But living with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, she worries that this dream will never come true. 3 stars, recommended more for Montgomery superfans.Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery-Maud to her friends-has a dream: to go to college and, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott, become a writer. As the book progresses and she gets older and moves to Saskatchewan, I found myself my drawn in by the story and enjoying it more. Maud was also pretty annoying in the younger years. I have read a few novels by Michaela MacColl that are inspired by the early lives of famous authors, but MacColl usually creates her own original story out of the factual base, and I think that's what I was expecting here - but this book just didn't seem very inspired and stayed maybe a little too close to the source material for a work of fiction. The first half of the book honestly just feels like Anne of Green Gables rehashed - Maud goes to school, gets into fights with some of the students, gets into trouble at home, etc. I think I might not have been the target audience - I like the Anne books, but I'm not a superfan, and that colored my opinion of this book, I think. Throughout the novel, we follow her as she grows, through her first love, through moving to rural Saskatchewan with her father and stepmother, and through her return to the island, as she learns more about herself and her ambitions along the way.I won this in the Early Reviewers program.

In this novel inspired by the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, 14-year-old Maud lives with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, goes to school, and dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. Her new home offers her another chance at love, as well as attending school, but tensions increase as Maud discovers her stepmother's plans for her, which threaten Maud's future - and her happiness forever. Then again, Maud isn't sure she wants to settle down with a boy - her dreams of being a writer are much more important.īut life changes for Maud when she goes out West to live with her father and his new wife and daughter. If only he weren't a Baptist her Presbyterian grandparents would never approve. Luckily, she has a teacher to believe in her, and good friends to support her, including Nate, the Baptist minister's stepson and the smartest boy in the class. Her grandfather has strong opinions about a woman's place in the world, and they do not include spending good money on college. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.įourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery - Maud to her friends - has a dream: to go to college and become a writer, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott. For the first time ever, a young adult novel about the teen years of L.M.

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