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Have you ever picked up a book that immediately felt like home? Here are 20 authors like Maeve Binchy that give that warm, transcendent feeling.

Charlotte was the first - wildly beautiful, wildly frustrated- who married her soldier husband solely to escape from the claustrophobic respectability of Victorian life in Richmond. When she reached the British lines in Kabul she was bewitched by the exotic world of Afghanistan and by Alexander Bewick, the scandalous adventurer who aroused an instant response in Charlottes rebellious heart. As the city of Kabul was turned into a hell of bloodshed, Charlotte was forced to choose between her devo...