Anything Could Happen: A gloriously romantic novel full of hope and kindness

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Events were to keep them apart, but Lara would have a constant reminder of that night when nine months later, she gave birth to their daughter, Eliza. When they wake together in the morning they both seem to feel this is more than just a one night stand. Gently humorous and largely predictable escapism with my main complaint being how needlessly drawn out the entire second half felt. I wasn’t sure how it was going to to play out in the end but I was happy with the way it turned out.

I wish to thank Net Galley and the publisher for an e-copy of this book that I have reviewed honestly.

Lara and Ben are inherently normal, good people whose situation just didn't work out at the beginning so they've settled for what they thought would do.

But when Eliza turns eighteen and wants to connect with her father, Lara is forced to admit a secret that she has been keeping from her daughter her whole life. Whilst it doesn’t require a huge level of engagement to follow, the characters have enough depth to feel realistic and the plot isn’t all sunshine and smiles. Funny, heart-warming ― Choice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 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.Ze hebben een hechte band en delen veel met elkaar, maar nu Eliza 18 is geworden wil ze op zoek gaan naar haar vader en eist ze, na een schokkende ontdekking, antwoorden van haar moeder. Eliza on reaching eighteen decides to find her father, but rather than do it in a considered manner rushes into everything with several consequences!

The characters are easy to like especially the daughter Eliza because in my opinion she made the story funnier with her ideas and thoughts. Fast-forward nineteen years and daughter Eliza is an eighteen-year-old with university on the horizon and furious that the man she was led to believe was her father and left when she was three, actually isn’t. Een verhaal over liefde, familie, verloren tijd en tweede kansen, over ontwikkeling, ontrafelde geheimen en leugens, confrontatie, spijt, afsluiting en een nieuw begin, een boeiende reis die je plezierige leesuren zal bezorgen! Sommige connecties zijn net wat té toevallig, niet alle personages zijn even sympathiek en enkele ontwikkelingen zijn wel erg dramatisch, maar dit is vooral een fijn, meeslepend, turbulent en emotioneel verhaal. Het leven loopt vrijwel nooit zoals je had verwacht en soms is het goed om je levenspad te heroverwegen, je relaties onder de loep te nemen, die ‘wat als’-vragen te beantwoorden en in het diepe te springen om je verwaarloosde dromen toch achterna te gaan.The story certainly has enough moments of reality (and things not going perfectly) that ensured the book never strayed into twee territory despite the reader feeling safe in the knowledge of things always turning out ok in the end. what Diamond does so well in Anything Could Happen is make you really root for the characters - and perhaps even examine your own life choices. Lara and Ben meet in NYC, eighteen years later, they’re forced into a reunion by their daughter, Elisa…that Ben is unaware of! Ben is not only flabbergasted to discover that he has a daughter but soon finds himself desperately scrambling to save his marriage to betrayed wife, Kirsten.