Gripping reads please!

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I don't like slow-moving Booker nominee type stuff, but then again I don't like chick lit, so I'm looking for something in between.

I ADORED "You" by Joanna Briscoe and generally enjoy books about controversial or intense relationships. Have read her other book already.

Sorry to be vague - but intense domestic stuff is probably the best way I can describe it! Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Medical romances? Now I think I've heard everything!

I am VERY hard to please, when it comes to books. I read a lot and I read very quickly but I am also an English graduate, and therefore prone to over-analysing. It's rare for me to find something that I love but when I do, I will re-read (sometimes many times).

Dh and I are both English graduates, but as an Eng Lit GCSE/A-level teacher, he is the one prone to overanalysing. I'm a primary Literacy coordinator, so am more about finding books to 'hook' children, so enjoyment takes precedence (mostly)!

Thanks all - have downloaded Room and The Little House. Will check out some of the others after!

anything by C S Samson in the Matthew Shardlake series particularly Dissolution but they have all been excellent.

also Susan Howatch novels are very compelling particularly the Starbridge series about the Church.

Ha ha - I love a Mills & Boon medical romance (my Granny used to have piles of them!) - handsome doctors, interesting medical complaints, what's not to like?!

I agree re. Ann Tyler and Maggie O'Farrell.

My suggestions for intense relationship/ family dramas: Anita Shreve, Helen Dunmore and Joanna Trollope