Is anyone able to recommend a book as good as this please?

Jane 10, I loved a Man called Ove and the film, I was completely on his wavelength.

I joined the library especially to download books but alas my trusty kindle isn't the right type. It's old but works fine - just not up to date enough software in it. Drat!

Thank you all, some brilliant ideas here. I think the next one I try will be All the Light We Cannot See. It’s on my bookshelf at home! I have ordered several John Boyne books from the library. I shall look out for Patrick Gayle and A Man Called Ove. I knew you would be the people to ask! (TerriBull, it was your account of The Heart’s Invisible Furies” that made me want to read it!)

Sorry it should be "The Orphan Train" previous message.

Our Reading Group book this month is "The Orpnn Train" by Christina Baker Kline.
I found it unputdownable.

I'm reading (amongst others) A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale - it does go backwards and forwards so sometimes confused but then that is partly my fault as I put it down and go back to it. I wouldn't normally have picked it up but I was at the library picking up/taking back some books and it was on the counter.

I've always got a couple of books - whether physical or ebook - on the go, can't get into audiobooks they send me to sleep

I too have joined the library online and it is amazing. I had given up reading as I found it hard to concentrate. I now read so many books. I always thought I preferred an actual book but this is so easy .

Alima thankyou so much for this post. I’ve been stuck in a rut for good reads and now have an exciting list of new authors to explore

I, too, loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and also Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. I usually read Crime novels, but these are very different.

I sympathise Alima, "The Heart's Invisible Furies" is not only the best book I've read this year, but the best book I've read for a long time. The closest thing in my mind to it would be "The Goldfinch", which divided opinions, but to me it had the same sweeping novel feel about it, insomuch as it dealt with love and loss and saw the transformation of the main character from child to adult, battling adversity throughout. "All the Light we Cannot See" would probably be another, but at times I found it a tad dull. A couple more in a similar vein, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, the story of a 3 generational Greek family who left Asia Minor in the 1920s when hostilities between the Greeks and Turks made life impossible to stay where they grew up. The two main characters, a brother and a sister escape to Detroit, US where the brother gets a job in The Ford car factory when it was in it's zenith. The narrative continues following the two successive generations and their fortunes, taking in seminal times, such as the Wall Street crash and the race riots of the sixties. The title of the book relates to one of the characters who is born of indeterminate sex and therein hangs the plot that underpins the book. A Pulitzer Prize winner I believe. In the same vein, I would also recommend "The Poisonwood Bible" Barbara Kingsolver. The story of a maniacal Baptist preacher from the deep south who takes his wife and daughters to what was was formerly the Belgian Congo in the late 50s early 1960s on the cusp of that country becoming independent. Again it spans quite a few years. As well as the central character of the preacher, the book also deals with the politics of the time in that part of Africa and how the preacher's wife and daughters are affected by their father's decisions. Again sublime.

Should have put on-line service.

Thank you so much nannypiano for that information about borrowing ebooks and audio books from the local library, I had no idea you could do that!
I have just downloaded the app onto my phone and ipod and applied for membership and am looking forward to starting downloading

I've used this service for ages and hardly use the physical library now, love it.

You will be gob-smacked if you read Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield.

The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman

1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Any book by Mitch Albion.

..then there's Old Baggage, The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder, and Three Things About Elsie, all from GN book giveaway

My daughter gave me a new book recently by John Boyne for my birthday: a ladder to the sky - I really enjoyed it.

just read The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain and loved it.also loved All the Light … and Eleanor Oliphant ...

Loved Harold Fry and All the Light We Cannot See.

But please, all of you - read this true story by Alison White, published this year by Faber and Faber.I got it from the library first - and then bought it. It is called 'Letter to Louis' and has been described as' a moving account of raising a son with cerebral palsy.' It is beautifully written - and I cannot believe that any woman who has had a child would not be touched by it.

Completely different to those you mentioned, but Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, by Gail Honeyman is a wonderful read, also Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans.I found myself wondering how all the characters in each got on in life after the books ended.

I have started to reread books I read as a teenager which were bought each month from The Book Club,World Books and Companion Book Club by my parents.
My all time favourite is "Children of the Archbishop " by Norman Collins.
It is delightful.
I also like AJ Cronin
These can be picked up cheaply from Charity Shops or Amazon.

I know that we don't all have the same tastes in books but I have ordered from the library ,the two books by John Boyne which were recommended .
Thank you .
I would like to know -going off at a bit of a tangent -if other bloggers are tired of books which have each chapter written by a different person and which go backwards and forwards in time just to add to the confusion..
I think this is "Creative Writing"!
Quite often a young woman finds a diary in the attic which belonged to her great grandmother who was a maid at the "big house -or similar- .and it all starts from there

A bit off original subject, but finding it amazing. A few months ago I joined our library's borrow e books for free. Also audio books on all subjects. I have never read so many books and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I wonder if anyone else has discovered this amazing way of reading

Red Joan by Jennie Rooney. Really enjoyed this, even though I'm not usually interested in spies!

I've been in a book club for two years and our unanimous opinion of the best book so far is "All the light we cannot see" by Anthony Doerr.
Personally loved Harold Fry and Queenie Hennessy and any Patrick Gale as well.