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Recommend an author beginning with E

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Unemfuckingployable · 02/03/2018 22:26

For mildly weird obsessive reasons, I need to read a book by an author whose surname begins with E. I am looking for something towards the lighter end of literary fiction (so not George Eliot). Twentieth century female writers particularly enjoyed.
Suggestions very gratefully received.

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Lucked · 02/03/2018 22:46

Ben Elton! He has some great books at the lighter end of literary fiction.

Middlesex by Jeffrey eugenides.

snozzlemaid · 02/03/2018 22:46

Not female but how about Ben Elton?

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Unemfuckingployable · 02/03/2018 22:46

Beachy - I need to read NOW!
Nora Ephron - yes, good idea.
Umberto Eco - have read Name of the Rose and don’t really fancy Foucault’s Pendulum.
Maybe Anne Enright? - but I thought The Green Road laboured and not very interesting.

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PanannyPanoo · 02/03/2018 22:45

Nicholas Evans

ScreamingLevitation · 02/03/2018 22:44

Elinor Lipman - The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

YouCantBeSirius · 02/03/2018 22:44

David Eddings if you like fantasy.

StrumpersPlunkett · 02/03/2018 22:43

E Nesbit?

BeachyUmbrella · 02/03/2018 22:42

Maybe just go to Waterstones and look at E in the fiction section??

SergeantFredColon · 02/03/2018 22:42

Nora Ephron

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Unemfuckingployable · 02/03/2018 22:40

I love Dorothy Edwards but read them fairly recently with DS. Enid Blyton’s surname doesn’t begin with E as far as I can tell. Don’t know Evanovich - will google.

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Heratnumber7 · 02/03/2018 22:40

Umberto Eco
Emil Zola
E M Forster
Evelyn Waugh
Emily Brontë
George Elliott

There aren't many, are there?

SergeantFredColon · 02/03/2018 22:38

bookmum I was trying to remember the name of that series last week, was driving me mad! Thank you! I remember reading them in hospital when I was a kid.

pimlicolife · 02/03/2018 22:37

Janet Evanovich!!!

Heratnumber7 · 02/03/2018 22:35

Enid Blyton

bookmum08 · 02/03/2018 22:34

Dorothy Edwards - My Naughty Little Sister books!! (yes they are for little children but they are sweet stories)!!