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!

There was a discussion on one of the other book threads where a Mumsnetter met her and asked her when her new book was coming out and Laurie told her that she wasn't with her publisher any more due to 'lack of demand' 🙄
It says much the same on her Amazon page too.
I'll see if I can find the post 🙂

She's got a blog although she hasn't put anything on there for a few years unfortunately.

@Freysimo one of my faves too - I read it when H was away once and put it down at 6am!! One of the best twists ever

It was about midnight, I was going to finish the chapter & then go to sleep since I had to get up for work.

But it was THAT chapter so I simply stayed up all night.

I can’t believe there’s no demand for her work. I’ve read that book so many times.

Lots of nostalgia on here for me.
I read Far Pavillions when it came out in 1978 when I was 20. Adored it. I seem to recall there was a film or mini series that didn't do it justice. I wonder how I would feel about now I am old?

Marge Piercy , same era. I read The Thorn Birds around the early 80s as well, same genre.

I recently discovered the Morland Dynasty and have read book one with book 2 on my TBR
Also on my TBR is The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

I'm book marking this thread as these are my kind of books.

@EmpressaurusKitty ha ha me too - I actually went back a chapter after the twist and re read as couldn’t believe it!!

Sarum was brilliant! As was London. Problem is, they were so good I’m afraid to try the others in case they’re not as good.

Thank you to those recommending Demon Copperhead- I devoured it this week and absolutely adored it 😍

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - possibly my favourite book, I reread it quite often in run-up to Christmas. Some of his other books are similar in style, I enjoyed Freedom and Crossroads.

Pretty much anything by Kate Atkinson.

Agree with a few suggested here as well, also was really gripped by We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter, based on members of her extended family who escaped the Holocaust.

The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning.

Already been suggested I see, but I would say anything Louis de Bernieres or Amitav Ghosh fit this - in particular the South American trilogy, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Birds Without Wings, and The Dust That Falls from Dreams and the subsequent books for LdB; The Sea of Poppies trilogy and The Glass Palace for Ghosh. Elif Shafak's recent There Are Rivers in the Sky probably fits too.

I concur with the two other pps who said they don't get the Cazalet hype. I read the first one and could not go back for more.

I loved the Cazalets when I first read it about 15 years ago. But I listened to the audiobook about 5 years ago and tbh I can understand why people didn't love it.

Susan Howatch - all of them are stories told from multiple perspectives. The Starbridge novels are 6 books set over 30 odd years - each book is about one person, but the same events recur in each… love love love her books

Yet another vote for Pachinko!

The Quincunx, Charles Palliser

The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese.

An epic story spanning 1900 - 1977, set mostly in Kerala.

I'm six books in to the Morland Saga!
Thanks to whoever suggested it 🙂

Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series - historical fiction about Julius Caesar and co. Sounds from the title like some corny thing about soldiers and gladiators, but don’t be put off! The characterisation is fantastic, it’s a gripping and immersive tale and you can tell she really did her research.

Fortune’s Favourites and Caesar’s Women are my favourites!

I lost those in a move years ago & picked them up again recently - the six Starbridge books & also the St Benet’s trilogy starring Nicholas Darrow & Lewis Hall from the Starbridge books.

That lot kept me very happy for quite a while!