Kate Fenton: Never too late to find love in later life

Rowena Walsh talks to a novelist who was inspired to write a romantic comedy after falling in love again in her mid-50s

Author Kate Fenton: Falling in love in her mid-50s was like the plot of a novel.

Novelist Kate Fenton never thought that she’d fall in love in again. Widowed at the age of 55, she had been with her husband, the actor Ian Carmichael, for 25 years.

There was, she says, a spectacular age gap between the two. She was 30 when she first met Ian who was almost 35 years older.