Josie Silver Books in Order

If you want the big breakout love story: One Day in December → A Winter in New York
If you want romance with grief and second chances: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird → One Night on the Island
If you want a playful, behind-the-scenes rom-com: Slow Burn Summer
If you want paranormal romance and cozy ghost cases: Crazy Spooky Love → Kooky Spooky Love → Merry Spooky Love

Josie Silver grew up around Wolverhampton in England's West Midlands, and she still lives there today. That grounded Midlands background feels close to the heart of her fiction. Even when her stories head to snowy London, a remote Irish island, or New York in winter, they tend to keep one foot in ordinary life, with messy friendships, family ties, and people trying to work out who they are.

For a long time, writing was something she built steadily rather than all at once. A real turning point came in 2009, when she placed second in the annual Mills and Boon writing competition. She has also spoken about finding early encouragement in romance-writing forums and an online critique group, which gives her career a practical, work-it-out feel that suits the books themselves.

She spent years learning the job before the name Josie Silver became widely known. Before that wider breakout, she had already published romance under other names, slowly figuring out pace, voice, and emotional timing. That long apprenticeship shows. Her books are easy to sink into, but they are carefully built, with strong hooks, clean setups, and characters who feel like real adults rather than plot machinery.

Then One Day in December changed everything.

That novel, built around Laurie spotting a man through a bus window and later discovering he is her best friend Sarah's boyfriend, became a major word-of-mouth success and a Reese's Book Club pick. It also made Silver a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and the book has been published in more than twenty-five languages. Readers came for the romantic premise, but many stayed for the ache of the timing, the long stretch of almosts, and the way friendship matters just as much as the love story.

She followed it with The Two Lives of Lydia Bird, which starts in deep grief and then opens into a tender, strange story about memory, loss, and the pull between past and future. In One Night on the Island, she puts a London dating columnist and a Boston man in the same one-room cabin on a remote Irish island, using the rom-com setup to talk about self-worth, home, and starting over. A Winter in New York adds food, family history, and a secret gelato recipe, while Slow Burn Summer leans more playful, with an actress pretending to be a novelist on a summer book tour.

She likes a big emotional premise, but she usually keeps the feeling underneath very human. Her books are romantic and often funny, yet they make plenty of room for sisters, best friends, parents, exes, and the practical clutter of adult life. Readers who want cozy settings with a bit of real ache usually do well with her.

More recently, she has shown a different side with the Melody Bittersweet books, including Crazy Spooky Love and Kooky Spooky Love. These paranormal rom-coms follow a ghostbuster from a family of spirit-sensitive women, and they let Silver have fun with haunted houses, local gossip, and a love life that refuses to stay simple. Even with ghosts in the mix, the familiar draw is still there: warmth, chemistry, and characters trying to grow into better versions of themselves.

She still lives in the UK with her husband, their sons, and an ever-changing cast of animals. It feels fitting. Her fiction returns again and again to love, yes, but also to comfort, home, second chances, and the strange routes people take before they finally arrive where they belong.