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Before Green Gables

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A must-read for generations of book lovers. This remarkable, and heart-warming prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L.M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.

Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley's life before her ar...more

Hardcover, 387 pages

Published February 21st 2008 by Putnam Adult (first published February 14th 2008)

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Nov 09, 2011 Lisa rated it 1 of 5 stars

Recommended to Lisa by: I'm a huge Anne fan

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. My actual rating 1/2 star

I love the whole Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. (Lucy Maude) Montgomery. I have read them all so many times I practically have them memorized, so I was very interested in exploring Anne’s earlier life. I was very disappointed.

One thing I love about the original books is the innocence of the writing. Anne of Green Gables was originally published in 1908. Now they are historical fiction, but were written as contemporary fiction.

It is obvious that this book was written...more

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Apr 08, 2008 Gwen the Librarian rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: teenbooks, historical-fiction

As a huge fan of Anne as a girl, the adult in me did not want to spoil any of my memories by picking up this prequel commissioned for the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables. As a librarian, I felt it was my duty to suck it up and read. I was not disappointed.

Before Green Gables seems to stay close to Anne's own description of her life before arriving at Green Gables (but it's been a few years since I last read it, so purists may have gripes I didn't notice). It opens with the romance of h...more

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Jun 24, 2008 Christina rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anne of GG fans with an open mind

Shelves: 2008

Actually, I want to give it 3.5. It's not perfect -- Anne starts speaking like an 11-year old when she's like 3, there isn't anything especially innovative, and there are some mindsets and turns of phrases that felt anachronistic -- but in general I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. It almost ended up on my "Abandoned" shelf, but I wanted to keep reading about Anne's childhood. And the end result was that I got super re-energized to reread the actual Anne series, to the point that I...more

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May 19, 2008 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anne of Green Gables fans

Shelves: chick-lit, what-i-read-in-2008

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I've been a fan of Anne Shirley for longer than I can remember. I think it began with Megan Follows and PBS. It continued with a hardback illustrated copy that my grandmother gave me for Christmas. I read all 8 books of the series finally about a year ago. So when I heard that a prequel was out (granted by another author) I knew I had to get my hands on it.

Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson is that prequel. It tells the story of Anne's life before Marilla, Matthew, and Gilbert Blythe. The story...more

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May 04, 2008 Dave rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anne of Green Gables fans

My wife and I spent our honeymoon on Prince Edward Island and, there, I was introduced to Anne Shirley and Lucy Maud Montgomery, and her Anne books. I enjoyed them very much, so when I heard that a prequel was being published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, I picked it up as soon as it came into my local library.
This book is clearly very well-researched, giving Anne's bacground leading up to the beginning of Lucy Maud Montgomery's original series....more

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Apr 17, 2008 Bobbi rated it 5 of 5 stars

For all of those Anne of Green Gable fan out there, this is a great book. I felt it blended seamlessly with the original series. I'm not sure why it's not considered a children's book, other than I'm sure that it was marketed to reach those of us who are nostalgic and sentimental about Anne. I felt that the author was true to the story and characters. It was a pleasant and fun read.

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Sep 07, 2009 Rachel Brand rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed, lucy-maud-montgomery, 2009, children

Borrowed from the school librarian's special Proof Shelf.

I was sceptical when I started reading this, and unfortunately it took about 100 pages for me to really get into the story. After that, I really started to enjoy it. It was a sweet book that didn't require a lot of effort, and even though Anne had a hard life the book wasn't at all dark. Wilson did have a few moments where I really thought "That sounds just like something Anne would have said!" or moments where his description was getting...more

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Apr 03, 2008 Julianna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Nothing good happens to Anne before Green Gables! Although the book is well written it is extremely depressing. The author describes the loving home and happy parents of Anne who both die! So sad! Then she is taken in by a woman who treats her bad and ends up having 4 or 5 little boys after she takes Anne in. Anne helps her take care of all the boys. The one person, an older daugher Eliza, treats her like a daughter but moves out of the house to get married. Anne is heartbroken! Then you think m...more

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Mar 10, 2008 CmPete Tucker rated it 4 of 5 stars

Some prequels shouldn't be written at all they may be ok run of the mill novels, but they don't live up to the originals. Some require you to suspend what you know about the original books so you don't scream "NO!! Ashley's eyes weren't blue!!" as you read...
Before Green Gables is NOT one of those. This book takes very few liberties with what we already know about Anne-with-an-e, and provides a generous history for the beleoved heroine. I was entranced by the description of Anne's parents and th...more

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Mar 28, 2008 aisha rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, children-s-books

As I have enjoyed the "Anne of Green Gables" series since I was a young girl, I was excited to hear that a prequel was out. However, I am always wary of books about beloved characters NOT written by the original author. So, I was prepared not to get too emotionally attached from the get-go.

I needn't have worried. Budge Wilson does a tremendous job of showing us Anne's early upbringing and marrying it with the "Anne with an e" we come to know and love in the "Green Gables" series. If you love the...more

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Nov 26, 2008 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anne fans

Recommended to Michelle by: Sharon

Shelves: 2008

I was pretty wary of reading this book because I LOVE the Anne books and was scared of this one ruining the story for me. However, Wilson did a great job of capturing the small town Canada lifestyle where children are more than plentiful and education is a prized virtue.

That said, the first 100 pages or so were not interesting to me. Almost completely unrealistic. I felt Anne from birth to 4 years old was a little too smart/advanced and I just didn't believe in her. But thankfully, as she gets...more

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Mar 31, 2008 Alice rated it 3 of 5 stars

I would not recommend this book to anyone except fans of the original work. It is a book that does not live up to its promise. As you read it, you may realize that you loved the book "Anne of Green Gables" as much for L.M. Montgomery's superb writing as for the character of Anne. With a more pedestrian writing style, the magic of the story fades.

Several years ago I started searching out every Montgomery book and short story that I could find, and was captivated by her excellent characterizations...more

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Jun 20, 2008 Katie Farnham rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own

When I saw this book at the store, I was immediately excited, then wary. As a devoted fan of the Lucy Maude Montgomery's treasured series, I wondered if this book could live up to the true Anne books.

I was pleasantly surprised! Authorized by the Montgomery heirs, Budge Wilson did a good job of capturing Anne's spirit through her turbulent upbringing. I wondered as I began reading how a story we already know as sad could be an uplifting book but the author reminds us that Anne has always been goo...more

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Aug 26, 2008 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Bethany

This book was a delightful rendering of Anne's childhood before Green Gables. I was surprised to read book reviews that thought that this book was depressing because of all the misfortunes that befell Anne in her childhood. Weren't misfortunes Anne's lot before she arrived at Green Gables? Yet inspite of her misfortunes, it is Anne's ability to use her imagination to get her through the "depths of despair" and to find joy and goodness in the people and world that surrounds her which makes her st...more

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Nov 25, 2008 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, young-adult

Though Anne Shirley had often alluded to the difficult years before her arrival at Green Gables, readers were left to fill in the blanks themselves. Now, thanks to careful research, author Budge Wilson has written a prequel of Anne's earliest days.

As young Anne often dreamed about and romanticized the schoolteacher parents who died during her infancy, Wilson begins with the story of their newlywed love. Some readers may find this section "unnecessary," as it takes place before Anne's birth; but...more Though Anne Shirley had often alluded to the difficult years before her arrival at Green Gables, readers were left to fill in the blanks themselves. Now, thanks to careful research, author Budge Wilson has written a prequel of Anne's earliest days.

As young Anne often dreamed about and romanticized the schoolteacher parents who died during her infancy, Wilson begins with the story of their newlywed love. Some readers may find this section "unnecessary," as it takes place before Anne's birth; but it does have a great deal to do with the type of world into which the little girl was welcomed. Had her parents lived, it seems Anne's upbringing would have been one of solid love and education, making it all the more intriguing that she seems to have innately embraced all her parents' values without ever really having been exposed to them consciously.

From babyhood to age nine, Anne lived with the Thomas clan. Despite the longevity of this arrangement, she never presumed to think of them as "her" family, nor their home as her own. The little girl had no delusions about her purpose, which was simply housekeeper and nanny for four wild boys not much younger than her own self. Worst of all, Mr. Thomas was an alcoholic, unpredictable and undependable.

During this time, Anne kept her own spirits alive by dreaming up an imaginary friend, Katie Maurice, to whom she often confided the miseries of her daily existence. She also gained encouragement from her teacher and a mysterious local hermit, who were simultaneously helped by *Anne* in ways they never could have fathomed.

When tragedy strikes, Anne is sent to live with the Hammonds. Only in her early twenties, Mrs. Hammond is already the mother of eight children -- including three sets of twins, born one year after another. It is soon clear that Anne's purpose in her new home is to save the Hammond family from disaster -- only is that even possible?

While readers can and will certainly find nitpicks and flaws that the novel "isn't L.M. Montgomery," it is certainly a literary masterpiece of its own. (less)

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When award-winning author Budge Wilson accepted the formidable challenge to write a prequel to Anne of Green Gables (a prequel fully authorized by the heirs of L.M. Montgomery), she did so hoping to “solve the puzzle” of how Anne Shirley, with her difficult background, “managed to become who she was when she first stepped off the train in Prince Edward Island.” The warp and weft of Anne’s back story are drawn from the original (the death of her schoolteacher parents, her years of toil in foster...more When award-winning author Budge Wilson accepted the formidable challenge to write a prequel to Anne of Green Gables (a prequel fully authorized by the heirs of L.M. Montgomery), she did so hoping to “solve the puzzle” of how Anne Shirley, with her difficult background, “managed to become who she was when she first stepped off the train in Prince Edward Island.” The warp and weft of Anne’s back story are drawn from the original (the death of her schoolteacher parents, her years of toil in foster homes, her imaginary friends Katie Maurice and Violetta, her arrival at the dreaded orphanage). With these threads as framework, Wilson weaves her own story. She manages to capture not only the plot lines, but the character of Anne, her imagination, her optimism, her heights of joy and depths of despair. She brings in aspects of the Anne that millions of readers know and love: her delight in words, her delight in nature, her naming of the birches and pond. Despite Wilson’s best efforts, this telling will not have the appeal of the original. It will not disappoint the legion of Anne fans, but it misses the magic of Anne coming into her own, as she does at Green Gables. Anne’s early life was full of loss, of caring for too many children, of repetitive drudgery. The adults in her life, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and the weary Mr. and Mrs. Hammond (with her three sets of twins) are a far cry from Marilla and Matthew. Yet Wilson does introduce bright threads into Anne’s story — Mrs. Thomas’s daughter, Eliza, who reads toddler Anne romances from the Royal Readers; the Egg Man who encourages her imagination and provides her with precious words to express herself; teachers like Miss Henderson who feed her hunger for knowledge; even a teacher with photos of PEI that make her dream of visiting the Island. These do much to solve the puzzle. Penguin was wise in entrusting this prequel to Budge Wilson. A ‘kindred spirit,’ Wilson brings her customary warmth, insight into friendship and her own love of words to the story. She also brings a deep love of Nova Scotia (where Anne spends her childhood) and an intimate knowledge of its communities. When I went to my disorganized bookshelves to find my old copy of Anne of Green Gables to reread before reading the prequel, it seemed only appropriate to find Budge Wilson’s superb collection of short stories, The Leaving, standing right beside it!

Reviewed by Brenda Halliday in Canadian Children's Book News
Spring 2008 VOL.31 NO.2(less)

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Jan 16, 2013 Tarissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

As soon as I heard about this book, I was immediately intrigued of the idea that a prequel had actually been written to the Anne of Green Gables series. And I was not let down.

In reading this book, you'll discover what one writer's thoughts of who Anne Shirley was before she arrived at Green Gables. I think Budge Wilson did a Superb job in writing a sound & wholesome story. She included many details that linked to the Anne of Green Gables books. Alert readers will catch on, and have apprecia...more

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Jessica I'm glad you liked this book. I started reading it several years ago when it first came out and could never get past those first few chapters about An...more
Jan 17, 2013 08:10am

Tarissa I originally wrote this review years ago when the book had just been published. A friend and I read it together actually, and it seemed wonderful in t...more
Jan 17, 2013 09:18am

Jessica Very true. A few books I've read lately had some of the most beautiful book covers I've seen in a long while, but I hated the stories that were writte...more
Jan 17, 2013 09:54am

Oct 30, 2012 Amee rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audiobooks-2012

I liked this book, but more as a story by itself having no relation to Anne of Green Gables. Thinking of it in terms as being an extension to the LM Montgomery series made me frustrated so I tried not to compare too much.

It didn't feel like the author really knew Anne. It was more like Wilson read it once and worked from memory. There were things that just weren't true to Anne. It was also ridiculous in trying to establish and explain Anne's personality from Montgomery's books. It was incredibl...more

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Aug 31, 2012 gina rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Eh... the book did get better towards the end. But there were a fair amount of problems with the book. First, I listened to the audiobook and the reader was good except for "baby Anne's" voice which she made sound like a female version of a chucky doll. It was creepy and incredibly fake. It made me dislike her and whoever allowed her to continue reading it. Seriously? It was so bad there aren't even words for it. But as she got older the fake puffed cheek serial killer high pitched female voice...more

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Mar 19, 2012 Vince rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As another reviewer said, "none of the mis-adventures of the original books" and this seems a pithy summary of the differences between Wilson's extension of the Anne saga and L.M. Montgomery's style. Before Green Gables is a long, sad narrative of how the orphaned Anne is passed from one miserable situation to another before being rescued.

I listened to the Audio CD version with my daughters (7 and 5) on a trip to pass the time. My opinion of it wavers between 2 and 3 stars.

On the one hand, ther...more

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Sep 10, 2011 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: novel, youth

One of the flurry of L. M. Montgomery related books that came out last year for the 100th anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, Wilson's story attempts to fill in the details of Anne Shirley's life before Matthew Cuthbert picked her up from the Bright River train station.

Obviously, this was not the prequel but Montgomery would have written, but this isn't the same world as Montgomery's and Wilson does a great job of telling Anne's early story for today's audience. She doesn't g...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Alyssa rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's not perfect. I don't think there is any way a modern author could accomplish the doubly impossible trick of going back in time and jumping into another author's head. I honestly can't imagine the book being any better, even while I note its flaws.

One of the difficulties of imagining Anne as she must have been before she arrived in Avonlea, is that Anne was extraordinary at age 11. What forces caused her to become that 11 year old child? Who influenced her, what events shaped her? In trying...more It's not perfect. I don't think there is any way a modern author could accomplish the doubly impossible trick of going back in time and jumping into another author's head. I honestly can't imagine the book being any better, even while I note its flaws.

One of the difficulties of imagining Anne as she must have been before she arrived in Avonlea, is that Anne was extraordinary at age 11. What forces caused her to become that 11 year old child? Who influenced her, what events shaped her? In trying to answer these questions, the book creates a little girl who isn't always credible. The very young Anne is a bit too extraordinary to believe. Yet, at the same time, reading this book does indeed feel like reading a book about Anne, so on some level the author succeeds in showing us what Anne might have been like at a younger age.

The first part of the book, which is devoted to loving description of Anne's parents, nearly bored me to tears. I think I took half a star off just for those chapters. Anne's parents were dull, dull, dull. It's incredible they managed to produce Anne at all.

Reading about Anne's life was at times heartbreaking. So many tragedies in so little time. The author did a brilliant job of getting emotion across. It was easy to feel Anne's sorrow, loneliness, betrayal, hopelessness, and, at times, joy and hope.

Overall, and in spite of other reviews I have read, I must conclude that the book was satisfying. It was never going to be perfect, so we might as well just abandon that expectation from the get-go. However, it's a moving account of what Anne's life might have been like prior to the events we all know from Montgomery's books. That account was very much desired by fans, and as far as I'm concerned this book delivered adequately. More importantly, it added to the books, rather than possibly ruin them or take away from them, as some feared might happen.

Final verdict: Fans of Anne should definitely give this one a chance, but understand that it is what it is, and is not perfect.(less)

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May 01, 2011 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

For Christmas, I asked for the complete Anne of Green Gables movie trilogy and eagerly rewatched the first movie. After the holidays, when browsing the discounted books at the local bookstore, I came across this book. When I went to the library a few weeks ago, I discovered that the book was in stock, so I checked it out. My ultimate plan was to read this prequel and then continue on with the 7-book set that has sat on my bookshelf unopened for years.

Before Green Gables chronicles the life of An...more For Christmas, I asked for the complete Anne of Green Gables movie trilogy and eagerly rewatched the first movie. After the holidays, when browsing the discounted books at the local bookstore, I came across this book. When I went to the library a few weeks ago, I discovered that the book was in stock, so I checked it out. My ultimate plan was to read this prequel and then continue on with the 7-book set that has sat on my bookshelf unopened for years.

Before Green Gables chronicles the life of Anne Shirley before she comes to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert in Green Gables. I had read Anne of Green Gables once in 8th grade, but I don't remember how the movies compare to that and the other books. So, I based my understanding of Anne's life prior to reading this book to the movie I had just recently rewatched. It was clear that Anne had had a rough childhood, and this book definitely highlighted this. In fact, it was actually quite depressing reading about her parents' deaths at 3 months, her moving from home to home with adult-like roles and responsibilities, and her unwavering desire to go to school. You can't help but feel badly for her. It will truly be fun to continue on with the series and see how she has evolved from this childhood.

In the Acknowledgments section at the end of the novel, Wilson describes how fans of Montgomery's series helped pinpoint parts in the novels that gave inklings to Anne's life before Green Gables that ultimately inspired this book. I look forward to discovering these references and comparing them to Wilson's prequel.

Since I haven't read the series yet, I am unsure of how faithful Wilson is to Montgomery's voice in her novels. I will be especially interested in seeing how true to that detail Wilson was.

The one disappointment I have in the book is that the characterization of Anne in the movies is not developed in this book. Again, since I haven't read the series yet, I am unsure if Megan Follows's portrayal is a deviation from Montgomery's character, or if this aspect of Anne's life was not fully developed by Wilson. Anne in Before Green Gables did have her love for school, reading, and large words, and she also enjoyed imagining and talking up a storm when she was passionate about a topic. However, she did not find herself in any situations where she said something unfortunately (and oftentimes comedically) offensive like she does in the movies. That trait seemed to be apparent immediately upon arriving in Green Gables in the movie, leading one to assume that this was a trait cultivated over the span of several years. If I assume that this trait continues into the books, why wasn't that developed more in this prequel? This characterization will be an interesting one to look for as I continue onward with the series.

All in all, my gut reaction is to believe that fans of the books will not be disappointed by this prequel.(less)

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Aug 16, 2010 Teghan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: canadiana, young-adult, lmm

The official prequel to the novels...and not a bad one either. It went along pretty on-point in regards to what we already knew about Anne's life pre-Green Gables and Budge Wilson created the rest of it within a believable reality.

The books include a cast of characters that a very LMM-esque in nature and it shows that Wilson worked hard to ensure that mood.

However, I nearly stopped reading the book several times at the beginning. The book starts with Anne's parents, Walter and Bertha newly mar...more

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Aug 06, 2010 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical, fiction, relationships, young, adult, canada, anne, of, green, gables

In Before Green Gables we hear, for the first time, what Anne Shirley's life may have been like before arriving as an eleven year old orphan on the Cuthbert farm. Suffering the devestating loss of both her parents at the tender age of three months, Anne is shuffled from one foster home to the next, ill-used and barely allowed to escape, even to attend school, compulsory in her native Novia Scotia. Finally, even the foster homes are no longer and she finds herself in what seems to her to be a mos...more

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Jul 03, 2009 Fashiongirlgoldberg rated it 3 of 5 stars

OK, this book wasn't bad, but, it was really depressing. She of course started the book out with the perfect couple who were really in love, then the wife becomes pregnant has this kinda weird baby with a ton of red hair but who they nonetheless think is the greatest thing. Then the wife's close friend and her family catch some sort of awful disease which of course the mother picks up. Then she dies. Then the father dies. So this lady who they hired to look after the wife after she has the baby...more

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May 04, 2009 Caroline rated it 4 of 5 stars

Pretty good. I have to leave off a star because anything like this can only be speculation. LMM didn't write it. But, it seems to fit with the clues in the original books. I'm planning on rereading them to double check my most dubious feelings from this book. Like, I don't buy the part where Anne was already in love with PEI. I'm pretty certain that happened after she got there. And I'm not sure the timing at each of those families was correct, but the story flowed well, so I wouldn't be surpris...more

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Apr 30, 2010 Lydia Presley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, fiction, young-adult

I grew up with Anne of Green Gables. As a pre-teen I yearned for my own bosom friend like Diana, I wanted to taste raspberry cordial (although not get sick), I wanted to walk through a forest and quote poetry. I even wanted red hair, although Anne with an E would say that hers was the bane of her existence. More than once I would find myself in the depths of despair and I can remember thinking at those times that yes, my life was a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

So to say that I was cautious...more

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Nov 03, 2012 Tamara rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Jun 16, 2013 Brittany rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: misc

This book, which is the only authorized prequel to the "Anne of Green Gables" story, is absolutely outstanding. The book begins with Anne's parents and includes a backstory taken from details given in the original AoGG, leading right up to the moment she arrives in Bright River. I personally believe it is designed for an older Anne fan as it deals with the direct impact on Anne of some of her experiences that she relates to Marilla in AoGG, and this contains adult issues such as drinking, domest...more

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