20 Top contemporary books like The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! by Tom Ellen

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The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls!

By: Tom Ellen

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Will is sleepwalking through life. He works a dead-end job and volunteers at an anonymous crisis li…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! by Tom Ellen , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Memory of Us

By: Dani Atkins

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A twist of fate. An unexpected love story... If she had been found moments later, Amelia's heart… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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2. Once Upon a Leap Year

By: Anna Bell

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A gorgeous, high-concept romcom about finding love and daring to take a chance. After all, it’s all… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Every Move You Make

By: C.L. Taylor

3.90

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer… Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River and Natalie. Fi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! by Tom Ellen

5. The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls!

By: Tom Ellen

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Will is sleepwalking through life. He works a dead-end job and volunteers at an anonymous crisis li… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ellen's The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! book and Tom Ellen's The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls!

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Last Train Home

By: Elle Cook

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

On the last train home you expect to find standing space only, drunk people singing, the overpoweri… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Meet Me When My Heart Stops by Becky Hunter

7. Meet Me When My Heart Stops

By: Becky Hunter

4.02

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

'Swoonsome love story with echoes of The Time Traveller's Wife'- Good Housekeeping 'An emotional… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Lifeline

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 391 pages, ebook

Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alon… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Lucky Day

By: Beth Morrey

3.82

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of SAVING MISSY, comes a fierce, joyful and uplifting nove… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Better Left Unsent

By: Lia Louis

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life…So little time. A woman accidentally reve… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Second Chance

By: Charlotte Butterfield

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Nell has always known her expiry date. After a psychic predicted her death date twenty years ago… read more

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  • chick lit
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

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  • fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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13. The Love of My Afterlife

By: Kirsty Greenwood

4.16

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't just hang around with people. Especially strangers. The woman pulls another face. "Then they will always be strangers if you never hang out with them. Never friends."

-Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife

"Were you aware that emotional tears have a higher protein concentration than tears that comes from irritation? I read online that the higher protein content makes them fall down your cheeks more slow…"

-Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife

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14. Love Story

By: Lindsey Kelk

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

She’s a small-town schoolteacher. He’s a hotshot marketing director. Together, it’s hate at… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill

15. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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16. Date with Destiny

By: Lucy Vine

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Ginny is about to turn 32. It’s a year she’s been thinking about for a long time. Sixteen years ago… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller

17. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

By: Ericka Waller

4.29

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Echoes of Us by Emma    Steele

18. The Echoes of Us

By: Emma Steele

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating love story on an epic scale, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and The Man Who Did… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Enemies to Lovers by Laura Jane Williams

19. Enemies to Lovers

By: Laura Jane Williams

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Flo Greenberg: highly strung. Over-achiever. And desperate for a relaxing Greek holiday with her fa… read more

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  • romance
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. You Belong with Me

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a charming, hilarious, and heartfelt new novel a… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She felt like Elizabeth Bennet promising her dad that Mr. Darcy wasn't a proud dick after all and that the great estate at Pemberley wasn't a factor, promise."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"We've come a long way since I was hired to write your life story, haven't we?' 'Fair to say, you understood the assignment. You haven't stopped writing it since."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"Do you know how much I wish I was there?' 'Is it as much as I wish you were here?' 'Is it like a whole-body longing that slides into a supercut of favourite memories? If so, yes."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"I've got a pint of black coffee with two sugars in the BA lounge, and I look like I've been exhumed by detectives who want to run toxicology tests to prove foul play. In a hailstorm. I wouldn't chang…"

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

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21. Open Minded

By: Chloe Seager

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Chloe Seager creates a fun yet thought-provoking novel about two very different women, Holly and Fl… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

9 Top chick lit books like The Lifeline: The uplifting, heart-warming and life-affirming rom-com love story new for 2024, perfect for fans of David Nicholls! by Tom Ellen

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