Book similar to Time Travellers Wife and One Day

[princessProudmel]

I know these books aren't popular with mumsnetters but I really enjoyed them. Has anyone got any recommendations for something similar. I have read loads of new mum/yummy mummy type books so am not really looking for more of those. Also I don't want something too sad ( eg. My Sisters Keeper) I'm looking for something romantic :)
Tia

I think Persuasion would wouldn't it? All romance mixing modern and classic at the same time? I know I loved it and it is worth a read I think.

Hmm I read Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, I think it's aimed at young adults but I really enjoyed it.

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell is romantic- sad, yes but romantic and modern-day. Also try Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams, and The History of Love by. Nicole Krauss.

Or try some Jane Austen- I've been re-reading her recently, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are romantic and very easy reads!

It depends what you mean by romance - if you mean stories about people and strong feelings etc. rather than boy-gets-girl-boy-loses-girl, then I loved Tom Wolfe's My Name is Charlotte Simmons.

I just finished Before I Go to Sleep which I LOVED!

Ooh Portofino, i just got that on my Kindle.

Any of Kate Morton's books. The Forgotten Garden, The House at Riverton or The Distant Hours.

mumble - a total non-putdowner!!!!

These books are all sounding a bit sad/heavy tbh. Cancer/baby taken from mother at birth/prisoners in a room...!
I will keep looking

Four Letters of Love seems promising...

History of Love / Man Walks Into A Room both by Nicole Krauss

Clare Chambers is good - I enjoyed Learning to Swim

Also Amanda Craig e.g. Love in Idleness

Brooklyn - by Colm Toibin

Try The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Definitely not about cancer/babies taken from mother at birth (though children do change hands)/prisoners in a room!

Princess - sounds like you would really enjoy Ferney by James Long
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Have you tried anything by Sarah Addison Allen? Her first two books are quite gentle and have a magical element to them, but it's an ordinary sort of magic (one character finds that books magically appear in front of her whenever she is in need of them, another can cook things to make people feel a certain way when they eat them).

Or perhaps something by Anne Tyler. I loved The Clock Winder and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Morgans Passing was very good too.

Or have a look at The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue. It is about a ghost, who misses her lost love and watches over a newly wed couple, and it's not scary at all.

And I agree with Simone, Ferney was very good and I met the author once, he was lovely.