Little Women In India

This narrative of four sisters begins with the lightness and delicacy of lacework, feminine and domestic. But, when the girls find themselves caught up in the violence of the Indian Mutiny, difficult choices must be made, hard lessons have to be learned – and the lace turns to steel, cold, hard and uncompromisingly told.

Victor Watson, author of Paradise Barn, The Deeping Secrets, and Hidden Lies, children’s book series

In Jane Nardin’s debut novel, we have a lively and witty updating and reimagining of Alcott’s classic, interspersing the standard Victorian female preoccupations of housekeeping and husband-hunting with less usual activities such as escaping mutineers and learning how to make charcoal. Nardin’s Little Women are more than Alcott’s pilgrims in progress; they are recognizably modern. . . . Readers will find this an interesting, well-paced novel with likeable and energetic characters.

Susan Ang, author of The Master of the Rings: Inside the World of J.R.R. Tolkien and The Widening World of Children’s Literature

Nowadays, Abe Lincoln fights vampires and Mr. Darcy is the least of Elizabeth Bennet’s problems, what with zombies and all. Could Little Women in India compete with that? Absolutely! It's fun, insightful and crammed with illuminating information. These sisters live a frugal life, with romance and a growing social consciousness, in colonial India--19th century Little Women with 21st century values.

Dee LaDuke and Mark Alton Brown, authors, Making Great Television, based on a career of writing television shows, including Girlfriends and Designing Women.