Since November 2009Author of the Week: Carole Matthews
Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 by Leah
This week’s author of the week is the hugely-talented & successful Carole Matthews. She has had 15 novels published and has her 16th novel, That Loving Feeling, out in September. Her novels include: For Better, For Worse, The Sweetest Taboo, The Chocolate Lovers Club & The Chocolate Lovers Diet and All You Need Is Love.
Carole Matthews is an international bestselling author of hugely successful romantic comedy novels. Her unique sense of humour has won her legions of fans and critical acclaim all over the world. Carole has presented on television and is a regular radio guest. When she’s not writing novels, television or film scripts she manages to find time to trek in the Himalayas, rollerblade in Central Park, take tea in China and snooze in her garden shed in Milton Keynes which is near 
London, England.
I love Carole’s style of writing - the way she writes chapters in first person and then chapters in third person. I wasn’t a fan of her earlier novels (Lets Meet on Platform 8, A Compromising Position, A Whiff of Scandal and More to Life Than This) but have enjoyed most of hers I’ve read since then. My favourite are the Chocolate Lovers Club and Chocolate Lovers Diet, they were both brilliant novels. From her stand-alone novels I enjoyed The Sweetest Taboo. I have All You Need is Love and Welcome to the Real World in my to-read pile also.
Carole’s next book, as I said, is out September 17th and is called That Loving Feeling. The synopsis reads: Juliet Joyce has been happily married for twenty-five years. But with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a seventy-year-old mother who’s just moved in and a father who’s announced he’s gay it’s hardly surprising that her relationship with her husband Rick is beginning to suffer.
Juliet’s resigned to the fact that the only romance she’s going to get is from the pages of her library books, so nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Aubrey. Last seen twenty-six years ago, when he jilted Juliet on their wedding day, he ignites a passion in her that she thought was long gone. But will Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling that they’ve lost? There’s only one way to find out…
The cover hasn’t been released yet. It should be a good one, I love Carole’s latest cover designs and I love her books.
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