I've realised that some of my all time favourite books are best described as 'quiet'. A lot is left unsaid but there is often an underlying sense of longing or yearning... I read lots of different genres but if pushed to pick some of my all time favourites, I think they fall into this category. Examples-
The End of the Affair
Remains of the Day
Greengage Summer
Commonwealth (Ann Patchett)
Does anyone a) understand what I mean 😂and b) have any similar recommendations.
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Quietlonging · 17/01/2024 13:06
MrsBobtonTrent · 19/01/2024 16:08
I love this idea. One that springs into my mind is A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley. And I find the Dalgliesh books by PD James have a calmness about them.
Pavane · 19/01/2024 16:26
That's why PD James is the only crime novelist I read (other than Dorothy L Sayers) -- they're 'about' murder, but what actually seems to interest her is ordered, well-regulated, often rather solitary people and their meaning-making processes. Though I find Adam 'Lean, dark and handsome, and too austere for fun/mess/bad taste' Dalgleish kind of unsufferable, and wish she'd written more Cordelia Gray novels.
MrsBobtonTrent · 19/01/2024 16:08
I love this idea. One that springs into my mind is A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley. And I find the Dalgliesh books by PD James have a calmness about them.
squashyhat · 19/01/2024 18:31
In a similar vein; Station Eleven and it's spin offs (can't quite call them sequels). I find these very anchoring.
Station Eleven has spinoffs? I loved it! Can you give me the titles?
EffieGraysDisappointingWeddingNight · 19/01/2024 18:34
I would say that The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley is very much in this bracket.Â
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