Best Book EVER on L.M. Montgomery!
This book fits together all the pieces of the puzzle of the Anne of Green Gables author, L.M. Montgomery. I have read biographies, letters, and diaries of Montgomery and agree with author Rubio that she presented her own personal "truth" in the documents she left behind. Montgomery spent a lifetime editing her personal diaries, but what she burned in her backyard probably came closer to the truth, and this is what Rubio is able to present in this fabulous biography. After reading this, I feel I know Lucy Maud so well - her frustration and shame regarding her elder son and her husband, her inability to control everyone around her ("what will people say!"), the heavy influence of her MacNeill grandparents on her story-telling, her deep loneliness after Frede's death, and her addiction to the debilitating drugs of the time. What a fascinating, intelligent, vulnerable woman. What a fascinating biography.