Amazon Editorial Review
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history.

From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May’s father—a friend and confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In her telling, March emerges as an idealistic chaplain in the little known backwaters of a war that will test his faith in himself and in the Union cause as he learns that his side, too, is capable of acts of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near mortal illness, he must reassemble his shattered mind and body and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through.

Spanning the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, March adds adult resonance to Alcott’s optimistic children’s tale to portray the moral complexity of war, and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism—and by a dangerous and illicit attraction. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks’s place as an internationally renowned author of historical fiction.

Happy Birthday chremajora. Hope you have a good one.

A wishlist book!! Thank you so much for sending this to me for my birthday :D

After reading "Year of Wonders", which I adored, this was a wishlist book of mine and I am very grateful to have received it. However, I just couldn't get into it at all. I tried several times, to no avail, and it has been sitting on my shelf ever since. Now it has been requested as part of my "Take Five" Draw and I am happy to pass it on - back over the ocean to New Zealand again!

Happy Reading - I hope you enjoy it more than I did!

Delighted to win a letter box surprise. This book has returned to New Zealand. Thank you very much.

A truly wonderful book from a favourite author of mine. Thrilled to have received and delighted to see it is in the Wishlist of a ( self confessed) lapsed bookcrosser. I hope this book encourages her to rejoin this generous community of booklovers.
This ticked two challenge boxes, Australian women author and the USA States challenge, where I have reviewed.
Not surprised this won the Pulitzer.

The wishlist book arrived, many thanks. My daughter will be delighted.