Titles by Jane Fallon, Katie Fforde and Lucy Diamond have been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance 2011.
Fallon was shortlisted for Foursome (Penguin), Fforde for A Perfect Proposal (Random House) and Diamond for Sweet Temptation (Pan Macmillan). The six-strong list is completed by Getting Over Mr Right by Chrissy Manby (Hodder), Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Pan Macmillan) and Obstacles to Young Love by the only man on the shortlist, David Nobbs (HarperCollins).
The winner will be announced at a gala evening on 21st June. The judges this year are writer and comedienne Jo Brand, novelists Joanna Trollope and Sophie Kinsella, screenwriter/actor Morwenna Banks, actor and presenter Liza Tarbuck and Freya Writer, book buyer for Waitrose.
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