Can anyone recommend a really comforting book?

[PumpkinWitch]

I am looking for something really nice to read that is not upsetting. I am doing the freedom program at the moment so anything about domestic abuse or with a lot of violence is too much for me.

I have been reading all the call the midwife books which I enjoyed. My grandma was a midwife at that time.

It can be fiction or non fiction. I don’t really like sci-fi (apart from Douglas Adams) but I enjoy lots of different types of books.

Lots of good suggestions here. I love the Helen Forrester books: Twopence to Cross the Mersey, By the Waters of Liverpool and there are a couple more in the series. Very comforting.

If you’ve never tried Barbara Pym, I’d def. recommend some of hers. They’re all virtually period pieces now - my favourite is Crampton Hodnet set in pre WW2 Oxford, IMO very funny and gently takes the P out of academia and the clergy. Nothing sad or upsetting.

Excellent Women and Some Tame Gazelle are two more I’ve thoroughly enjoyed re reading, set a bit later, probably late 40s/early 50s.

Plus of course all the Mapp and Lucia series - again pre WW2 and very funny. Miss Mapp is the first, followed by Mapp and Lucia, and so on.

Miss Mapp is the first, followed by Mapp and Lucia, and so on.

I thought it was "Queen Lucia" ?

@Idbemonica1

The Midnight Library by (Matt Haig i think) is a good read.

I was coming on to recommend this book - it's absolutely beautifully written.