Book recommendation for elderly mum

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My mum is 80 and likes very light, easy books, family dramas/ historical novels (think Catherine Cookson years ago, Maeve Binchy, Penny Vincenzi, occasionally Jodi Picoult) She'd like some new books for Christmas, BUT she really struggles and gets bit confused with anything with flashbacks or where the story goes back and forth in time, or from different characters' viewpoints, and these devices appear in so many books! Anyone have any recommendations for something light, easy with a linear narrative that would fit the bill? Thanks

What about Katie FForde?

www.fantasticfiction.com/f/katie-fforde/

The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield. I love that book.

Please can you help me find some gentle, very English/UK humour for my elderly dad? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/whatweree_reading/4065058-please-can-you-help-me-find-some-gentle-very-english-uk-humour-for-my-elderly-dad

Would Lissa Evans work? I love her books...

Thanks for suggestions, I will have a look through (although she is now, helpfully, sending me a few specific requests herself too!) Thanks again

My mum really loved the Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer - a good old fashioned family saga. There are about 7 books in the series

Lady in waiting - Anne Glenconner - about Princess Margaret’s lady in waiting

I’m with your mum about flashbacks. It seems to be in every other book I read at the moment!

Lillian Harry x

I just read Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce. Very gentle story set in London in 1941 around a young women thinking she's taking a junior job at a newspaper but ends up working on the problem page of a failing woman's magazine for the formidable Mrs Bird.

It's warm, funny and a little sad in parts as due to the Blitz but enough stiff upper lip that it doesn't get depressing. Very good.

Thanks for the recommendation for Mrs Bird @TeaMeBasil - I’ve bought it for my elderly mom.