Author:Louisa May Alcott
When "Little Women" came to its last chapter Meg was engaged and the other three March girls, Beth, Jo and Amy, were at the threshold of young-womanhood. "Good Wives" opens three years later, with Meg and her family happily preparing for her marriage to John Brooke.
A pungent stew of a book using every ingredient to hand: nourishing but full of strange, grisly lumps and bitter flavours
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