“Lucy Maud Montgomery—‘call me Maud without an e,’ she would insist, discarding the use of Lucy altogether—grew up proud of her long, deep roots in the history of a Prince Edward Island.”
Reading this illuminating and insightful biography about Lucy Maud Montgomery and the parallels of her life and the characters she wrote about — early, unexpected sadness, the splendors of a delicious imagination and rich inner life, and her pen always at the ready. I’m absolutely loving it and am finding it hard to tear myself away from it. But slower days and a slower schedule mean time for more reading, for which I’m glad.
House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery was written by Liz Rosenberg, illustrated by Julie Morstad and published by Candlewick Press.