Hamnet is a historical fiction novel by New York Times bestselling author Maggie O’Farrell, published in 2020.
Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and and was one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year. It was also featured as a “big-hitter” on BBC’s Between The Covers.
The Doll Factory is the debut novel by bestselling author Elizabeth Macneal, published in 2020.
The Doll Factory was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick and went on to be a Sunday Times bestseller.
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth is the debut novel by Matson Taylor, published in 2020.
It was both a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a Radio 2 Book Club selection.
Away With The Penguins by Hazel Prior was published in 2020.
It was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. It was hailed as a feel-good read, which is just what I was looking for.
Playing Nice is the fourth standalone psychological thriller by bestselling author J P Delaney.
The novel was published in 2020 and became a Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club 2021 Spring List pick.
The Phone Box At The Edge Of The World is a novel by Laura Imai Messina, published in 2020.
I’d heard great things about this book yet knew very little about the story. Laura Imai Messina is an Italian who has been living in Japan for the last 15 years and the book was originally written in Italian. The version I read was translated into English by Lucy Rand.
The Glass House, or The Daughters of Foxcote Manor as it’s known in the US, was published in 2020. It was written by Sunday Times bestselling author Eve Chase and was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick for Winter 2020.
The Glass House was the first novel I read by Eve Chase and I was instantly intrigued by the premise.