Uplifting, easy-read book recommendations not featuring cancer

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Keeping distracted and filling time with gentle and enjoyable activities seems to have a place for many people while waiting for results or undergoing treatment. 


Reading a good book can help to pass the time.

I wondered if a thread for recommendations of uplifting, easy to follow book titles might be useful. Personally I don’t want tragedy or cancer stories at the moment, and when feeling so tired from chemo or recovering from surgery it needs to be easy to pick up and put down.

Suggestions gratefully received. I hope this is useful to others too and can build into a resource for us all.

  • Agatha Raisin Books by MC Beaton - murder mystery in the Cotswolds, also can do the BBC radio dramas 

  • I’ve been potting up spring bulbs, whilst dipping into a lovely book on autumn and winter gardening, which has lots of coloured photos. Xx

  • Hi - my love for reading has resumed - here’s I few easy readers I would recommend:

    Maybe This Time - by Jill Mansell

    Some Kind of Wonderful - by Giovanna Fletcher

    Paris for One & other Stories - by Jojo Moyes

    Between Us - by Mhari McFarlane

    Sophie Kinsella and Catherine Alliott are other authors whom are easy to read Blush

  • How about the Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith, and in fact anything written by him.

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Someone has given me a Katie Fforde book. I have seen a lot of her books in the charity shops but never read one. It is a pleasant and easy read with a bit of escapism and without anything too challenging in there. 

  • Thanks I will look into that author Blush

  • She sounds familiar Blush