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Books we loved when we were young

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Nanny27 Mon 11-May-26 08:33:35

Having enjoyed the recent thread about Jilly Cooper books, I started thinking about books I loved as a teenager and maybe in my twenties. Harold Robbins who wrote The Carpet baggers and Jacqueline Suzanne's Valley of the Dolls. Did any other Grans read these?

Cossy Mon 11-May-26 08:37:08

Yes! I thoroughly enjoyed them!

GrannyGravy13 Mon 11-May-26 08:38:18

Read them both many moons ago, I thoroughly enjoyed them.

Kandinsky Mon 11-May-26 08:38:45

Secret seven.
Famous five.
Loved them smile

Magenta8 Mon 11-May-26 09:01:12

I read Valley of the Dolls but not The Carpet Baggers. I also read Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Lady Chatterly's Lover by D H Lawrence and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

I must have read other books but those are ones I remember.

shysal Mon 11-May-26 09:24:37

When I was young I enjoyed Heidi, the What Katie Did series and Willard Price's South Sea Adventure series.
As a young adult I read all the Jackie Collins books as well as Jilly Cooper and the Sergeanne Golon Angelique books plus many more.

Nanny27 Mon 11-May-26 09:26:57

I remember mild disapproval from my mother as I ploughed my way through Jacqueline Suzanne. Also Sudney Sheldon.
Flowers in The Attic series was passed around at school

fancyflowers Mon 11-May-26 09:32:29

Heidi
St. Clare's
Mallory Towers
The Sea of Adventure
Autumn Term
The Cricket Term
The Attic Term
Peter's Room
The Thursday Kidnapping

These last five were all written by Antonia Forest. She has a large following of adult readers (with good reason).

Luckygirl3 Mon 11-May-26 09:34:12

The Princess and Curdie - loved that book as a child.

And my all-time favourite as an adult is The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien.