Monticello by Sally Cabot Gunning

Rating: WARTY!

"After five years abroad in France, Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha, returns home to find herself troubled" but she mounts a cello, they make beautiful music together, and all is well - that is until she discovers the fact that the cello is just stringing her along...! Barf. We sure do need yet another ancestor-worship story about TJ and his clan don't we? Especially a whitewashing story about a woman who owned slaves, sold slaves, ill-treated slaves and tried to whitewash her father's indiscretions with slaves. This author should be ashamed of her own whitewashing, but somehow, when the author has that sort of a name, I'm really not surprised by her writing.