Book Recs!

[brigdh]

Help me, please! I want to read is a book which features (preferably stars) a lesbian couple, but I can't find any. I've already read everything by Sarah Waters. I started 'Aimee and Jaguar' by Erica Fischer, but didn't like it at all. I've read Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', and I know she has other novels about lesbians, but I'm looking for books that are more, well, fun. Less serious. Historical fiction and/or fantasy is a plus, but I'll read modern stories as well. It doesn't have to be a romance, specifically, but that would be awesome. I prefer fiction, but if you know of a non-fiction book that reads more like a story than a history, that would work as well.

The only thing I don't want to read is a coming out story, or anything in which a large amount of the plotline is devoted to the angst of OMG I am teh ghei! What I want, really, is the equivalent of cheesy Harlequin romance or chick lit novels, but if you attempt to browse the GLBT section of bookstores looking for such, you end up with books that make fanfiction.net look like the home of the next Nobel prize for literature. You know not the horrors, o flist.

So, does anyone know of a good book?

Comments

[miep.livejournal.com]

oh, whatsherface, Manda Scott? She wrote some lovely, intense mysteries set in Glasgow. Hen's Teeth and Night Mares are the ones I remember best... I really liked them.

There's also Nicola Griffith's _The Blue Place_. I haven't read her other stuff.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Those sound good.