The Writers of Wales Database

STOVELL, CHRISTINE

Trem yr Enlli, Sarnau, Llandysul SA44 1PX
Tel: 01239 614957
Email: chrisstovell@btinternet.com
Website: www.christinestovell.co.uk

Contemporary women’s fiction writer, Christine Stovell was born in Epsom, Surrey. Winning a tin of chocolate in a national essay competition at primary school inspired her to become a writer. After graduating from UEA, she took various jobs in the public sector, writing research papers and policy notes by day and filling up her spare drawers with embryonic novels by night. Losing her dad to cancer made her realise that if she was ever going to get a novel published she had to put her writing first.

Setting off, with her husband, in a vintage wooden boat to sail from the east coast of England to the west coast of Wales provided the inspiration for her novel Turning the Tide and prompted a permanent move to Wales.

Christine is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a Member of Academi.

Reviews:
With respect to Turning The Tide (Choc Lit, 2010)

”…Refreshing, funny and romantic, Turning the Tide is like a breath of fresh sea air - perfect holiday reading with a cast of terrific characters!…”
Kate Harrison


Selected Publications:
Turning The Tide (Choc Lit, 2010)
More Over Darling (Choc Lit, Oct 2012)

Contributed to:
Strange Days Indeed (contributor) (Honno, 2007)



Turning The Tide (Choc Lit, 2010)

All’s fair in love and war? Depends on who’s making the rules.

Harry Watling has spent the past five years keeping her father’s boat yard afloat, despite its dying clientele. Now all she wants to do is enjoy the peace and quiet of her sleepy backwater.

So when property developer Matthew Corrigan wants to turn the boat yard into an upmarket housing complex for his exotic new restaurant, it’s like declaring war.

And the odds seem to be stacked in Matthew’s favour. He’s got the colourful locals on board, his hard-to-please girlfriend is warming to the idea and he has the means to force Harry’s hand. Meanwhile, Harry has to fight not just his plans but also her feelings for the man himself.  

Then a family secret from the past creates heartbreak for Harry, and neither of them is prepared for what happens next …

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More Over Darling (Choc Lit, Oct 2012)

She’s escaped to the country. He’s escaped from the country.
Who’s going to admit that home is where the heart is?

Coralie Casey doesn’t like the hand fate has dealt her so she’s taken charge of her own destiny. Setting up ‘Sweet Cleans’, her range of natural cleaning products for body and home, she wipes away the past and starts afresh in Penmorfa, a quiet coastal village in west Wales.

Gethin Lewis thinks he’s about to escape Penmorfa for good. Now an internationally-acclaimed artist living in New York, all he has to do is return to his home village one last time to wind up his father’s estate.

But the people of Penmorfa have other plans. Securing a new work from a major artist could mean a big boost for the village. And who better than Coralie to persuade Gethin to help the place that once rejected him – even if she has to go all the way to New York to seal the deal? Yet it seems everyone in Penmorfa has something to hide; as truths are uncovered which threaten to split the community apart, Coralie also has to face the fact that some stains just won’t go away.