This was our book for book club this month and what can I say except that I have a new favorite book. Tamara Alexander is highly talented and does her research well. I felt as if I was actually there walking through all the feels with the characters. Of course, considering every day I drove to work I WAS right where a lot of the action happened.
The author is a local chick and I just found out she is having a reading and book signing THIS SUNDAY (1/20/19) at Carnton and I just signed up to go!
This is a must read for Civil War history buffs!
What can a woman - a mere governess -
do against the scourge of slavery? Elizabeth "Lizzie" Clouston's quietly held
principles oppose those of the Southern Cause--but when forty thousand soldiers
converge on the fields of Franklin, Tennessee, the war demands an answer. The
Carnton home, where she is governess, is converted into a Confederate hospital,
and Lizzie is called upon to assist the military doctor with surgeries that
determine life or death. Faced with the unimaginable, she must summon
fortitude, even as she fears for the life of Towny, her fiancé and
lifelong friend. As a young soldier lies
dying in Lizzie's arms, she vows to relay his final words to his mother, but
knows little more than the boy's first name. That same night, decorated
Mississippi sharpshooter Captain Roland Ward Jones extracts a different promise
from Lizzie: that she intervene should the surgeon decide to amputate his leg. Lizzie is nothing if not a woman of her word,
earning the soldiers' respect as she tends to the wounded within Carnton's
walls. None is more admiring than Captain Jones, who doesn't realize she is
pledged to another. But as Lizzie's heart softens toward the Confederate
captain, she discovers his moral ground is at odds with her own. Now torn
between love, principles, and pledges made, she struggles to be true to her own
heart while standing for what she knows is right--no matter the cost. From the pages
of history and the personal accounts of those who endured the Battle of
Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves the real-life love letters between Captain
Roland Ward Jones and Miss Elizabeth Clouston into a story of unlikely romance
first kindled amid the shadows of war. (picture and description from Amazon)
Not even sure how to pick up another book after that ...
O:)
Melissa
Not even sure how to pick up another book after that ...
O:)
Melissa