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EadieB
Sunflower Sisters: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly
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3rd book in The Lilac Girls series. Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid look at the Civil War experience of three characters. Georgeanna Woolsey is an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday from Lilac Girls. She is a Union nurse whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists.

EadieB I have read the other two books (Lilac Girls and Lost Roses) but Sunflower Sisters is my favorite. We get a first-hand look at slavery through Jemma and all of its social injustice. Through Anne-May we get a peek of a plantation owner and how they treated the slaves. We follow the characters to a war-torn New York City and to the horrors of the battlefield at Gettysburg. 3y
EadieB I found the book to be well-written and well-researched. This is the last book in the trilogy but I look forward to seeing what Kelly writes next. If you love history then you should read this series. 3y
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TheSpineView Great job! 👍📖 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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TheLiteraryLifestyle
Lilac Girls: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly
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I‘m about 100 pages in and I‘m enjoying it so far. It‘s not a favorite yet. But so far, Kasia is my fav character. It‘s pretty heavy from the start. I‘ve heard great things, so we‘ll see what I think.
#currentlyreading #lilacgirls #marthahallkelly

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kspenmoll
Lilac Girls: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly
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#Authorbooktour #EG #MarthaHallKelly #historicalfiction

Just got back from this author talk at East Granby CT community center. She was an incredible speaker-animated, vivacious,intelligent,- so interactive with the audience- also well read audience, with a long Q& A period.Listening to how/why she wrote both book, the years of research that went into both, etc., was fascinating. Plan to visit to the Bellamy-Ferriday House in Bethlehem CT (con.)

BarbaraTheBibliophage My IRL book group is reading Lilac Girls next. This makes me look forward to it even more! 5y
kspenmoll @BarbaraTheBibliophage I have just started it. 😀 5y
CouronneDhiver 🙌🏽🙌🏽 5y
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kspenmoll (Con.) This house is where actress, philanthropist Caroline Ferriday lived,which is now a museum.She was instrumental in getting the Ravensbruck “rabbits”to the US where some had reconstructive surgery on their legs which were experimented on by Nazi doctors.There were Polish girls who joined the underground resistance & were captured. I know little about this group, so her talk tonight was about an area of history/women‘s history I know little of 5y
Librarybelle Thanks for the tag! I‘ve heard such good things about the book. 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Oh wow!!!! So awesome!! 💗💗💗 5y
Hollie ♥️♥️♥️ 5y
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Morgan7r
Lilac Girls: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly
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Georgia_Hunter
Lilac Girls: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly
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Had the pleasure this weekend of meeting the lovely Martha Hall Kelly, who spent ten years researching and writing her bestselling novel, Lilac Girls. Thank you, Martha, for the inspiration! #historicalfiction #lilacgirls #marthahallkelly #darienpubliclibrary #weweretheluckyones

julienaji I just finished it and lived it! Lucky you! 8y
julienaji Oops loved it 8y
MrBook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Love author signings! @BookBabe & I are slowly building our library's #signededition section. ☺️ 8y
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