The Best Days of Our Lives: the big-hearted and uplifting new novel from the bestselling author of Anything Could Happen

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This leads to all sorts of complications as the months progress the family become ever more fractured.

Some characters are loveable from the start, some grow on you as you go through the story, and absolutely nobody is perfect. Deeply moving but ultimately uplifting, you won't regret reading this * Katie Fforde * Wise, moving and heart-warming - this is Lucy Diamond at her very best * Rosie Walsh * Lucy is at the top of her game with this wise and wonderful book.He can’t deal with the emotions her loss has stirred up and instead he spends his days selling knock off gear on the beaches of Thailand. Her sister Alice, mum Belinda, dad Tony and younger brother Will all experience their loss differently and they also deal with it in their own individual way. While I did cry my eyes out reading this story, I would definitely describe The Best Days of Our Lives as a fun and happy book.

I think that grief is explored really well in this book, and through the different family members, we see how everyone deals with grief differently.The book is full of likeable characters, and whilst some you may not warm to immediately, they do all redeem themselves by the end of the book.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. As for Will, the youngest McKenzie, he’s in denial, having hopped onto a plane to Thailand days after the funeral. Yes, the first half for me dragged but as the family stumbled towards acceptance and in doing so grew and matured and at the same time I felt there was a turning point and the my earlier misgivings began to disappear.Although the novel has moments of sadness it also encompasses hope and the importance of having a strong support network. I struggled to get through the first half or so but found once I reached perhaps around the 55% mark I finally started to really engage with each individual character. Tony, their dad, who is divorced and remarried, is dealing with the feelings of becoming a father again. What follows are chapters from each family’s members viewpoint, her sister Alice, her brother Will, her mother Belinda and her father Tony. uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd.

I’ve used a pen name because ‘Diamond’ is a lot easier to spell and pronounce than ‘Mongredien’ and also because I’ve written lots of children’s books too and wanted to keep the genres separate.Tony sets up a WhatsApp group to try and talk to everyone again and get them all talking to each other, which was an actual stroke of genius on his part as things start to slowly resolve themselves. As the sisters grew they inevitably parted ways to follow different paths but always knew that they had each other's backs. I loved the idea of sharing memories with Leni’s friends and family - and although raw at the beginning they became a real source of comfort. I started this book with a lot of hope that I would enjoy it, Lucy Diamond is an author that I usually enjoy reading.