Easter Holiday Reading Recommendations (many can be borrowed from the Library) by Mrs_Stannard

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:22:14 UTC

Sybil van Antwerp has been writing letters her entire life, exchanging letters with friends, family, authors, and even politicians. We join her late in life, in her 70s, as she navigates difficult relationships with her ex-husband and children. Through these exchanges, Sybil lets us into her world, formal at first and by the end, you’ll have fallen head over heels for amazing Sybil and her strength.

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:24:44 UTC

Natalie, a trad wife with millions of followers across social media, presents the perfect life. Married to a gorgeous homesteading man, raising her 5 children on a working farm and posting about her bountiful life. Until Natalie finds herself back in the late 1800s and the glamorous life that she had been portraying suddenly becomes a reality. A very hard reality.

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:27:45 UTC

At no point could I have imagined where London Falling was heading. The twists and turns of British teenager Zac Brettler and the life he led before his untimely demise are a source of endless fascination. CCTV footage from the MI6 building captures the final moments of Zac Brettler as he plunges into the River Thames. But what caused this young man to plummet to his death?

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:34:02 UTC

Larger than life artist Vic Kemp has suddenly died, leaving his 4 adult children, a crumbling Italian villa, his final masterpiece and a very young wife of 6 weeks behind. Extraordinarily compelling, at heart this is a novel about sibling relationships and those hairline cracks that can appear within a family: what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:39:32 UTC

In 2023, Burden went viral with a Modern Love essay entitled “Was I Married to a Stranger?” Here, she explores the full heart-shock of that episode — the sudden disintegration of a long and largely joyful marriage, undone weeks into the pandemic by the revelation that her husband had not only been unfaithful but also seemed to wish to vanish almost entirely from their shared life, which included three young children. - New York Times

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:46:15 UTC

Land follows a father and son as they map the ruined country for the British Ordnance Survey in 1865, until a disturbing encounter changes everything.

mharris423 — 2026-06-12 10:49:18 UTC

A recently widowed Hollywood actress in financial difficulties and her daughter desperate to start a life of her own find themselves sharing the pool house of their LA home in this razor-sharp and bitingly funny drama of family, fame and complexities of love.