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June 2023
On Sale: May 30, 2023
Featuring: Maud
384 pages
ISBN: 0063246457
EAN: 9780063246454
Kindle: B0BCG8YMX2
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Non-Fiction Biography | Historical
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.
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