Rainbow Valley, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley, Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Rainbow Valley
Anne of Green Gables Sequel

Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2023

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sandbar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind came piping down the red harbor road along which Miss Cornelia’s comfortable, matronly figure was making its way towards the village of Glen St. Mary. Miss Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. Elliott. The old name was dear to her old friends, only one of them contemptuously dropped it. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her “Mrs. Marshall Elliott,” with the most killing and pointed emphasis, as if to say “You wanted to be Mr. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned.” That’s all part of the follow-up story to Anne of Green Gables. Sure, many remember Anne: she was sent from the Hopetown orphanage on Prince Edward Island at age eleven and grew up there in a heart-warming tale. In this story, she’s grown up, married, and has six children of her own. Let’s listen for more.

About Lucy Maud 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.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn (1927–2024) was a veteran of over sixty years in broadcasting. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest share of audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John was a member of the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. He was well suited to bring fascinating stories to life concerning the people, places, and things that combine to present lively observations of our day-to-day lives.


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

Goodreads review by Tharindu on July 21, 2020

"Mr. Wiley used to mention hell when he was alive. He was always telling folks to go there. I thought it was some place over in New Brunswick where he come from." The Anne of Ingleside brought a change, not subtle, in terms of Anne's part in the story, by shifting the focus to her children. Rainbow V......more