![]() ![]() Wandering down through an abandoned orchard one night, he is suddenly arrested by the sound of beautiful music being played on the violin. ![]() Eric Gordon is a fresh university graduate intent on joining his father in the family business - but not before he spends a few weeks on Prince Edward Island, substitute teaching in place of a friend who is taken ill. It is a sweet love story, unusual in the Montgomery canon in that its protagonist is a man rather than a girl or a woman - actually, of the twenty, it is the only one set up this way (although I believe a few of her short stories take a male point of view). Now I have just finished LMM number twenty, Kilmeny of the Orchard. Over the summer of 2017 I read as many of Montgomery’s books as I could easily get my hands on - which ended up being nineteen of them - as well as a biography. ![]() What a delight it was to me to realise that when you move to an author’s home country, you can find more of their books - and so here begins a mini-resumption of my Lucy Maud Montgomery reading project (the first six posts of which are linked here). ![]()
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