When you pick up The Best Medicine by Charlotte Fallowfield prepare you self for many things; the sudden urge for pizza, the need to have a hefty first aid kit handy, and laughing SO much, and you might need to invest in Tena lady!

From the moment you start reading The Best Medicine, you cannot help but relate to Charlie! She is us, at our core! A pizza, and book loving author, that is accident prone, but she is also a workaholic, whom has the heart of gold, who craves love, but doesn't recognize it, even if she got it tattooed on her butt! But her key achievement, is her discovery of Pizza Man! The best superhero in the world!

The Best Medicine is truly another home run for this author, whose Dilbury series seriously out of this world funny! The writing and plot are superb! And you too will fall in love with the characters, and this little town.

I give The Best Medicine 5 stars!

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Some people have personal chefs, some people have personal trainers. I want a personal author, and it must be Charlotte Fallowfield: "Write up a little something for me, will you? I desperately need a good laugh or a good cry or some sexy romance." Yes, she's that good, and yes, I want her to write for me at my whim.

The Best Medicine is the third entry in the Dilbury Village series of romantic comedy novels by Charlotte Fallowfield. And, oh, what a clever girl she is. Each new book is like a walk down memory lane, but with an improved prescription for your glasses so you see things you missed or didn't know were there. She expertly weaves in the adventures of the latest cottage dweller - this time it's Charlie in Jasmine Cottage, with a perfect, though through those new eyes, retelling of what started with Abbie in Holly Cottage and continued with Georgie in Ivy Cottage. So here I am, loving learning all of Charlie's story in Jasmine Cottage (and already fingers and toes crossed about who I want her to be with) while getting to relive Abbie's and Georgie's adventures - well, misadventures and antics is probably more accurate. And I know full well that, yes, I am going to re-read Never the Bride and The Great Escape right after I finish The Best Medicine, at which time I'll probably read it again, too. Just like I had to go back and cry and laugh and snort with Abbie while reading Georgie's story for the first time, it's going to be the same with Charlie. And side note - I am in awe - how does she do it? Funny, sad, romantic, sexy (sigh…think of Miller, Weston, Kitt….), can't-put-it-down AND all the stories perfectly woven together.

If you aren't convinced and haven't stopped reading this review and moved to Dilbury yet, how about this? Calling Charlie accident-prone doesn't even begin to cover it. She managed to - wait, no, I can't tell you the details, much too funny and would spoil everything - but she had no fewer than 13 little accidents in the course of this story and still lived to tell about it. Thank goodness for McFitty (hot factor ten, sense of humor zero) and Pizzaman (smells like oregano). The author says she had these "mishaps" herself, just over a longer period of time. No, I wouldn't laugh at someone's misfortune and pain. Yes I would.

In addition to Abbie and Georgie and Charlie and all the hot guys, Daphne of the bossy, outrageous comments and Quinn from the US still learning just what all these Brit words and expressions mean are back. Think of courgette; I had to look up.

Charlie is still writing her very successful erotic novels and is still her lovable unfiltered, ungraceful self, saying out loud whatever pops into her head: "You'd be amazed at my mental capacity for kink and explicit erotica." or "Say you just found me dead on the floor, waiting for an undertaker."

I love everything about these books and everybody in Dilbury Village, and I especially love this stuff, "I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him even closer, so close not even a page of descriptives of the most perfect kiss I'd ever been a recipient of could come between us." Even though I read this book straight through as I always do when visiting Dilbury Village, I probably took a lot longer than necessary to finish, since I kept reading the good parts over and over (and yes, I confess, over), which was a lot of re-reading since they are all good parts.

I received a copy of The Best Medicine from the author. I highly, definitely, positively recommend you read it right now. And. Charlotte, get going with our trip to Honeysuckle Cottage please. ( )