March by Geraldine Brooks 05/08/08 (audio)

I loved Little Women when I was a child. I think I read it about 10 times. This book is another side to that story. Why were the Marches so poor? Was Marmee really that saintly? What was their father doing during the story? We know he was gone to war and that’s all. “March” fills in the gaps.

The only thing that I didn’t like was that the story changes from Mr. March to Mrs. March but the narrator doesn’t change and doesn’t indicate the change, nor when he returns to the voice of Mr. MArch. It’s only confusing for a minute but I think a segue would have helped.