My favorite author is Sophie Kinsella, I've read all her books including by her other name Madeline Wickham. I've loved them all!!
I also love the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan and the The Rosie Project trilogy by Graeme Simsion.
Can anyone recommend some realistic fiction books with really well written characters where the story may have some tension and dark points but overall things end up well in the end? I'm not looking for romance but it's fine if that's a plot point just not the whole focus. This can be harder to find than you'd think because so many books along these lines fall flat with bringing you into their world and feel shallow or like YA even though they don't intend to be.
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Try out The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary- it’s about two people on opposite schedules sharing a flat communicating through notes and bettering their lives
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. About a poor fishing town on the coast of California around the time of the Great Depression, and how all the townsfolk interact with each other.
Has a group of young vagrants known as Mac and the boys, a marine biologist named Doc that is the keystone of that community, Dora the local madam and the ladies of her brothel, a Chinese grocer named Lee Chong who stocks everything and anything the town needs, Sam Malloy and his wife that live in a giant empty rusty boiler, and a little handicapped boy named Frankie. Quite a diverse cast for 1945