Something "light and trivial" for book club

[sarahsmummy]

my book group's done a few 'heavier' books recently - eg political biog and a 'heart-render'. Any suggestions for something lighter for our next read, please?

Child 44. The first thriller to be listed for Booker prize.

Something by Joanna Trollope?

How about Snobs by Julian Fellows here.

I LOVED it. Light and easy to read but quite astounding about the upper classes.

Also 2nd Joanna Trollope and the Devil Wears Prada.

Also how about any Deborah Moggagh (sp?) I think she rocks. (in a middle-class, gentle sort of way)

problem with 'light and trival' is that you might end up with not much to talk about. We once did a mills and boon and that was good as we could talk about the genre and why people read them and the representation of women etc.

How about 'The vanishing act of esme lennox' by Maggie O'Farrell. The subject matter isn't light and trivial - young woman who is incarcerated in a mental hospital by her family - but it's a very easy read.

Or maybe 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day' - a very feelgood story written in the 1930's about a governess who goes to work for a glamourous actress. A really sweet book that's light without being completely trashy.

Do Cheerful Weather for the Wedding - Julia Strachey.

It's another of those miniature gems, a novella not a novel, written in the 30s and about (as you can guess) a family wedding - but really it's all about characters (who are captured through telling snatches of what they say) and the events are just the frame.

I think you'd love it. It's light as anything, and the best example I can think of right now of triviality overlaying great big Truths.

Cold Comfort Farm, and Diary of a Nobody, (and probably Bar Mitzvah Boy, to be a little bit more contemporary) are the same sort of vibe - to give you an idea.