Wanted - ideas for light novels/short stories for elderly lady
Hello all. I have an elderly lady neighbour who is sadly rather immobile these days and in quite a lot of pain, so she spends as much time as possible resting, but as she was previously very active she gets rather bored and depressed. She is normally bright, sharp witted, interested in everything, funny and good company, but just physically frail and in pain.
I have been buying various paperback books for her, which she enjoys, but I am running out of ideas for novels or short stories which don't have violence/sex/kidnapped or murdered children/science fiction/wartime sadness/vampires etc. On the other hand I don't want joke books, as she is rather too intelligent for those to interest her very much.
So far she has enjoyed Dear Mrs Bird, The Robot in the Garden, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, various Simon Brett light detective novels, and some humorous books about cats. The next one will be the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, and finally The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. I don't know how she'll like the last two... but then I've run out of ideas! Any suggestions please? I think it makes all the difference to her to have something new to look forward to.
Thank you for any suggestions you may have!
I have been buying various paperback books for her, which she enjoys, but I am running out of ideas for novels or short stories which don't have violence/sex/kidnapped or murdered children/science fiction/wartime sadness/vampires etc. On the other hand I don't want joke books, as she is rather too intelligent for those to interest her very much.
So far she has enjoyed Dear Mrs Bird, The Robot in the Garden, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, various Simon Brett light detective novels, and some humorous books about cats. The next one will be the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, and finally The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. I don't know how she'll like the last two... but then I've run out of ideas! Any suggestions please? I think it makes all the difference to her to have something new to look forward to.
Thank you for any suggestions you may have!
