Help me find something to read...

[pommebears]

So soon getting divorced STBXH abusive. I've got time to read now

Haven't read that much fiction in years but previously used to read a lot

Want things which are distracting but not too challenging theme wise (feeling delicate..)

Any recommendations?

Books by Erica James are good. Lucy Dillon is gentle but good. Milly Johnson is funny and lighthearted as is Lucy Diamond. Jill Mansell is an easy read too 😀

My favourites are
Dorothy Komsomol
Elizabeth Edmonton
Patricia highsmith
Rachel Hore
Ann Cleeves
D E Stevenson
Jenny Ashcroft.

I would also read the Guersney eel and Potato pie Society. The film is coming out soon, but I think that reading the letters that go back and forth is much more satisfying.

Want things which are distracting but not too challenging theme wise (feeling delicate..)

Try Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach.

Glad you’re on the road to recovery OP

I often reread childhood/teen favourites for "comfort reading" , or light "chick lit" - maybe the Anne of Green Gables/Malory Towers/Chalet School or Cathy Kelly (although I much prefer her earlier ones before she totally changed her style).
Or Jilly Cooper - the ones with the "girl's names like Octavia etc.
Gervaise Phinee and Gerald Durrell are fab - the best GD ones are the "family" trilogy - "My Family and Other Animals", "Birds, Beasts and Relatives", and "Garden of the Gods" are lol hilarious and full of sunshine.
Joan Jonker is good too - her "Molly and Nellie" series in particular - I read them over and over.
If you look on Fantastic Fiction they list all the books by just about everyone, and you can search by genre too.