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Carving out her new career as an author (as well as being a happy newlywed), BBC star Carol Kirkwood’s life is far from boring…
National treasure Carol Kirkwood is well-known for her warm presenting style on BBC One – as well as the occasional hilarious live blunder (who could forget the time she was dragged to the floor by a dog at the Chelsea Flower Show?), but she’s now also proving to be a very popular novelist!
The Breakfast weather presenter released her first Summer page-turner – Under A Greek Moon – in 2021, and has since followed it up with The Hotel On The Riviera and Secrets Of The Villa Amore, proving to be the perfect writer of romance.
Later this year, Carol – who is in a real bubble of joy herself after marrying hubby Steve Randall (a police officer, 13 years her junior) – will release yet another juicy tale, Once Upon A Time In Venice, and fans can hardly wait!
So, what is the secret to writing a bestseller?
‘My books are about escapism,’ she explained. ‘They’re set in glamorous locations with glamorous people – they have intrigue as well as romance. They’re not straightforward books – I have some really fruity characters’ she explained.
‘It’s liberating to write because you can take your characters anywhere you want, and they can be anyone you want them to be!’
Talking about her own love story, Carol, now 61, added, ‘The joy in finding l
