A list compiled by several English agencies of mood boosting books. They are easy reads, some of them you can read in a day. They are not great literary classics but they are good escapist stuff. So pick one up from your local library: Bee Journal by Sean Borodale Dart by Alice Oswald The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy edited by Neil Astley The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Help by Kathryn Stockett I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith* Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson* A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr A Sea Change by Veronica Henry The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend* Soul Music by Terry Pratchett A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen* The Thread by Victoria Hislop Thursdays in the Park by Hilary Boyd Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey* The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Various Pets Alive and Dead by Marina Lewycka
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