Please recommend me a wonderful book

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I’m reading a lot of books about loss and grief at the moment, I lost my mum this year and I think it’s helping me process, can anyone recommend a beautiful book? I read a lot but not classics and not light chick lit either, something in the middle! If it’s cheap on kindle even better!

My favourite recent read is https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22929563-the-watchmaker-of-filigree-street

Sorry for your loss.

Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven are both lovely - by Mitch Albom

Also, it’s not about loss and grief, but I would highly recommend this as a book that totally drags you into its world and is really well written but not heavy. I’m linking to a really good article about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jun/12/broadcasting.bookerprize2005

Theo of Golden

In The Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth.

A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe. One of the themes is the Aberfan disaster so it is very sad but beautifully written
My condolences on your loss.

I am so sorry for your loss.

I find All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr a very beautiful and healing read. North Woods by Daniel Mason which is a wonderful book about the ways we’re all connected.

Sorry for your loss OP. The last act of love, by Cathy Rentzenbrink, a memoir around the death of her brother is just devastating but a beautiful tribute to him.

The Secret Garden is about mourning, and learning to go forward. And as a children’s book it’s easy to read.

Sorry for your loss. Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov is a wonderfully written exploration of grief for the loss of a parent. Told in vignettes which makes it the sadness manageable.

I've been raving about 'Albion's Dream' by Roger Norman in the children's book thread. It's not about grief or loss, but it's really well-written with some beautiful evocation of the Dorset countryside. It can easily be enjoyed by an adult, as it's written in such a mature way.

Came here to recommend the very same

I would also recommend 'A Terrible Kindness' also 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'.

When the cranes fly south

Written from the viewpoint of an elderly man, and his thoughts and memories. It’s a beautiful book, but is quite emotional as well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Cranes-South-Lisa-Ridzén-ebook/dp/B0D3CMVWB6/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=180978529348&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.74jaBfodDHlR7DbqtRJzqzuIQ9BTnnyRJP8UGkdD6lICjFcurMwJT-09NDLyG4lWJQ-8OpTCo1BHLV7VEhk1iKn_QP4P_EX1QZOsICn2o0aq1ZP0ierJJ1lk5Aq69IuxQfxu1nRo2icahJLveGN1IsS0yflcoq5LMJQm9C293Y1RDth2hQJV7prqM2EwE9rxQbVFiyT8dWYuwlM4iA1LuQ.JGeNOBfRlJCdMFN9Hb5YM0tL54OkipbMbTXa_VgWcsg&dib_tag=se&gad_source=1&hvadid=793489408787&hvdev=m&hvexpln=70&hvlocphy=9044995&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=3472499161063765296--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3472499161063765296&hvtargid=kwd-2409358797594&hydadcr=13691_2454628&keywords=when+the+cranes+fly+south&mcid=9a58e09619f83d4b82fd8b02c181530f&qid=1792271438&sr=8-1

I loved Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

Paula by Isabelle Allende is very moving. It's about her daughter who died after a long period in a coma.
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively has a central thread of memory and loss. It's a book I've returned to over the years.
Might poetry be helpful too?
I'm sorry for your loss OP.

I’m sorry for your loss too.
Have you read The things we never say, Elizabeth Strout?

Thank you I think I have read the things we never say