Marilla of Green Gables

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak and unimaginable greatness. Marilla Cuthbert inherits a farmwife's responsibilities at age 13 with her mother's death. But she connects to the outside world through a whip-smart spinster aunt in the city of St. Catharines.