Sunday, June 8, 2025

Anne of Windy Poplars by LM Montgomery

Series: Anne of Green Gables #4
Genre: Classic
Released: 1936
335 pages
About the Book:

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College and Green Gables behind to begin a new chapter of her life in the "dreaming town" of Summerside. She's soon facing an unexpected challenge, however, in the form of the Pringles--also known as the royal family of Summerside. They quickly let Anne know that she's not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into her cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she also has great allies in two elderly widows, Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, and their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. Slowly, she begins to unravel Summerside's strangest secrets--revealing everything in letters to Gilbert, who's away at medical school. And in the end, Anne's able to win the support of even the prickly Pringles, in what is only the first of many delicious triumphs.





  
My Rating & Thoughts:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is told with a mix of epistolary letters and third person narrative. Anne is now the principle at a school in Summerside while Gilbert is at medical school. Most of the book is Anne writing Gilbert and telling him of the happenings in her life. It took me a while to get into but once I got to know some of the new characters I became more invested and found myself enjoying Anne's recounting of events. There were definitely some characters that stood out more than others. I wish we had been able to read some of Gilbert's letters to Anne during this time.

(I was gifted my copy of this book; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)
 

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