Beds and Blue Jeans by Nadine Sutton ON AMAZON

This is a long story available on Amazon. Its a tale of a young singer who is trying to make it in the music business, in Nashville and how he moves from bed to bed and bar to bar, looking for love. Sam is living with a girl who has had his baby, but he is an attractive young man who appeals to women. He finds his girlfriend boring but tries to keep up their relationship, for the sake of their baby. He loves his work, and in time he and his lady start to build up a stable marriage.

Rough Music, available on Amazon

Rough Music is a long novella, about a country rock band (by Nadine SUtton). Its set in the late 1970s and is about an American band who are on the way up. The 2 lead singers Jeff Randles and Brandon, are both unfaithful husbands, and they try to make compromises between doing good work and making money..They used to be a bar band but are now enjoying some success on TV and at the Opry but they are always trying to make real music and help people. But the price of success and fame is a lot of touring and it means that they seek solace in sleeping around and taking drugs. Jeff Randles then finds that a one night stand has consequences.

Alcott's novels

After Little Women, Alcott wrote two more books, Little Men which is about the school at Plumfield and focusses on the boys, particularly a young lad called Dan who is scarred by an unhappy childhood and is rough and dangerous. John Brooke dies, and in the next book Jo's Boys, the focus is on the boys and the March grandchildren as they grow to adulthood. There is now a college at Plumfield which takes women students as well as men. Demi Brooke, Meg's son, has become a journalist, which amuses Jo, though as a famous writer she is often pestered by reporters and fans wanting to see her or get her autograph. Daisy is housewifely, and wants to marry Nat Blake, one of the boys from the school who is now studying music. Emil, Professor Bhaer's younger nephew has gone to sea, and Franz, the elder one is working in business in Germany. Josie, the youngest Brooke wants to become an actress and Meg does not like the idea of her daughter taking up such a louche profession. Dan gets into trouble, when prospecting in the west. He sympathises with Indians, but he ends up in a row with a card sharp and hits him and kills him. He goes to prison for manslaughter, and only comes home when he is injured, saving children in a train crash. While he is recovering from his injuries, he falls in love with Bess, Amy's daughter. Jo tells him that Bess is young and pure and innocent. He could never marry her. He never marries, and dies young, killed defending some Indians. Daisy marries Nat Blake and Demi marries a college girl Alice Heath. The novels are directed at young people and are very moralistic. Alcott's family were against drinking, and womanising, and very strict in their views - even disapproving of the Opera -so the books tend to portray most of the characters as rather improbably virtuous. But within the limits of the genre, they have their faults and have to struggle to follow the right way... and the story is lively enough to make them readable

Rough Music, Available on Amazon

This is a long novella, about a country rock band (by Nadine SUtton). Its set in the late 1970s and is about an American band who are on the way up. The 2 lead singers Jeff Randles and Brandon, are both unfaithful husbands, and they try to make compromises between doing good work and making money..They used to be a bar band but are now enjoying some success on TV and at the Opry but they are always trying to make real music and help people. But the price of success and fame is a lot of touring and it means that they seek solace in sleeping around and taking drugs

Beds and Blue Jeans by Nadine Sutton

This is a long story available on Amazon. It's a tale of a young singer who is trying to make it in the music business, in Nashville and how he moves from bed to bed and bar to bar, looking for love. Sam is living with a girl who has had his baby, but he is an attractive young man who appeals to women. He finds his girlfriend boring but tries to keep up their relationship, for the sake of their baby. He loves his work, and in time he and his lady start to build up a stable marriage.

Good Wives II

Amy and her Aunt and cousin Florence set off for Europe and Laurie and his grandfather also leave America. Jo works in New York for several months, teaching her friends' children in a big boarding house. She makes a new friend, Professor Bhaer, a German professor who has 2 orphaned nephews and makes a living teaching German. Jo returns home and finds that Beth is increasingly fragile. She tells her sister that she knows she's not going to recover. Jo after a struggle, tries to accept that Beth will not live very long, and she devoted herself to supporting her. Laurie tries to write music in Europe but realises that he has only a moderate talent, and gives up the idea of being a composer. Amy enjoys her time there but is worried about Beth, but the family tell her to stay until they are all coming home. She and Laurie meet and she scolds him for being idle. Meanwhile Beth dies, peacefully but Jo is miserably unhappy. In Europe, Laurie finally realises that he is over his love for Jo and he asks Amy to marry him. She agrees and they write home with the news. A few months later, the couple return to America. Laurie tells Joe that he has married Amy in Paris. She is pleased for him but she is lonely without Beth. She has her parents and her writing but she wishes for more. Then, just after Amy and Laurie have returned, Professor Bhaer turns up. He is going out west, to teach and decides to visit her. He has always feared that he was too old for Jo and that she loved Laurie. She tells him that Laurie's love was a boyish feeling and she is happy that he has now married his Amy. She and Bhaer get engaged and plan to marry when he is a bit better off. He goes out West and they write to each other for a year. Then Aunt March dies and leaves Plumfield to Jo. She decides that they will open a school for boys who have no mothers. There will be a mix of rich and poor pupils. She and Bhaer marry and have 2 sons, Robert and Teddy. Jo gets her school with about 12 boys. Amy and Laurie have a daughter Bess and Meg and John have 2 daughters and a son.

Good Wives

The second part of Little Women has been published separately as Good Wives. In some editions, both books are together. It follows the March girls into young adulthood, and starts with Meg's wedding to John Brooke. They marry a couple of years after the events of Little Women. John has been away at the war but was wounded and sent home, and he goes into business, working for Mr Lawrence. Laurie is now going to college, but does not like the idea of become an India Merchant like his grandfather. He enjoys socialising, as well, but wishes he could be a musician like his father, and live in Europe. However, he loves his grandfather and tries to please him in hopes that the old man will be tolerant of his wish to devote himself to music. Jo has given up working for Aunt March, and stays home writing stories and looking after Beth who is still frail. Amy has taken up the position as companion to the old lady, and she is taking art lessons. Meg has been preparing for her wedding. She and John have a small house near to the Marches' home and the 2 of them are very happy. Jo is worried that Laurie is getting too fond of her; she loves him as a friend but is not interested in marriage and does not love him as a lover. Mrs March thinks that the 2 of them are not compatible. They both have quick tempers and would quarrel. The wedding takes place and Meg and John settle down to married life. Laurie asks Jo to marry him but she refuses. Old Mr Lawrence suggests that he and Laurie should go away to Europe to take his mind off things. Jo is more depressed when her rich aunt, Mrs Carroll, invites Amy to go to Europe with her cousin, Florence. Jo feels that she should have been asked as she is older. But her family remind her that she is always prickly and rude with her richer relations so it's no wonder that they do not offer her favours. She decides to go away from Boston for a while. She gets a job as governess to a friend of Mrs March's in New York.