I bought this because it was number two in the Kindle rankings, and because it kept popping up in my recommended list. It's a feel-good beach read thing, I'd say, and to be honest it was a bit too feel good twee for me. It did exactly what it said on the tin. It was well-written, it was full of n...
I picked this book up free from a 'take a book leave a book' shelf, and thought it looked like a good chicklit novel to pass the time with.I'ts a good book, one of the few chicklit novels I've read lately that didn't leave me wanting to strangle someone. It was well written, mostly believable and...
Firstly, the plot. Evie is different to the rest of her family. A bit of a dreamer, some might even go so far as to say flighty, Evie has never really settled at anything. So when her beloved Aunt dies, leaving her a café in Cornwall, she is doubtful as to whether she can run it. She couldn't...
A light hearted and easygoing read for any chick lit fans, although romantics would be likely enjoy it too. I probably wouldn't have thought to buy this book as something I planned to read, but it was part of a Galaxy promotion so I thought 'Why not?' Once I started reading I struggled to put it ...
This is an enjoyable easy read. I would have given it four stars but the treatment of fatness jarred with me a bit. I know it can be a health issue and one of the main characters was certainly too big, but it all just felt a bit as if losing weight was the answer to everyone's problems. I realise...
Summer with my Sister is the first of Lucy’s Diamond’s books that I have read. I wanted a quick, easy read and it didn’t disappoint.The story focuses on Polly, an unlikeable character who finds herself at the top of her game working in ‘The City’ making unspeakable amounts of money. Inevitably sh...
This book is a perfect summer holiday read: a sweet story of family values leaving you with a satisfied smile on your face. The storyline might seem a bit simple and sometimes predictable but there are a few heart wrenching hidden secrets to keep you interested. I really enjoyed the way your opin...
I loved The Beach Cafe by Lucy Diamond last year and so it didn't take much persuading for me to buy her recent release Summer with my Sister.It is quite clear from early on in this book that the two main characters Polly and Clare are two polls apart and they clearly do not get on and yet they a...
On paper, Sadie's got it all - the partner, the children, the house. But in real life, that doesn't feel quite enough. Sadie can't help harking back to the time when she was a career woman by day and a party animal by night. And what happened to feeling like a sex kitten, anyway? The only sleeple...
Lucy Diamond is an author I always look out for and I was super excited when I heard about Christmas At The Beach Café. Why? You might ask, well firstly CHRISTMAS and secondly, a follow up to The Beach Café! What more could you want?! (oh and a gorgeous cover too!)We re-join Evie and Ed at The Be...
Now you can write yourself some really lovely fortunes – such as All your dreams will come true; This will be your best year ever – and cheer yourself up when you need a little boost. Alternatively, if you’re an idiot like me, you can ask your children to write some random ones, and will end up w...
The boys made a new friend each at school and stopped looking quite so tired. Josie was loving her course, and had already had a raucous night out with a bunch of the other students. And she and Pete . . . Well. Things had moved from civil to positively matey, actually. He’d come round one evenin...
You made it – oh, both of you!’ Francesca said, holding her hands up in surprise. ‘Do you two know each other?’‘We do,’ I said, smiling from her to Lauren. ‘Hi again. Did you have a nice honeymoon?’‘The best,’ she said with a dreamy sort of sigh. She was tanned a deep brown and looked effortlessl...
Wait!’She was pounding along the street, the warmth of the pub fading from her cheeks, the shout only dimly registering in her brain amid a tangle of swirling worries. Typical, wasn’t it, the one night she dared go out and her daughter fell ill. The one night she wasn’t there, guarding her babies...
Alfie Stewart, one of her problem Year 10s, had been lippy and aggressive throughout the entire double lesson that morning. Usually she had him on a very tight rein, not letting him get away with a single word out of line. Usually she was more than a match for his oafish comments and rudeness, an...
His face was frozen and an awful groaning sound gurgled up from his lungs. In a single moment, Christmas was over.There was a beat of stunned silence then the room erupted into full-blown chaos, voices rising in uncontrolled hysteria, the children bursting into frightened tears. Trish and Sophie ...
She was frowning, still puzzling over the strange thing she’d seen on her way down. She’d stopped for petrol near Ilminster, but, as she slowed to park at one set of pumps, she’d been certain that David’s brother Hugh was getting into his car beside the pumps opposite. She waved and smiled – coin...
I guessed that lots of families had gone home, with work and school starting the following Monday.It felt rather like clearing up after a house party, taking down the fairy lights and putting away the candles and vases from the night before. I bundled up the tablecloths to go into the washing mac...
‘It’s going to be, like, so tragically boring and tedious, Mum. Can’t I just stay here?’ Do I have to? seemed to be Molly’s default setting these days, especially if it involved doing anything as a family. Harriet could feel her daughter pulling away all the time, a kite on a string impatient to ...