Melissa Jane Nathan (13 June 1968 – 7 April 2006) was a journalist for a decade before she began writing comedy romance novels in 1998, including The Nanny (2003) which featured in The Sunday Times' Top Ten.
[1] For the first ten years of her career she was sub-editor for Prima Magazine, feature writer for Women's Weekly and contributor to The Jewish Chronicle.
It's what makes people smile mistily at me, as if I'm fading in front of their very eyes while telling knock-knock jokes.
[7] Alongside Nathan's husband, judges have included Joanna Trollope, Jo Brand, Sophie Kinsella, Morwenna Banks and Liza Tarbuck.
[10] In 2008 Last Letters to Loved Ones by Rose Rouse featured Nathan's dedication pages from her final book in the chapter titled Death Draws Near for the Fatally Ill.[11]