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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorSecrets of a Happy Marriage
Cathy Kelly · 424 pages
The Break
Marian Keyes · 536 pages
The Summer House
Marcia Willett · 299 pages
Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when h
Tara Road
Maeve Binchy · 502 pages
It's the story of Ria. She trusted her friends and her husband completetely. She conceived emotions to be equal, either you felt or you showed them. Till one day she faces herself with a shock... and change comes into her life!
That Loving Feeling
Carole Matthews · 428 pages
Juliet Joyce is married with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a 70 year-old mother who just moved in and a father who's announced he is gay. Nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Audrey who jilted her years ago. Can Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling they've lost.
The Trip of a Lifetime
Monica McInerney · 464 pages
Divided Loyalties
Patricia Scanlan · 480 pages
The Cassidy's marriage is under pressure. Shauna wants another baby. Greg doesn't. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws, 'the Freeloaders', as her sister calls them. They arrive at her home at the drop of a hat, eat drink an stay as long as they like, without lifting a finger to help. Shuana's glad to be moving abroad. She'll be free of them a lat. Or will she? Carrie, Shuana's sister, fee
The Tea House On Mulberry Street
Sharon Owens · 323 pages
Separate Beds
Elizabeth Buchan
Soy Sauce for Beginners
Kirstin Chen · 256 pages
Gretchen Lin leaves behind a floundering marriage to return to her Singapore home, where she confronts the challenges of her mother's alcoholism and her father's artisanal soy sauce business before being pulled into a family controversy.
The Baby Trail
Sinead Moriarty · 320 pages
Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby - but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
Morag Prunty · 357 pages
Uncertain about the future after her marriage to Dan, Tressa, a sophisticated, successful woman in her late thirties, discovers the ingredients of marital happiness in the journals and recipes of her grandmother Bernadine.
He's Got to Go
Sheila O'Flanagan · 608 pages
The Infidelity Chain
Tess Stimson · 406 pages
Ella Stuart has worked hard to achieve the perfect work-life balance: a high-flying career as a pediatric doctor, a charming husband, charity fundraiser Jackson Garrettand in urbane PR consultant William Ashfield, a passionate, worldly lover. William is equally devoted to Ella, his mistress of eight years, and to his faded, troubled wife, Beth. He knows he could never choose between them; and is e
Winter Street
Elin Hilderbrand · 249 pages
A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
The Betrayal
Laura Elliot · 434 pages
Nadine and Jake Saunders were married in their teens. Tied to one another by a night of passion that resulted in a pregnancy neither could turn away from. Now, years later, their children have all flown the nest and the pact they made as teenagers -- to give one another the freedom to pursue their own dreams -- has resurfaced. But freedom comes at a price ... While Nadine Nadine and Jake begin to
How to Make an American Quilt
Whitney Otto · 214 pages
Eight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living
Sweetgrass
Mary Alice Monroe · 431 pages
The Missing Sister
Lucinda Riley · 805 pages
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards · 408 pages
Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives fo
Blessed Are The Cheesemakers: Library Edition
Sarah-Kate Lynch · 344 pages
Set on a small Irish dairy farm, this tender and funny debut novel follows two lost souls as they try to carve out new lives amid a colorful cast of characters reminiscent of those in the hit film Waking Ned Divine. Abby has been estranged from the family farm since her rebellious mother ran off with her when she was a small child. Kit is a burned out New York stockbroker who's down on his luck. B
The Vacationers
Emma Straub · 372 pages
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
The Things We Cannot Say
Kelly Rimmer · 448 pages
Love All
Callie Wright · 266 pages
In this addictive debut novel set in Cooperstown, New York, in 1994, the beloved matriarch of the Obermeyer family has unexpectedly died in her sleep. Now, for the first time, three generations are living together under one roof and are quickly encroaching on one another's fragile orbits.