Book Review | Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea – buy a copy today

Rating

5 stars – the feisty red-head returns

Description

Five years after coming to Green Gables, Anne is ‘half past sixteen’ and about to start teaching at her old school, set on inspiring youthful minds and hearts with ideals and ambitions. But some of her pupils only respond to very different methods. Meanwhile the young orphan Davy and the Avonlea Improvement Society bring their own headaches for a harum-scarum, outspoken girl trying to grow up.

The Book Review

Just as it was with Anne of Green Gables revisiting the sequel was like visiting an old friend and reminiscing about old times.

Readers of the first novel may recall that as it ended Anne had come to a ‘bend in the road’ and was not sure what life held in store for her. In this second novel Anne finds herself teaching at her old school – with hopes that she will inspire at least one of her pupils to go onto great things. Her old friends are back, from the darling Diana to the steadfast Gilbert Blythe – but we are introduced to so many new friendly faces and kindred spirits. Anne doesn’t get herself into quite as many scrapes as she did in her youth – but the arrival of little Davy more than makes up for that!

Once again Montgomery has delivered a delightful novel that has stood the test of time – charting two further years in Anne’s life – and bringing us to the perfect place – another bend in the road which we can choose to travel alongside Anne, in the third book: Anne of the Island.

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