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(from the 2018 HarperCollins original edition) Contents Now Marilla must face a reckoning between her dreams of making a difference in the wider world and the small-town reality of life at Green Gables. Instead she is caught up in the dangerous world of politics and abolition–jeopardizing all she cherishes. Her budding romance with John Blythe, the charming son of a neighbor, offers her a possibility of future happiness–but Marilla is in no rush to trade one farm life for another. With her friend Rachel, she joins the local Ladies' Aid Society in helping an orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity in nearby Nova Scotia–a home for abandoned children that secretly serves as a way station for runaway slaves from America. An opinionated spinster, Aunt Izzy is a talented seamstress, which has allowed her to build a thriving business and make her own way in the world.Įmboldened by her aunt, Marilla dares to venture beyond the safety of Green Gables. Marilla's one connection to the wider world is Aunt Elizabeth 'Izzy' Johnson, her mother's sister, who fled Avonlea for the bustling city of St. In Avonlea, life holds few options for farm girls. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down, leaving her to bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life with her brother, Matthew, and father, Hugh. For being beside me on the journey, start to finish, apple seed to fruit' Blurb

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