Correct Author name is JILL MANSELL
This was my first Mansell book and it was a lot of fun. It's British so if you are not, it might take a while to understand the slang. Unfortunately I have read a few more books by her and they are almost exactly the same. Same characters, same background stories, same plotlines, but they just have different names. So just read it for what it is, fluff stories to pass the time.
The book drug on and on, but then it felt like when Mansell decided to end it she just dropped an ending right in without much thought or anything else. It just felt all off. I liked Tilly and Jack, but most of the other characters I could have done without (especially Stella). They felt like just fluff, just something trying