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Literary Fiction with (Mostly) Happy Endings
If you love finely drawn characters and deep dramatic works, but don't want the ending to be too very bleak, try these titles:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited by Angus Easson ; with an introduction by Sally Shuttleworth
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
The blood of flowers: a novel by Anita Amirrezvani
The saffron kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
What I loved: a novel by Siri Hustvedt
The thirteenth tale: a novel by Diane Setterfield
Middlemarch by George Eliot ; edited by Rosemary Ashton
The Inn at Lake Devine: a novel by Elinor Lipman
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning saved my life by Mameve Medwed
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