A book for my Grandmother - recommendations please.

My 84 year old mam loved Fifty Shades of Grey.

A Street Cat Named Bob. True story (and more than one book). Not a heavy read, quite short. It was a film too.

Thank you to everyone for taking time to post your fabulous suggestions.
I've downloaded free samples from most of the ideas into my kindle.
I was thinking about the shepherdess one myself.
I love the Miss Read books, I listen to them on Audible.
My Nan has read the Bob book - she enjoyed it (me- not so much!)
I'll definitely look at the Jo Jo Moyes book, that looks right up her street.
I have to be careful as she has a very odd habit of reading books to the very end, even if she doesn't enjoy them
She has said to me before, " Oh I'm so glad that I've finished that. It was a complete load of rubbish".
I spoke to her yesterday and she was in much better spirits, thank goodness.
Thank you again everyone

I shall have a look for The Elephant Whisperer for myself as it sounds very good. Thanks for the idea.

'A street cat named Bob'. True story and inspirational.

Fanny I second Monty Don. I have read several of his books and have no evidence that he supports fox hunting.

Have a look at his ‘Nigel: My family and other dogs’, which is a lovely mix of photographs and text. It’s about gardening and dogs, which might work for your grandmother, as you said she likes animals and nature.

My partner has a 90 year old aunt in a Care Home and we often send her ‘letterbox’ flowers from Bloom & Wild. They come flat packed in a box which would fit through a letter box. Then within a couple of days, they open out beautifully. Bloom & Wild now do lovely dried flower arrangements, too. It may be worth a look at their website. ?

I second Jojo Moyes - any JoJo Moyes. The Ship of Brides is good too.

I have been reading about" Secrets of a Devon wood" by Jo Brown . This is a nature journal with beautiful drawings of what the author found in the wood behind her home. It does look beautiful and may be something for a special present.

I recently read Jojo Moyes 'The Giver of Stars'.
It is set in the early 1930's and based on a true story.

I loved it and didn't want it to end. You say your gran is strong and resilient, so she should like the read.

Also second 'The Salt Path' by Raynor Wynn

"The Man Who Made Things From Trees" by Robert Penn,

www.waterstones.com/book/the-man-who-made-things-out-of-trees/robert-penn/9780141977515

Quote: "Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood."

I see you’re fixed for now, but other ideas might be the Miss Read books, if your teacher-nan hasn’t already read them.

The Salt Path by Raynor Wyn is utterly uplifting, an account of a couple who decided to walk round the West Country when they were in dire circumstances. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/06/home-is-a-state-of-mind-you-dont-need-walls

I meant to add - Anthony had a French wife, I think she is involved in a film that is being made and is based on the book.

He wrote an earlier book too, about rescuing zoo animals from Baghdad when the city fell. What an amazing man.

Elegran that is interesting (and certainly a bit amusing!) It wouldn't surprise me ...

The Yorkshire Shepherdess or one of her following books. Think Amanda Owen is the writer

Love gervasse phinn really funny reading.

I wondered - don't laugh - whether they could hear that his stomach was no longer rumbling. They hear the noises that other elephants make from far away, and Lawrence Antony himself said that if he listened carefully, he could hear rumblings when the herd was around but some distance off.

Elegran yes I did see that, amazingly the elephant herd walked for hours to stand in vigil at his house when he died. How on earth would they have sensed that? In some ways we know so little about animals.

Has she read "The Morville Hours" by Katherine Swift. This combines the story of the creation of a garden with history and all sorts of anecdotes. An easy read but very informative.

Thank you, but she has almost certainly read all of Phinn's books.

How about one of these? About a school inspector in Yorkshire dales. "Uproarious and touching in turns"

Not to worry Callistemon- I think that I have settled on MD now, so I'm most grateful for your contribution!

It's my grandmother, not my mother btw, and she is very opinionated
I know, I don't know why I posted mother!!

He posted a photo of dead wolves? and said it was sickening but intimated he wasn't against culling, I think.

Thank you Callistemon, that's helpful.
I was just going by the reviews on Amazon that said that about the fox hunting.
In fact it was the review that was at the top, so what you say makes sense.
(It's my grandmother, not my mother btw, and she is very opinionated!)

Monty Don does not write enthusiastically about fox hunting

He did say he may be in favour of culling in certain circumstances and was subsequently trolled.

If you think your mother may enjoy his book then don't be put off by that. Don't forget, at 96 she is still entitled to her own opinions on whether she agrees with him or not.