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Another vote for American Wife; Freedom; and Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman.

I also loved Emma Henderson's Grace Williams Says it Loud - really original and beautifully written.


If you want something light and easy to digest in chunks then short stories by David Sedaris or Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs are great choices. I also loved Augusten Burrough's "Dry", though it did make me weep on a train once.

'The Slap' was terrible, really irritating! I did like 'One Day', 'Freedom' and 'Kite Runner, A thousand spending suns'. I quite like Italo crime - try Donna Leon for easy, pleasant reading. How about an old classic, something you haven't read in a while...'the handmaids tale' or Harper Lee's 'to kill a mockingbird'?

Ruffler Wrote:

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> Hazelnunhead - I think you might be thinking of

> The Magus by John Fowles - another great holiday

> read!



Second thoughts - no leper colonies in The Magus - it's a long time since I read it, but it's still a good holiday read.

Whatever you do DON'T read Incredibly loud and extremely close. Although a brilliant book it is incredibly sad. I was depressed for ages.


The Amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay was a book I thoroughly enjoyed on holiday - it was out ages ago chances are you've read it.

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