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Help me choose a book for my book club...

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FionaVonTrumpton · 13/03/2013 06:48

Now I love my book club but they keep making us read the most unrelenting stream of misery. If I'm not being torn apart by war I am being harrowed and tragic and I can't take any more

I need something happy, something funny but not so fluffy that it doesn't warrant any discussion.

I have threatened them with 'I love you, Blue Kangaroo' or if I am feeling edgy then 'Dogger' or perhaps to fill their tragedy quotient 'Goodbye Mog' Wink

I think everyone has read 'The Help'. I don't like non-fiction and one of us hates fantasy so those two genre are out. I'm all out of ideas!

Please does anyone have any suggestions ?
Thanks

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WallyBantersJunkBox · 13/03/2013 08:52

It's ok to pull out some classics isn't it?

How about some Tom Wolfe?

Bonfire of the Vanities
A Man in Full

Very clever and laced with humour.

highlandcoo · 13/03/2013 08:47

How about Iain Banks - either Crow Road or Espedair Street .. NOT The Wasp Factory! Great characters, the odd sad bit but dry humour too.

Or Restless by William Boyd. Story of a woman spy in WW2.

Also second the Daphne du Maurier suggestion. Especially My Cousin Rachel and Frenchman's Creek.

outtolunchagain · 13/03/2013 08:16

I also loved the Paris Wife or for something really light , what about A Year of Doing Good by Judith Reilly

outtolunchagain · 13/03/2013 08:08

We have just read the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Does have some sadness but also some humour and is charming.

DuchessofMalfi · 13/03/2013 08:05

I'd second The Paris Wife. It was good. How about The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, or The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, anything by F Scott Fitzgerald or Daphne Du Maurier?

notnowImreading · 13/03/2013 07:04

I recommend 'The Paris Wife' by Paula McLain. It is about Ernest Hemingway and his first wife living in Paris in the 1920s and so far it is lovely. I am just getting to the tragedy bit, though, I think.

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