Can you recommend a character-driven, introspective novel?

I’m looking on goodreads and amazon also, but this is a know it when you see it kind of thing. When I’ve found books like this before, it’s been by accident while browsing in the library.

One of my favorite novels is “Half Broken Things” by Morag Joss. It’s described as a mystery/suspense novel, but it’s really a quiet character piece. The main characters are three people who are very lost. There’s a young pregnant woman who has lived here and there and is just scraping by; a professional house-sitter at the end of a long and dreary career; and a con artist with clinical depression who can barely pay the bills. They come together sort of by accident and form a really lovely found family. The house-sitter is the “mother” of the group, and they take over a mansion that she’s watching, eating the food, drinking up the wine cellar, wearing the clothes, making renovations, planting trees etc.

Another one of my favorites is “By Chance” by Martin Corrick. A 60something widower travels to a mysterious island and reflects on his life and decisions. Partway through you learn what those decisions actually were, and it comes completely out of the left field- a big “wham” moment.

Both of these books seem kind of boring when you describe them. A lot of the reviews on goodreads are people complaining about how boring they are and how they could barely get through them. But I loved each of these for how they delve into the seemingly quiet lives of these characters and there’s real substance underneath. It’s wonderful to read the inner thoughts of a fully fleshed-out fictional character. I find that kind of thing incredibly compelling, even if book itself doesn’t seem terribly eventful.

Recs?