Good utopian novels for these dystopian times

Hannah Beckerman is a London-based author and journalist.

Her newest novel is If Only I Could Tell You.

She is a freelance features writer and book critic for The Observer, the FT Weekend Magazine and The Sunday Express, a regular book pundit on The Sara Cox Show on BBC Radio 2, and regularly chairs panels, discussions and interviews at literary festivals and publishing events throughout the UK.

At the Guardian, Beckerman tagged a few novels that reveal the kindness of strangers and leave you with a sense of hope, including:

[T]ake a look at The Trouble With Goats and Sheep, written by Joanna Cannon, a former psychiatrist with a keen eye for the nuances of human relationships, and Gail Honeyman’s smash hit Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, both novels dealing with the kindness of relative strangers, and the discovery of community in unexpected places.

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--Marshal Zeringue