Mistress Pat Published by Seal Books Also in this series: Pat of Silver Bush
by L.M. Montgomery
Series: Pat #2
on 1935
Genres: Fiction, Classics, YA, Historical, Children's
Pages: 288
Source: Purchased
Format: Paperback
Reading Challenges: Beat the Backlist 2020, Summer 2020 Reading Assignment
Also by this author: Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon , Emily Climbs , The Golden Road , Emily's Quest, The Blue Castle, Pat of Silver Bush , A Tangled Web, Magic for Marigold, Jane of Lantern Hill, Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939
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ISBN: 0770422462
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When she was twenty, nearly everyone thought Patricia Gardiner ought to be having beaus--except of course, Pat herself. For Pat, Silver Bush was both home and heaven. All she could ever ask of life was bound in the magic of the lovely old house on Prince Edward Island, "where good things never change." And now there was more than ever to do, what with planning for the Christmas family reunion, entertaining a countess, playing matchmaker, and preparing for the arrival of the new hired man. Yet as those she loved so dearly started to move away, Pat began to question the wisdom of her choice of Silver Bush over romance. Was it possible to be lonely at Silver Bush?
This is another book that encompasses more than one reading challenge/feature–which always makes me happy! I also chose this one for my last June read of the Summer 2020 Reading Challenge.
Another reread for me, but this one has been so long that I couldn’t remember much.
I’m going to be totally honest–as much as I ADORE L.M. Montgomery, I had a difficult time with most of this one. I feel like it didn’t pick up until half way through and I had a hard time making myself read it. I don’t know why, because I love the writing. I think it may be that, as a character, Pat is just a little boring for me.
I found myself far more interested in the doings of Judy and Cuddles.
And, Pat without Jingle—well, that may have been my biggest issue. Jingle didn’t make an appearance until the end of the book–save for a very few correspondences.
All that to say–the ending killed me. I was a MESS! I won’t get into why–because that would ruin it–but, I feel like Montgomery drug us along through a quite uneventful 4/5 of the novel and then decided to put us through the wringer at the end.
So, in my opinion, it was well worth it to see how everything got tied up. It was a tearjerker. It was heartbreaking and bittersweet. It was the perfect ending.
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About L.M. Montgomery
The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926.
Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
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