Geraldine Brooks

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      March

      Geraldine Brooks

      

       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      This edition published by Harper Perennial 2006

      

      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2005

      

      Copyright © Geraldine Brooks 2005

      PS Section copyright © Louise Tucker 2006, except ‘Little Facts’ by Geraldine Brooks © Geraldine Brooks 2006

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      Geraldine Brooks asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      

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      Source ISBN: 9780007165872

      Ebook Edition © MARCH 2010 ISBN: 9780007369225 Version: 2017-11-01

       For Darleen and Cassie—by no means little women.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       CHAPTER FIVE A Better Pencil

       CHAPTER SIX Yankee Leavening

       CHAPTER SEVEN Bread and Shelter

       CHAPTER EIGHT Learning’s Altar

       CHAPTER NINE First Blossom

       CHAPTER TEN Saddleback Fever

       CHAPTER ELEVEN Tolling Bells

       CHAPTER TWELVE Red Moon

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Good Kind Man

       PART TWO

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN Blank Hospital

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN Reunion

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN River of Fire

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Reconstruction

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN State of Grace

       CHAPTER NINETEEN Concord

       Afterword

       Keep Reading

       P.S.

       Interview

       About the book

       Read on

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       PART ONE

      Jo said sadly,

      “We haven’t got father, and shall not have him for a long time.” She didn’t say “perhaps never,” but each silently added it, thinking of father far away, where the fighting was.

      —Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

       CHAPTER ONE Virginia Is a Hard Road

      October