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|title=Anne of Green Gables

|author=L M Montgomery

|publisher=OUP Oxford

|date=August 2014

|summary=Charming, beautifully descriptive and it dances from laugh-out-loud funny to grab-a-tissue sad with ease, this is one of my most favourite books!

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It's very hard to write about a book that I love so much. I find myself wanting to tell you everything, but then we'd be here for hours! Most importantly, I suppose, it is a beautifully written book, funny and moving and incredibly endearing. Somehow, all of the characters are instantly and vividly alive with each turn of the page. I wanted to be Anne (I still do!). I would have loved to have her red hair, and I longed for my very own Gilbert who I could haughtily disdain whilst secretly admiring! I loved that she loved books, like me. I loved her story club, because I wrote stories too. I loved that things didn't always go well for her, because it made her more real, and endeared her more to me. She infiltrated my life in quite a magical way, so that I went on to study English, to write my masters on Montgomery's books, to travel alone around the world to visit the tiny island on which she lived, and I have met so many wonderful 'kindred spirits' from all over the world thanks to Anne of Green Gables and L M Montgomery's other books. I hope lots of young girls see this edition and decide to pick it up and give it a try. Maybe it will be the book that lives in their hearts forever too.

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