Her world widens even further when she unexpectedly gets her chance to leave home altogether and have some real, meaningful adventures. Instead she blossoms into a free-spirited Deadpan Snarker who doesn't hesitate to tell off her family to their faces (as she hasn't told them why-the better to avoid their even more smothering pity-they conclude she's lost her mind) and realises for the first time that she's actually quite pretty. When she finds out later on the same day she has a terminal form of heart disease and only a year left at best, she finally snaps at the prospect of dying before she has even had a chance to live. Valancy's only escape is through her daydreams as the chatelaine of a beautiful blue castle in Spain, complete with handsome Prince Charming. Montgomery, is the story of Valancy Stirling, an apparently dull, mousy, insignificant little Old Maid trapped in small-town Northern Ontario, Canada.Īs the book opens, Valancy wakes up on her 29th birthday morning consumed with bitterness over what has actually been a wasted, downtrodden life, dominated by her overbearing mother and multitude of equally stiff-necked, relentlessly conventional relatives.
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