Hi all! Looking for recs with a female main character that overcomes major life obstacles like escaping abuse, poverty, and/or navigating single motherhood, etc. and creates a new life for herself. Similar example that comes to mind: The Maid, can be fiction or non 🙂 TIA!!
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The Bean trees and pigs in heaven,
The language of flowers,
Brit Marie was here,
Miss Bensons Beetle,
Dear Mad’m by Patterson,
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon (science fiction)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted by Lisa Hobman
Educated by Tara Westover (NF)
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (NF)
You didn’t ask for sci-fi/fantasy, but Lois McMaster-Bujold has a few characters that fit this request.
The Sharing Knife is a fantasy that fits this
Cordelia’s Honor is a 2 book sci-fi set that fits this
The 2 books, Komar and A Civil Campaign, are sci-fi pair that fit this and follow Cordellia’s Honor a generation later
From other authors
Bloody Jacky Faber is a female British orphan who dreams of becoming a sailor, but 200 years ago when sailing was reserved for men
Mistborn is a fantasy about an abused female orphan who is chosen to learn magic and save the world
Thursday Next is a series about female action hero who constantly has to constantly create and recreate her life to fit the insane sci-fi circumstances that happen to her
WHEN SISTERHOOD WAS IN FLOWER by Florence King