The Blue Castle: The Annotated Edition - L. M. Montgomery's Beloved Adult Novel, with Introduction, Notes & Reader's Guide

The cozy classic a new generation is rediscovering - from the author of Anne of Green Gables.

At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling has never been loved, never been free, and never once spent a night away from the joyless house where her clan of aunts and uncles rules her life. Her only escape is a castle she has built inside her own mind. Then a single letter changes everything, and Valancy does the one thing no one who knows her could imagine: she begins to live.

First published in 1926, The Blue Castle is L. M. Montgomery's radiant novel for adults - the only book she set entirely away from Prince Edward Island, in the pine-and-water wilderness of Ontario's Muskoka. Witty, tender, and quietly radical, it has become a treasured comfort read passed hand to hand by readers who grew up on Anne and were waiting, without knowing it, for this.

This Annotated Edition includes:

- The complete 1926 novel, all forty-five chapters, freshly typeset

- An original introduction on Montgomery's one great adult novel and its modern revival

- Notes on the Text decoding the real Muskoka places, period references, and fairy-tale allusions

- A Reader's Guide with discussion questions for book clubs and solo readers

- A concise Montgomery timeline

A short life lived fully, Valancy decides, is worth more than a long one spent obeying. Fall in love with the novel Montgomery wrote for herself.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Carrier Press
Published: 07/20/2026
ISBN: 9798950343940
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d