She’s unhappy with her lot, and takes it out on her slaves very cruelly. In the South, Anne-May is a plantation owner with a mean streak. It’s there that she witnesses the war first hand at Gettysburg and other sites. She is determined not to sit around as war begins, so takes a nursing course and joins hospitals at the battlefront. Georgeanna (Georgy) Woolsey is part of a large family of abolitionists in New York. This big historical fiction novel of over 500 pages doesn’t shy away from the tough realities of war, capturing the American Civil War through the eyes of three women.
Thank you to Penguin for the copy.īig books and Easter long weekends go together, right? My plan was to sit down over the long weekend and get stuck into Sunflower Sisters, but it was too good not to devour over the weeknights. Why I chose it: I like a good chunky historical fiction novel. The not-so-good: Georgy was kind of irritating initially as she could do no wrong. The good: Didn’t shy away from the darker side of humans during war. In brief: The story of three women during the American Civil War – a nurse, a slave and a plantation owner.
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