7 must-read historical books like Hold On Edna! by Aneira Thomas

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Hold On Edna!

By: Aneira Thomas

4.37

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS HEARTBREAKING, HEARTWARMING, TRUE STORY FOLLOWING THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY IN WALES IS ONE OF T…

If you liked the historical plot in Hold On Edna! by Aneira Thomas , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • historical
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. Teacher, Teacher!

By: Jack Sheffield

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yor… read more

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3. The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, #1)

By: Lucinda Riley

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"--a fabulous… read more

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  • historical
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4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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  • historical
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5. The Flight of the Falcon

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

"In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths." --Times(UK) As a young guide for … read more

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6. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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7. Vanishing Acts

By: Jodi Picoult

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, … read more

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8. Your Life in My Hands

By: Rachel Clarke

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more

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9. A Lesson In Dying (Inspector Ramsey, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - unti… read more

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10. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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  • historical
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11. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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12. An Ideal Husband

By: Erica James

4.11

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

The Langfords are a perfectly happy family. Louisa and Kip, happily married for nearly forty years,… read more

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13. Vanished (DC Jack Warr, #3)

By: Lynda La Plante

4.32

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

KILLERS DON'T JUST DISAPPEAR . . .The unmissable brand new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, … read more

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14. The Wrong Sister

By: Claire Douglas

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Tasha has always felt in the shadow of her older sister, Alice. Their lifestyles couldn't be more d… read more

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15. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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16. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

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17. The Waif's Lost Family

By: Iris Cole

4.23

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

"Gwen sought to protect her family. She never fathomed the depths of tragedy she'd face."In the opp… read more

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18. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

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19. The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)

By: Anna Stuart

4.53

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched acro… read more

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  • historical
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20. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Gown

By: Jennifer Robson

4.14

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”—S… read more

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  • historical
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22. The Vanishing of Class 3B

By: Jackie Kabler

3.92

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head … read more

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23. The Vintage Village Bake Off

By: Judy Leigh

4.31

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Now in his seventies, Robert Parkin is stunned to find himself the unlikely sex symbol of the villa… read more

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24. All or Nothing

By: Lynda Page

4.22

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

Francine Champion and Stella Simpson have been best friends since school. Now, in 1950, the two gir… read more

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25. The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP

By: Amir Khan

4.43

Format: 288 pages, ebook

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER60 hours a week240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the su… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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26. In the Shadow of the Rising Sun

By: Olga Henderson

4.71

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

In February 1942, nine-year-old Olga and her family were living in Malaysia when Singapore fell to … read more

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27. Matron Knows Best

By: Joan; Wilson Woodcock

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Joan Woodcock always dreamed of becoming a nurse. And in 1966 the dream came true. From her very fi… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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28. Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers

By: Jennifer Worth

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Life, Death and Biscuits by Anthea Allen

29. Life, Death and Biscuits

By: Anthea Allen

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line o… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. Hold On Edna!

By: Aneira Thomas

4.37

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS HEARTBREAKING, HEARTWARMING, TRUE STORY FOLLOWING THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY IN WALES IS ONE OF T… read more

Similar categories in Aneira Thomas's Hold On Edna! book and Aneira Thomas's Hold On Edna!

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Found Family at the Cornish Country Hospital: A BRAND NEW instalment in the beautiful, heartwarming Cornish Country Hospital series from bestseller Jo Bartlett for summer 2024 by Jo Bartlett

31. A Found Family at the Cornish Country Hospital: A BRAND NEW instalment in the beautiful, heartwarming Cornish Country Hospital series from bestseller Jo Bartlett for summer 2024

By: Jo Bartlett

4.54

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Preorder the BRAND NEW Instalment of bestselling author Jo Bartlett's Cornish Country Hospital Seri… read more

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