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12 books with a reading profile close to Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Tara Road

by Maeve Binchy

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Ria Lynch lives in a house on Tara Road in Dublin.
2

Good Material

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Andy is a thirty-five-year-old struggling stand-up comedian whose life collapses when his girlfriend, Jen, ends their four-year relationship.
3

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

by Rebecca Wells

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Sidda Lee Walker, a successful theater director in New York, gives an interview in which she calls her childhood with her mother Vivi "dark," and her mother, in Louisiana, is furious.
4

What Alice Forgot

by Liane Moriarty

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Twenty-nine-year-old Alice Love wakes up on a gym floor believing she is pregnant and happily married.
5

Before We Were Yours

by Lisa Wingate

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

The story oscillates between 1939 Mississippi and modern-day South Carolina.
6

Keeping Faith

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Mariah Hopkins is a young mother whose husband has left her, and she is raising seven-year-old Faith alone.
7

Heart of the Matter

by Emily Giffin

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother who prioritizes her marriage to Nick, a renowned pediatric plastic surgeon.
8

Wish You Were Here

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
9

The Authenticity Project

by Clare Pooley

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Julian Jessop is an elderly artist and widower in London, who is so lonely that he writes the truth about his life in a green notebook and leaves it in his local cafe.
10

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
11

Home Front

by Kristin Hannah

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
12

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

by Clare Pooley

Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Iona Iverson takes the same train into London every day and follows a firm rule: no talking to other commuters.

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