Books like One summer in Venice by Nicky Pellegrino

Two close friends in their early thirties navigate a life‑shifting change when one of them unexpectedly discovers she is pregnant.

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family's life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.From the Hardcover edition.

A young woman leaves her fiancé for a mysterious stranger and finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage in 1940s Hickory, North Carolina, where she must confront secrets, suspicion, and a polio epidemic while working as a nurse.

a good Brazilian story about a woman named Dona flor. her first husband named vadindo died in Carnival and next she married again but her dead husband always show to provocate her.

Three American women—Mercy, Hilary, and Margaret—live in a small expat community in Hong Kong, each confronting personal crises that force them to reevaluate identity, family, and friendship.

Ten years after leaving a working‑class East London common, Hannah, Cate and Lissa confront failed careers, faltering marriages, and the ache of ‘what could have been’ as they seek meaning in motherhood, friendship and self‑realisation.