15 best-selling classics books like Rose Under Glass by Elizabeth Berridge

Cover of Rose Under Glass by Elizabeth Berridge

Rose Under Glass

By: Elizabeth Berridge

3.46

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

When Penelope Hinton’s artist husband dies suddenly in a freak accident, her world is shaken to the…

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Cover of The Tortoise and the Hare by Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Jenkins

1. The Tortoise and the Hare

By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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2. The Wedding Group

By: Elizabeth Taylor

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her artistic, eccentric grandfather. Rebe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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3. A House Unlocked

By: Penelope Lively

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journe… read more

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4. The Soul of Kindness

By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

' "Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. I… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Angel

By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. One Fine Day

By: Mollie Panter-Downes

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant siren… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. One Pair of Feet

By: Monica Dickens

3.98

Format: None pages,

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begin to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decid… read more

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8. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more

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9. The Shutter of Snow

By: Emily Holmes Coleman

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In a prose form as startling as its content, "The Shutter of Snow" portrays the post-partum psychos… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

10. The Brontës Went to Woolworths

By: Rachel Ferguson

3.43

Format: 64 pages,

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11. Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

By: Diana Athill

4.12

Format: 260 pages,

What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning m… read more

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12. 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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  • classics
  • fiction

13. Loitering with Intent

By: Muriel Spark

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happil… read more

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14. Starlight

By: Stella Gibbons

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest … read more

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15. The Juniper Tree

By: Barbara Comyns

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. A Wreath of Roses

By: Elizabeth Taylor

3.90

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private abso… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts."

-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses

"—Durante años vivimos al galope —dijo Frances— y de pronto las dudas nos asaltan, el paisaje se ensombrece, nos sentimos perdidas y solas, y repentinamente tomamos conciencia de que tendremos que seg…"

-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses

"Intentos de registrar la vida misma, pensó, de inmortalizar alguna de las escenas efímeras de cada día, de pintar los objetos cotidianos con ternura e intimidad: el café sucio con sus espejos carcomi…"

-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses

17. Doreen

By: Barbara Noble

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

Describes the mind of a child torn between her mother, whom she leaves behind in London, and the co… read more

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18. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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19. Love's Shadow

By: Ada Leverson

3.78

Format: None pages,

This second novel by Ada Leverson (whom Oscar Wilde called "the wittiest woman in the world") is th… read more

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20. The Offing

By: Benjamin Myers

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more

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  • fiction
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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21. The Lark

By: E. Nesbit

3.80

Format: 263 pages, None

"When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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22. 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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  • 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

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23. Company in the Evening

By: Ursula Orange

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Of all the unhappiness my divorce has brought upon me, loneliness has never been in the least a par… read more

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  • fiction
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24. A House in the Country

By: Ruth Adam

3.86

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted. B… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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25. A Touch of Mistletoe

By: Barbara Comyns

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Blanche and Vicky, who as children read Ethel M. Dell and Elinor Glyn up a tre… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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26. Village Story

By: Celia Buckmaster

3.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Mrs. Ethelburger, who sat down when she wanted to think, had been classed as very intelligent when … read more

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  • fiction
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27. 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
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28. Palladian

By: Elizabeth Taylor

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set fo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Rose Under Glass by Elizabeth Berridge

29. Rose Under Glass

By: Elizabeth Berridge

3.46

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

When Penelope Hinton’s artist husband dies suddenly in a freak accident, her world is shaken to the… read more

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  • classics
  • amazon
  • fiction
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30. Mrs. Martell

By: Elizabeth Eliot

3.88

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

‘As far as I am concerned, Aunt Violet, I don’t want another penny of your money. I can go out and … read more

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  • fiction
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31. Henry

By: Elizabeth Eliot

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The trouble with you, Anne, is that you’re always imagining things.’ Who had said that? Probably m… read more

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  • fiction

20 Top fiction books like Rose Under Glass by Elizabeth Berridge

Transform Your Habits

The Tortoise and the Hare

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Wedding Group

Elizabeth Taylor

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Soul of Kindness

Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Angel

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor

3.76

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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

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Barbara Pym

None

Transform Your Habits

Crampton Hodnet

Barbara Pym

3.70

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