16 Top fiction books like A View of the Harbour by Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Taylor

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A View of the Harbour

By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the …

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1. The Vet's Daughter

By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

Cover of Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns

2. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

By: Barbara Comyns

3.85

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid… read more

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  • female authors
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  • 20th century
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  • novels
Cover of No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym

3. No Fond Return of Love

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more

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  • classics
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  • fiction
  • 20th century
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Cover of Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym

4. Crampton Hodnet

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • 20th century
  • novels
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5. Jane and Prudence

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more

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6. An Unsuitable Attachment

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages,

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
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7. The Pumpkin Eater

By: Penelope Mortimer

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
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  • 20th century
Cover of A View of the Harbour by Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Taylor

8. A View of the Harbour

By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Waters's A View of the Harbour book and Sarah Waters's A View of the Harbour

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • female authors
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels

9. Family Album

By: Penelope Lively

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. They Were Sisters

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flouri… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
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  • british literature
Cover of Cassandra at the Wedding by Deborah Eisenberg, Dorothy Baker

11. Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
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12. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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Cover of Good Behaviour by Molly Keane, Marian Keyes

13. Good Behaviour

By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels

14. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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15. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
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16. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

By: Barbara Comyns

3.40

Format: None pages,

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17. Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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18. An Academic Question

By: Barbara Pym

3.58

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more

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  • classics
  • female authors
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19. The Last September

By: Elizabeth Bowen

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

The Last Septemberis Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized ti… read more

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20. Diary of a Provincial Lady

By: E.M. Delafield

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more

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14 Best novels books like A View of the Harbour by Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Taylor

Transform Your Habits

The Vet's Daughter

Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

Barbara Comyns

3.85

None

Barbara Pym

None

Transform Your Habits

No Fond Return of Love

Barbara Pym

3.70

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12 must-read fiction books like Good Behaviour by Molly Keane, Marian Keyes

Transform Your Habits

The Vet's Daughter

Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

Transform Your Habits

A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Tortoise and the Hare

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

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