Devout Johanna believes God has led her to the Alcotts and falls in love with their neighbor, Nathan Bancroft, but her happily ever after disintegrates soon after their wedding, as Nathan's drunken abusiveness comes out. In 1863, Louisa May Alcott asks her friend Johanna Suhre to come to Orchard House and care for her parents while she travels to Europe.
Several years later, Taylor walks in on her boyfriend and Victoria kissing and, in a fit of rage, she packs up and hits the road. But a competitiveness among the two also takes root. Both are aspiring writers, and pursue their calling at the Jo March Writing Camp at Orchard House. In 1995, 13-year-old foster child Taylor is adopted by the family of her best friend, Victoria Bennett. And through her story, Taylor may just find forgiveness and a place to belong.Ĭhiavoroli (Tea Chest) delights with this homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, featuring a time-slip narrative of two women connected across centuries. Yet she becomes drawn into the story of a woman who lived there centuries before.
Now a successful author, Taylor is determined to spend little time in Concord. But before long, Johanna experiences her husband’s dark side, and she can’t hide the bruises that appear.Īfter receiving news of Lorraine Bennett’s cancer diagnosis, Taylor knows she must return home to see her adoptive mother again. Soon after arriving at Orchard House, Johanna meets Nathan Bancroft and, ignoring Louisa’s words of caution, falls in love and accepts Nathan’s proposal. While Louisa May Alcott is off traveling the world, Johanna Suhre accepts a job tending Louisa’s aging parents and their home in Concord. until Victoria’s betrayal changes everything. As she enters college and begins dating, it feels like Taylor is finally finding her place and some stability. But despite attending summer camp at Louisa May Alcott’s historic Orchard House with Victoria and sharing dreams of becoming famous authors, Taylor struggles to fit in. Two women, one living in present day Massachusetts and another in Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House soon after the Civil War, overcome their own personal demons and search for a place to belong.Ībandoned by her own family, Taylor is determined not to mess up her chance at joining the home of her best friend, Victoria Bennett. Award-winning author Heidi Chiavaroli transports readers across time and place in this time-slip novel that will appeal to fans of Little Women.
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