

Milly Johnson is a British author who is known for her work in the romantic fiction genre. As she tells it on her website, she’s also a poet, after-dinner speaker, professional joke writer, script-writer, columnist, cruise correspondent, short-story writer, and winner of Come Dine With Me.

While working as an accountant, she’s started writing verses for greetings cards firms. Other unfulfilling jobs followed until she finally got her big break when she got pregnant and started a book about it–and about friendships, relationships, work, and Yorkshire. Her first novel was The Yorkshire Pudding Club, published in 2007. She didn’t stop writing after that.

Since then, Milly Johnson published more than twenty books, but also novellas

How to read Milly Johnson’s Books in Order?

Most of Milly Johnson’s Books are written to be standalone–except one or two (see details below). Though characters cross over books and turn up as cameos.

What follows is a publication order for Milly Johnson Books.

  • The Yorkshire Pudding Club (2007) – Three South Yorkshire friends, all on the cusp of 40, fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen, it’s a dream come true, although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past, Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes.
  • The Birds and the Bees (2008) – Love can sting. Or make you fly … Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her fiancé Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo MacLean. It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. She isn’t going to act as he might expect. She isn’t going to wail and dig her heels in, she is simply going to pretend to let him go whilst she pursues a mad course of dieting, exercising, and self-improvement.
  • A Spring Affair (2009, part of the Four Seasons Collection) – When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist’s waiting room and spots an article about clearing clutter, she little realizes how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control.

  • A Summer Fling (2010, part of the Four Seasons Collection) – When dynamic, power-dressing Christie blows in like a warm wind to take over their department, five very different women find themselves thrown together at work. But none of them could have predicted the fierce bond of friendship that her leadership would inspire …
  • An Autumn Crush (2011, part of the Four Seasons Collection) – After a bruising divorce, headstrong Juliet Miller invests in a flat and advertises for a flatmate, little believing that in her late thirties she’ll find anyone suitable. But along comes self-employed copywriter Floz, raw from her own relationship split, and the two women hit it off. When Juliet’s twin brother Guy meets Floz, he is overcome with a massive crush, just as his friend Steve develops the hots for Juliet. But being a shy, gentle giant, Guy communicates so clumsily with Floz as to give her the opposite impression. Can he turn Floz’s affection for his family into love for him? And then Juliet makes a discovery, which will turn their lives upside-down …
  • Here Come The Girls (2011) – Ven, Roz, Olive, and Frankie have been friends since school. They daydreamed of glorious futures, full of riches, romance, and fabulous jobs. The world would be their oyster. Twenty-five years later, Olive cleans other people’s houses to support her lazy, out-of-work husband and his ailing mother. Roz cannot show her kind, caring husband Manus any love because her philandering ex has left her trust in shreds. And she and Frankie have fallen out big time. But Ven is determined to reunite her friends and realize the dream they had of taking a cruise before they hit forty. Before they know it, the four of them are far from home, on the high seas.

  • White Wedding (2012) – Bel is in the midst of planning her perfect wedding when disaster strikes and everything she thought she knew is turned on its head. Can she hold it all together and, with the help of her friends, and a mysterious man she meets unexpectedly, turn disaster into triumph?
  • The Wedding Dress (2012) – A collection of three new short stories, exclusive to ebook, along with a sneak peek at “A Winter Flame”. The story titled The Wedding Dress is a mini-sequel to White Wedding and A Summer Fling.
  • A Winter Flame (2012, part of the Four Seasons Collection) – Eve has never liked Christmas. So when her adored elderly aunt dies, the last thing she is expecting is to be left a theme park in her will. A theme park with a Christmas theme … And that’s not the only catch. Her aunt’s will stipulates that Eve must run the park with a mysterious partner, the exotically named Jacques Glace. Who is this Jacques, and why did Aunt Evelyn name him in her will?

  • It’s Raining Men (2013) – Best friends from work May, Lara, and Clare are desperate for some time away. They have each had a rough time of it lately and need some serious R & R, so they set off to a luxurious spa for ten glorious days. But when they arrive at their destination, it seems it is not the place they thought it was. In fact, they appear to have come to entirely the wrong village …
  • Here Comes the Boys (2014, Short Story) – Angie Silverton and her husband are taking a much-needed holiday on the cruise ship Mermaidia, so the last person she hopes to bump into is her one-time best friend Selina who stole the love of her life and married him twenty years ago. And what she needs even less is to be marooned in Malaga with Selina when both of them manage to miss boarding the ship in port.
  • The Teashop on the Corner (2014) – Spring Hill Square is a pretty sanctuary away from the bustle of everyday life. And at its center is Leni Merryman’s Teashop on the Corner, specializing in cake, bookish stationery, and compassion. And for three people, all in need of a little TLC, it is somewhere to find a friend to lean on.

  • Ladies Who Launch (2015, Short Story) – A sequel to Here Come The Boys and feat. characters from Afternoon at the Sunflower Café. Angie Silverton and Selina Molloy have not always been friends. Best pals at school, they fell out over a man, and it was only when they both missed a ship in Here Come the Boys that they found friendship again. Now they have reunited again and life since their adventure on the Mermadia has been anything but boring.
  • Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe (2015) – When Connie discovers that Jimmy Diamond, her husband of more than twenty years, is planning to leave her for his office junior, her world is turned upside down. Determined to salvage her pride, she resolves to get her own back. Along with Della, Jimmy’s right-hand woman at his cleaning firm, Diamond Shine, and the cleaners who meet at the Sunflower Café, she’ll make him wish he had never underestimated her.
  • The Barn on Half Moon Hill (2016, Short Story) – A sequel to A Winter Flame. Cariad Williams has been writing to Franco Mezzaluna since they were kids. But he has never written back. And now he has become a famous film star. What’s more, he is due to visit Winterworld, the Christmas theme park where Cariad works. The only problem is that she has boasted to her friends that he is her boyfriend and now everyone will find out about her lie…

  • Sunshine over Wildflower Cottage (2016) – Viv arrives at Wildflower Cottage, a tumbledown animal sanctuary, for the summer. Her job is to help with the admin, but the truth is she is here for something much closer to her heart. Geraldine runs the Wildflower Cottage sanctuary. She escaped from her past to find happiness here, but now her place of refuge is about to come under threat. Can she keep her history at bay and her future safe?
  • Queen of Wishful Thinking (2017) – When Lewis Harley has a health scare in his early forties, he takes it as a wake-up call. So he and his wife Charlotte leave behind life in the fast lane and Lewis opens the antique shop he has dreamed of. Bonnie Brookland was brought up in the antique trade and now works for the man who bought out her father’s business, but she isn’t happy there. So when she walks into Lew’s shop, she knows this is the place for her.
  • The Perfectly Imperfect Woman (2018) – Marnie Salt has made so many mistakes in her life that she fears she will never get on the right track. But when she ‘meets’ an old lady in a baking chatroom and begins confiding in her, little does she know how her life will change. Arranging to see each other for lunch, Marnie finds discovers that Lilian is every bit as mad and delightful as she’d hoped – and that she owns a whole village in the Yorkshire Dales, which has been passed down through generations. And when Marnie needs a refuge after a crisis, she ups sticks and heads for Wychwell – a temporary measure, so she thinks.

  • The Mother of All Christmases (2018) – A bit of a sequel to A Winter Flame. Eve Glace – co-owner of the theme park Winterworld – is having a baby and her due date is a perfectly timed 25th December. And she’s decided that she and her husband Jacques should renew their wedding vows with all the pomp that was missing the first time. But growing problems at Winterworld keep distracting them …
  • The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew (2019) – Sophie Mayhew looks like she has the perfect life. Wife of rising political star John F Mayhew, a man who is one step away from the top job in the government, her glamour matches his looks, power, breeding, and money. But John has made some stupid mistakes along the way, some of which are threatening to emerge. Still, all this can still be swept under the carpet as long as Sophie ‘the trophy’ plays her part in front of the cameras. But the words that come out of Sophie’s mouth one morning on the doorstep of their country house are not the words the spin doctors put in there. Bursting out of the restrictive mold she has been in since birth, Sophie flees to a place that was special to her as a child, a small village on the coast where she intends to be alone.
  • A Cat-Shaped Space (2019) – A book of poetry published to raise funds for Yorkshire Cat Rescue. Illustrated by Stuart Gibbins.

  • The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe (2020) – Lara Cliffe and her three friends are off on a mini-break for her hen party. It’s three weeks before her wedding to ’Steady Freddie’, one of the kindest men on the planet. But something is worrying Lara. Her friends say it’s wedding jitters, but she isn’t so sure. Fifteen years ago the love of her life, Danny Belfont, walked out on her three weeks before their wedding and she has never been able to fully get him out of her heart.
  • My One True North (2020) – Six months ago, on the same night, Laurie and Pete both lost their partners. Struggling to manage the grief, they join the same counseling group – and meet each other. From their sadness, Pete and Laurie find happiness growing and they sense a fresh new beginning. Except, the more they talk, the more they begin to spot the strange parallels in their stories. Then Pete discovers a truth that changes everything.
  • I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (2020) – It’s nearly Christmas and it’s snowing, hard. Deep in the Yorkshire Moors nestles a tiny hamlet, with a pub at its heart. As the snow falls, the inn will become an unexpected haven for six people forced to seek shelter there… Mary has been trying to get her boss Jack to notice her for four years, but he can only see the efficient PA she is at work. Will being holed up with him finally give her the chance she has been waiting for?

  • The Woman In The Middle (2021) – Shay Bastable is the woman in the middle. She is part of the sandwich generation – caring for her parents and her children, supporting her husband Bruce, holding them all together, and caring for them as best she can. Then the arrival of a large orange skip on her mother’s estate sets in motion a cataclysmic series of events that leads to the collapse of Shay’s world. She is forced to put herself first for a change.
  • Together, Again (2022) – Sisters Jolene, Marsha and Annis have convened at their beautiful family home, Fox House, following the death of their mother, the tricky Eleanor Vamplew. Born seven years apart, the women are more strangers than sisters. So when the sisters discover that their mother has left everything to Annis in her will, it undermines everything they thought they knew. Can saying their final goodbyes to Eleanor bring them together again?

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