A review by serenitylive
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

5.0

This Christmas, I gave this book as a standalone so I read it with that idea in mind. It's the story of Anne of Green Gables, grown-up. She and Gilbert Blythe have six children and a beloved cook and maid, Susan Baker. The family is plunged into WWI along with the rest of Canada, England, and most of the rest of the world. L.M. Montgomery wrote the book shortly after living through WWI so she captured the emotion of the era beautifully—how idyllic things seemed before, how the war changed everything and everyone affected by it, and how they believed (how they had to believe) nothing meaningful could exist without sacrifice. It would be called propaganda now, but it's how they endured.