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Kelly O'Connor McNees

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Kelly O’Connor McNees’s award-winning novels transport readers to pivotal moments in history as seen through the eyes of the resilient, fascinating women who lived through them. Whether it’s a “moving and intimate glimpse” (Publisher’s Weekly) of Eleanor Roosevelt’s love affair with Lorena Hickock in Undiscovered Country, or the tough decisions of Clara, a mail-order bride broker, in In Need of a Good Wife, or Louisa May Alcott’s excruciating choice between love and her writing career in The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, readers are immersed in riveting stories often overlooked in American history.

O’Connor McNees’s forthcoming novel, The Myth of Surrender (March 2021, Pegasus), is the story of an unlikely friendship forged between two y ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 6,951 ratings · 1,287 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott 3.68 avg rating — 4,473 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Need of a Good Wife 3.55 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undiscovered Country 3.82 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island of Doves 3.88 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Surrender 4.16 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ink Stains by Lara Zielin (Editor), Sarah Quigley (Editor), Kelly O'Connor McNees (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You've written plenty of romantic tales," he said, taking the book from her hands and gently closing it. "Didn't you know I would come?”
― Kelly O. McNees, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

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“When women set their hearts on anything it is a known fact that they seldom fail to accomplish it. ~Mrs. podgers' Teapot”
― Kelly O'Connor McNees

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“...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.”
― Kelly O. McNees, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

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Polls

July ~ BotM Nominations-(Historical Fiction) 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move on to the 2nd Poll!!!

The Invention of Wings

by Sue Monk Kidd

14 votes, 21.2%

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

9 votes, 13.6%

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

6 votes, 9.1%

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

6 votes, 9.1%

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

5 votes, 7.6%

The Postmistress

by Sarah Blake

5 votes, 7.6%

Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally

4 votes, 6.1%

Someone Knows My Name

by Lawrence Hill

3 votes, 4.5%

The Winds of War

by Herman Wouk

3 votes, 4.5%

Wish You Well

by David Baldacci

3 votes, 4.5%

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

by Kelly O'Connor McNees

3 votes, 4.5%

March

by Geraldine Brooks

3 votes, 4.5%

Nefertiti

by Michelle Moran

2 votes, 3.0%

Two Brothers

by Ben Elton

0 votes, 0.0%

66 total votes

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