Fiona Poole recommends

This book has a lesson, a nugget of wisdom, a Stoic insight for every day of the year to keep you on the straight and narrow. A book to live by.

I do like Matt Haig. Great to listen to on a podcast too. This is a book on introspection, reflection and hope. A beautiful sliding doors story of what life could have/would have been.

Total escapism – who doesn’t love a bit of unrequited wartime love, delicious guilt and grief and a chance reunion at a snow-bound sanatorium. Snow Country is the second in the loose trilogy which started back in 2005 with Human Traces, which I now need to read.

Yes, you might think this an odd choice, but it is one of my favourite books at the moment as I am reading it pretty much daily with my six-year-old daughter. There’s nothing quite like putting on some funny voices and talking magic with a six-year-old!

Captivating – the tale of Odile, her contemporaries and Paris in wartime transports you there.

Set in 60’s Brighton, this is quick, witty, gripping story-telling which weaves together the lives of an alcoholic novelist, a covertly gay film producer and a pill-popping actress.