When I was fourteen years old, we were using Little Women as our literature text. It was many years before I located Good Wives in a pile of old books in a jumble sale. I read Jo's Boys one summer in a community library in a suburban area when I was a college student in America. And it was after my children started reading that I finally read Little Men. It was not as well written as Little Women. I guess the author must be fed up about the long and drawn out tale across the generation. But readers are not to be deterred, demands must be met.
Imagine my surprise that there is another book published by her. This "new" book is totally different from the four books I have read over the years. I can't say it is better or worse, but it is difficult to imagine that such a different book is written by an author I am familiar with. This topic about obsessive love is more of a contemporary topic too. I think of Nemesis by Agatha Christie. Obsessive love kills eventually. Indeed, in these two books, "love" is a frightening thing!
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