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  • Caroline

  • Little House, Revisited
  • By: Sarah Miller
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel
  • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Caroline

By: Sarah Miller
Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel
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In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before - Caroline Ingalls, Ma in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books.

In the frigid days of February 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband, Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.

The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline's new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles' hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses.

For more than 80 years, generations have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.

©2017 Sarah Miller and Little House Heritage Trust (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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A very enjoyable book, especially for anyone who has read or has an interest in the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was good to hear about the daily life of the pioneer woman.

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Wonderful book.

This book was a beautiful insight into Caroline's hopes and fears as the family uprooted and travelled West. The language is like poetry that I want to listen to over and over. It fills in many of the questions an older reader would have about the practicalities of the journey. The insights that Caroline gives us to Mr Edwards at Christmas was particularly moving. It isn't in the style of the Little House Books but well worth the read.

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Disappointing

I loved all of the Little House books as a child and can't wait to read them to my daughter when she is a little older. Therefore, I was excited to hear this version of Little House on the Prairie. As a mother myself now, I felt that I should be able to identify with Caroline Ingalls in the same way I identified with Laura when I was a little girl. However, the story does not seem to be about the Ma of the original books. Instead we are treated to the overly wordy and tedious inner monologue of a pessimistic stranger. Whilst some details of the life of a pioneer woman are interesting, the plot is incredibly slow and I am struggling to finish it. I don't have a problem with the tweaking of details to make it more historically accurate; I have read biographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder and am aware how she fictionalised her account. However, the graphic details around Caroline's pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding with Carrie are just too much and verge on disgusting. I think I may have to stop listening before the infamous sex scene towards the end of the book that other reviewers have mentioned. Again, it feels inappropriate.

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