Ever wondered how your friends see you now?
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 surburbia, 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 threatens to blow her marriage apart.
Punlished in 2008 by Pan Books.
I have never heard of Lucy Diamond before this book but as small background, she's married with three kids and writes children's books under her real name (Sue something).
This book was incredibly predictable. You could tell what was going to happen way before you even hit that point. I can bet you probably guessed what this book was about just from the back cover and almost exactly what was going to happen. Did that make this book any less enjoyable? Certainly not. It was fast paced, the writing style was just delightful and it had that some rather dark themes that were presented in a moving, but not deep, way.
The character devlopment was not the greatest, I have to say. At first, it was hard to distinguish two people from each other - even as the book ended, although they all had their own personality, they all seemed to talk like each other, and there was no difference. Granted, modern day and middle aged mothers all seem to have a certain way of conversation and from the perspective of an eighteen year old, childless female I could not tell any originality.
As for recommendation, I gave it a four out of five and would lend it to anyone who loves romance/comedy and light hearted, easy to read novels.
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