{"product_id":"marilla-before-anne","title":"Marilla Before Anne","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heart-rending work of historical fiction telling the story of Marilla Cuthbert, long before Anne came to Green Gables farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilla Cuthbert was fifty-two years old when the plucky red-headed Anne Shirley came to live with her and her brother, Matthew, at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island. A seemingly cold and dour spinster, her heart eventually softens to the loveable orphan girl. But for over a century readers have wondered, who was Marilla before Anne?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Louise Michalos's remarkable debut novel, readers are introduced to a spirited eighteen-year-old Marilla Cuthbert―a girl not unlike Anne herself―who is desperately in love, and whose whole life is spread before her. But when a moment of defiance brings life-changing consequences, a new Marilla begins to take shape, one who would learn to bear tragedy like a birthright, and loss as an inevitability, and who would hold steadfast to the secrets that could shatter the lives of everyone around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving its way from Marilla's early life in Avonlea to her coming-of-age in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and back, Marilla Before Anne is the story readers of Anne of Green Gables have longed for. Told with a refreshingly original East Coast voice, this exquisite, heartbreaking work of historical fiction takes readers on a journey back in time, to the Green Gables where Marilla Cuthbert lived, loved, and learned, long before Anne.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nimbus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608061702446,"sku":"9781771089289","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9781771089289.jpg?v=1788896898","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/marilla-before-anne","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}