The Orchard on Fire

5 best books like The Orchard on Fire (Shena Mackay): The Family Upstairs, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Nature Cure, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, Instead of a Letter: A Memoir

The Family Upstairs
AuthorLisa Jewell
ISBN1501190105
From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and Watching You comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work...
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
AuthorMaj Sjöwall
ISBN0679745971
The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace.Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad...
AuthorRichard Mabey
ISBN0701176016
Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor play, nor sustain relationships with family or friends. He was drinking too much — and, worst of all, had lost all pleasure in the outside world. This remarkable book charts his gradual return to joyfulness....
AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
ISBN0857521454
What really goes on in the long grass?

Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting...
Instead of a Letter: A Memoir
AuthorDiana Athill
ISBN0393338576
A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.

As a young woman, Diana Athill was engaged to an air force pilot—Instead of a Letter tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone else, and, worst of all, died overseas before she could confront...
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