18 books like The Scarlet Feather

What to read after The Scarlet Feather — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney · 2017 · ★ 3.7 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home… Shares: Dublin, Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Normal People Sally Rooney · 2018 · ★ 3.8 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re… Shares: Dublin, Romance & Relationships

Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Moderate It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace… Shares: Dublin, Friendship

Evening Class Maeve Binchy · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach. Shares: Dublin, Domestic fiction

Shadow Spell Nora Roberts · 2014 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken... A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape--by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna's best… Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Airs & graces Erica James · 1997 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ellen lives alone since her husband left. She married once for love, but determines the second time will be for money. She sets out to tempt Duncan, but then two people enter her life, Jo-Jo a young homeless girl and Matthew, an artist. As they become friends, she realises her plans have gone awry. From the author of A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. Shares: Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A los cuarenta años, Madame Wu, esposa de un miembro de una de las dinastías de terratenientes más consideradas de China, abandona voluntariamente la vida matrimonial y busca una concubina para su marido. Su decisión cambia la vida de todos los que la rodean... A las puertas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la familia se enfrenta a la encrucijada entre tradición, comunismo y pensamiento occidental,… Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler · 1988 · ★ 3.7 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage. Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

Sanctuary Beverly Lewis · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ajax the Younger violates Cassandras sanctuary at the Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca. 440–430 BCE]] Shares: Domestic fiction, Friendship

Dark Witch Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: County Mao, Ireland. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. There she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O'Dwyer, and they invite her into their lives. When Iona lands a job at the local… Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

Grand avenue Joy Fielding · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Looking back, it seemed like paradise; lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends, Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki shared everything through good times and bad, and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists and turns of fate and circumstance. Now, she must sift through each… Shares: Domestic fiction, Friendship

Nana Yazawa Aï · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Publishers Weekly: Nana, Japan's most popular shojo (girl's) manga, is appearing in English for the first time. Nana Komatsu is a flaky young woman who's just emerged from an emotionally devastating affair with an older, married man. She dreams of a perfect romantic love, like in the movies, but her best friend, Junko, counsels her that it might be time to try being friends with a guy instead of… Shares: Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Nana Yazawa Aï · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help here make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock' n' roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly gecome best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night… Shares: Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Heartburn Nora Ephron · 1983 · ★ 3.6 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her… Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

All That Glitters V. C. Andrews · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Driven from the Dumas mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew.... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house,… Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on… Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

Sea Swept Nora Roberts · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Sea Swept is the first book of four in the Chesapeake Bay novel series. Originally published in 1998. ---------- Also contained in: The Quinn Brothers Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor Shares: Domestic fiction, Romance & Relationships

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop,… Shares: Domestic fiction, Friendship

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