The Little Women Letters

By Gabrielle Donnelly

Book Overview

USA TODAY sings that "Fans of Louisa May Alcott can rejoice" thanks to this charming and uplifting story of the imagined lives of three of Jo March's passionate, spirited descendants--that's Jo March from Little Women With her older sister, Emma, planning a wedding and her younger sister, Sophie, preparing to launch a career on the London stage, Lulu can't help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family. Lulu loves her sisters dearly and wants nothing but the best for them, but she finds herself stuck in a rut, working dead-end jobs with no romantic prospects in sight. Then Lulu stumbles across a collection of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. As she delves deeper into the lives and secrets of the March sisters, she finds solace and guidance, but can the words of her great-great-grandmother help Lulu find a place for herself in a world so different from the one Jo knew?As uplifting and essential as Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Gabrielle Donnelly's novel will speak to anyone who's ever fought with a sister, fallen in love with a fabulous pair of shoes, or wondered what on earth life had in store for her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451617194
• ISBN13: 9781451617191
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"