Something like One Day?

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Hayliebells · 14/02/2024 19:44

Like the rest of the world and it's wife, I've been zooming through One Day on Netflix, and it's reminded me how much I enjoyed the book. Can anyone recommend something similarly engrossing (nothing dark or disturbing please). I haven't read anything that's really gripped me in what feels like years!

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Santasbigredbobblehat · 23/02/2024 07:38

Philandbill · 14/02/2024 20:01

"Versions of Us" by Laura Barnett has a One Day feel. "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell deserved all of the hype a couple of years ago. "Bournville" by Jonathan Coe is a good easy read - my favourite Christmas present book. And I've just reread my favourite ever novel, "Moon Tiger" by Penelope Lively. Hope you find something you enjoy from someone"s suggestions, come back and tell us. 😀

Agree with all of these and the early Lisa Jewell recommendations. I also love the other David Nicholls books.
Early Jojo Moyes too maybe.

Sandysandwich · 23/02/2024 07:46

Every Day by David Levithan had sort of a similar feel to me

Zonder · 23/02/2024 07:53

Hayliebells · 14/02/2024 20:19

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I've definitely read the follow up book to One Day, I'll have to check out his others too.

There's a follow up? What's it called? I read the book years ago, saw the film and just don't want to watch the series unless they changed the ending 😆

AristotlesTrousers · 23/02/2024 08:12

LethargeMarg · 23/02/2024 07:26

My favourite book of all time is not vey well known but called 'blood sugar' by Susannah Dunn and has the same format as every chapter is a different year starting in 1981. It's about a group of friends starting in sixth form and how their lives change and interact or move away over the next ten years, very British, very coming of age, very 80s. I absolutely adore it and I think you can still get it second hand but not sure about on kindle

Oh I love this book. One of my favourites too!

Philandbill · 23/02/2024 20:11

LethargeMarg · 23/02/2024 07:26

Wow! I read "Quite Contrary" by Susannah Dunn in the late 1990s and utterly adored it, a book that's really stayed with me but nobody ever knows it. I haven't read any of her other work because I was worried it wouldn't be as good. Off now to buy Blood Sugar - the wonders of the internet!
@LethargeMarg if you like Susannah Dunn have you read any Michael Cannon? A really underrated author I think. I read his "Conspiracy of Hope" at about the same time and it's excellent. His more recent " Lachlan's War" was also good but a quite different theme.

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