Recommend me a gentle book

[Panticles]

To follow on from the thread about TV. I am having troubling sleeping. When I wake up I am reading or listening to an audiobook to stop myself fretting about being awake. It might even help me doze off. Audiobooks recommendation that are on YouTube are particularly welcome.

The unlikely pilgrimidge of harold fry? I dont usually read fiction but this was a pleasant and easy night time read.

Try the 'Miss Read' books.

They are my go-to books when I need a safe, cosy place to escape to in my head.

Just google Miss Read and read about here and the books - there are dozens to choose from.

Many famous voices have recorded them onto audiobooks - Gwen Watford, June Whitfield, Prunella Scales, Carole Boyd and more!

Absolutely the Miss Read books. Whatever crap is happening in the world these are an absolute joy.

The Scotland Street series by Alexander McCall Smith are great too.

Any James Herriot books.

Rosy Is My Relative by Gerald Durrell.

The Pop Larkin Chronicles by HE Bates.

I used to love the Miss Read.
Now I read anything by Barbara Pym when I want something nice and undemanding.

How are you getting on, Panticles?

Did any of our suggestions help? It's awful, isn't it, when you desperately want to sleep, but can't.

You have my sympathy

Rosamund Pilcher's books work wonders on me.

I second Barbara Pym - lovely gentle stories about very real people. Or what about the "Mapp and Lucia" books by EF Benson?