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val4 · 16/08/2014 17:57

I suffer from Chronic Pain , and while usually being an avid reader, during a flare up I find it very hard to focus/keep interest in a book. Please can you recommend an ebook that will grab my attention at moment, as have started and erased 3 books from my kindle over last 2 days. I like Lucinda Reilly, Rosie Thomas, Kate Horton , Susanna Kearsley etc. I usually like books set in past, family sagas, mystery drama type. I really am at wits end , searching through Amazon ready to download but can find nothing that grabs me. Am on lots pain meds at moment as experiencing flare up , so concentration not too good but have time on my hands( for change!). Please, please help!!!

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MrsCakesPrecognition · 16/08/2014 18:04

Would short stories work better?
Try anything by Alice Munro or Book of Spells by Sara Maitland.
I hope you feel better soon, I know the relief when I can finally read properly again after being ill.

MrsCakesPrecognition · 16/08/2014 18:04

Would short stories work better?
Try anything by Alice Munro or Book of Spells by Sara Maitland.
I hope you feel better soon, I know the relief when I can finally read properly again after being ill.

val4 · 16/08/2014 18:17

Thank you MrsCakes for your suggestion . I generally like longer stories, in which I can immerse myself in another world,and that I look forward to getting back to!

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Bonnefoi · 16/08/2014 18:22

Have you tried Helen Forresters' books about growing up in Liverpool? Quite involving and more than one book to dive into

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DuchessofMalfi · 16/08/2014 18:27

I've recently read the first two novels in S J Parris's Giordano Bruno series - Heresy and Prophecy. Have got Sacrilege to read soon, and have just bought Treachery, the latest in paperback. I love them.

They are set in Elizabethan England, are spy/murder stories. The first one, Heresy, begins with Bruno's back story - ex monk etc, now working as a spy for Sir Francis Walsingham. I think they are gripping and exciting stories.

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