The year is 1938. With the prospect of another world war looming and faced with overwhelming personal problems, acclaimed Canadian author L.

M. Montgomery begins to compose what she has decided will be her final novel featuring Anne Shirley.

As she works on the novel, Montgomery remembers the now distant days when Anne of Green Gables became a worldwide literary phenomenon, and the dilemma that she faced at that time: whether to write a series of "Anne novels" in which Anne would forever remain the red-haired girl that the world had come to know and love, or whether she would allow Anne to grow to adulthood, with all the agonizing torments of the one who had given her life . .

. L.

M. Montgomery.

ABOUT THE AUTHORJohn Passfield was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and continues to reside in Southern Ontario, near Cayuga, with his family.

He is interested in exploring the development of the novel as an art-form in a search for a form for the poetic novel of our time. He has published almost thirty novels, and his planning notebooks and journals are available for free access on his website, johnpassfield.

ca. His novel John Passfield: Saturday Morning was shortlisted for the ReLit award in 2022.

He has posted more than one hundred readings on YouTube, each of which presents a passage from one of his novels and a comment on an aspect of the craft of novel-writing. .