Romantic Novelist Association Awards (RoNAs) – Winners 2016
Romantic Novelist Association Awards (RoNAs) – Winners 2016
Last night, 7th March 2016, the prestigious ‘Romantic Novelist Association Awards‘, took place in a glittering ceremony in London.
The independent panellists, Matt Bates of WHSmith Travel; Sarah Broadhurst, formerly The Bookseller; novelist Elizabeth Buchan; Dorothy Burrows, Programme Director of the Wantage Literary Festival; Alison Flood, Guardian.co.uk; and Karin Stoecker, ex-Editorial Director, Harlequin Books, had the hard job of choosing just one lucky winner from each category.
There were six main categories including:-
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Contemporary Category Romantic Novel of the Year
Epic Category Romantic Novel of the Year
Historical Category Romantic Novel of the Year
Romantic Comedy Category Romantic Novel of the Year
Winner RoNA Rose Award
Winner Young Adult Category Romantic Novel of the Year
There is also an award for outstanding achievement.
Once the six winners had been selected there was an overall winner chosen to win the associations highest accolade ‘The Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year’ award.
This years winners included:-
The Wedding Cake Tree by Melanie Hudson
(Choc Lit)
Winner Contemporary Category Romantic Novel of the Year – for mainstream romantic novels set post-1960, and can include chick lit, paranormal and romantic suspense
The Wedding Cake Tree
Can a mother’s secret past provide the answers for a daughter’s future?
Celebrity photographer Grace Buchanan has always known that, one day, she’d swap her manic day job for the peace and quiet of her beloved childhood cottage, St Christopher’s – she just didn’t expect it to be so soon.
At the reading of her mother’s will, she’s shocked to learn that she hardly knew Rosamund at all, and that inheriting St Christopher’s hangs on one big – and very inconvenient – condition: Grace must drop everything for two weeks and travel the country with a mysterious stranger – war-weary Royal Marine, Alasdair Finn.
Caught in a brief but perfect moment in time, Grace and Alasdair walk in Rosamund’s footsteps and read her letters at each breathtaking new place. As Grace slowly uncovers the truth about her mother’s incredible life story, Alasdair and Grace can’t help but question their own futures.
Will Rosamund’s madcap scheme go to plan or will events take an unexpected turn? An emotional, fun-filled and adventurous journey of a lifetime.
The Secrets We Share by Emma Hannigan
(Headline Review)
Winner Epic Category Romantic Novel of the Year – for novels containing serious issues or themes, including gritty, multi-generational stories.
The Secrets we Share
Devastated after a tragedy, Nathalie Conway finds herself on a plane to Ireland. She is on her way to stay with her grandmother Clara. The grandmother up until now Nathalie had no idea existed…
As Clara awaits her granddaughter’s arrival, she is filled with a new sense of hope. She has spent the last twenty years praying her son Max would come back into her life. Perhaps now her son can find a way to forgive her for the past. And her granddaughter may be the thread to stitch the pieces of her beloved family back together.
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
(Simon & Schuster)
Winner Historical Category Romantic Novel of the Year – for novels set in a period before 1960.
Letters to the Lost
1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London… Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski meet by chance and fall in love by accident. Theirs is a reluctant, unstoppable affair in which all the odds are stacked against them: she is newly married, and he is an American bomber pilot whose chance of survival is just one in five.
He promised to love her forever.
Seventy years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, and sends a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone, and the letter is opened by Jess, a young girl hiding from problems of her own. And as Jess reads Dan’s words, she is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright and dimmed too soon. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?
Now forever is finally running out.
Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café by Milly Johnson
(Simon & Schuster)
Winner Romantic Comedy Category Romantic Novel of the Year – for consistently humorous or amusing novels.
Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café
