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The Summer of Oprah: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
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Move over, Jane Austen. You’ve had enough movie remakes, zombie adaptations, and book clubs dedicated solely to your work and fictionalizations of your love life. According to author Kelly O’Connor McNees, it’s time for you step aside and let Louisa May Alcott have her moment in the sun. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott fictionalizes the summer the Alcotts spent in Walpole, New Hampshire. The novel reeks of carriages and courting, of petticoats and bonnets, of love found and then lost. McNees’ Louisa is true to form, abandoning a potential marriage and family to dedicate herself to her one true love: her writing career.
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