Now what? If I Loved Crawdads, Eleanor Oliphant, Lisa Jewel, Maggie O’Farrell

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…Kite Runner, Thousand Splendid Suns Barbara Kingsolver.

I also love psychological thrillers/page turners but not predictable police detective sagas. I liked Lullaby and Room. But the latter was on the edge of being too disturbing.

What else would I like, please? Need holiday suggestions!

Mrs Benson’s Beetle - Rachel Joyce
The signature of all things - ElizabethGilbert
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
Educated - Tara Westover
I loved the books/writers you mentioned and these have been my recent favourites

Oh and anything by Sarah Moss and Grace McCleen - astoundingly good

@inthekitchensink thanks so much! I’ll have a good look at those. I do love it when I find a ‘new’ author 😊

Hope you find something you love! Laura Purcell is another writer I’d buy without reading the blurb first, she’s so good I’d buy her shopping list

Following for suggestions. I have heard good things about Clare Macintosh and have I See You on order from the library.

I've enjoyed the beekeeper of aleppo and the doll factory recently.

Oh yes, I've enjoyed books Tara Westover and Barbara Kingsolver, but how about trying something completely different. This Much Huxley Knows has an adorable seven-year-old narrator who shines a light on contemporary issues such as isolation, friendship and what it means to trust. It's great seeing the world through the eyes of a child and chuckling at his funny way with language.

Excellent! Keep those ideas coming folks - need to load up the Kindle and raid the bookshop at Gatwick!

Victoria Hislop - stories set in Greece. I've just read The Island and its sequel One August night.

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers is v good and quite new (I think).

Ooh didn’t know that The Island has a sequel. Fantastic news. Thanks everyone

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Ooh didn’t know that The Island has a sequel. Fantastic news. Thanks everyone

It's mostly centred around the same main event but from other points of view and what happened afterwards.

Small Pleasures
Miss Benson’s Beetle
The Other Half of Augusta Hope. JOANNA Glen
Things in Jars Jess Kidd
A Single Thread Tracey Chevailer
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde. Eve Chase
Magpie Lane. Lucy Atkins

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Oh yes, I've enjoyed books Tara Westover and Barbara Kingsolver, but how about trying something completely different. This Much Huxley Knows has an adorable seven-year-old narrator who shines a light on contemporary issues such as isolation, friendship and what it means to trust. It's great seeing the world through the eyes of a child and chuckling at his funny way with language.

This Much Huxley Knows by Gail Aldwin, @gailaldwin?

The seduction of Mrs Pendlebury. I also enjoyed crawdads and Eleanor oliphant so you may like the Pendlebury one.

Such a giveaway @NoYOUbekind

I've just discovered Liz Moore
I've read Heft and The unseen world and would recommend them both
Maggie O'Farrell and Barbara Kingsolver were my favourite authors but Liz Moore is now a close contender

Oh, and maybe try Tara French.

This Lovely City Louise Hare
Three Hours Rosamund Lupton
Homecoming Luan Golding

The Unlikely journey of Harold Fry

A man called Ove

Three Hours - Rosemary Lupton

I thought Small Pleasures was absolutley amazing.
Suggest The Night Watchman.