The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

• ISBN: 0399156526

Synopsis

 In the bestselling tradition of "Loving Frank" and "March" comes a novel for anyone who loves "Little Women."
Millions of readers have fallen in love with "Little Women." But how could Louisa May Alcott-who never had a romance-write so convincingly of love and heart-break without experiencing it herself?
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O'Connor McNees imagines a love affair that would threaten Louisa's writing career-and inspire the story of Jo and Laurie in "Little Women. Stuck in small-town New Hampshire in 1855, Louisa finds herself torn between a love that takes her by surprise and her dream of independence as a writer in Boston. The choice she must make comes with a steep price that she will pay-for the rest of her life.

“I have read Little Women at least a dozen times, but Kelly O'Connor McNees has given me a gift I will not soon forget.” -- Cassandra King, author of The Sunday Wife