“Mid life female”fiction

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I nearly went with “middle age women’s” fiction but sounded so awful!
Bit clichéd but I’m in my 40s and just love modern(ish) fiction about women my age or older, grown up kids, marriages, affairs, work, juggling, family dynamics, reflecting on the past, childhood etc that draw you in and pack an emotional punch. I loved colm toibin Brooklyn and Long Island, Ann patchet and Ann Tyler, maggie o Farrell, Joanna glen, Hilary Boyd, Rosamund pincher, Louise doughty, Harriet tyce, Claire lynch, Clare keegan…. Nothing too whimsical or chick lit (I can tell by looking at a cover of I’ll hate it!)
Any recommendations along these lines would be wonderful. Thank you.

You might enjoy The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. Historical murder mystery with the main character being a midwife in her 50s.

Heart the Lover is wonderful. (As is the novel to which it's both sequel and prequel, Writers and Lovers.)

The Road to Litchfield by Penelope Lively
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
and other Barbara Pym

but these are a bit more period

Jane Gardam’s books

Yes to all of these

Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout. Also Elizabeth Crane who should be better known outside of the US.