Books like Grace by Jill Paton Walsh

In January 1946, London novelist Juliet Ashton receives a mysterious letter from a Guernsey native, opening a lively epistolary journey that reveals the island’s quirky community, wartime struggles and a beloved book club born of curfew-breaking escapades.

Miss Pettigrew, a seeking governess, finds herself at the glamorous home of nightclub singer Delysia LaFosse, where she offers love‑life advice and becomes wrapped in a world of romance and intrigue.

Phillip's Blind and Timothy's Compass: The Cay

After a tragic gunshot wound, former chief detective Carl Mørck is reassigned to cold‑case work, where he is drawn into a five‑year investigation of a missing Danish politician.

When the storm-ravaged town of Flora & Ulysses floods its streets, two siblings, Violet and her little brother, set out to tie up the town’s runaway squirrels before dawn. Their imaginative quest turns into an adventure that tests family bonds, courage, and the power of teamwork.

A spell‑bound adventure aboard the Titanic, where Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to quest for a curious gift that can unbind a small dog trapped by enchantment.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

A historical romance set in 16th century England, featuring Lorna Doone, a young woman who is kidnapped and becomes a fugitive during the Monmouth Rebellion.

A woman’s Indian family navigates marriage, identity, and belonging across generations, tracing the parents’ arrival in the U.S., the daughter’s wedding, and the estranged son’s return.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

In Kabul’s dangerous streets, five women from very different worlds meet in a small coffee shop, discovering unexpected bonds that change their lives.

A successful career woman faces an unwanted pregnancy and the trauma of acquaintance rape. Returning to her quiet hometown, she rebuilds family ties, renews her faith, and discovers a new purpose for her life.

Four brothers and sisters, along with their friends Nancy and Peggy, return to a lake for a summer of sailing, camping and adventure, only to find themselves marooned after their boat wrecks. They discover the hidden valley of Swallowdale, a secret refuge full of mystery.

Naomi, a 15‑year‑old runaway slave, escapes an Alabama plantation and seeks refuge in a Georgia brothel, where she falls in love with a white patron and faces danger, freedom, and the legacy of slavery.