Yet another book by a woman that was a very pleasant surprise. I really didn’t think I wanted to read a historical novel about the civil war, but Geraldine Brooks proved me wrong.

This book is an excellent read, and reasonably quick (not least because I was unable to put it down once I had started it). I’ve never read “Little Women”, and have never really wanted to (another reason why this book was such a nice surprise), but this book is just superb. That it uses “Little Women” as a starting point is almost incidental, but it’s an interesting thing to have done.