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Easy to read book that isn't a love story

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Adollop · 24/10/2019 18:57

I'm looking for a new book. I loved Eleanor Oliphant and also just finished The Lido, great book.

So long for something like that, not keen on love stories these days. I'm in my fifties and find them a bit sickly. I've enjoyed a lot of Marian Keyes books, also Lisa Jewell, although not as much her latest ones. I prefer books set in Britain.

So what have you read recently and enjoyed that fits the bill?

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MaidofKent78 · 24/10/2019 22:34

Maybe try American Gods by NG. It's not too fantasy. I couldn't put it down.

Alabasterangel6 · 24/10/2019 22:34

Wonder!

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Adollop · 24/10/2019 22:33

I'm not a fantasy fan and couldn't get into Terry Pratchett - much to my ex's disgust, as he was a huge fan. It took me many years to get round to reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane for that reason, but I did enjoy it.

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MaidofKent78 · 24/10/2019 22:30

If you can bear a bit of escapism then any other Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett would be perfect for you. Or both - Good Omens is amazing!

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Adollop · 24/10/2019 22:26

Thanks Smile

I've read The Rosie Project, A Man Called Ove and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, loved them. I've also read pretty much everything I could find set in Sweden and Denmark, something about them fascinates me.

I'll have a look at the others suggested.

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CurbsideProphet · 24/10/2019 19:52

I read The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carter recently and really enjoyed it.

PerspicaciaTick · 24/10/2019 19:43

Mrs Ffyton's Country Life by Mavis Cheek.
Life and Loves of a She Devil is pretty much the antithesis of a love story.
Anything by Sara Maitland.
The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman.
Nation by Terry Pratchett.

MacavityTheDentistsCat · 24/10/2019 19:34

The Rosie Project
A Man called Ove

dun1urkin · 24/10/2019 19:25

They are a bit formulaic though, but in a comfy way rather than an eye rolling way

dun1urkin · 24/10/2019 19:24

I’m working through the Rivers of London series at the moment.
Nice, easy reading, nothing to think too deeply about, but entertaining and a good enough storyline for me to be on book 3

Thirtyrock39 · 24/10/2019 19:15

Old baggage by Lisa Evans
About a suffragette in 1930s London trying to get a group of girls politically engaged against a backdrop of mosely facists
Really warm hearted, funny and poignant

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Adollop · 24/10/2019 19:06

I should add preferably not sad. I love books that make me laugh, can't be doing with crying, life's hard enough as it is! But must be all well written, I get annoyed with formular books, or just cheapy, badly written ones.

I've read a LOT, so apologies if I've already read any suggestions.

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