5 Best mental health books like Consent by Annabel Lyon

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Consent

By: Annabel Lyon

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided …

"We take so much into us when we lose someone we love,"

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

"We take so much into us when we lose someone we love,"

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

"Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain."

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

"Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain."

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

If you liked the mental health plot in Consent by Annabel Lyon , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Five Days Left

By: Julie Lawson Timmer

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shat… read more

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2. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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3. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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4. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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5. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Morris's Black Butterflies book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Unsettled Ground

By: Claire Fuller

3.78

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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8. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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9. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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10. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

Similar categories in Saba Sams's Send Nudes book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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12. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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13. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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14. Stargazer

By: Laurie Petrou

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more

Similar categories in Laurie Petrou's Stargazer book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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15. Consent

By: Annabel Lyon

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Lyon's Consent book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We take so much into us when we lose someone we love,"

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

"Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain."

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

"That was life, wasn't it? It didn't seem like you were falling."

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

"I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?"

-Annabel Lyon, Consent

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16. Post-Traumatic

By: Chantal V. Johnson

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more

Similar categories in Chantal V. Johnson's Post-Traumatic book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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17. Limelight

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Limelight book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Careless

By: Kirsty Capes

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Careless book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery

By: Harrison Mooney

4.35

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial a… read more

Similar categories in Harrison Mooney's Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • canada
  • audiobook
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20. Nothing but Blue Sky

By: Kathleen MacMahon

3.91

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen MacMahon's Nothing but Blue Sky book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The pain was still there, the pain was always there, but I had a soothing feeling on top of it, like when you apply a cooling gel to sunburn."

-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky

"Fifty-one years old and still only slowly coming to some understanding of my life, I sat on a beach on the Costa Brava, digesting the terrifying knowledge that we hold in our hands each other's fragi…"

-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky

"It was exhausting to me, and touching at the same time, how my friends took such care to gather up every morsel of her life. They collated these shards of her history with all the white-glove care of…"

-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky

"I know what you're saying, and of course there will be a moment of sadness, always, that Mary Rose isn't there. But the happy occasions will still be happy occasions, because that's how life works. H…"

-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky

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21. In the Seeing Hands of Others

By: Nat Ogle

3.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a d… read more

Similar categories in Nat Ogle's In the Seeing Hands of Others book and Annabel Lyon's Consent

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

19 Top fiction books like Consent by Annabel Lyon

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Black Butterflies

Priscilla Morris

4.25

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28 Top fiction books like Send Nudes by Saba Sams

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

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Danielle Pender

3.69

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