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Another recommendation would be Big Stone Gap by Aridania Trigiani. Small town type book. The Mitford Series Issybird recommends would also be another recommendation. |
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The following is mostly lighter reading not classics as such.
I enjoy Miss Read for light reading focused on characters in small English cities or villages. Edith Pargeter has some good character heavy books written under that name (I particularly enjoyed Lost Children which is set in post-WWWII England). The semi-autobiographical Candleford Trilogy by Flora Thompson(omnibus titles Lark Rise to Candleford provides a fascinating look at being rural poor in late 19th Century England . I've heard good things about The Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield and the Barsetshire series by Angela Thirkell. The Blog Furrowed Middlebrow has reviews on many books that fit your description some of which are actually being republished. |
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Many romances are like that -- focusing on people, feelings, and relationships, without a lot of external drama. (Of course, many of them also have dramatic plots.)
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I loved the series Lark Rise to Candleford and I’m super intrigued by The Provincial Lady. Thank you!!! |
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I recommend The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan; The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry; and anything by Barbara Pym. |
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Wouldn't be much of a romance without those three ingredients. They are what make a book work for me but I also need some sort of plot, preferably in a fantasy setting. Sometimes the plot is just about the people, backstabbing or whatnot, then I call it a soap opera; that's typically what a historical novel about the English aristocracy/royalty is; people plotting and backstabbing.
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Indeed. Or angels, butterflies, cocaine, espionage, fog, ghosts, heiresses, inheritance disputes, jewel thieves, knitting, latin declensions, marriage at gunpoint, notoriety, opals, pornographic bookshops, queens, the rat godess of Thames, smartwatches, sedition, suffragettes!, self-evident truths, space ships, sex, shooting parties, taxidermists, universities, veneral diseases, witches, xenobiology, the year without a summer, or zombies
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If you like cats, try the Alfie series by Rachel Wells; if you want gentle, mannered classics, try Jane Austen (though I'm not a fan of her writing style, prefering Dickens); if you want modern chiclit, try The Country Escape by Jane Lovering.
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The 5 Miss Seeton novels by Heron Carvic are entertaining. The eccentric residents of a small English Village are great to settle down with for an afternoon. Carvic's way of playing with words is fun to read.
Don Quixote USA by Richard Powell is a fun read. The protagonist Arthur Peabody Goodpasture is a young Bostonian who joins the Peace Corp. to promote the cultivation of Dwarf Cavendish bananas in a fictional island nation. The regime and the revolutionaries both assume that's a cover for the CIA and hilarity follows. |
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I found Rosamunde Pilcher has perfectly filled my “relaxing/cozy read” need. I’ve started with Coming Home … loving it so much. Thanks for all the suggestions |
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