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Happy book please

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Grandmabatty Wed 17-Dec-25 08:26:32

Cold comfort farm

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NotSpaghetti Wed 17-Dec-25 08:20:30

These are ultimately happy novels:

Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
about a spinster schoolteacher, Margery Benson, who abandons her life in 1950s London to search for a mythical golden beetle in New Caledonia^

Rachel Joyce also wrote
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
...which is also quirky and funny.
about Harold who goes on a long journey

...neither of these is relentlessly humorous but both are ultimately "smiling' sort of books - but also with very funny parts.

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Magenta8 Wed 17-Dec-25 07:29:46

Just about anything by P G Wodehouse. He is not popular at the moment but they are still very funny and very silly.

Other blast from the past are the Miss Read books and the Cornwall books by Derek Tangye.

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Pleasebenice Wed 17-Dec-25 07:14:01

My book group have slipped into a run of misery feasts. We need a few joyous books for the new year. Suggestions please

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