I need a happy read please

[PoorlyDS]

I want to send a friend a book for escapism
No death please. She's freshly grieving. No illness even if in the last narrative/ background
Hit me up please.

@PoorlyDS , have a look through the thread on comfort books on this board.

Sophie Kinsalla always makes me smile.

Good shout thanks. It's the death aspect I need to avoid as it's a gift and I need it be certain of plot

The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
Any of the Mapp and Lucia novels
Any of Eva Ibbotsen's books
I Capture the Castle by Dodie smith
Barsetshire Towers by Trollope.

all of these regularly appear on the comfort reads thread.

I reread A Month In The Country recently - it was lovely.

I capture the castle
The shell seekers

Enid Blyton!!! So happy and sweet, you learn stuff too!

Some of the Miss Read books? Not Farewell to Fairacre but most of the rest should be great comfort books

P. G. Wodehouse. There is nothing like him in all of English literature. Above all, try the Jeeves and Wooster novels. No death, no illness, no ugliness or cruelty or evil, just silliness and joy expressed in the most sublime language I know. He isn't a novelist. He's a comic poet. Once you have Bertie's sweet, kind, idiotic voice in your head, it's better than Prozac. Stephen Fry called Wodehouse's language "sunlit perfection," and somebody else described reading him as like "swimming in Champagne". So true.

Sherlock Holmes always cheers me up as well. So does Douglas Adams.