9 Top magical realism books like A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington

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A Girl Made of Air

By: Nydia Hetherington

3.53

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and atmospheric homage to the strange and extraordinary, perfect for fans of Angela Carte…

"All we can do is perform our lives as gloriously as possible. For my part, I’m happy to take my applause where I can. This is the end because I cannot write the next chapter, it needs to be lived."

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

"All we can do is perform our lives as gloriously as possible. For my part, I’m happy to take my applause where I can. This is the end because I cannot write the next chapter, it needs to be lived."

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

"All we can do is perform our lives as gloriously as possible. For my part, I’m happy to take my applause where I can. This is the end because I cannot write the next chapter, it needs to be lived."

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

"Do not be defined by a lover, or by anyone else for that matter. You are not an appendage, an add-on to the masculine world. And so, you must have your independence – not only of thought and spirit, but physical and financial. Independence will be your strength. Find it. Hold on to it. It is freedom, Mouse, and it will serve you well."

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

If you liked the magical realism plot in A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. My Name Is Resolute

By: Nancy E. Turner

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their fa… read more

Similar categories in Nancy E. Turner's My Name Is Resolute book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. King of the Cloud Forests

By: Michael Morpurgo , M. Morpurgo

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

When Japan invaded China, Ashley and Uncle Sung are forced to flee. It is a perilous journey across… read more

Similar categories in Michael Morpurgo's King of the Cloud Forests book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Race the Wind (The One Dollar Horse, #2)

By: Lauren St. John

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Casey Blue's Badminton victory earns her and Storm an invitation to the prestigious Kentucky T… read more

Similar categories in Lauren St. John's Race the Wind (The One Dollar Horse, #2) book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • fiction
  • young adult
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4. The Magician's Lie

By: Greer Macallister

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Water for Elephantsmeets The Night Circusin The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country'… read more

Similar categories in Greer Macallister's The Magician's Lie book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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5. 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 Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Daughters of Night

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.17

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

From the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shephe… read more

Similar categories in Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Daughters of Night book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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8. The Diabolical Bones (Brontë Sisters Mystery, #2)

By: Bella Ellis

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"Move over, Jane Austen, for the latest literary ladies who snoop in this... lively series debut."-… read more

Similar categories in Bella Ellis's The Diabolical Bones (Brontë Sisters Mystery, #2) book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Lost Storyteller

By: Amanda Block

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

THE LOST STORYTELLER is the heartwarming debut novel from a stunning new voice in fiction, Amanda B… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Block's The Lost Storyteller book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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11. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Coyne's Frank and Red book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. 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 Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Secrets of Blythswood Square

By: Sara Sheridan

4.19

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Secrets of Blythswood Square book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Upon a Frosted Star

By: M.A. Kuzniar

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warn… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Kuzniar's Upon a Frosted Star book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"...all I want, all I could ever need, is you."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"...magic does not belong solely to the young."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"A life was so fragile, spun from magic impossible to understand..."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

"For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself."

-M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

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16. The Birdcage Library

By: Freya Berry

3.89

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

The answers to a puzzle lie hidden within an old book. Open The Birdcage Library and let the treasu… read more

Similar categories in Freya Berry's The Birdcage Library book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Theatre of Marvels

By: Lianne Dillsworth

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Crowds gather at Crillick's Variety Theatre, where curiosity is satisfied with displays of intrigue… read more

Similar categories in Lianne Dillsworth's Theatre of Marvels book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers

18. The Ladies of the Secret Circus

By: Constance Sayers

3.83

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder-a world where women tame magn… read more

Similar categories in Constance Sayers's The Ladies of the Secret Circus book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. The Gifts

By: Liz Hyder

3.72

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A… read more

Similar categories in Liz Hyder's The Gifts book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Clockwork Girl

By: Anna Mazzola

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Clockwork Girl book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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22. The Hiding Place

By: Amanda Mason

3.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Mason's The Hiding Place book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Spirited

By: Julie Cohen

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A moving and gripping story about three women who keep unspeakable truths, from the Richard & Judy … read more

Similar categories in Julie Cohen's Spirited book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The House of Sorrowing Stars

By: Beth Cartwright

3.82

Format: 395 pages, ebook

How do you heal a broken house? First you unlock its secrets. Alone on an island, surrounded by … read more

Similar categories in Beth Cartwright's The House of Sorrowing Stars book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"All stories deserve to be finished. And once you begin, you must continue until you reach the end."

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

"A book is an invitation into another person's world - real or imagined- so how can you be a trespasser when you have been invited in?"

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

"You do not have to agree, but you cannot blame someone for not wanting to feel their pain. Grief is being lost in familiar places. It is not seasonal. It doesn't bloom brightly in the sunshine, and w…"

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

"Of course I will - my name is not a secret. I am Eloura; I am a book-weaver, a story-spinner, a protector, a collector and a brewer of fine tea. I navigate vast stretches of water to find my way onto…"

-Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

Cover of A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington

25. A Girl Made of Air

By: Nydia Hetherington

3.53

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and atmospheric homage to the strange and extraordinary, perfect for fans of Angela Carte… read more

Similar categories in Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"All we can do is perform our lives as gloriously as possible. For my part, I’m happy to take my applause where I can. This is the end because I cannot write the next chapter, it needs to be lived."

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

"Do not be defined by a lover, or by anyone else for that matter. You are not an appendage, an add-on to the masculine world. And so, you must have your independence – not only of thought and spirit, …"

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

"To dream is to live with your face brightened by moonlight. Yet dreams are only a shadow, my Mouse, a pale and rippled reflection of the way things could be. I know what a dreamer you are; we are cut…"

-Nydia Hetherington, A Girl Made of Air

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26. The Notekeeper

By: Hannah Treave

3.83

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Following a tragedy, Zoe flees Australia and makes a life for herself in the UK. Now working as a c… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Treave's The Notekeeper book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Alibi Girl

By: C.J. Skuse

3.73

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Joanne Haynes has a secret: that is not her real name.And there’s more. Her flat’s not hers. Her ca… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Skuse's The Alibi Girl book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Photographer

By: E.S. Blake

4.08

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

When tragedy strikes, photographer Charles Franklin turns his back on family portraiture and descen… read more

Similar categories in E.S. Blake's The Photographer book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical fiction
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29. Vita and the Birds

By: Polly Crosby

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Kate Mosse. 1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough … read more

Similar categories in Polly Crosby's Vita and the Birds book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cottingley Cuckoo by A.J. Elwood

30. The Cottingley Cuckoo

By: A.J. Elwood

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Captivated by books and stories, Rose dreams of a life away from the confines of the Sunnyside Care… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Elwood's The Cottingley Cuckoo book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. The Bone Hunters

By: Joanne Burn

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ada Winters finds the fossilised remains of an unrecognisable creature up on the cliffs, she b… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Burn's The Bone Hunters book and Nydia Hetherington's A Girl Made of Air

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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