14 must-read adult books like A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh

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A Sign of Her Own

By: Sarah Marsh

3.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that explores the legacy of the telephone centered on a yo…

If you liked the adult plot in A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Finding Margaret Fuller

By: Allison Pataki

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more

Similar categories in Allison Pataki's Finding Margaret Fuller book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

3. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

Similar categories in Aube Rey Lescure's River East, River West book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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4. House of Shades

By: Lianne Dillsworth

3.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this dark, immersive tale steeped in atmosphere and drama, the author of Theatre of Marvels retu… read more

Similar categories in Lianne Dillsworth's House of Shades book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more

Similar categories in Leo Vardiashvili's Hard by a Great Forest book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Dray's Becoming Madam Secretary book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

By: Freya North

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more

Similar categories in Freya North's The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Night in Question

By: Susan Fletcher

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more

Similar categories in Susan Fletcher's The Night in Question book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

Cover of Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook

10. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Neferura

By: Malayna Evans

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

For readers of The Wolf Den and Kaikeyi comes the thrilling tale of the forgotten daughter of a leg… read more

Similar categories in Malayna Evans's Neferura book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Perhaps you feel you've no choices, or perhaps you believe everything has been decided for you. But when it feels like you have no alternatives, you must create them. If you're creative enough, optio…"

-Malayna Evans, Neferura

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12. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

Similar categories in Kuchenga Shenjé's The Library Thief book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sign of Her Own by Sarah    Marsh

13. A Sign of Her Own

By: Sarah Marsh

3.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that explores the legacy of the telephone centered on a yo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • disability
  • audiobook
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14. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West by Sara  Ackerman

15. The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

By: Sara Ackerman

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark … read more

Similar categories in Sara Ackerman's The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

16. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Beholders by Hester Musson

17. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

Similar categories in Hester Musson's The Beholders book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen

18. Tiananmen Square

By: Lai Wen

4.10

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the y… read more

Similar categories in Lai Wen's Tiananmen Square book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My father. He was, I realize now, rather small for a man, both lean and compact, but as a small child you inhabit a land of giants. And fathers are the tallest giants of all."

-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

"As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin to illness, something that left a person weak and in some way less than themselves. But I ne…"

-Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

Cover of The Silence In Between by Josie  Ferguson

19. 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

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical 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

Cover of Small Hours by Bobby  Palmer

20. Small Hours

By: Bobby Palmer

4.00

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Palmer's Small Hours book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • fiction
Cover of Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller

21. 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

Similar categories in Ericka Waller's Goodbye Birdie Greenwing book and Sarah Marsh's A Sign of Her Own

  • fiction

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Allison Pataki

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Rebecca Netley

4.00

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3.71

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