Лучшие книги Люси Даймонд

Семейная история, которая заставит вас смеяться, негодовать, сочувствовать героям. Фрэнки Карлайл едет в Йоркшир, чтобы познакомиться со своим биологическим отцом. Девушка и не подозревала, что выбрала для этого самый неудачный день – пятидесятилетний юбилей его свадьбы. Появление Фрэнки разделило жизнь дружной семьи Мортимер на "до" и "после". Но так ли все было идеально до ее появления? Оказывается, у всех есть свои скелеты в шкафу.

В глазах окружающих и самых близких Патрик Кристофер Шеппард был замечательным отцом, мужем и сыном, которого все любили и уважали. Он был идеальным, в отличие от своего брата Дэна.

И вот Патрика не стало. Дэн всей душой хочет помочь семье пережить горе утраты.

Он обещает быть рядом. Он обещает любить и заботиться. Он обещает дать второй шанс всей семье и самому себе обрести счастье.

Но так ли идеален был его брат? И надо ли быть идеальным, чтобы сделать счастливыми своих близких?

Люси Даймонд — королева семейных драм. Ее истории уникальны, они попадают в самое сердце, дарят надежду, радость и любовь читателям по всему миру.


«Горько-сладкая история, позволяющая с открытым сердцем наблюдать за переменами в жизни семьи Шеппард, их горем и показывающая, что счастье — это самое главное». — Woman and Home

«Люси Даймонд в ее лучшем проявлении. Это потрясающий роман, который разобьет ваше сердце на мелкие кусочки, а затем снова склеит их воедино». — Милли Джонсон

«Идеальная семейная драма, персонажи которой не оставят вас равнодушными». — My Weekly

The Beach Cafe is Lucy Diamond's classic bestseller, a story of new beginnings, love and adventure. Evie Flynn has always been the black sheep of her family - a dreamer and a drifter, unlike her over-achieving elder sisters. She's tried making a name for herself as an actress, a photographer and a singer, but nothing has ever worked out. Now she's stuck in temp hell, with a sensible, pension-planning boyfriend. Somehow life seems to be passing her by. Then her beloved aunt Jo dies suddenly in a car crash, leaving Evie an unusual legacy - her precious beach cafe in Cornwall. Determined to make a success of something for the first time in her life, Evie heads off to Cornwall to get the cafe and her life back on track - and gets more than she bargained for, both in work and in love ...

If journalist Anna had to write up the story of her own life, it wouldn’t make for a great headline: Dull Journo Has Dull Boyfriend! The only mystery in Anna’s life is that she’s never known who her dad is but with her mum refusing to tell her more she’s at a dead end. When she accidentally comes across a clue that her father is Italian, it opens up a burning curiosity in Anna. Soon she’s cooking Italian food, signing up for an Italian class and even considering dusting off her passport to go and find her dad in person…

Sophie is serving gelato to tourists in Italy when she gets the call that her father has had a serious heart attack. In a rush, she grabs her well-worn backpack and heads back to the one place she’s been avoiding for so long – home. Living with her mum again while her dad recuperates, and taking a job teaching Italian to make ends meet, Sophie has to face up to the secrets she’s kept buried in the past.

Catherine has no idea what the future holds. Her children have left for university, her husband has left her for another woman and her bank account is left empty after dedicating her life to raising her family. She needs a job and an identity all of a sudden. At an Italian evening class she makes a start in finding new friends Anna and Sophie. And she’s going to need good friends when she discovers her husband’s lies run even deeper than his infidelity… As Anna embarks on the trip to Italy that could answer all of her questions, will the truth live up to her dreams?

Treasure every moment. Life can change in a heartbeat.

What the fans say: 'Wonderful characters and the stories are always great, with twists and turns' Gemma

It’s a beautiful day in Manchester and four friends are meeting for a birthday lunch. But then they witness a shocking accident just metres away which acts as a catalyst for each of them.

For Laura, it’s a wake-up call to heed the ticking of her biological clock. Sensible Jo finds herself throwing caution to the wind in a new relationship. Eve, who has been trying to ignore the worrying lump in her breast, feels helpless and out of control. And happy-go-lucky India is drawn to one of the victims of the accident, causing long-buried secrets to rise to the surface.

This is a novel about the startling and unexpected turns life can take. It’s about luck – good and bad – and about finding bravery and resilience when your world is in turmoil. Above all, it’s about friendship, togetherness and hope.

Praise for Lucy Diamond:
'A hugely satisfying read' Heat
'Full of emotion and insight - it really makes you think' Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea
'Warm, witty and wise' Daily Mail

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?

A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. Beach fun, barbecues and warm summer evenings with a cocktail or two - who could ask for more?

But this year, everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces. Then she makes a shocking discovery that turns her world upside down.

As a busy mum and GP, Freya's used to having her hands full, but a bad day at work has put her career in jeopardy and now she's really feeling the pressure.

Harriet's looking forward to a break with her lovely husband Robert and teenage daughter Molly. But unknown to Harriet, Robert is hiding a secret - and so, for that matter, is Molly . . .

Your big secret is out. What next?
For Lara and her daughter Eliza, it has always been just the two of them. But when Eliza turns eighteen and wants to connect with her father, Lara is forced to admit a secret that she has been keeping from her daughter her whole life.
Eliza needs answers - and so does Lara. Their journey to the truth will take them on a road trip across England and eventually to New York, where it all began. Dreams might have been broken and opportunities missed, but there are still surprises in store...
Anything Could Happen is a warm, wise, funny and uplifting novel about love, second chances and the unexpected and extraordinary paths life can take us down.

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.

Yılbaşı gecesi Gemma ile Spencer yeni evlerinde bir parti verirler. En iyi dostlarını müzik, dans ve şampanya eşliğinde aynı çatı altında bir araya getirirler. Bu gece hepsi için unutulmaz anlarla dolu olacaktır.

Yeni yitirdiği ve çok özlediği annesinin eşyalarını toparlamak ve hayatını nasıl sürdüreceğine karar vermek için kısa bir süre önce yuvasına geri dönen Caitlin ile kimselerle paylaşmadığı bir sırrı olan halkla ilişkiler uzmanı Saffron da konuklar arasındadır. Hiçbir ortak yanları olmayan bu üç kadın, Gemma'nın tehlikeli kokteylleri ve şans kurabiyeleri eşliğinde bu yılın hayatlarının en iyi yılı olacağına yemin ederler.

Ne var ki gelecek aylarda yaşanan beklenmedik tatsız gelişmeler yüzünden Gemma, Saffron ve Caitlin kendilerini zorlu mücadelelerin içinde bulurlar. Aile, aşk, iş, yuva - o güne dek hiç sorgulamadan yaşamlarının birer parçası olarak gördükleri her şeyi yitirme tehlikesiyle karşı karşıyadırlar. Her üçü de yaşamlarını yeniden gözden geçirmek ve yeni bir başlangıç yapmak zorundadır. Ama acaba ellerindeki şansı değerlendirme cesaretini gösterebilecekler midir?

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"Eğlenceli, neşeli ve akıllıca." Katie Fforde "Son derece keyifli bir roman." Miranda Dickinson "Bayıldım!" Milly Johnson

New beginnings and an old flame. Summer just got hotter...
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?

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...

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?

The McKenzies are your average complicated family: knotted together by in-jokes, arguments and a few closely-guarded secrets. Thirty-something sisters Leni and Alice became inseparable following the divorce of their parents, Belinda and Tony, with younger brother Will always trying to keep up. They're not perfect, but they love each other - most of the time, anyway.
But then one ordinary summer day, an accident changes the family forever. Questions arise, guilt surfaces and secrets begin to emerge. Scattered by grief and seeking comfort in the unlikeliest of places, can the McKenzies find their way back to each other?
Set over the course of one life-changing year, The Best Days of Our Lives is a warm, big-hearted and poignant story, full of hope, heartache and love.

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.

When faced with the sudden death of his brother, Dan’s mission is clear. He puts together a project to help pick up the pieces and support his grieving sister-in-law Zoe, plus her young children. This is Dan’s promise - to ensure his family’s happiness, and to try and live up to the man his brother was. But tying up loose ends brings a shocking secret to light, and calls into question everything Dan knew about his older brother. With more than just his promise on the line, Dan is faced with an ultimatum: Should he tell the truth and risk his family’s fragile happiness, or will his brother’s secrets end up becoming his own?

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?

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. ‘Sassy, sexy and very funny, this is a great novel about following your fantasies – and then facing up to the consequences’ Kate Harrison, bestselling author of The Brown Owl’s Guide to Life, The Self-Preservation Society and, most recently, The Secret Shopper’s Revenge.

The best things in life . . . can be just around the corner

Rachel 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 husband
has 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 . . .

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, Any Way You Want Me is an enchanting novel of infidelity, motherhood and friends reunited that heralds the debut of a lovely new voice in fiction.