Tailleur strict, coiffure sophistiquée et talons vertigineux, Polly ne vit que pour son travail dans une grande compagnie financière de la City de Londres. Un poste pour lequel elle a tout sacrifié, sans s'octroyer une seule journée de congés, ni soirée de détente en quinze ans. Aussi, quand elle es...
Evie Flynn a toujours été le mouton noir de sa famille si parfaite : une rêveuse, vagabonde dans l'âme, contrairement à ses soeurs aînées. Elle s'est d'abord rêvée actrice, puis photographe et chanteuse, mais sans grand succès. Lassée de ces échecs, elle s'est construit une vie raisonnable : entre ...
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-plann...
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...
A Christmas short story from bestselling author Lucy Diamond, revisiting her Beach Café characters. After a hectic summer running her beach café in Cornwall, Evie Flynn is looking forward to her first Christmas with new boyfriend Ed - she's determined that it's going to be the most perfectly romanti...
Is Mr Jones really Mr Right? 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 e...
With her Cornish Beach Café closed for the winter, Evie Flynn should be looking forward to lazy days and a happy Christmas, with nothing more pressing to think about than when to have her next mince pie.But her sister Ruth is coming to stay, in a cloud of heartbreak and bitterness following her marr...
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 pac...
Summer at Shell Cottage is another delightful summer read from Lucy Diamond, author of the bestselling The Beach Café. 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 ...
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 s...
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 th...
Number 11, Dukes Square, looks just like the other houses on the Brighton seafront: a Regency terrace with elegant sash windows, a winding staircase, and post piled up in the hall for its tenants. It might be part of the city's history, but it's also a place of brand new beginnings. Georgie has foll...
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' GemmaIt's a beautiful day in Manchester and four friends are meeting for a birthday lunch. But then they witness a shocking accident just metres awa...
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Pour le sourire d'Hannah, Lucy Clark Depuis qu'elle élève seule sa petite Hannah, Lorelai n'a guère eu l'occasion de songer à ses propres sentiments. Mais aujourd'hui, elle est impatiente, émue, troublée. Car le Dr Moon-Pie est de retour, pour faire un remplacement dans le cabinet médical où elle t...
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 c...
On paper, Sadies got it all the partner, the children, the house. But in real life, that doesnt feel quite enough. Sadie cant 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 nigh...
Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous 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 cant stand each other. But then Pollys fortunes unexpectedly change an...
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...
Maddie’s getting it from all sides. Her bitchy new boss at the radio station humiliates her live on air about her figure, her glamourpuss mum keeps dropping notsosubtle hints that Maddie should lose weight and her kids are embarrassed to be seen with her after the disastrous Mums’ race at their scho...