Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
by Jenny Colgan
Book of the Month: May 2009
Reading Group Questions
- When Sophie loses her glamorous lifestyle, she realises there are some things money just can’t buy. What conclusions do you think she reaches about the things that are really important?
- Throughout the course of the novel, what do you think Sophie learns about the person she really is? In what ways do you think money and material wealth can obscure the simpler things in life?
- Diamonds could be seen as a timely book. How do its themes reflect the current economic crisis, and the values we attach to money?
- "Money makes the world go round." Do you agree?
- What do you feel are some of the drawbacks of growing up with money?
- What do you think you learned from the worst job you ever had?
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