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Title: I Shall Be Near to You

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Erin Lindsay McCabe

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-14

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 71 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband in the Civil War, inspired by a real female soldier's letters home

Rosetta doesn't want her new husband, Jeremiah, to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her fathers side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told her place is inside with the other women. But Rosetta decides her true place is with Jeremiah, no matter what that means, and to be with him she cuts off her hair, hems an old pair of his pants, and signs up as a Union soldier.

Rosetta drills with the men, prepares herself for battle, and faces the tension as her husband comes to grips with having a fighting wife. Fearing discovery of her secret, Rosettas strong will clashes with Jeremiahs as their marriage is tested by war. Inspired by over 250 documented accounts of the women who fought in the Civil War while disguised as men, I Shall Be Near to You is the intimate story, in Rosettas powerful and gorgeous voice, of the drama of marriage, one womans amazing exploits, and the tender love story that can unfold when two partners face lifes challenges side by side.

Critic Reviews:

"McCabe has given us a memorable tale of love in the midst of war, loyalty and faith in the maelstrom of our nation's greatest tragedy." (Howard Bahr, author of The Black Flower and winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction)

"Inspired by the actual letters of a woman who fought in the Civil War...McCabe offers a feminine perspective on a dark time in US history." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Cliche

It was a formulaic torture to read. I read it for book group, & I will never get those hours back.

The realism is intense

The story transported me right into the civil war battles the characters fought in. Amazing detail. I'm waiting for the movie.

pulls you in

Didn't love the narrator right off the bat, but quickly became enthralled in the story line and was able to overcome that. The details in the story are just enough to captivate your immagination and place you in the battlefields: groaning and responding with the characters to the heart reaching destruction . Still wishing it had ended differently, but perhaps I wouldn't have been as impressed emotionally if it had.

Great!

loved it, not the ending I was hoping for but this was very well done.

beautiful love story

pick this up. you don't want to miss this. excellent real story. bravo. will relisten