Hi Peeps,

Just wondering if anyone out there might have any recommendations for a good book for me to read, specifically for when I'm in labour!

I'm expecting a long haul (hopefully I'll be wrong) and know that getting lost in a book in those early stages of labour may help the time to pass and for me not to get focussed too much on the pain.

I'm looking for something that's not too heavy going, not too emotionally traumatic (for obvious reasons) but that is well written and not too 'best seller-ish', if you know what I mean.

In general, my guidelines for buying a book are never to buy one where the author's name appears in bigger print than the title of the book as I can't abide trashy literature.

I also tend to gravitate towards biographies about people who've had difficult childhoods, however I don't want anything that will be harrowing for this particular time in my life!

Well known books I've really enjoyed in the past include:

Memoirs of a Geisha
Lolita
Brave New World
anything by John Wyndham
To Kill a Mockingbird

Books I've not particularly enjoyed in the past:

Wuthering Heights (just hated it, don't really know why)
Da Vinci Code (alright story but sooooo badly written it made me cringe)
something by Kasuo Ishiguro whose name I can't even remember (too bizarre)
Tender is the Night (just couldn't get into it and never did finish it)

Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

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