can anyone recommend a really good, feel good book to get lost in please

[Snozz2828]

Having an awful time at the moment and I think getting lost in a brilliant book would help. Any suggestions please?

@Standrewsschool

The Lido - just read this and found it very heartwarming

Oh yes I loved this

Any Georgette Heyer, especially Grand Sophie

Just read The Kindness Project, compared to Rosamund Pilcher in some reviews

Definitely second Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

The seven sisters series by Lucinda Riley is brilliant

Rosamunde Pilcher for sure. Coming Home, September, The Shell Seekers.....I love every word she ever wrote.

Sorry to hear that OP, sending hope and best wishes. What sorts of things do you like to read generally? Genres? Any definite no's etc etc?

'Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine' by Gail Honeyman

Also Maeve Binchey, Miss Read, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Elizabeth Palmer and Adriana Trigiani (esp the Big Stone Gap novels)

Anything by Mary Wesley

A warning -Time Traveller's Wife is wonderful and totally absorbing, but be prepared to sob your heart out. Another vote for Diane Setterfield.

@JollyHostess

Based on a recommendation I saw here I downloaded Doomsday By Connie Willis and absolutely loved it. Time travel to the Middle Ages. Same author has written books about time travel to the Blitz and I have read both of those too.

Oh I'm so pleased - I'm always recommending that one!

I would add Meet Me At The Museum by Anne Youngson
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Any of the Georgette Heyer Regency novels

Anything by Jane Green, Jemima J is my favourite. Also, love The Other Boleyn Girl by Philipa Gregory, amazingly descriptive and hours just fly by.
Hope things get better soon Op, reading is my absolute go to when times are tough

The Huntress by Kate Quinn. My neighbour gave it to me after she and her husband had read it, I read it, DH read it, now I handle passed it to another couple. Couldn't put it down, even tried cooking while reading it.

House of spirits by Isabel Allende. Just takes you out of yourself and gives a wider view of life in general. Love it.

@Snozz2828

Having an awful time at the moment and I think getting lost in a brilliant book would help. Any suggestions please?

Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. So so good to get lost in Other light ones I like is anything by C. Ahern and L. Moriarty.

@RageAgainstTheNahCantBeArse

You had me at hello is by Mhairi McFarlane who is Scottish

Oops! 😆 Sorry. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Wherever she's from, she's awesome.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the Queen to me of the escapist page turner

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

Anything by Maeve Binchy. I like Evening Class for what you want OP but there's loads to choose from.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, engrossing, take your mind off things

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, funny series set in San Francisco Aids era

Labyrinth by Kate Moss, spooky trilogy

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, again funny read

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran , insightful, using

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

@BoreOfWhabylon was it you that posted on the Middle Ages thread? If so thank you so much, you have led me to discover some really amazing books 😊

@ISaySteadyOn

Connie Willis also wrote To Say Nothing of the Dog which is lovely and happier than Doomsday brilliant though it is.

Yes I loved this one too! Bit of homage to Three Men In A Boat.

@JollyHostess yes, I think I did. Someone else also recommended Doomsday Book on the thread too, iirc.

I also recommend Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy: The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment (there's a fourth too, The Wicked Day).

Romano-Celtic Britain, told from Merlin's perspective, well researched, lots of magical stuff (but somehow believable) and v well-written..

@BoreOfWhabylon Sounds fantastic. Once I get through my time travel obsession I will try those out .