book for my Nan - please help

[cantfindamnnickname]

Nan is 77 and likes reading old fashioned stories
Can you recommend some books to buy her for Christmas

The Maeve Binchy books are usually set in Ireland in the 50s and 60 and have happy endings.

Does she like detective stories? You can't go far wrong with books by Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh, again set in the 30s to 60s.

If she likes historical romance, then Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades or The Grand Sophy are good.

If you want a classic, then how about a Dickens or two: A Christmas Carol - as it's Christmas, and either A Tale of Two cities or David Copperfield.

HTH

My grandma really likes 'the people's friend' magazine for the stories. How about a subscription?

Anything by KATE MORTON

thank you - I will have a look but thats given me some ideas

The people's friend also has a hard back annual

Ooh, does it? I haven't got my grandma a present yet!

Catherine Cookson? I got my mum 50 books last year and she is enjoying them

Rosamund Pilcher

Miss Read
Barbara Pym

My Last Duchess is a recently published 'old fashioned' story, a bit Downton Abbey -ish. Can't remember the author, sorry, but my Gran liked it.