10 best-selling classics books like Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby

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Miss Carter and the Ifrit

By: Susan Alice Kerby

3.82

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

To look at Miss Georgina Carter you would never have suspected that a woman of her age and characte…

"For it was your hatred which made you a slave. And only by hatred can you be enslaved again."

-Susan Alice Kerby, Miss Carter and the Ifrit

"For it was your hatred which made you a slave. And only by hatred can you be enslaved again."

-Susan Alice Kerby, Miss Carter and the Ifrit

If you liked the classics plot in Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

1. A Far Cry from Kensington

By: Muriel Spark

3.83

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more

Similar categories in Muriel Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

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2. 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

Similar categories in Barbara Pym's Jane and Prudence book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

3. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

By: Winifred Watson

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more

Similar categories in Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. Miss Mole

By: E.H. Young

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more

Similar categories in E.H. Young's Miss Mole book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"

-E.H. Young, Miss Mole

5. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

By: Penelope Mortimer

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is about the expectations of women, about a house-bound mother reluctantly (… read more

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6. Still Missing

By: Beth Gutcheon

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alex Selky, going on seven, kissed his mother goodbye and set off for school, a mere two blocks awa… read more

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7. A Highland Christmas (Hamish Macbeth, #15.5)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In dark Lochdubh highlands, holiday spirit is absent - no pudding, carols, or whisky. Constable Ham… read more

Similar categories in M.C. Beaton's A Highland Christmas (Hamish Macbeth, #15.5) book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

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8. The Corner Shop

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Available for the first time on Kindle! Lucille Abbey runs her London secretarial agency with utmo… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cadell's The Corner Shop book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • fiction
  • british literature
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9. Harriet

By: Elizabeth Jenkins

4.14

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

When a handsome, unscrupulous fortune hunter approaches Harriet, a young woman of means whom most p… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Jenkins's Harriet book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. Spam Tomorrow

By: Verily Anderson

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

When I asked the local chemist for lint and disinfectant, he felt it was only fair to allow the fir… read more

Similar categories in Verily Anderson's Spam Tomorrow book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • world war ii
  • british literature
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11. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Babbacombe's book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. Clothes-Pegs

By: Susan Scarlett

3.86

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Clothes-Pegs book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. Journey's Eve

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.96

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Paul took the paper and read the paragraph indicated, and as he read, the kitchen seemed to perform… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cadell's Journey's Eve book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Maud Cairnes's Strange Journey book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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15. Young Mrs. Savage

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes she wished she could stick up a large notice "FOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT TOO MANY" . . . Rai… read more

Similar categories in D.E. Stevenson's Young Mrs. Savage book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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16. Much Dithering

By: Dorothy Lambert

3.77

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

The most striking thing about Much Dithering was its peacefulness. The few people who saw it from c… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Lambert's Much Dithering book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby

17. Miss Carter and the Ifrit

By: Susan Alice Kerby

3.82

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

To look at Miss Georgina Carter you would never have suspected that a woman of her age and characte… read more

Similar categories in Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • classics
  • british literature
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"For it was your hatred which made you a slave. And only by hatred can you be enslaved again."

-Susan Alice Kerby, Miss Carter and the Ifrit

Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

18. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk by Eleanor Farjeon

19. Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk

By: Eleanor Farjeon

4.13

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

How much did Aunt Addie know? How much did she feel? Aunt Addie, better known to the world at l… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Farjeon's Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk book and Susan Alice Kerby's Miss Carter and the Ifrit

  • fiction

15 must-read fiction books like Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby

Transform Your Habits

A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Jane and Prudence

Barbara Pym

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Winifred Watson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Miss Mole

E.H. Young

3.99

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15 best-selling fiction books like Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett

Transform Your Habits

Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1)

D.E. Stevenson

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Enchanted Isle

D.E. Stevenson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Corner Shop

Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Kate Hardy

D.E. Stevenson

4.02

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