Books like The Break
12 books with a reading profile close to The Break by Marian Keyes. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Words in Deep Blue
by Cath Crowley
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Rachel Sweetie returns to her seaside hometown three years after leaving a letter for Henry Jones in a book at his family’s secondhand shop, Howling Books.
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2
Fangirl
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Cath Avery enters her freshman year at the University of Nebraska clinging to the online world of Simon Snow fanfiction.
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3
The Hypnotist's Love Story
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Ellen O'Farrell is a hypnotherapist in Sydney who helps people with problems such as phobias and bad habits.
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Romantic Comedy
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night comedy program called The Night Owls.
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Emergency Contact
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Penny Lee leaves for college in Austin, Texas, hoping to distance herself from her mother and a stagnant hometown life.
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Evidence of the Affair
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in the 1970s, this epistolary novella centers on the correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer after Carrie discovers a stash of love letters written by David’s wife to Carrie’s husband.
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True Colors
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Three sisters grow up on their father's horse ranch: the dutiful Winona, the quiet Aurora, and the youngest, Vivi Ann, whom everyone adores.
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8
The Japanese Lover
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
In 1939, Alma Belasco leaves Nazi-occupied Poland for her relatives' San Francisco estate.
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The Last Anniversary
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Sophie Honeywell inherits a house on Scribbly Gum Island from Connie Tickle, a woman she barely knew.
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With the Fire on High
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Emoni Santiago is a high school senior in Philadelphia balancing the demands of raising her young daughter with the academic pressures of her final year.
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The Dollhouse
by Fiona Davis
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
In 1952, Darby McLaughlin moves into the Barbizon Hotel for Women to study secretarial skills, where she befriends a rebellious maid named Esme who introduces her to the jazz clubs of mid-century New York.
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September
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in the Scottish Highlands during a transitional autumn, the narrative centers on an upcoming twenty-first birthday dance hosted by Verena and Angus Steynton.
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