Light, but not shite fiction needed for an over-emotional pregnant bookworm!

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Laugs · 18/03/2009 15:51

Last time I was pregnant I read Revolutionary Road Nobody warned me! I have just about recovered.

I am a wee bit weepy at the moment and can't cope with anything sad. I'm looking for something gentle and soothing, but well written - I Capture the Castle would be great if I hadn't already read it.

Any ideas?

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Hassled · 18/03/2009 16:15

Jane Austen - gentle and soothing by the bucketload.

provinciallady · 18/03/2009 16:14

'Mariana' by Monica Dickens, published by Persephone Books - a lovely read. From the Persephone website: "We chose this book because we wanted to publish a novel like Dusty Answer, I Capture the Castle or The Pursuit of Love, about a girl encountering life and love, which is also funny, readable and perceptive; it is a 'hot-water bottle' novel, one to curl up with on the sofa on a wet Sunday afternoon." Persephone also publish the wonderful 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day' by Winifred Watson, and 'The Making of A Marchioness' by Frances Hodgson Burnett - two of my other favourite comfort reads.
'Miss Pettigrew' and 'Mariana' are both published as slightly cheaper Persephone Classics. www.persephonebooks.co.uk/index.htm

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Laugs · 18/03/2009 16:08

Thanks FiveGoMadInDorset. I think we have that somewhere!

Any other suggestions?

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FiveGoMadInDorset · 18/03/2009 15:53

The Uncommon reader - Alan Bennet

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