Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings

About this book

Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomerys life and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery her son maids friends relatives all now deceased are only part of the material gathered in a journey to understand Montgomery that took Rubio to Poland and the highlands of Scotland. From Montgomerys apparently idyllic childhood in Prince Edward Island to her passion-filled adolescence and young adulthood to her legal fights as world-famous author to her shattering experiences with motherhood and as wife to a deeply troubled man this fascinating intimate narrative of her life will engage and delight.