Books like Tara Road
When her husband leaves her, Ria Lynch, who has always lived for her family and her house on Tara Road in Dublin, agrees to swap homes for the summer with Marilyn Vine, an American stranger mourning her son in Connecticut.
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Circle of Friends
Benny Hogan, the cherished only child of a village shopkeeper, and her orphaned friend Eve Malone leave Knockglen for University College Dublin in the late 1950s, where new friends, a handsome rugby player and a beautiful, calculating classmate change their lives.
The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
Breathing Lessons
On a single Saturday, Maggie and Ira Moran drive out of Baltimore to a funeral, and Maggie decides to bring their son back together with his ex-wife.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan, a widow who mops floors at a small Puget Sound aquarium at night, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who knows more about her past than she does.
You Think It, I'll Say It
Ten stories of women and men misjudging one another: a book club, a celebrity, an old school rival, a couple playing a secret game about the people they meet.
Banyan Moon
After her grandmother Minh dies, Ann Tran comes home to the crumbling Banyan House on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she and her estranged mother, Huong, have to live together again and face the family's secrets.
The Wedding People
Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand old inn in Newport, Rhode Island, alone and in despair, and finds every other room booked for a lavish wedding, whose exacting bride is not pleased to have her there.
In Five Years
Dannie Kohan, a Manhattan lawyer who plans everything, gets the job and the proposal she wanted on the same day, then falls asleep and wakes up five years later in a different apartment with a different man.
The Celebrants
Five friends from college once promised to hold a funeral for one another while they were still alive to hear the eulogies, and nearly thirty years on, Jordan calls them to a house in Big Sur to use his.
Friends and Strangers
Elisabeth, a journalist and new mother who has just moved from Brooklyn to a small Hudson Valley town, hires Sam, a college senior, to babysit, and the two become friends across a divide neither of them sees clearly.
The Dearly Beloved
In 1963 two young ministers, Charles and James, are called to share the pulpit of the Third Presbyterian Church in Greenwich Village, and their wives, Lily, who has no faith, and Nan, a minister's daughter, have to find a way to live alongside each other.
Maame
Maddie Wright, twenty-five, works a job she hates in London and looks after her father, who has Parkinson's, while her mother spends most of the year in Ghana, until a chance to move out gives her a life of her own.