A really gripping, well written saga. Bonus if it has separate chapters for each character!

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Looking for something for my holiday. Loved Gone To Soldiers by Marge Piercy. Also The Bee Sting.

I really enjoy books where each chapter is about a different character or from their perspective.

Thanks!

Read that on holiday 2 years ago! Enjoyed it and loved the show!

Girl Woman Other - Bernadine Evaristo

Absolute firecracker of a book. Read It in a single day as couldn't leave it alone.

Sounds perfect 👌 on the list. Thanks

Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
The Balkan Trilogy, by Olivia Manning
Winds of War, by Herman Wouk

These are all set before/during WW2, but different parts of the world, which I find fascinating. "Winds of War" is absolutely massive, but so absorbing.

I know it's old but I remember loving The Forsyte Saga. It's only 49p on kindle.

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth is a great saga with loads of characters.

I'll join in the love for Girl, Woman, Other.

Jonathan Coe books might be worth looking at. The Rotters Club is a good place to start. Then lots of later books where the same characters appear (even if only briefly).

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

More old ones, The Winds of War, followed by War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk. They were made into TV mini-series in the eighties which I never watched but I loved the books.

And I have just listened to The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham. Once I got past the awful Norfolk accent I found it really absorbing.

I love both Marge Piercy and the Morland saga! Have reread some of these many times and never meet people who like them.

Pretty sure there’s a sequel to Future Homemakers too. I love Laurie Graham.

I checked - The Early Birds.

Another vote for Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
“a rich evocative saga “ comment by FT reviewer, I agree !

I've read The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh a couple of times and enjoyed it. It follows a few families across a century in Burma, India, and Malaya.

I just finished Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty. It starts with a woman on a plane standing up and predicting the other passengers' age and cause of death, then follows that woman and some of the passengers and how they're affected by what happened on the plane. I found all the characters' stories interesting, and the way things mentioned in earlier chapters would come up again later was quite satisfying.

Another Australian author, Kate Morton, writes books that follow two or three characters in different times as they uncover some family secret or mystery. In some books, the main character in some chapters is a side character in others, and it's interesting to see the character at a different age and from someone else's perspective. The storylines can get a little samey if you've read all her books, I guessed the twist pretty early on in her latest book, but I still enjoy them.

I grabbed them too and I'm only about a third of the way through the first one 😊🙂

Absolutely love all Laurie Graham's books.
There's a sequel to Future Homemakers called The Early Birds.

Laurie has to self publish now unfortunately

The author of this book was interviewed on Woman's Hour a few weeks ago and I thought it sounded like an amazing concept and then promptly forgot! I'll go and order it now.

I also love The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett which has a bit of a sliding doors concept but tells the story of the same couple through three different lenses. I didn't want that to end.

Another one- a fine balance- made me cry, an amazing life affirming story

By you side by Ruth Jones. Written from different characters. Laughing out loud one minute and tears the next. This is the best book I have ever read

So funny you should say this as I have in the last hour found this at the back of the bookshelf and realised I started it a decade ago and never finished it!

All the colours of the dark. Superb

That's on my list!

The Bronze Horseman Trilogy by Paullina Simons.

Older Susan Howatch novels? Penmarric? Cashelmara?

The Jackson Brodie books by Kate Atkinson. First one is Case Histories

Seconding A Suitable Boy and A Woman of Substance.

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (translated by Michael Meyer) is a Viking saga that follows the adventures of a Viking called Red Orm during the 10th century, as Scandinavia gradually becomes more Christian. It's considered a classic in Sweden, where it was first published.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is a cowboy/frontier epic which gets good reviews, even from people who don't normally like Westerns. It's currently sitting on my TBR shelf, but the Kindle sample was really good.

Why? I adore her books

I just finished The Names and I absolutely loved it!