The Blue Castle

Written by:
L.M. Montgomery
Narrated by:
Melissa Green

Unabridged Audiobook

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Release Date
April 2023
Duration
7 hours 58 minutes
Summary
At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling is an “old maid” trapped within the tedium and troubles of family life. She escapes by building the imaginary world of the Blue Castle.

When she is diagnosed with a serious heart ailment, Valancy realizes she has never been happy. She doesn’t want to waste what time she has left. She seizes the moment. This catalyst for change leads her on towards relationships and entanglements far beyond what she could have predicted, including with a mysterious man known as Barney Snaith.

This is one of the few works by Lucy Maud Montgomery written for adults.
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Peggy L.

I love this book. Don't expect it to be like Anne of Green Gables, exactly--the main character is also a outlier but with more bitterness and rebellion, I would say. Not that she's not a sympathetic character and her rebellion is both well-deserved and hilarious at times. This is really a love story of a pheonix rising from the ashes of a deadening family and finding her "Blue Castle". The narration was okay but I found the narrator's voice to be rather strident in the beginning. As the story progressed, her voice mellowed and I had an easier time listening to it.

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