In Avonlea-a small, tight-knit farming town on a remote island-life holds few options for farm girls. Her beloved mother dies in childbirth, and Marilla suddenly must bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables with her brother, Matthew and father, Hugh.
Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak-and unimaginable greatness. A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables.
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