The Spring Girls: A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women

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Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to lifethe modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do.

The Spring GirlsMeg, Jo, Beth, and Amyare a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding something, their fears are very much the same. Struggling to build lives they can be proud of and that will lift them out of their humble station in life, one year will determine all that their futures can become.

The oldest, Meg, will be an officers wife and enter military society like so many of the women she admires. If her passionand her reputationdont derail her.

Beth, the workhorse of the family, is afraid to leave the house, is afraid shell never figure out who she really is.

Jo just wants out. Wishing she could skip to graduation, she dreams of a life in New York City and a career in journalism where she can impact the world. Nothing can stop hernot even love.

And Amy, the youngest, is watching all her sisters, learning from how they handle themselves. For better or worse.

With plenty of sass, romance, and drama, The Spring Girls revisits Louisa May Alcotts classic Little Women, and brings its themes of love, war, class, adolescence, and family into the language of the twenty-first century.

Reviews

"This enjoyable novel explores the bonds of sisterhood, first love, and teenage angst, and while it echoes Alcotts novel, it provides a refreshing 21st-century update."
Publisher's Weekly
Todd [is] the biggest literary phenom of her generation.
Cosmopolitan
[Todds] legion of loyal fans, who have followed her from her fanfiction days on the self-publishing platform, Wattpad, will be thrilled.
Booklist
"After is a cant-miss bookbut get ready to feel emotionsthat you werent sure a book could bring out of you.
Fangirlish on AFTER
The Mr. Darcy and Lizzy Bennet of our time. . . ."
Thats Normalon the AFTER series
Be prepared to have an emotional explosion!
Biblio Belles on the AFTER series
This book will have you from the firstpage.
A Bookish Escape on AFTER

Author Bio

Anna Todd (writer/producer/influencer) is the New York Times bestselling author of the After series, which has been released in thirty-five languages and has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide, becoming a #1 bestseller in several countries. Always an avid reader, Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad, with After becoming the platforms most-read series with over two billion reads. She has served as a producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of After and After We Collided, and in 2017, she founded the entertainment company Frayed Pages Media to produce innovative and creative work across film, television, and publishing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family in Los Angeles.