The March sisters are all grown-up now. It is time they ventured into the twists and turns of life. Meg gets married, Jo comes to know that Laurie is in love with her, Beth is unwell, Amy goes to Europe with her aunt. It is different from childhood and they are mainly on their own. They will now experience the different aspects of family, love, loss, sacrifice, societal expectations and the pursuit of personal fulfilment.

Good Wives is the second part of Little Women whose popularity led Alcott to immediately write it. It received the similar love and success. Alcott further wrote Little Men and Jo s Boys in the March family saga. They are also as popular as Little Women.

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott was born in an intellectual family in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA in 1832. Her parents had friends like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott had the privilege of their company which helped shape up her writing career. During her early life, she worked as a nurse during the Civil War and it was when she wrote her first book. She wrote many books of which Little Women and its sequels are still very popular. She never married and in addition to writing, she spent her time in the feminist and abolitionist movements of the day. She died of a stroke in 1888.