The Year of Taking Chances

Author/Guide: Lucy Diamond

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: “There should be some kind of warning give the day your life changes for ever.”

ISBN: 978-1447257783
Genre: Humour, Romance

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New Year’s Eve and a house party to remember

Gemma and Spencer Bailey are throwing a house party in their ideal farmhouse in Larkmead, Suffolk. There’s lots of nice food and drink but it’s not the tasty nibbles which are the most delicious but the tasty gossip about to unfold. Gemma meets Caitlin who’s back in the village to pack up her late mum’s house and decide what she wants to do in life; and Saffron who works as a PR executive but who is keeping a rather dubious secret.

The three women promise to themselves that they will make this the best year yet but the year has other plans in store for them.

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Larkmead ( fictional village in Suffolk)

Gemma lives here and she’s described as being one burned canape away from a total meltdown. It’s a village where mothering seems to be competitive though (she remembers the horror of being outed by her son’s five year old friend complaining that they’d had chips for tea.

The house however is something that captivates – it’s a great house even though they’ve outstretched themselves but this large, old stone farmhouse on he expensive side of Larkmead village was fabulous or at it least it would be once they’d done it up.

The New Year party in the book may have trays of Waitrose goodies but its the fortune cookies which steal the show. There’s a recipe in the back of the book to make your own and they’re highly recommended. More importantly still, there are some hangover cures as well for coping with flashbacks to the night before.

Larkmead may be fictional but it’s the quaint and quiet Suffolk setting, the dream cottage and the dreams unfolding within that creates a bond between the three friends