Recommend something lighthearted, but well written?

[TheOtherBennetSister]

I am reading an Anthony Horowitz at the mo. I don't have anything lined up to read next. Recently I have loved:
Lessons in Chemistry
The Book Thief
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Longbourne
The Last Anniversary (Leanne Moriarty)
The Twyford Code
The Octopus Man

What else might I like?

Try Clare Chambers. I've read The Editor's Wife and SmallPleasures and enjoyed them both.

I've just finished Mrs England by Stacey Halls and really enjoyed it

Have a look at Impossible by Sarah Lotz

Charlotte by Helen Moffatt.

A Good Read this week reviewed “Stalin Ate My Homework” by Alexei Sayle. Rave reviews by each of the reviewers.

Anything by Kate Atkinson
A lot by Margaret attwood (although some of it is quite sci-fi-y, whichisn'tto everyone's taste)
Brian Bilston, diary of a somebody
Laurie Graham, especially the 10 o'clock horses

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis might fit this brief.

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans. There are 2 more in the series if you enjoy that.
The Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
The Rose Code Kate Quinn.

Any Phillipa Gregory

P. G. Wodehouse is as lighthearted as they come. In fact, he is pure joy. As for well-written, his prose is as good as it gets. When he died, some critics compared him to Shakespeare, and I'm not surprised. Frankly, he makes almost every other writer seem dull and plodding and clumsy. Each sentence is polished to perfection.

I'd recommend listening to Stephen Fry read him. Fry also reads the Sherlock Holmes novels. Both are wonderful.

Clive James autobiography really made me laugh, and he writes well.

Seven Sisters - Lucinda Riley (or her other books)
Away with the Penguins
The Heatwave - Kate Riordan
Maeve Binchey books

Another vote for P. G. Wodehouse.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Where’d you go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

Try a Veronica Henry.

Another vote for Lissa Evans and PG Wodehouse.

Carole Matthews. The chocolate lovers club and the chocolate lovers diet. Fiona Walker French Relations and Kiss Chase

Anything by Katie Fforde, lighthearted, romantic and no smut.

Not that i'm against smut but there's a time and a place

The Robber Bride and Cat’s Eye are both very good and not sci-fi-y - about female (women and girls’) ‘friendships’.

Julieta Henderson - The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman... a delightful well written read. Beat book I've read in a while.

Another vote for Crooked Heart.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella gibbons

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