Carrie Kabak Reviews

Updated! April 26, 2006

Cover the Butter

Author: Carrie Kabak
Publisher: Dutton Books
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: May 2006
Genre: Fiction
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 0451218353
Author Email/Website: www.coverthebutter.com
Reviewer: Ayden Delacroix
Rating: 8.25 Gargoyles

Can life begin after forty? For Kate Cadogan, it does.

Growing up with a controlling mother and a father who always agreed with her mother, Kate Cadogan relied on her devoted best friends to keep her from going completely crazy. They were her saving grace through high school and college when her mother refused to allow her to become a caterer. She was to be a teacher; if she wanted to become anything else then she no longer had a mother. College and teaching weren't all bad; she did fall head over heels in love and get engaged. Of course, her fiancé cheated on her. Overwhelmed by his betrayal, Kate moves back home to be controlled by her mother. This time she's content to be controlled. After all, controlling her showed her mother cared, didn't it?

Finally Kate meets another guy, safe and dependable. He was a bit of a sports-fanatic, but that she could live with. They get married and have one child together, a beautiful boy named Charlie. Charlie and her home become Kate's life. Raising her son, filling her house with handmade quilts and jams and jellies was fulfilling, until her son outgrew her mothering.

Returning home from a disastrous weekend with her husband, Kate is devastated to learn her son's party had gotten out of hand. There was trash everywhere and someone had peed in her kitchen. When her husband blithely ignores her and says, "Boys will be boys", she decides it's to time start over.

Divorcing her husband and breaking her parents' hold on her is much easier said than done. But when she's standing in HER kitchen in Provence, the pain was definitely worth it.

Crisp, fluid, easy-going writing and great word choices make Cover the Butter a fun, hard-to-put-down read. Kate is an easily identifiable character readers can support and cheer. With this perfect first novel, Carrie Kabak promises great things and delivers. I'm looking forward to more from this gifted author.

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