Can you suggest an uplifting easy read?

[becca3210]

Hi I am looking to send a book to a friend who is recovering from hospital. An easy read that is uplifting with humour would be ideal. Any recommendations?

Might depend on her age/ circumstances, but I really enjoyed Confessions of a forty something f**k up! I also love re-reading the James Herriot all creatures great and small books.

I really enjoyed Rachel Joyce’s Miss Bensons Beetle . Picked it up in a charity shop and wasn’t sure - was really good , funny , moving and uplifting with an unusual setting . Really it’s about friendship .

A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French

Frank and Red by Matt Coyne ? (Or is it Red and Frank?).

Anyway - I read that whilst in hospital. Easy to pick up and put down.

The Rosie Project

Old favourite 'Diary of a Nobody', Grossmith and Grossmith

Monica Dickens - One Pair of Hands, One Pair of Feet and My Turn to Make the Tea.

Nobody comes close to P G Wodehouse. Listening to Stephen Fry read him on audiobook is close to heaven. Wodehouse isn’t just funny, he’s joyful beyond words.

Douglas Adams always cheers me up. I always find Patrick Fermor uplifting as well, especially A Time of Gifts.

Any Bill Bryson.

I'm currently reading the Nora Roberts Irish Trilogy; first book called Jewels of the Sun.

Light-hearted and easy to read. I've been in a real funk with books this year and this has entertained me for the last few days. I've just downloaded Book 2 (Tears of the Moon)

Jane Fallon books are pretty good.

thank you all will research these x

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum. A very sweet book.

H.E Bates -Darling buds of May.
Any Georgette Heyer .
Stella Gibbons- Cold comfort farm.

Emily Wildes Encyclopedia of Fairies was easy and charming as was The House in the Cerulean Sea.

Laurie Colwin’s Family Happiness or A Big Storm Knocked It Over. Clever, light-hearted, tough-minded, latter-day Jane Austen.

Agree!

Any of Dawn O Porter's books

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbie waxman is light but well written

Great thanks all - lots of ideas. Think I will read some of these myself too

A strong recommend for Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. It's perfect.

My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell, very gentle and funny.

Might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I love the Just William books, they make me howl with laughter and have done for years and the audio books read by Martin Jarvis are fantastic.

The Authenticty Project is my most recent favourite easy read - great story, uplifting, and easy read!

Lucy Diamond
emily Griffiths
Carole Matthew’s

Oh yes! This is so good. Perfect!