Need a book recommendation

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Am going through a stressful time and have abandoned Demon Copperhead as it's too depressing. Need something to escape with - doesn't have to be light weight but a page turner .. what do you recommend?

The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne if you haven't already read it.

Other recommendations;

Memoirs:
Hungry by Grace Dent
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Fiction:
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare
Love after Love by Ingrid Persaud
The Long Song Andrea Levy

Ooh thank you .. have have only read two on your list!
Out of interest did you read Demon Copperhead? Wondering if others found it a bit boring?

I loved Demon Copperhead
Have you readTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow?
Also dear Edward Ann Neapolitano
I also enjoyed the most recent Richard Osman book as an audiobook the reader was really good

I find Lisa Jewell highly readable - normally only takes a couple of days per book as I can't leave them alone.

Dominicana by Annie Cruz

Nonfiction: eg Le Freak by Nile Rodgers

I haven't read Demon Copperhead yet but I have it on Audible to listen to. I've heard good things about it.
I really liked The Poisonwood Bible by the same author, but I really disliked Flight Behaviour so the jury is out!

Anything by jo Jo Moyes, especially the giver of stars. I just tune the world out when I'm reading her books. Sebastian faulks is good for history/romance/mystery. Stephen booth for crime based dramas

Placemarking

A dark Adapted Eye', Ruth Rendell.

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith. Best of the Strike books so far.

JK Rowling at her best.

Still Life by Sarah Winman - just a lovely read.

The best book I've read recently is Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant.

The whole Strike series.

Lisa Jewell .( All of them) same with
Claire Douglas and Adele Parks

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Another vote for Still Life - favourite book of 2023.
Also recommend The three Graces by Amanda Craig
and Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

Not necessarily a page turner but I just finished Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill. I really enjoyed it.

John Marrs, all of his books are fab

A second vote for Small Pleasures, great book!

Third vote for small pleasures!

I agree with Small Pleasures. I really like Clare Chambers as a writer and find her books very readable. My unputdownable book of this year is The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, great thriller that is very good in its own right but also has a sequel. It has quite short chapters so doesn't feel overwhelming.