6 Best fiction books like Okay, Okay, Okay by Finuala Dowling

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Okay, Okay, Okay

By: Finuala Dowling

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a strike by the University of Adamastor’s technical staff coincides with a lull in sound opera…

If you liked the fiction plot in Okay, Okay, Okay by Finuala Dowling , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Seed Thief

By: None

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Sometimes the thing you find is not the one you were looking for. When botanist Maddy Bellani is as… read more

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2. The Essex Serpent

By: Sarah Perry

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more

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3. The Dictionary of Lost Words

By: Pip Williams

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the… read more

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"The past came towards me, and I closed the book."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"Sometimes I think there may be more than two sides."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"It is context...that gives meaning. [Harry Nicholl]"

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"She lived between the lines of the Dictionary as much as I did."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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4. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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5. Exit

By: Belinda Bauer

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER ...Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too… read more

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6. Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more

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"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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7. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

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8. Chasing Marian

By: Amy Heydenrych

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Four strangers, two cities, one chance online meeting. Jess is a yummy mummy of two whose life is s… read more

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9. Laaste kans (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Marita van der Vyver

3.87

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Groep vriende kom die eerste keer in vyf-en-twintig jaar bymekaar om Adriaan se verjaardag te vi… read more

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10. Okay, Okay, Okay

By: Finuala Dowling

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a strike by the University of Adamastor’s technical staff coincides with a lull in sound opera… read more

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11. The Longest March

By: Fred Khumalo

3.91

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

A hundred and twenty years ago, seven thousand Zulu mineworkers walked from the gold mines in Johan… read more

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