The focus of this book is on Anne and Gilbert’s youngest daughter Bertha Marilla Blythe and the World War I, when the three Blythe boys--Jem, Walter, and Shirley--go to fight in the war.

It is ten plus years after the Rainbow Valley. Rilla, at fifteen, is more light-hearted and frivolous than her siblings, lacks ambition, and is not as much a perfectionist as they are. Her brother Walter is her mentor and she looks up to him. Together with her enlisted brothers the boy Rilla likes also goes to war.

During the war, Rilla matures and finds a respectable way of life for herself, by organizing the Junior Red Cross in her village. Gilbert challenges Rilla to raise a war orphan, which also adds to her maturation project. When Walter dies in the war, both Rilla and Anne take it very hardly.

When the war ends, the other boys return, together with Kenneth, the boy Rilla promised to wait.

This is the more serious book of all the Anne of Green Gables series as it deals with World War I, showing what life was like for the families at home.

Like the rest of the series, this book, too, is masterfully written and equally enjoyable.

the author's writing style, her perfect art of story weaving and telling a squeaky clean story without boring the reader.

is Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), a Canadian author. Her books are: Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Avonlea; Anne of the Island; Anne's House of Dreams; Chronicles of Avonlea; Further Chronicles of Avonlea; Kilmeny of the Orchard; Rainbow Valley; Rilla of Ingleside; Short Stories 1896 – 1901; Short Stories 1902 – 1903; Short Stories 1904; Short Stories 1905 – 1906; Short Stories 1907 – 1908; Short Stories 1909 – 1922; The Golden Road; The Story Girl; The Alpine Path- The Story Of My Career

as in the earlier books of the series, the author comes up with new stories, additional characters, and different twists and turns, unlike some writers of series, who, in each book chew the cud on the old storyline.

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