10 Best nonfiction books like In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier by India Knight

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In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier

By: India Knight

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Our mothers' fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. We have no sense of…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier by India Knight , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. This Must Be the Place

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.77

Format: None pages,

A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award--an irre… read more

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2. One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two years after the events of Case Historiesleft him a retired millionaire, Jackson Brodie has foll… read more

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3. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-sellin… read more

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4. Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)

By: Sarah Addison Allen

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy, … read more

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5. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

By: Nora Ephron

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more

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6. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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7. The Echo Chamber

By: John Boyne

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more

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"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

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8. Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

By: Minnie Driver

4.09

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A MARIE CLAIRE BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY MUST READ BOOK - A W MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED… read more

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"We all pretend until pretense becomes practiced and I suppose, looks like reality."

-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

"I think again of that thing no one tells you about birth, that as your body offers up your child to the outside world your very first job as a mother is to let go. I really never thought about the fa…"

-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

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9. Black Sheep

By: Judy Nunn

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Black sheep - there's one in every family . . . Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determi… read more

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10. Murder on the Christmas Express

By: Alexandra Benedict

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Eighteen passengers. Seven stops. One killer.In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train… read more

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11. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By: Alison Espach

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more

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"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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12. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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13. The Book Club Hotel

By: Sarah Morgan

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This Christmas, USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with another heartfelt exploratio… read more

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"... Just because someone doesn't ask for help doesn't mean they don't want it or need it. Particularly women. Women are so used to coping that sometimes they don't even realize there's another way..."

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

"... Just because someone doens't ask for help doesn't mean they don't want it or need it. Particularly women. Women are so used to coping that sometimes they don't even realize there's another way..."

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

"It was like hugging a cat. Not Panther, because she is unusually cuddly, but you know what I mean; sometimes they go all stiff and rigid and you know that all they want is for you to stop so that the…"

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

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14. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

By: Elif Shafak

4.09

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour … read more

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"Grief is a swallow,"

-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

"كانت ليلى هي الوحيدة التي اعتقدت أنه قادر على تحقيق الأشياء العظيمة"

-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

"Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?"

-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

"How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?"

-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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15. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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16. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

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17. Glorious Rock Bottom

By: Bryony Gordon

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and dru… read more

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18. Small Pleasures

By: Clare Chambers

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more

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"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

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19. Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, acti… read more

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"For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new ev…"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

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20. Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

By: Alexandra Potter

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't … read more

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"I'm not saying this to be trite or to make you feel better, but believe me when I say this: the people who matter will see you, no matter what."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"Because sometimes happiness isn't a choice. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't find joy. Which is why I've decided to stop beating myself up by desperately seeking happiness and give my…"

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

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21. Oh William!

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more

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"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

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22. Best of Friends

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more

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"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"

-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends

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23. Unlikely Animals

By: Annie Hartnett

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more

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"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."

-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

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24. Motherwell: A Girlhood

By: Deborah Orr

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to universi… read more

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"Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?"

-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood

"When the letters came, offering me places at university, that was when it all blew up - for ever."

-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood

"Narcissism is not self-love. It's the opposite of that. It's a nagging horror that you are, deep down, unloveable. A narcissist needs the love, attention and admiration of others to survive because h…"

-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood

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25. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

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"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

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26. Other People's Husbands

By: Elizabeth Noble

3.94

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Love, Iris and The Family Holi… read more

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27. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

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"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

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28. In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier

By: India Knight

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Our mothers' fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. We have no sense of… read more

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29. Everything is Washable and Other Life Lessons: 2022’s New How-To Guide that will Help You Navigate Modern Life with Advice on Beauty, Money, Family and So Much More

By: Sali Hughes

3.73

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Every home should have a copy' MARIAN KEYES How to buy jeans that fit Thirty-seven things to hav… read more

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Angie Kim

3.75

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