Recommend me a book for a poorly 74 year old

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Mum has covid and is miserable. She's very afraid and could use a book to distract her. Nothing too heavy and needs a reasonably happy ending.

I think I would get her a selection of magazines, Country Life, Good Housekeeping etc.

If she wants something soft and fluffy, I'd go for Miss Read, Cider with Rosie, Agatha Christie, The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin. Some of the travel books are nice - Driving over Lemons, The Olive Farm. Bill Bryson or Tim Harford are intelligent but easily digestible.

And I'd go for audio books, rather than print. I like being read to when I'm feeling ill. Lots of the Agatha Christies are on YouTube.

And I hope she feels better soon.

You could also buy a book yourself and record yourself reading it to her in snippets? Grandparents did this for my kids in lockdown. You could probably do it in whatsapp audio clips

Agatha Christie wrote an excellently light account of her travels to Syria as an archaeologist's wife.
It is gentle, funny and easy to pick up/put down when tired. It's called Come Tell Me How You Live.