Plucky and ambitious, in the new novel Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. It follows the young life of Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak - and unimaginable greatness. Marilla of Green Gables is a marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century. This new novel is a beautifully wrought imagining of how Marilla got to be who she was, with a deliciously feminist spin.

Montgomery and longs for more stories from Prince Edward Island, Marilla of Green Gables, a new novel by New York Times Bestselling author Sarah McCoy (William Morrow, October 23, 2018) will be an incredibly rewarding rewarding return to the beloved stories.Īnyone who has devoured the original series knows Marilla as the stern yet loving spinster (as unmarried women were then termed), who, along with her bachelor brother Matthew who adopt the plucky and imaginative orphan Anne, even though they had requested a boy to help around the farm. In the publisher’s words: “ For anyone who loves the original Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Marilla of Green Gables, a novel by Sarah McCoy (2018), is a historical journey that imagines the life of Marilla Cuthbertlong before she and her brother Matthew adopt Anne Shirley, better known to readers as Anne of Green Gables.

Sarah mccoy marilla