March by Geraldine Brooks
Alcott's Little women is probably one of the childhood books I remember most fondly and I was happily surprised to find in my bookstore Geraldine Brooks' version of the story, told from Mr March's point of view: while Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are living their lives in Connecticut, their father is surviving in the Civil War. The descriptions of the war, of Washington DC, of the lives of the former slaves feel totally real and well documented. The retelling of the courtship and marriage of Mr and Mrs March gives the book the dimensions that Little women lacked. Now I want to re read Alcott.