Books about starting over/beginning to live

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I'd love some recommendations for books about starting over, creating a life after not really living. The Cactus, Eleanor Oliphant, Bryony Gordans latest book and The Midnights Library are some I've enjoyed of this trope.

Something that inspires a bit of hope.

Two for you. A man called Ove by Fredrik Bakman - it’s. Swedish book about a very anti social man at the end of his life who despite his best intentions becomes involved with the lives of his community. It’s a lovely book. Also try Less by Andrew Greer, in a way it’s an intelligent and much better written gay male version of the dreadful Eat, Pray, Love. It’s about a failed writer who has lived a bit of a half life living in the shadow of the more brilliant people around him who takes himself off travelling and basically becomes ‘more’ not ‘less’. It made me laugh at a number of points and you come to care for poor Arthur Less.

Agree about Less, it's fun.

A Town like Alice by Nevile Shute might fit the bill but only if you can cope with the usual issues of a book written in the 50s. Wonderful story though.

And maybe Everything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout? More the vibe of it than a specific storyline.