"Little Women isn't a story for 21st-century adults," I told a friend last week, put off by the heavy sermonising in Louisa May Alcott's 19th century novel, which I had read as a child.
So it was with some trepidation that I caught Greta Gerwig's movie adaptation of this tale of four American sisters who grow up in "genteel poverty" during the Civil War.
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