Bøger af Lucy Diamond

Evie Flynn har altid været familiens sorte får – en drømmer, der i modsætning til sine ambitiøse storesøstre med deres perfekte børn og perfekte familier, aldrig rigtig har opnået noget. Hun har forsøgt sig som skuespiller, fotograf og forsanger, men nu vikarierer hun på forskellige Oxfordkontorer og lever et stillestående liv med sin pensionsopsparende kæreste, Matthew.Da hendes elskede tante Jo omkommer i en bilulykke arver hun til familiens store overraskelse tantens strandcafé i Cornwall. Evie må beslutte sig. Er det det, hun vil? Flytte til Cornwall og drive cafe? Hvad så med Matthew? Og hvad med Ed, strandcafeens yderst charmerendestamgæst …Caféen i Cornwall er en fortælling om nye begyndelser, familie og kærlighed.

Flere historier fra caféen i Cornwall er som et inderligt kram og en kop glohed chokolade at varme sig på. Lucy Diamond kunne ikke lade den uforlignelige Evie fra Caféen i Cornwall leve lykkeligt til sine dages ende uden flere besøg. Derfor skrev hun tre skønne historier, der er samlet i denne bog. Evie er stadig i caféen, og hun er bestemt lykkelig, men hendes liv byder fortsat på romantiske og komiske udfordringer. JUL I CAFÉEN Evie glæder sig til den perfekte jul i sin hyggelige café; stille aftener foran pejsen med sin nye kæreste, god tid til at skrive en kogebog og selvfølgelig masser af julebag. Men uventede gæster, snestorme og familiedramaer truer med at ødelægge Evies juledrømme. JULEGAVER Igen er Evies café den skønne ramme om en begivenhedsrig jul med juleknas af enhver slags; ulykkelige børn der skal muntres op, en forsvunden hund, og ikke mindst en intens bagedyst i landsbyen. EN BABY I CAFÉEN I den sidste fortælling har en lille ny meldt sin ankomst, og det tvinger Evie til at tage den med ro. Men hvem skal drive caféen? Hjælpen kommer i form af storbykvinden Helen, som er taget til Cornwall for at undslippe stress og jag. Desværre viser det sig hurtigt, at caféen er for lille til netop disse to kvinder.

I det elegante hus ved strandpromenaden i Brighton, bor tre lejere, der har mere tilfælles med hinanden, end de tror. Huset bliver denne sommer stedet for nye begyndelser.Georgia har fulgt sin barndomskæreste til Brighton og er fast besluttet på at lykkes som journalist. Byen byder i første omgang velkommen til Georgia med åbne arme, men der går ikke længe, før hun kommer i problemer.Charlotte kæmper med at komme igennem et hjerteskærende tab, hun har lidt. Hun vil helst bare gemmesig væk, men Margot, den stilfulde gamle dame på øverste etage, har andre planer for Charlotte.Rosa er efter en frygtelig afsløring startet på en frisk og arbejder nu med det, hun elsker mest: mad. Da hun støder på teenageren, der bor ved siden af, bliver hendes livsvalg udfordrede. Hvad hvis Rosas passion for mad kunne føre hende mere interessante steder hen?En sommer i Brighton er feelgood, når det er allerbedst. Det er en opløftende fortælling fuld af sommerfølelse om håb og venskab.

Sweet Temptation is an incredibly funny and sharply observant novel, from bestselling author Lucy Diamond.Maddie's getting it from all sides. Her bitchy new boss at the radio station humiliates her live on air about her figure, her glamour-puss mum keeps dropping not-so-subtle hints that Maddie should lose weight and her kids are embarrassed to be seen with her after the disastrous Mums' race at their school sports day. Something's got to change . . .Maddie joins the local weight-watching group expecting more humiliation but instead finds two unlikely allies -bitter divorcee Lauren who, despite running a dating agency, has signed off romance for ever and shy Jess, the beautician, who's desperate to fit into a size ten wedding dress for her Big Day.

Summer With My Sister is a fascinating tale of family secrets and hidden rivalries by bestselling author Lucy Diamond.Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and barely on speaking terms. But then Polly's fortunes change unexpectedly and her world comes crashing down. Left penniless and with nowhere else to go, she's forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters find themselves living together for the first time in years. With an old flame reappearing for Polly, a blossoming new career for Clare and a long-buried family secret in the mix, sparks are sure to fly. Unless the two women have more in common than they first thought?

Something to Tell You is a warm, heartfelt story of a family, by Sunday Times bestselling author Lucy Diamond.

One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of The Beach Cafe.Is Italian really the language of love? A new class of students hopes to find out . . .Anna's recently been told the father she's never met is Italian. Now she's baking focaccia, whipping up tiramisu and swotting up on her vocabulary, determined to make it to Italy so she can find him in person.Catherine's husband has walked out on her, and she's trying to pick up the pieces of her life. But she'll need courage as well as friends when she discovers his deception runs even deeper than infidelity.Sophie's the teacher of the class, who'd much rather be back in sunny Sorrento. She can't wait to escape the tensions at home and go travelling again. But sometimes life - and love - can surprise you when you least expect it.As the evening class gets underway, friendships form and secrets from Italy begin to emerge. With love affairs blossoming in the most unlikely places, and hard decisions to face, it's going to be a year that Anna, Catherine and Sophie will never forget.

En varm og rørende feelgood-roman om tre kvinder, der finder hinanden. I et smukt gammelt hus ved strandpromenaden i Brighton bor der tre lejere, som har mere tilfælles med hinanden, end de tror. Georgie har fulgt sin barndomskæreste til Brighton og er fast besluttet på at lykkes som journalist. Byen byder i første omgang Georgie velkommen med åbne arme, men der går ikke længe, før hun kommer i problemer. Charlotte kæmper med at komme igennem et hjerteskærende tab. Hun vil helst bare gemme sig væk, men den stilfulde ældre franske kvinde på øverste etage har andre planer for Charlotte. Rosa er efter en frygtelig afsløring startet på en frisk og arbejder nu med det, hun elsker allermest: mad. Da hun støder på teenageren, der bor ved siden af, bliver hendes valg udfordrede. Mellem de tre kvinder opstår et livsbekræftende venskab, der åbner vejen for håb og drømme.

The wonderful and heart-warming new novel from the bestselling author of The Beach Cafe and Anything Could Happen - pre-order now!

I det elegante hus ved strandpromenaden i Brighton, bor tre lejere, der har mere tilfælles med hinanden, end de tror. Huset bliver denne sommer stedet for nye begyndelser.Georgia har fulgt sin barndomskæreste til Brighton og er fast besluttet på at lykkes som journalist. Byen byder i første omgang velkommen til Georgia med åbne arme, men der går ikke længe, før hun kommer i problemer.Charlotte kæmper med at komme igennem et hjerteskærende tab, hun har lidt. Hun vil helst bare gemmesig væk, men Margot, den stilfulde gamle dame på øverste etage, har andre planer for Charlotte.Rosa er efter en frygtelig afsløring startet på en frisk og arbejder nu med det, hun elsker mest: mad. Da hun støder på teenageren, der bor ved siden af, bliver hendes livsvalg udfordrede. Hvad hvis Rosas passion for mad kunne føre hende mere interessante steder hen?En sommer i Brighton er feelgood, når det er allerbedst. Det er en opløftende fortælling fuld af sommerfølelse om håb og venskab.

The sensational and uplifting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Almost Perfect Holiday and The Beach Cafe

Evie Flynn har altid været familiens sorte får – en drømmer, der i modsætning til sine ambitiøse storesøstre med deres perfekte børn og perfekte familier, aldrig rigtig har opnået noget. Hun har forsøgt sig som skuespiller, fotograf og forsanger, men nu vikarierer hun på forskellige Oxfordkontorer og lever et stillestående liv med sin pensionsopsparende kæreste, Matthew.Da hendes elskede tante Jo omkommer i en bilulykke arver hun til familiens store overraskelse tantens strandcafé i Cornwall. Evie må beslutte sig. Er det det, hun vil? Flytte til Cornwall og drive cafe? Hvad så med Matthew? Og hvad med Ed, strandcafeens yderst charmerendestamgæst …Caféen i Cornwall er en fortælling om nye begyndelser, familie og kærlighed.

Tre hjertevarme og charmerende historier med Evie og alle de andre fra Cafeen i Cornwall– den perfekte virkelighedsflugt fra juletravlheden.

An incredibly moving novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Lucy Diamond. A novel to break your heart and put it back together again

An incredibly moving novel from the&i> Sunday Times &/i>bestselling author, Lucy Diamond. A novel to break your heart and put it back together again

An Almost Perfect Holiday is the heartwarming novel by Lucy Diamond, full of her trademark combination of humour, warmth and friendship.

An inspiring and uplifting novel from the bestselling author of The Secrets of Happiness and The House of New Beginnings.

The House of New Beginnings is a moving and uplifting novel from bestselling author Lucy Diamond.One life-changing summer . . . In an elegant Regency house near the Brighton seafront, three tenants have more in common than they know . . . A shocking revelation has led Rosa to start over as a sous chef. The work is gruelling but it's a distraction . . . until she comes up against the stroppy teenager next door who challenges her lifestyle choices. What if Rosa's passion for food could lead her to more interesting places?Having followed her childhood sweetheart down south, Georgie is busily carving out a new career in journalism. Throwing herself into the city's delights is fun, but before she knows it she's sliding headlong into all kinds of trouble . . . Nursing a devastating loss, Charlotte just wants to keep her head down. But Margot, the glamorous older lady on the top floor, has other ideas. Like it or not, Charlotte must confront the outside world, and the possibilities it still holds. As the women find each other, hope surfaces, friendships blossom and a whole new chapter unfolds for them all.

The Secrets of Happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood, from Lucy Diamond author of The Beach Cafe.The best things in life . . . can be just around the cornerRachel and Becca aren't real sisters, or so they say. They are stepsisters, living far apart, with little in common. Rachel is the successful one: happily married with three children and a big house, plus an impressive career. Artistic Becca, meanwhile, lurches from one dead-end job to another, shares a titchy flat, and has given up on love.The two of them have lost touch, but when Rachel doesn't come home one night, Becca is called in to help. Once there, she quickly realizes that her stepsister's life is not so perfect after all: Rachel's handsome husbandhas moved out, her children are rebelling, and her glamorous career has taken a nosedive. Worst of all, nobody seems to have a clue where she might be.As Becca begins to untangle Rachel's secrets, she is forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about her own life, and the future seems uncertain. But sometimes happiness can be found in the most unexpected places . . .

A Baby at the Beach Cafe is an engaging short story follow-up to Lucy Diamond's bestselling novel The Beach Cafe.Evie loves running her beach cafe in Cornwall but with a baby on the way, she's been told to put her feet up. Let someone else take over? Not likely. Helen's come to Cornwall to escape the stress of city living. She hopes a seaside life will be the answer to all her dreams. When she sees a job advertised at the cafe it sounds perfect. But the two women clash and sparks fly. . . and then events take a dramatic turn. Can the pair of them put aside their differences in a crisis?

From the bestselling author of Summer at Shell Cottage comes The Year of Taking Chances, a novel full of warmth, humour and romance. Because love is always worth the risk . . .It's New Year's Eve, and Gemma and Spencer Bailey are throwing a house party. There's music, dancing, champagne and all their best friends under one roof. It's going to be a night to remember.Also at the party is Caitlin, who has returned to the village to pack up her much-missed mum's house and to figure out what to do with her life; and Saffron, a PR executive who's keeping a secret which no amount of spin can change. The three women bond over Gemma's dodgy cocktails and fortune cookies, and vow to make this year their best one yet. But as the months unfold, Gemma, Saffron and Caitlin find themselves tested to their limits by shocking new developments. Family, love, work, home - all the things they've taken for granted are thrown into disarray. Under pressure, they are each forced to rethink their lives and start over. But dare they take a chance on something new?

Meet the women in love with three very different brothers . . . Izzy's determined to escape her troubled past with a new start by the sea - but flirtatious Charlie Jones is causing complications. Alicia's been happily married to loyal Hugh for years but secretly craves excitement. Maybe it's time to spice things up? Emma's relationship with David was once fun and romantic but trying for a baby has taken its toll. Then temptation comes along . . . As the future of the family's B&B becomes uncertain, Izzy, Alicia and Emma are thrown together unexpectedly. It seems that keeping up with the Joneses is harder than anyone thought . . . From Lucy Diamond, Me and Mr Jones is a sparkling tale of heartbreak, hope, friendship and love.

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 sleepless nights she's getting now are due to the baby. Maybe a little reinvention is the answer . . . Sadie can't resist creating a fictitious online identity for herself as a hot TV producer. It's only a bit of harmless fun . . . until truth and fantasy become dangerously tangled. It isn't long before she's wondering if the exciting alter ego she has dreamed up really is the kind of person she wants to be after all . . .Wry, funny and with a wonderful twist in the tale, Lucy Diamond's debut novel Any Way You Want Me is an enchanting story of infidelity, motherhood and friends reunited.

Hens Reunited is a humorous story of friendship and romance, from the author of The Beach Cafe, Lucy Diamond.Katie, Georgia and Alice were at each other's hen nights but now the chickens have come home to roost; their marriages have fallen apart and their friendships have been tested to the limits.Control-freak Katie has become a commitment-phobe - there's no way she wants to get married again. Is there?Ambitious Georgia always puts her career first. If anyone gets hurt, it's their look-out - right?And faithful Alice wants to make a fresh start, but can't get over her cheating ex - and Georgia's betrayal.Hearts have been broken, and feathers ruffled . . . can the hens ever be reunited?

For better. For worse. Forget him. Over You is a compelling story of friendship pushed to its limits by bestselling author Lucy Diamond. What the fans say: 'Full of friendship, family and how when life throws something at you, you have to fight back!' Emily Josie, Nell and Lisa go back a long way - they were flatmates, soulmates and best mates back in their twenties when life was one long party.Five years later, things are different. Josie is married with kids in deepest suburbia, free-spirit Nell has travelled the world, and Lisa is on the path to career glory (and the salary Premiership). A reunion weekend in London seems a great idea to Josie . . . until she discovers something which will change the course of her life forever.Praise for Lucy Diamond:'A hugely satisfying read' Heat'An absolute treat' Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea'Warm, witty and wise' Daily Mail