yes please! books =
and yay! I guess I'm well on my way to becoming British

a verrrrrrrrr
ok.
Austen, Jane Eyre, Dickens, Hardy, etcetc (duh)
Middlemarch
Um I have heard Emily Gaskell's stuff is good but I haven't read the 2 books I bought yet

North and South is a good one I've heard
More modern stuff:
The Queen and I. Love that book

South Riding
Any Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth is AMAZING but not cheerful.
I was going to suggest Bridget Jones but humm you might not like a lot of the content

It's full of scarily good insights into the female mind though lol.
Erm Agatha Christie?!
OK I think it's now obvious that I'm just randomly typing out books by English ppl here

My friend read an interesting book about the character of the English, I will get the name of it.
Ooooh also: Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island. And if you read something like a Penguin history of the UK you'll probs know more than me about here
Obv this is just if you're interested, not that you actually need to know any of this to live here!!
Any help, fellow Brits?!