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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- 1957
- Geslacht
- female
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- Land (voor op de kaart)
- England, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
Tattenhoe, Milton Keynes, England, UK - Beroepen
- secretary
aromatherapist
television presenter
romantic novelist - Relaties
- Stokes, Kevin Neil (partner)
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- Lizzy Kremer (David Higham Associates)
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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.
But I still enjoyed the rest of the story.
(June 2023)
3.5 stars… (meer)