6 must-read 20th century books like Near Neighbours by Molly Clavering

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Near Neighbours

By: Molly Clavering

4.23

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Dorothea Balfour was nearer seventy than sixty, but there was something childlike about her . …

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1. The Young Clementina

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of … read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
"Don't you worry. It doesn't do no good worrying over things—just sail in."

-D.E. Stevenson, The Young Clementina

"Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old."

-D.E. Stevenson, The Young Clementina

"I can take a book in my hands and voyage across the world. China, Burma, Jamaica—the very sound of the words is an enchantment bringing me sights and sounds, and odors that my senses have never savor…"

-D.E. Stevenson, The Young Clementina

"Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent thing, an opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be suppli…"

-D.E. Stevenson, The Young Clementina

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2. A Winter Away

By: Elizabeth Fair

4.02

Format: None pages,

"My last secretary was thirty-five," old M. said gloomily, "and no more sense than a child of ten. … read more

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  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. Listening Valley

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Toni Melville, who retreats into her own "listening valley" to seek solace, is the absorbing subjec… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Caroline Dering, a young widow, lives in Vittoria Cottage in Ashbridge, a small country town in rur… read more

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  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. The Enchanted Isle

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.91

Format: None pages,

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6. The Musgraves

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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7. Shoulder the Sky (Dering Family, #3)

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.45

Format: None pages,

A London artist tries to adjust to her new life on a Scottish farm and, in painting everything arou… read more

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8. The English Air

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.12

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
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9. Kate Hardy

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

"Do you know anything about her, Richard?" "Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviousl… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
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10. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
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11. Under the Rainbow

By: Susan Scarlett

4.11

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

To those who saw Saltings first on a hot day in summer-when heat shimmered in the hollows-that chur… read more

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  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. Sally-Ann

By: Susan Scarlett

3.97

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The Marchioness's face changed. ... She turned to Ann. "What is your name, dear?" "Ann." "Wou… read more

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  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. Apricot Sky

By: Ruby Ferguson

4.30

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom n… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • historical fiction
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14. Clothes-Pegs

By: Susan Scarlett

3.86

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more

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  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. Gerald & Elizabeth (Gerald and Elizabeth #1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.08

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Gerald is a young man travelling by ship from South Africa, avoiding his fellow passengers, yet hug… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Five Windows

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.42

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Where does David belong? David Kirke’s childhood is sheltered, his nature is gentle and peaceable; … read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Marble Staircase

By: Elizabeth Fair

3.83

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Looking back she could not remember when she had settled down to mere existence, no longer expectin… read more

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  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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18. The Tall Stranger

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.29

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Is her childhood sweetheart who he seems? Barbie France has known Edward Steyne all her life – inde… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Near Neighbours

By: Molly Clavering

4.23

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Dorothea Balfour was nearer seventy than sixty, but there was something childlike about her . … read more

Similar categories in Molly Clavering's Near Neighbours book and Molly Clavering's Near Neighbours

  • romance
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • historical fiction
  • modern classics
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20. The House of the Deer (Gerald and Elizabeth #2)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

At short notice Gerald Burleigh Brown is asked to take a deer-stalking holiday in place of his brot… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century

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D.E. Stevenson

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Elizabeth Fair

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