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* The titular stray dog of ''Literature/{{Fluke}}'' has a rough time of it, but along the way, finds resplendent touches of kindness.
* The protagonist couple of ''Literature/TheMagicCottage'' are written with a sincere tenderness. Their delight in the tranquillity of their rural haven and the [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome splendour of the surrounding countryside]] persuasively infer that it ain't such a bad old world after all.
** The concept that the universe is driven and shaped by emotion, and that a channelling of such forces through the cottage's previous occupant nurtured the local environment, is both awe-inspiring and heartening.
* ''Literature/{{Portent}}'' superbly averts FatBastard and FatIdiot with heavily overweight avuncular geophysicist Hugo Poggs.
* ''Literature/{{Others}}'', with shocking and sobering candour, examines the lifelong rejection and humiliation of its deformed private investigator. The banal disquiet often roused by his appearance is trounced by the depth of his friendships. This book acknowledges the human capacity to be unsettled by the unfamiliar, and in the face of this, makes a resounding plea for the compassion needed by all.
* ''Literature/{{Once}}'', like its spiritual predecessor ''Literature/TheMagicCottage'', revels in the splendour of its rural setting. Revelation of the broader cosmos to be populated by benevolent, physically transcendent beings whose designs predate and dwarf humanity, is both heartening and awe-inspiring.
** The caring devotion of Rigwit the brownie to Thom, son of his old human friend Jonathan.
** The love of Thom's deceased parents is implied by Jennet to be innate and inevitable. Between life-hardened yet vulnerable Thom and jovial Jennet blooms a similarly prompt, profound devotion.
** On visiting Katy in hospital, Thom passes a children's ward, and is moved to use his inheritance to transform Castle Bracken into a children's hospice. Jennet reveals this to have been his innate vocation; that gradual healing by faeries of young patients will aid humanity's reunion with their elemental forbears, and that she will return in human form to preside with him over it.
* ''Nobody True'' examines with touching profundity the love of recently murdered astral projector Jim True for his surviving family.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretOfCrickleyHall'', the ghost of a brutally murdered five-year-old briefly appears to soothe a bereaved young mother.
** The horrifying depravity committed within the walls of Crickley Hall does nothing to taint the ultimate endurance of its benevolent spirits, one of whom, in the form of an incandescent spectral orb, tenderly touches the face of her now-elderly boyfriend.