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Lucy Diamond


Born
in The United Kingdom
January 01, 1970

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Literature & Fiction


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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

First of all, a confession. My name isn’t really Lucy Diamond at all, it’s Sue Mongredien. 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. (There is actually another Lucy Diamond on Amazon who writes religious children’s books. That isn’t me, though.)

I was born in 1970 and grew up in Nottingham. I read English at Leeds University then moved to London and worked for various publishers before I packed it all in to go travelling around the world for a year and a half. When I came back to the UK, I worked in publishi ...more

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A week of two halves

Hello hello hello

I've had an unusually rollercoastery week this week *pauses to wipe brow*. Some things have been unbelievably ACE... like the fact that Sweet Temptation is NUMBER ONE in the Heatseekers chart this week (that means it's just outside the official Top 50) - woo-hoo! I am so utterly chuffed. It's still only on sale in Tesco at the moment, so I am also a little bit - actually quite a l Read more of this blog post »
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“Sometimes you’ve just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.”
― Lucy Diamond, Summer With My Sister
tags: career, family, life, lucy-diamond, sisters, summer-with-my-sister
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“The thing about settling down that freaks me out is that you're being honest, You're saying, this is me. This is what I can do. This is it.”
― Lucy Diamond, One Night in Italy
tags: divorcee, food-review, house-wife, italy, language-course, travelling
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“Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.”
― Lucy Diamond, Sweet Temptation
tags: diet, healthy-life, sweet, temptation
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