I nearly went with “middle age women’s” fiction but sounded so awful!
Bit clichéd but I’m in my 40s and just love modern(ish) fiction about women my age or older, grown up kids, marriages, affairs, work, juggling, family dynamics, reflecting on the past, childhood etc that draw you in and pack an emotional punch. I loved colm toibin Brooklyn and Long Island, Ann patchet and Ann Tyler, maggie o Farrell, Joanna glen, Hilary Boyd, Rosamund pincher, Louise doughty, Harriet tyce, Claire lynch, Clare keegan…. Nothing too whimsical or chick lit (I can tell by looking at a cover of I’ll hate it!)
Any recommendations along these lines would be wonderful. Thank you.