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Instead of sharing Self-help book or a children’s book with you today I I thought I would bring you a review for a Historical Novel or you might even call this book a Romance Biography. The new book is called After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life by Logan Steiner I received a physical copy of the book in exchange for this review.
Anne of Green Gables books is one of the books I had planned on having Charlie read this year in our Homeschool Reading Class. To help me get to know the Author better I choose to read. After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life which will help me teach Charlie and prepare the lesson plans we need for school.
After reading the book there is parts of the story I will be sharing with Charlie that may lead to him wanting to read After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life as well. The book is set in the 1900’s and shows how a man and women can not only be family but friends. Along with a husband who is upset with his wife’s success.
Be prepared as After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life has many facets and you will find After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life to be a story about love, feminism, along with dealing with one’s childhood wounds which most of us have at least one childhood wound, maturing, resilience, female friendship, grief, and creativity. What more would you want to find in a novel?
About:
A stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most prized heroines, whose personal demons were at odds with her most enduring legacy—the irrepressible Anne of Green Gables.
“Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
As a young woman, Maud had dreams bigger than the whole of Prince Edward Island. Her exuberant spirit had always drawn frowns from her grandmother and their neighbors, but she knew she was meant to create, to capture and share the way she saw the world. And the young girl in Maud’s mind became more and more persistent: Here is my story, she said. Here is how my name should be spelled—Anne with an “e.”
But the day Maud writes the first lines of Anne of Green Gables, she gets a visit from the handsome new minister in town, and soon faces a decision: forge her own path as a spinster authoress, or live as a rural minister’s wife, an existence she once called “a synonym for respectable slavery.” The choice she makes alters the course of her life.
With a husband whose religious mania threatens their health and happiness at every turn, the secret darkness that Maud herself holds inside threatens to break through the persona she shows to the world, driving an ever-widening wedge between her public face and private self, and putting her on a path towards a heartbreaking end.
Beautiful and moving, After Anne reveals Maud’s hidden personal challenges while celebrating what was timeless about her life and art—the importance of tenacity and the peaceful refuge found in imagination.
Check out the Author: Logan Steiner
Logan is a lawyer by day and a writer by baby bedtime. Her writing explores motherhood and the creative life.
Logan’s debut novel AFTER ANNE will be released on May 30, 2023 by HarperCollins. For fans of Anne of Green Gables and fans of complex, creative women, the novel tells the life story of the author Lucy Maud Montgomery. See Logan’s website for more information:
Logan also writes a weekly Substack newsletter called The Creative Sort:
After graduating from Pomona College and Harvard Law School, Logan clerked for three federal judges, spent six years in Big Law, and served for three years as an Assistant United States Attorney. She now specializes in brief writing at a boutique law firm. Logan lives in Denver with her husband, daughter, and the cranky old man of the house, a Russian Blue cat named Taggart.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
