New Book - A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert (Pages 1 - 39)

 First Published: 2015

This is a novel based on true facts about the life and relationship between Rose Wilder Lane and her mother Laura Ingalls WIlder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie books.

The book starts with Rose, who is 53, talking to Norma Lee, her lodger. Norma Lee is a journalist and she doesn't understand how Rose's additions to her mother's book was what made them popular, but her name appears nowhere. Rose says that she has her reasons, and then she starts telling her the story of the publication of the books.

The book starts in April 1939 in Danbury, Connecticut, where Rose lived. 

The book then goes back to 1928 when Rose was in Albania where she had been living for months. She lived with her good friend Helen Boylston, who she called Troub. 

Then Laura Ingalls sent her daughter a telegram asking her to come home, and Rose decided to return, having the idea of building her parents a new house on their property, and she would fix their farmhouse for them. And Helen agreed to go with her even though she didn't agree with the way Rose was at her mother's beck and call. 

We discover that Rose married to Gillette Lane in 1909 but divorced him nine years later.