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The Little Women Letters [Hardcover]

Gabrielle Donnelly
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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Book Description

June 7, 2011
Sisters Emma, Lulu, and Sophie Atwater couldn’t be more different. They adore each other and drive each other crazy in equal measure. Next to her accomplished sisters, Lulu can’t help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family, working dead-end jobs with no romantic prospects in sight. When her mother asks her to find a book of old family recipes in the attic of her childhood home, Lulu stumbles across a stack of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. As Lulu delves into the lives and secrets of the March sisters, she finds solace and guidance in Jo’s words, discovering that she and Jo share many similarities, even though they are worlds apart.

As uplifting as 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.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnelly's THE LITTLE WOMEN LETTERS evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book." —Jennifer Chiaverini, author of the New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts novels

“Gabrielle Donnelly's THE LITTLE WOMEN LETTERS radiates a rare warmth and charm that had me smiling from beginning to end. The characters absolutely live, and the story is utterly compelling. I quite simply love Donnelly's voice!” ---Santa Montefiore, author of The French Gardener and The Mermaid Garden

“Witty, warm, and bubbling over with voice, The Little Women Letters is a love letter to and from a set of unforgettable heroines. Gabrielle Donnelly's homage is just what a literary tribute should be: full of compassion, heart, and fun.” - - Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

"A sheer delight, full of gentle humor and homespun wisdom." --Katie Fforde, author of Love Letters

"Gabrielle Donnelly's absorbing novel sweeps you across time and generations of family, bound together through love and the strife and joys of daily life. A refreshingly hopeful story that grips you so thoroughly you'll want to lock your door and read, read, read!" --Carol Cassella, author of Healer and Oxygen

"I LOVED this book - it was like a personal treasure trove. The letters sound just exactly as if Jo had written them, and isn't it what we'd always wanted and thought we could never have - more of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy?" --Penny Vincenzi, author of The Best of Times

“[A] light, spirited tale about modern women with old-fashioned values.” --Publishers Weekly

“Donnelly’s The Little Women Letters imagines how modern versions of the March sisters might have lived. . . . Donnelly writes with obvious passion for the classic take and successfully applies a fresh sensibility to the three modern sisters. Nostalgic without being deferential, jocular without being flippant…Beautifully crafted.” --Booklist

“Could be just the perfect pool-side read.” --The Washington Post

“For those who yearn for the verve and wit and chagrin of Alcott, ‘The Little Women Letters’ offers a thoroughly modern . . . twist.” --Seattle Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Gabrielle Donnelly was born and raised in London, where she worked as a journalist on women's magazines before moving to Los Angeles to specialize in show business journalism. She lives near Venice Beach with her husband, Owen Bjørnstad.

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Touchstone (June 7, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1451617186
  • ISBN-13: 978-1451617184
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,037,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I found the characters to be fun, loving and people I would like to know. Candace M. Lira  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
Great concept, well written, VERY satisfying ending. janetB  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Summer Read June 24, 2011
Format:Hardcover
I was never a Little Women fan but I love this book. I found the characters to be fun, loving and people I would like to know. The story is interesting and engaging, Ms. Donnelly has a real feel for family and how women relate to one another. I loved the way she used the letters to interweave the story line between modern day and the late 1800s. I highly recommend this book and don't think that you will be disappointed.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Treat August 1, 2011
Format:Hardcover
"Fee shook her head, leaned forward across the table, and laid a hand on her daughter's. 'Treats,' she said firmly."
This quote from the book has the mom telling one of her daughters that every woman needs a treat in their life to make a happy marriage. This book is a treat! I reread Little Women before I read this book to get the characters fresh in my mind, but you really don't need to in order to enjoy the book. The author's voice is current, descriptive, and full of a wicked sense of humor!The characters are believable and interesting. The way she described current London made me feel as if I have been there.This a book I highly recommend for any female from 15 years up. Give us more, Gabrielle!
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good summer beach reading! June 18, 2011
Format:Hardcover
To be honest, my opinion about this book is split. The Little Women angle is wonderful. Modern day Lulu finds a cache of letters in her mother's attic that are correspondences between the original March sisters, much as they would have been as they grew older through the years. The letters were so well-written and true to Alcott's characters that at times I forgot that they were written by Donnelly. I really enjoyed imagining what sort of lives the March sisters would have lived and how gracefully they would have aged and enjoyed their various offsprings.

While I enjoyed the March sisters' letters and the stroll down Little Women memory lane, the modern day family was not as entertaining to me as a reader. It is clear that the modern day sisters were written to resemble their March sister relatives. Lulu acts like Jo would have and of course Amy is represented by the theatrical sister Sophie. It's just that the modern family was never as engaging as the original sisters. Sisters fight, sisters sarcastically put each other down, sisters rally to the aid of each other...

Overall this book is a very fun read, but I found myself reading the letters between the March sisters with much more interest than I read the story of the modern sisters.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful.
This a delightful novel going between imagined letters from Jo in Little Women and present day sisters. The story is paralell but with enough of a twist to make it interesting. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Diana Sandke
2.0 out of 5 stars disappointed
Another Little Women spinoff...this one has its moments, such as the letters from Jo March, but the overall theme left me cold. Read more
Published 2 months ago by JJ Writer
5.0 out of 5 stars The irony!
Every character in this book is a cliche of feminism. This one lived in a women's commune and parroted slogans; that one (the least peaceful person imaginable) met her husband at... Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. Heiss
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes. Buy this book!
The reviews already written here say it all. If you have read those, and still have doubts....don't!....buy it now, read and enjoy. Read more
Published 5 months ago by janetB
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fun, Light Read
Lulu is the middle sister of the Atwater family. Her older sister Emma is planning for her wedding, and her younger sister Sophie is pursuing an acting career on the stage, so she... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Black Plum
5.0 out of 5 stars Little Women for Modern Times
The loving, eccentric Atwaters are a present day family living in Islington, in North London. There's Fee, a 1970s feminist and family therapist; her husband David, a Londoner with... Read more
Published 9 months ago by AUPoohBear
4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely
A perfectly lovely and mindless summer reading book. Lulu is one of three sisters living in modern London, and tucked away in her parent's attic are letters great-great-great... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Elizabeth
4.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 out of 5
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I tend to have a heavy hand giving highest marks to all the books I love, but its not fair to the authors to give every one of them a 5. Read more
Published 12 months ago by GC
4.0 out of 5 stars A Future Generation Of The March Sisters . . .
The Little Women Letters is Gabrielle Donnelly's imagining of a future generation of the March sisters, who first appeared in Louisa May Alcott's book, Little Women. Read more
Published 13 months ago by The Literary Lioness
3.0 out of 5 stars A vacaction read
I was not very impressed with this book. It was an okay read. Maybe I was not in the mood, but I found myself really rushing through the pages to get to the ending. Read more
Published 14 months ago by bookreader "Melanie"
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