Description:
With its relatable characters, and its beautifully written prose, The Blue Castle is a captivating read about an endearing heroine breaking free of the constraints of society, the expectations of a judgmental family, and her own past.
Brief description: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) published her first book, Anne of Green Gables in 1908. An immediate success, it established Montgomery's career, and she wrote and published material, including numerous sequels to Anne, for the rest of her life. By the time of death in 1942 she had published twenty novels, hundreds of short stories and poems, and thirty essays.
Review Quotes:
"Unmistakably from first page to last an L. M. Montgomery novel, compact of sentiment, rosily trimmed with romance, peopled with being drawn solely out of the imagination, but telling a well-made story with humor and pathos."
-The New York Times Book Review