Rainbow Valley, L. M. Montgomery
Rainbow Valley, L. M. Montgomery
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Rainbow Valley

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Narrator: Kate Handford

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018


Synopsis

After a trip to London, Anne Blythe learns that a new minister, John Meredith, has arrived in Glen St. Mary. Soon, Annes six children become friends with the four Meredith children who, having recently lost their mother, have a reputation for running wild. The children all meet and play in a hollow called Rainbow Valley, where they begin to concoct plans for protecting their orphaned friend Mary and finding a wife for the widowed minister. The seventh of nine books in the Anne Shirley series, Rainbow Valley was published in 1919 and was the fifth book to feature the beloved protagonist from Anne of Green Gables.

About L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was one of the most famous Canadian writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her books for young adults, particularly Anne of Green Gables and its six sequels chronicling the adventures of Anne Shirley, a feisty but sentimental orphan who is adopted by elderly foster parents. In her lifetime, Lucy published 20 novels and some 500 short stories and poems. Her writing, rich in imagination and full of lessons in optimism, brought her international fame and remains popular today.

Lucy was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Soon after her mother died (when Lucy was just two), her father remarried and moved away. He left Lucy to be raised by her maternal grandparents in Cavendish. The isolation of this small town combined with the strict discipline of her grandparents led to an unhappy childhood.

Lucy was an avid reader and writer at an early age. She published her first poem in a local paper at the age of fifteen. She studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, then returned to Cavendish to take care of her grandmother, worked at a local post office, and became a schoolteacher.

While caring for her grandmother, she wrote Anne of Green Gables. Several publishers rejected the book before it was finally accepted, and it became a bestseller. Eventually, it was made into a musical, a television movie, and a television series. Lucy later married a minister and moved to Ontario, where she died in 1942.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on January 21, 2022

I thought things couldn't get worse... Then this book doubled the number of children. So basically, if you want my review of this, take my review of the last book and make it twice as mean. That's all. Bottom line: The love of this series is getting beaten out of me. 1.5 stars ------------ currently-readin......more

Goodreads review by Elinor on November 09, 2023

The front cover is simply maddening! There are four girls, and Anne only has three, so one must be a Meredith. So which one?? The boy in the water is, I'm thinking, Shirley, and the tall one is Walter. The girl sitting is Diana. If the girl in the blue dress holding the flowers is Rilla and the one ho......more