This book was so wonderfully written. I am becoming a very large fan of historical fiction and this author did a wonderful job with the amount of detail and care to paint this picture that was clear, emotional, feeling of so many people, and all of it wrapped up in a beautiful package. I think that it was very well thought out, it was very well mapped, the plot was so good, and so many things I did not see coming. And knowing that this had some truth to it from her own family history makes this an even better story. I will be reading her other books