Jo’s Boys:With Little Women, Louisa May Alcott introduced the fabulous March sisters. Their growing up years are captured beautifully in Good Wives and later in Little Men, where Jo marries Mr Bhaer and finds herself the caretaker of a houseful of lively children at Plumfield School.Jo’s Boys revisit Plumfield after ten years and recall adventures of their own. Jo’s motherly nature is evident while flashes of the young and rebellious Jo also crop up. The powerful depiction of the safe haven where the children can return at any time, where all dreams are respected and all flaws accepted, this is a bittersweet story that beautifully ends the Little Women series.Good Wives:Good Wives, part two of the hugely popular Little Women by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, is a coming-of-age novel. For Meg. Jo, Amy and Beth, life unfolds in unique ways. There are gentle, low-key love stories, some humour, and a very sad, passing way of one of the sisters.The enduring appeal of this novel is its vivid depiction. of its 19th-century time period.In this idyllic world, matters of the heart reign supreme and the reader looks forward to the outcome – Will Laurie be able to accept Amy in his heart: instead of Jo? Will Meg learn to balance motherhood with her wifely duties or lose her husband to the attractive Mrs Scott? Will Mr. Bhaer work up the courage to ask Jo to marry him?