Kilmeny of the Orchard (by LM Montgomery)

I wanted to read something light and not too long on a recent flight. I scrolled through my Kindle collection, and spotted LM Montgomery’s short novel ‘Kilmeny of the Orchard’. I read it in print form in 2006 but had entirely forgotten it. The book was first published in 1910 and is set in Canada.

The story, unusually for a woman writer of the era, has a man as its main protagonist. Eric is a young, likeable man who has just graduated from university. He comes from a wealthy family, and is p...