| 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 publishing
again, then moved to the BBC. I now live in Bath with my husband
and three young children and divide my time between writing and
looking after them. You can have a look at my children’s books
here.
Favourite
things: beaches, holidays, chocolate, wine, reading, Green Wing,
bubble baths, sunshine, hearing my children laugh, babysitters
Favourite
books: The Magus (John Fowles), The Edible Woman (Margaret Atwood),
The Secret History (Donna Tartt), The Colour of Memory (Geoff Dyer)
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