I fancy something fluffy and easy and different

[Frouby]

After a spate of crime and thrillers I fancy something nice and fluffy and easy for a few nights.

Have just read The Goldfinch and was a bit disappointed. And the first 2 of the Jackson Brodie series. Which I enjoyed but didn't love.

I did love Vera and the Shetland series. And Tana French.

I like Lisa Jewel and Adele Parks earlier stuff and Jane Greens early stuff.

I am not a massive Jojo Moyes fan. I didn't like Gone Girl or Girl on a Train.

I prefer non graphic crime stuff. I have started reading a bit of skandi stuff and enjoyed it but didn't love it.

I want something easy and light but not predictable or boring.

Help before I actually go crossed eyed scouring Amazon.

Have you tried Ellie Griffiths Ruth Galloway series? They are about a forensic archaeologist who gets mixed up with a detective and his cases. They are great - a lilltle bit fluffy but also intriguing. I love Vera and Jimmy Perez and I also loved these.

Kate Morton - The Secret keeper
You mentioned Adele Parks - I've just read Stranger in my home which was very good.
Jeffrey Archer - The Clifton Chronicles, great series and fairly easy reading but still with plenty of substance.
Roberts Galbraith - The cuckoos calling.

Charity norman is great not crime though. Love lisa jewell

Youth fiction? It's made for teenage attention spans.

One is light
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Unremembered is meatier & close to unput-downable.
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Boy21 is just fab.

All of those are NOT predictable.

84 Charing Cross Road is a lovely book.

Best I haven't but will definitely look at those, thank you.

Nearly I have read that. I enjoyed it too.

lljkk I have also downloaded the newish YA novel by Cecila Ahern. Flawed I think it is. I will look at those recommendations with dd. She is struggling for something to get her teeth into. She isn't a big reader so something we can read 'together' and then discuss would be useful.

I will look at 84 Charring Cross Road too.

Thank you so much to everyone for sharing your thoughts. I have had some fab books from mn the last year and although I haven't loved or read all of them I have found some 'new' authors.

Agree with you on all your reviews so hopefully you'll agree with mine. Loved Sarah Waters The Paying Guests, and Carl Hiassen for a crime thriller with a quirky difference

Try The American Wife by Curtis Sittenfield. It's a 'proper' book but an easy read, IYSWIM.

I'm the same, I've had Elizabeth Strout on my bedside table for ages but because you have to concentrate a bit I've lost the thread and not sure I can be botherted to go back to it.

Ever read any Amy Tan? She's a good, but not too difficult read.

Adriana Trigani- The Wedding Shoes. Lovely well written fluff......

I haven't read The Husband's Letter by Lianne Moriarty but I have read Big Little Lies which is by her recently as it is about to be a TV series on TV with Nicole Kidman and Reece Witherspoon.

It's chick lit meets crime within a school mums' clique setting. Very entertaining and maybe worth a try as definitely a bit different.

Lucy Dawson is different.

Bit chick lit, bit thriller, but easy well written reads.

Have you read any Patrick Gale? Very well written and enthralling.

Thanks everyone.

I see Sarah Waters mentioned a lot and will have a look. If you liked/disliked the same as me it's probably a good to go ontheedge.

Will look at the other recommendations too. Am about 2/3 through Black Rabbit Hall. It's ok but a bit tedious and it's not really grabbing me. I can see the 'twist' a mile off. Sigh.

try charlaine harris Lilly Bard series (which are not about vampires and such) but very well written.

Nancy thayer's books set on nantucket are very light. Eg Nantucket Sisters, Moonshell Beach. Some I've loved but others are a bit too predictable.

Am currently reading Daughter by Jane Shemilt, about a teenager who goes missing and the effect it has on her family.
Diane chamberlain and Jodi picoult are great. Not fluffy but don't tax the brain too much either.
Nicholas Sparks is also worth a try for non fluffy romance set in the likes of South Carolina. And I love Nicholas Evans, who wrote the Horse Whisperer and others.
I think Dorothy Koomson has got better with recent books.

One last dance Eileen Goodge. A woman shoots her husband the night before their 40th wedding anniversary.

Magpie murders. A book in two parts a fictional and real life murder.

The Perfume Collector. A woman inherits French property and tries to discover the history of the owner.

The Villa in Italy Eileen Edmondson. 4 people who do not know it other find that they are beneficiaries of a will.

Thanks all

Finally finished the last quite boring book and just downloaded Sarah Waters Paying Guests to start tonight. I like stuff set in the 20s and 30s so will hopefully enjoy it.

Have you read any Joanne Harris? 'Chocolat' and many others.

Or Erica James: 'Summer by the Lake' and several others ... I've read two and they were very alike, so if you like one, you'll like them all.

Rachel Hoare is a good story teller. And I'd second the Mary Wesley suggested above, as stylish, funny and a bit waspish.

Joanna Trollope might please you too.

The Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor are a lot of fun. A group of time travelling historians and their crazy antics. There's about 8 books so plenty to keep you going.

Laurie Graham's books might fit the bill?