Recommend an author beginning with E

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For mildly weird obsessive reasons, I need to read a book by an author whose surname begins with E. I am looking for something towards the lighter end of literary fiction (so not George Eliot). Twentieth century female writers particularly enjoyed.
Suggestions very gratefully received.

Dorothy Edwards - My Naughty Little Sister books!! (yes they are for little children but they are sweet stories)!!

Enid Blyton

Janet Evanovich!!!

bookmum I was trying to remember the name of that series last week, was driving me mad! Thank you! I remember reading them in hospital when I was a kid.

Umberto Eco
Emil Zola
E M Forster
Evelyn Waugh
Emily Brontë
George Elliott

There aren't many, are there?

I love Dorothy Edwards but read them fairly recently with DS. Enid Blyton’s surname doesn’t begin with E as far as I can tell. Don’t know Evanovich - will google.

Nora Ephron

Maybe just go to Waterstones and look at E in the fiction section??

E Nesbit?

David Eddings if you like fantasy.

Elinor Lipman - The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

Nicholas Evans

Beachy - I need to read NOW!
Nora Ephron - yes, good idea.
Umberto Eco - have read Name of the Rose and don’t really fancy Foucault’s Pendulum.
Maybe Anne Enright? - but I thought The Green Road laboured and not very interesting.

Not female but how about Ben Elton?

Ben Elton! He has some great books at the lighter end of literary fiction.

Middlesex by Jeffrey eugenides.

Surname people, surname!!! 🙄

Is Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer?
Don’t really do fantasy.

OP wants surnames.

Ernest Emingway.
Jill Eecooper
Helen Eielding
Zade Eesmith
IanMc Ewan

Ben Elton - brilliant suggestion! - thank you.
Have read Middlesex. But if I hadn’t I would, if that makes sense.

Elena Ferrante

Thanks Agatha.

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Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius = v good.

Sorry to trespass further on generosity - but any standout Ben Elton recommendations? He’s written more than I realised.

Bret Easton Ellis