Help -I've read all Rosamund Pilcher and don't just want to take a whodunnit on holiday

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DutchOma · 17/05/2008 22:30

What can you recommend?

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TotalChaos · 17/05/2008 23:32

Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Maeve Binchy
Chocolat by Joanne Harris

gagarin · 17/05/2008 23:35

Try Mavis Cheek - she writes great books

charliecat · 18/05/2008 00:31

maeve binchy TARA ROAD

charliecat · 18/05/2008 00:32

helen forrester also, any of hers

LaVieEnRose · 18/05/2008 00:47

Agree with charliecat. Helen Forrester - Twopence to cross the Mersey and Liverpool Miss will make you cry.

charliecat · 18/05/2008 00:49

ebay by the way very cheap

seeker · 18/05/2008 06:18

Maeve Binchey
Penny Vincenzi

Both cheap in Tesco at the moment. Both fab holiday reading!

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DutchOma · 18/05/2008 09:22

Maeve Binchy is good, but have read most of those as well, and all of Mary Wesley and Joann Harris, although there is a new one out, that would be a plan.
Helen Forrester, Mavis Cheek and Penny Vincenzi I haven't come across at all, thanks very much for the suggestions.

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hatjam · 19/05/2008 11:26

warnings of gales
story about a shared family holiday in cornwall

Enid · 19/05/2008 11:27

Elizabeth Jane Howard
the cazalet chronicles (the light years is the first one)

gummybears · 21/05/2008 17:09

The EJH books mentioned above are brilliant. Follow a massive extended family and all their different but interlinked stories from about 1938 until after the war. My favourite - I re read them whenever I feel a bit sorry for myself!

stleger · 21/05/2008 17:11

Barbara Erskine's earlier ones like Lady of Hay, weird timeslips. And Mavis Cheek is fun, I liked Patrick Parker's Progress.

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