DIAMOND LIFE: Short Stories

A brilliant, funny, marvelous short story collection by London author Anna Maconochie. Feeling the city vibes, an immersing reading in the lives of London creatives, with their romantic fiascos and frustrated aspirations. A collection of urban short stories about the creative lives of London millennials. Failed aspirations, romantic fiascos, professional rivalries, and much more. This is a book packed with fake-it-until-you-make-it characters. Nat sets Victor and Cleo up on a blind date, to their mutual disappointment. A married woman has seven other men, or does she? Luckless Vicky lodges with glamorous Lara and suffers a romance with toxic loser Damian. A struggling artist, caught between two romantic trysts, is promised by a street fortune teller that it's all about to change. Graduate Joe moves to London only to find his sought-after internship and social scene do not meet his expectations. Alex is in love with Paul. Paul is only half-in-love with Alex and totally in love with heroin. Candace and Jacob fear their vulnerable friend Jill will kill herself. A married man, split from his mistress, gets a surprise invitation from her for one last hurrah. What he finds in the Soho Hotel is not quite what he anticipated. Two schoolgirl frenemies fall in and out of touch in adult life. One seeks fame, the other to be a real artist. Unspoken passions and jealousies give way to a life-changing transaction.