The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

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The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
352 pages
Anyone growing tired of the Jane Austen re-dos (and who isn't, at least just a little?) might take succor in this novel devised from the Little Women author's journals. It mixes truth (Alcott's lifelong fascination with Walt Whitman) with imagination (a fictional suitor) to produce a plausible love story about one of the most fiercely independent women of any time.
— Sara Nelson