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Carole Matthews (1) (1957–)

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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 visa mer 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) visa färre

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Verk av Carole Matthews

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

Associerade verk

Girls' Night Out (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 225 exemplar
Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar

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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
… (mer)
½
 
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humouress | 3 andra recensioner | 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 andra recensioner | 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.… (mer)
 
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Natt90 | 1 annan recension | 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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TheReadingShed001 | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 1, 2023 |

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Statistik

Verk
39
Även av
2
Medlemmar
3,314
Popularitet
#7,721
Betyg
½ 3.3
Recensioner
99
ISBN
405
Språk
15
Favoritmärkt
2

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