what book did you engage with so much that it made you cry?

[BBBee]

sometimes you feel like the author is tugging at your heart strings for no reason and then other times they just really get you.

Paula - Isabelle Allende, blubbed like a baby at the end.

time travellers wife. in my defence i was pregnant and hormonal though

We need to talk about Kevin

La Storia by Elsa Morante, and various other Italian novels.

I can't think of one which made me cry but I'm sure there have been ones which have!

But the book which had such a great moment in it that I nearly fell out of bed was 'Fingersmith' Sarah Waters. I thought that was a great great read.

Scariest book was 'The woman in black' Susan Hill.

The last page in To Kill a Mockingbird always makes me cry.

We need to talk about Kevin, here too.

the poisonwood bible - amazing book.

i make no apologies for getting choked up at the time travellers wife.

The Book Thief.

peppermint pig nina bawden

To Kill a Mockingbird (every time)
The Green Mile (every time)

My Sisters Keeper - Judy Pinochet, cried so much dh thought something serious had happened.

Mockinbird ( always)
and Time travellers wife - have yet to re read

I cry at so many books. I am an official blubber. Maybe the most recent on the list is The Time Traveller's Wife, but it really doesn't take much to get me sobbing.

too many to count

I sobbed the first time I finished reading The Mayor of Casterbridge

Once in a house on fire by Andrea Ashworth

Lots.
but the last chapter of The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman Northern Light trilogy) made me cry so much i could hardly see the book ...had to put it down and come back later.
Sobbed my heart out at the theatre when they did it at the NT (?) too...

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck. Also, and very feebly several of my children's books and don't even have any hormonal excuse

Re-read the Railway Children recently (found my childhood copy and couldn't resist) and I blubbed almost all the way through it. Much more poignant seen through adult eyes.

loads and loads - but I remember really crying a lot when I'd finished the God of Small Things years ago. Must re-read that ...

Wuthering Heights , just even thinking about Cathy and Heathcliff's graves and the wind moving through the harebells sets me off. was sad on July 30 as it was Emily Bronte's b-day.!

Fridays Child By Ben Palmer.

second vote for the poisonwood bible.
but i cried for a week after i read small island and brick lane. (might have been the hormones)

God, loads make me cry.

The one that had me sobbing in my 20's was 'By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept'

And the one that had me sobbing in my 30's was 'C: because cowards get cancer too' by John Diamond

The one that's had me sobbing in my 40's is "And when did you last see your father?"