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Anne Tyler fans - any other authors you could recommend?

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Gem13 · 30/05/2006 20:59

I've just finished 'Digging to America' which I loved - like the others except 'The Amateur Marriage'.

I love her anyway but it is especially fab pregnancy reading.

Any suggestions?

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anorak · 31/05/2006 09:57

Marge Piercy
Rosalind Pilcher
Helen Dunmore
Barbara Kingsolver

and I second Mary Wesley.

Marina · 31/05/2006 09:54

Oh Rowlers, I loved that Jennifer Donnelly book!
E McCracken did also write a lovely collection of short stories before her novel, "Here's Your Hat, Where's Your Hurry", but I don't think it's currently in print in the UK :(
And Alison Lurie :)
For a more vintage read Gem13, try "The Group" by Mary McCsrthy. Beady-eyed Socialist journalist does chick-lit all the way back in the 1930s...

skerriesmum · 30/05/2006 21:51

Alice Munro, but she's mostly short stories.
I love Alison Lurie too.

controlfreaky2 · 30/05/2006 21:31

agree re alison lurie. think if you like at you'd definitely enjoy her books...

controlfreaky2 · 30/05/2006 21:31

agree re alison lurie. think if you like at you'd definitely enjoy her books...

Rowlers · 30/05/2006 21:27

Also try "A gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnely

brimfull · 30/05/2006 21:25

Don't lets go to the Dogs tonight,by Alexandra Fuller is a great memoir .

A Thousand Acres by jane smiley

JanH · 30/05/2006 21:24

Margaret Atwood good too but some books harder work than others. (I love the Edible Woman)

Mary Wesley.

Alison Lurie.

JanH · 30/05/2006 21:21

Mavis Cheek is fab.

Also Marika Cobbold.

Also some others I can't think of just now - will be back!

Piffle · 30/05/2006 21:20

The Time TRavellers Wife is a divine read also

Rowlers · 30/05/2006 21:18

Ooh, Elizabeth McCracken - I did wonder at one point Marina if anyone else had read her books as no-one I know has ever heard of her.
She has written two crackers - The Giant's House and Niagara Falls all over again.
She may have written more by now?

controlfreaky2 · 30/05/2006 21:17

gerard wodward: "august" and "ill go to bed at noon"... but there are few as fab as at.

Marina · 30/05/2006 21:15

Oh, and Elizabeth McCracken too :)

FrannyandZooey · 30/05/2006 21:14

Elizabeth Berg is a lovely writer.

Rowlers · 30/05/2006 21:11

I love Alice Hoffman
Not quite the same style, a bit more "imaginative" but great stories nonetheless

Marina · 30/05/2006 21:11

I'd second Carol Shields and also Margaret Forster.

Piffle · 30/05/2006 21:11

deb moggach is ace - mavis cheek also tongue in cheek good read

brimfull · 30/05/2006 21:10

babies not babiea

brimfull · 30/05/2006 21:09

Margaret forster is one of my favourites.Try Diary of an ordinary woman,Precious lives,and her biographies are fab.
Also Deborah Moggach is good,try Changing Babiea and Tulip Fever.

Piffle · 30/05/2006 21:08

Anita Shreve, although Anne Tyler is very special :)

Cappucino · 30/05/2006 21:08

Carol Shields?