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Carole Matthews (1) (1957–)

Auteur van The Chocolate Lovers' Club

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Carole Matthews is a British romantic comedy writer, born in St. Helens, Merseyside. She attended Champneys College. She has worked as a secretary, ice-cream lady, television presenter, beauty therapist, and freelance writer. She is the author of 29 books, with five becoming bestsellers on the toon meer Sunday Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Her novel, A Compromising Position, was adapted into a film. Let's Meet on Platform 8 was her first novel. Her later work includes A Place to Call Home, The Christmas Party, The Cake Shop in the Garden, The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas, The Chocolate Lovers' Wedding, and Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses. In 2015, she was awarded the Romantic Novelists' Association Outstanding Achievement Award. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Carole Matthews

The Chocolate Lovers' Club (2007) 314 exemplaren
For Better, For Worse (2000) 298 exemplaren
With or Without You (2004) 219 exemplaren
Let's Meet on Platform 8 (1997) 199 exemplaren
The Sweetest Taboo (2003) 153 exemplaren
The Chocolate Lovers' Diet (2007) 143 exemplaren
The Scent of Scandal (1998) 142 exemplaren
Welcome to the Real World (2006) 136 exemplaren
A Minor Indiscretion (2001) 135 exemplaren
Bare Necessity (2003) 128 exemplaren
More To Life Than This (1999) 108 exemplaren
The Cake Shop in the Garden (1776) 88 exemplaren
A Cottage by the Sea (2013) 83 exemplaren
It's a Kind of Magic (2008) 79 exemplaren
You Drive Me Crazy (2005) 76 exemplaren
It's Now or Never (2010) 73 exemplaren
A Compromising Position (2002) 72 exemplaren
Calling Mrs Christmas (2013) 66 exemplaren
The Difference a Day Makes (2009) 65 exemplaren
All You Need Is Love (2008) 59 exemplaren
With Love at Christmas (1600) 54 exemplaren
A Place to Call Home (2014) 53 exemplaren
Wrapped Up In You (1800) 52 exemplaren
The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas (2015) 50 exemplaren
That Loving Feeling (2009) 48 exemplaren
Happiness for Beginners (2019) 45 exemplaren
The Only Way is Up (2010) 45 exemplaren
Summer Daydreams (2012) 44 exemplaren
The Christmas Party (2014) 43 exemplaren
Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses (1916) 42 exemplaren
Million Love Songs (2018) 41 exemplaren
The Chocolate Lovers' Wedding (2016) 40 exemplaren
Christmas for Beginners (2020) 25 exemplaren
Winter Warmers (2012) 23 exemplaren
A Christmas Wish (2013) 4 exemplaren

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{stand alone. chick-lit, romance} (2008)

Fern works as a barmaid and in between pulling pints at the King’s Head she sings in the pub, accompanied by her best friend Carl. She’s struggling to make ends meet because she also tries to help out her brother Joe who is a single parent to six year old Nathan who has bad asthma. Then she gets a temping job as assistant to world famous opera star, Evan David, and at the same time she and Carl try out for the TV talent show Fame Game.

On the whole, I found this a gentle book. I liked Fern’s story and the way her family was described. I can relate to her exasperation with her parents who have been married so long they tend to take each other for granted and one snaps at the other while the other is rather oblivious. She got young Nathan right; he’s not a martyr or annoying or sickly sweet. The ending was a bit of a fairytale and a bit sudden after all her struggles - but that’s why we read, right; for the happily-ever-after.

But I didn’t buy the romance; it seemed shoehorned in afterwards and you can still see the gaps. The obligatory ‘misunderstanding’ was … I’m not sure how to describe it. Flimsy? Non existent? Embarrassing on Fern’s part, yes. But there was no attempt to mitigate it and only a half-hearted attempt to explain it to her and trying to build the suspense by keeping the reader in the dark failed miserably. I could have done without the last chapter, myself. I was hoping, right upto the end, that she’d pick the other one and I really don’t get why she didn’t. There was no reason (apart from surface insta-attraction) or even chemistry shown for her to pick the one that she did.

But I still enjoyed the rest of the story.

(June 2023)
3.5 stars
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humouress | 3 andere besprekingen | Aug 19, 2023 |
I honestly cannot remember this book. I know it's about four women and their problem. Ive started it three times and it always falls away from me. Not going to try again.
 
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Reenz38 | 4 andere besprekingen | May 6, 2023 |
Anna Terry jamás pensó que podría volver a enamorarse, y menos en el despacho del abogado al que acude para pedir el divorcio. Su primer marido la abandonó antes de que diera a luz, y el segundo acaba de desaparecer dejándola con un niño de dos años, una hija adolescente y una cuenta corriente en números rojos. Nick Diamond tampoco ha tenido mucha suerte: su mujer, una estricta vegetariana, se ha fugado con un carnicero, y su negocio se está yendo a pique. Anna se resiste a la atracción que siente por Nick, sin embargo, todo se desata cuando comienza a trabajar para él como su secretaria.… (meer)
 
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Natt90 | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 24, 2023 |
I loved every page of this book. It had it all. Fun. Romance. Tears and a Fabulous story.
I read this book over a weekend and it really brightened up a dreary time. The characters were well written, the cover, I adored.
Everyone needs at least one Carole Matthews on their bookshelf.
 
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Werken
39
Ook door
2
Leden
3,314
Populariteit
#7,721
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½ 3.3
Besprekingen
99
ISBNs
405
Talen
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Favoriet
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