Books like The Apothecary's Daughter
12 books with a reading profile close to The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
The Wedding Dress
by Rachel Hauck
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Charlotte Smith, a modern bridal boutique owner in Birmingham, discovers a vintage gown in a trunk she purchased at an estate sale.
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7
Silver Girl
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Meredith Delinn, the wife of a Wall Street Ponzi scheme operator, faces social collapse when her husband Freddy is arrested.
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8
The Shoemaker's Wife
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set against the backdrop of the Italian Alps and early twentieth-century New York, the story follows Enza Lazzari and Ciro Lazzari, two teenagers whose lives first intersect in a mountain village after a family tragedy.
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9
Mariana
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Julia Beckett is a young woman who, at the age of eight, falls in love with an old house in Wiltshire called Greywethers, and years later she is able to buy it.
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10
Now That You Mention It
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Nora Stuart, a physician in Los Angeles who loses her job and her fiancé on the same day, goes home to the small town in Maine where she grew up.
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11
The Future of Us
by Jay Asher
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in 1996, the story follows high school neighbors Josh and Emma after they install an America Online CD-ROM on a brand-new computer.
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12
Here's to Us
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Deborah, a woman on Nantucket, is left to scatter the ashes of her husband, a celebrity chef named Deacon Thompson, who has just died.
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