After reading my first Lucy Diamond book I decided I needed to play catch up and read all those she had written as she fast became one of my favourite authors.

I love a book where you are hooked right from the start don’t you? And this book was one of those. I greedily ate up the pages desperate to find out more about the lives and secrets of the four friends who feature in the story: India, Eve, Laura and Jo whose lives were each affected in different ways following a traumatic accident that they witnessed yards from where they were having lunch to celebrate India’s birthday.

It takes a special talent for an author to make you feel that you are there in the book but I was able to vividly picture what each of the girls (and their family members) would look like and I could almost hear the bustle of their surroundings in more than one scene.

All in all a fantastic book and one I will definitely recommend. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC.

When a Lucy Diamond book comes out, it’s a drop everything moment. Her ever relatable heroines with lives like our own leap out of the page with their stories of sadness, tragedy, hurt and suffering. Yet her humour and sense of hope always shine through. On A Beautiful Day offers all of this and more - I loved it. Uplifting, comforting, funny, warm and full of heart, it’s another classic dose of dazzling Diamond.

Another fantastic book from Lucy. Great strory with strong friendships

HAVE always enjoyed Lucy’s books and this one is no different. Had me hooked and read in one sitting. Delving into the lives of four very good friends, well done ! Loved it

Oh I love Lucy Diamond. I really really do. So when I saw her newest book available through Netgalley, I immediately snatched it up. Her novels are always so incredibly comforting to me. They might not be the most complex or the most thought provoking, but they make you laugh, they make you cry, and they make you consider life in a greater context. Thank you to Netgalley and Pan Macmillian for supplying me with an e-arc of this book.

'On A Beautiful Day' follows four women who are witness to a horrific crash in the centre of Manchester, which leaves several people dead and a huge number injured. The women are lucky enough to survive, but the crash forces them to reconsider their own lives and the problems they face in love, health, life and their pasts.

Like all Lucy Diamond books, this novel is concerned with human relationships and how we act around each other, and I feel like this is perhaps her most social connected novel yet. When I first started reading this novel, I thought it was going to be based around a terrorist attack, especially after the number of attacks in Manchester and London, but the crash itself was enough to set off a dramatic premise for this book.

Obviously, I couldn't really connect to a lot of these women because I'm not necessarily the target audience, and all the women were between 30-40 years old (of which I am not). I just think that this book was sweet as sugar and really had some adorable moments. I ate this book up in a handful of sittings, despite its length. A definite recommend for anyone who wants something cute and sweet to read by the time this book comes out.

I loved this book! Centred around four friends who have very different lives but share a strong friendship the book explores many issues in a very real and thoughtful way. Relationships, families, health issues,untold secrets are all wound into the fabric of the book and Lucy's understanding of human relationships is very evident.

I loved all the characters and couldn't stop reading until l found out what would happen to each of them.
A beautiful read and one I would recommend wholeheartedly.

Thanks to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for the opportunity to read this brilliant book

India, Jo, Laura and Eve are meeting for lunch to celebrate India’s birthday when an out of control van comes hurtling towards them. At the last minute the van changes course and smashes into a florist. The woman are unhurt but shocked and the accident has them looking at the problems within their own lives and the way they deal with them.

This is an excellent book with interesting characters, each woman has a different dilemma to overcome and the way they help each other through is heartwarming.

Eve who likes to be in control has her life turned upside down by health issues. India has a dark secret from the past that comes back to haunt her. Laura’s marriage is crumbling but is countered by something she has wished for. Jo who is recovering from a marriage break up and the beginnings of a new relationship.

This book had me hooked from the start. A great story about friendship with touches of humour which I recommend.

This novel focuses on 4 woman of about 40 years of age who are each experiencing different crises in their lives. The incident at the beginning of the story leads some of them to re-evaluate their situations and other events also impact on them.

This is a story of families, love, heartache and friendships and how these shape our existence. The characters were good and the story quite believable and well told. High class chick-lit and worth a read.

Four women meet for lunch on a beautiful day in Manchester, when a catastrophic event happens very close to them, which will affect each of them to varying degrees.

Eve’s carefully managed life is about to be derailed by something she can’t control.

Recently divorced Jo’s new relationship hits a major stumbling block.

Laura’s desperate to get pregnant, but is her husband really on side?

And India’s still haunted by something that happened a long time ago, newly fresh in her mind thanks to the consequences of the accident.

As we follow each woman in the following months, each has her life turned upside down in unexpected ways.

I did have trouble remembering which woman was which initially, and I’m not sure I ever completely got to grips with which husband and children belonged to who.

Lucy Diamond always delivers a very engaging read and this is no exception, with likeable characters and relatable storylines. I really enjoyed reading it.

Wonderful book, lovely story of friendship and relationships, I really enjoyed this and would recommend.

If you know me personally and have ever asked me for a book recommendation, you'll will know that I have nothing but great things to say about Lucy Diamond. So obviously when I saw her latest release available to request on netgalley I jumped at it! When I got the email to tell me I'd be accepted, you'd have thought I'd won the lottery (my hubby can back this up) I was delighted!!
From the description:
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."


If I wasn't busy running after Char, I easily could have read this book in one sitting!! Each lady's storyline had me gripped and I truly felt like I was one of the gang. The characters were so relatable and this felt like it could actually be a memoir of 4 real life ladies! That's what I love about Lucy, although she writes fiction, it's never fluffy and there are no raised eyebrow 🤨 "yeah right" moments!

All in all - I laughed. I cried. I loved it! It's out on 11th of January and if you want to read a heartwarming book to pick yourself up from the post Christmas blues, I highly recommend this one! It's available to pre order here.

5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟