The Blue Castle

The cozy classic a new generation is rediscovering - from the author of Anne of Green Gables.

At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling has never been loved, never been free, and never once spent a night away from the joyless house where her clan of aunts and uncles rules her life. Her only escape is a castle she has built inside her own mind. Then a single letter changes everything, and Valancy does the one thing no one who knows her could imagine: she begins to live.

First published in 1926, The Blue Castle is L. M. Montgomery's radiant novel for adults - the only book she set entirely away from Prince Edward Island, in the pine-and-water wilderness of Ontario's Muskoka. Witty, tender, and quietly radical, it has become a treasured comfort read passed hand to hand by readers who grew up on Anne and were waiting, without knowing it, for this.

This Annotated Edition includes:

• The complete 1926 novel, all forty-five chapters, freshly typeset

• An original introduction on Montgomery's one great adult novel and its modern revival

• Notes on the Text decoding the real Muskoka places, period references, and fairy-tale allusions

• A Reader's Guide with discussion questions for book clubs and solo readers

• A concise Montgomery timeline

A short life lived fully, Valancy decides, is worth more than a long one spent obeying. Fall in love with the novel Montgomery wrote for herself.