Going into hospital what have you read that your couldn't put down?

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I've had a miscarriage and going in for an ERPC on Monday morning I need a book to distract me, I have to be at hospital at 7.30am and it could be hours before I get taken.

What have you read this year that you just couldn't put down? I'm feeling very anxious about everything and need a book I can get completely lost in. Thanks for your help

My sympathies, been there.

"The girl on the train"

You can plan a trip to the cinema to see the film afterwards!

The cuckoos calling Robert Galbraith

The secret life of bees by sue monk kid. Just finished it and loved it.

Thanks I'll download some samples of these!

Ken follett - pillars of the earth
Or the century trilogy

Or cazalet chronicles

Or Samsome dissolution series

Sorry about your loss

So sorry for your loss xxx

The Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor, stories about a group of history academics who time travel. Lots of fun and will keep your mind occupied. The first one is Just one damn thing after another.

Hope it goes as well as it can X

Definitely girl on the train. Couldn't put it down. Can't wait to see film.

The Imperial Radch Trilogy by Ann Leckie, starting with Ancillary Justice. Lots of action in that one, and very immersive.

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison is another book I read in one go, but is much calmer, suspense is derived from social interaction. You will be too distracted by trying to figure out the complex social rules of the world to notice anything else.

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot is very readable. Her recovery from alcoholism through a return to working and studying nature in her home of Orkney.

The Fish Ladder by Katherine Norbury. It was very good, but at the heart of it is her late miscarriage and subsequent diagnosis of breast cancer. It might be too upsetting for you at the moment but she is such a positive person and wrote so well about her recovery through long walks following rivers through to their sources.

So sorry for your loss.

I loved The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. I couldn't stop reading it - tale of one unconventional woman's life and how she finds her own path.

I am pilgrim.

A really gripping thriller

Thanks so much for all your replies I'll have a look through the suggestions. A few years ago I worked in a library and read constantly but I sort of fell away from reading in the last few years. I think this can be an opportunity to get back into it again.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is the last book I read that I genuinely couldn't put down.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm doing the 50 book challenge and have read some crackers this year. My favourites have been The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Behind Closed Doors and The Day we Disappeared.