Cockney diamond Book

This is my first time reading this author and I must say, I really enjoyed the book. Well written with great "older" characters. Jack and Rachel have been divorced for six years ... although I thought the premise of the separation and the divorce was a bit far-fetched - all happened too quickly to my mind. But that is neither here nor there as it did happen and it was in the past and this story is set further down the line.


"You're an insensitive shit, Jack. No wonder she divorced you."

Yikes! Rachel has some loyal friends ...

Jack rushes to Big Sur from San Francisco after Rachel is in a traffic accident and is in a coma. They have two teenage daughters (God bless any of you with teenage daughters, LOL. Not sure I would have been able to handle them - two boys were fine for me)!

"Does she have a favorite scent?"

"Lily of the valley."


Secondary characters were interesting. It is all a waiting game to see if Rachel will wake up ... and if she does, what will happen between her and Jack.




Great descriptions of Monterey and Carmel and Big Sur. I want to live there. I have visited it and would love to go back - probably in the season when there are fewer tourists (if that even exists in that part of the world)!

I will definitely check out more by this author and I do hope that some more of the books are about older characters ... they were only in their forties so not as ancient as me but better than a twenty something! Although one of the secondary characters was 53!