Please recommend me some engaging, non-violent, cheerful stories for my hospitalised mother? Audiobook ideally

[IndecentFeminist]

Hi all,
My mum is in hospital and really lonely and bored. We are only allowed to visit once a day for half an hour so she is struggling to fill her days.

I'm suggesting audio books, but due to her anxiety she cannot handle anything violent or worrying. She's worried that her concentration is very poor (hospitalisation is for mental health issues) but I think it may be worth a try, at least it would be some noise in her room as she's scared of the communal areas at the moment.

I had thought of Gerald Durrell and some of his, has anyone any suggestions please?

Born Free (saving lions in Africa)
Anything by Ellie Dean although its WW2, so there are some bombs and deaths
James Herriot
Anything she like to read as a child? Ballet shoes ... maybe a trip down memory lane would be comforting for her

The calm app has stories on but also calming music, meditation and sounds of the sea/water/trains etc?

I was going to suggest Agatha raisin-BBC did an audio fifbit- Charles Paris Mystery is another ( with Bill nighy) from the bbc- so funny - I’m addicted to them

Provincial Lady books by EM Delafield
Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman (read by the amazing Barbara Rosenblat)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Blackout/All Clear are excellent too, but might be too dramatic) by Connie Willis
Most of DE Stevenson's books
Angela Thirkell books
Dear Enemy and Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

(The book I was refering to in my first post to avoid is called Consider the Lilies, it was pretty dark)

Maeve Binchy? Her books are very gentle. Circle of Friends maybe?

You guys are brilliant, thank you. ❤️

I have discovered Scribd, which is 10 p/m for loads of audio books, magazines etc with a free month trial. I've set up an account and saved these suggestions in there. She has already been in and had a look at a few, which is a success already!

She's going to start an Alexander McCall Smith tomorrow apparently. We have got her some wireless headphones which she hasn't used so far, but might appeal now.

I’ve known some older women were very interested in sports they never got a chance to get advanced training in (or even try).

I had a similar thread earlier in the year, asking for 'cosy' reads, if you can find that there are a lot of excellent suggestions on there.

Echoing the 'children's books' suggestion too. Elizabeth Goudge books, Swallows and Amazons, all that era of children's books are very gentle but excellent stories.

As others have said, Miss Read books. Very gentle and comforting. I've also been revisiting the Chalet School books (but don't think they're audiobooks) Hamish Macbeth, Darling Buds Of May, Agatha Raisin plus my own favourite, Agatha Christie.