For those of you who enjoyed Martha Hall K elly&rsquo\;s previous novels\, Lilac Girls and Lost Roses\, you will be thrilled to meet Kelly virtually to discuss her newest no vel Sunflower Sisters. In Kelly&rsquo\;s latest novel\, we are in troduced to Georgeanna Woolsey of New York City\, the great aunt of Caroli ne Ferriday from Lilac Girls\, who was a committed abolitionist a nd nurse. \; Inspired by true accounts\, Sunflower Sisters&nb sp\;takes us to St. Mary&rsquo\;s County during the Civil War\, where we a lso meet Anne-May\, the mistress of Peeler Plantation\, and Jemma\, an ens laved girl on the plantation\, during the early 1860s.
\nAs you read Sunflower Sisters\, you will learn how the lives of these three women intertwine. \; They will cross paths in the most unexpected of c ircumstances. \; Georgeanna Woolsey is a Union nurse who loathes slave ry. \; Jemma is an enslaved girl abused by her mistress. \; Anne-M ay is the young mistress intent on living the pampered lifestyle of New Or leans high society from which she came. \; As the Civil War leaves its ravaging effects on families from New York to Charleston\, SC\, these wom en will show just how much they are willing to fight for what matters most to each of them.
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