Books like Mariana
12 books with a reading profile close to Mariana by Susanna Kearsley. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Surviving Savannah
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
In Savannah, Georgia, history professor Everly Winthrop is tasked with curating a museum exhibit for the Pulaski, a luxury steamship that exploded and sank in 1838.
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2
What the Wind Knows
by Amy Harmon
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Anne Gallagher travels to Ireland to scatter her grandfather’s ashes, only to be pulled through a temporal rift on Lough Gill.
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3
The Apothecary's Daughter
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Lilly Haswell spent years working alongside her father in his English apothecary shop, mastering the identification of curative herbs and the precise mixing of medicinal draughts.
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4
The Garden of Small Beginnings
by Abbi Waxman
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Lilian Girvan is a widowed illustrator raising two young daughters three years after her husband’s fatal car accident.
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5
The Lost Husband
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Libby Hart is a young widow with a small daughter, still reeling from the sudden death of her husband.
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6
The Winemaker's Wife
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
In 1940, Inès marries the owner of Maison Chauveau, a historic champagne estate in occupied France.
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7
Neverworld Wake
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Beatrice and four close friends from an elite boarding school reunite a year after the death of her boyfriend, Whit, who was part of their circle.
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8
The Phantom of the Opera
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Beneath the gilded architecture of the Palais Garnier, a disfigured man named Erik exerts control over the Paris Opera House through extortion and secret passageways.
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9
The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton
romance, narrative
On her twenty-first birthday in 1930, Nell O'Connor learns she was a foundling discovered on a ship arriving in Australia from England two decades earlier.
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10
The Echo of Old Books
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Rare book dealer Ashlyn Greer possesses a psychometric gift that allows her to feel the emotional echoes of previous owners through their physical copies.
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by Edward Radcliffe arrives at Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Thames.
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The Rose Garden
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
After the death of her sister, Eva Ward returns to the Cornish coast and her childhood sanctuary, Trelowarth.
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