12 Top classics books like Which Way? by Theodora Benson

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Which Way?

By: Theodora Benson

3.63

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

‘There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was…

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1. The Feast

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

2. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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3. Keeping Up Appearances

By: Rose Macaulay

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • fiction

4. 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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5. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

By: Frances Partridge , Julia Strachey

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

This short, witty novel was written in 1932 by a niece of Lytton Strachey and first published by Th… read more

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6. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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7. Sing Me Who You Are

By: Elizabeth Berridge

3.75

Format: 40 pages,

Sometimes we are all in need of a change... And a change is just what Harriet seeks when she quits … read more

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8. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Small world, huh?"

-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."

-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"

-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"

-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

9. The Love-Child

By: Edith Olivier

4.18

Format: 368 pages,

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10. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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11. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Father

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

4.06

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more

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  • womens
  • classics
  • fiction
"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father

"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father

Cover of Tea Is So Intoxicating by Mary Essex

13. Tea Is So Intoxicating

By: Mary Essex

3.51

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

“I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in t… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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14. Crooked Adam

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.01

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter he cannot join up because he is lame.But at the school… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Sally on the Rocks

By: Winifred Boggs

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton re… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

16. My Husband Simon

By: Mollie Panter-Downes

3.68

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire by Simon Thomas

17. Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire

By: Simon Thomas

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Stories for Winter is a collection of short stories that take their inspiration from this cold, sno… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Which Way? by Theodora Benson

18. Which Way?

By: Theodora Benson

3.63

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

‘There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was… read more

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  • womens
  • classics
  • fiction
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19. Strange Journey

By: Maud Cairnes

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Tension by E.M. Delafield

20. Tension

By: E.M. Delafield

3.72

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Miss Pauline Marchrose arrives at the Commercial and Technical College of South-West England as the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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21. Mamma

By: Diana Tutton

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to h… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

15 Top fiction books like Which Way? by Theodora Benson

Transform Your Habits

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Keeping Up Appearances

Rose Macaulay

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

Armistead Maupin

4.00

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22 best-selling fiction books like My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

Transform Your Habits

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Someone at a Distance

Dorothy Whipple

4.21

None

Barbara Pym

None

Transform Your Habits

Crampton Hodnet

Barbara Pym

3.70

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