Books like A woman of substance
12 books with a reading profile close to A woman of substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Last Voyage of the Valentina
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
In 1969 London, Alba Arbuckle discovers a portrait of her late mother, Valentina, which prompts her to travel to the Amalfi Coast to uncover her family’s history.
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Atmosphere
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Set against the backdrop of the 1980s aerospace industry, Atmosphere follows the professional and romantic intersection of two ambitious scientists competing for a position on a high-stakes NASA mission.
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Twenties Girl
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Lara Lington’s life is stalling: her business is failing, her boyfriend left her, and she is stuck attending the funeral of her great-aunt Sadie.
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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
After her father dies in a car accident, Amy Curry must relocate from California to Connecticut.
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The Switch
by Beth O'Leary
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
After a public panic attack ruins a major professional presentation, high-achiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical from her London life.
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Malibu Rising
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Set in August 1983, the story centers on the four Riva siblings—Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit—as they host their famous annual end-of-summer party in Malibu.
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9-Nov
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
On November 9th, eighteen-year-old Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring writer, just hours before she moves from Los Angeles to New York.
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Sara Lindqvist, a shy Swedish bookshop worker, travels to a small town in Iowa to meet her pen pal, Amy Harris, only to find that Amy has just died.
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28 Summers
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud meet on Nantucket in the summer of 1993, and over the next twenty-eight years they spend one weekend together every summer.
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Notebook
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Noah Calhoun, a laborer in post-war North Carolina, restores an old plantation house while remembering Allie Nelson, the woman he loved fourteen years earlier.
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Lessons in Chemistry
Also clear-cut · romance, entertainment
In 1960s California, chemist Elizabeth Zott resists the period’s rigid structural sexism while working at the Hastings Research Institute.
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The Last Letter from Your Lover
by Jojo Moyes
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
In 1960, Jennifer Stirling wakes in a hospital after a car accident with no memory of the previous weeks, her husband at her side.
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