Product Description

Patricia Gardiner loved Silver Bush more than anything else in the world. She was born and raised in the beautiful old-fashioned house on Prince Edward Island. "where things always seemed the same" and good things never changed. But things do change at Silver Bush -- from her first day at school to the arrival of her new baby sister. from her aunt's joyous wedding to her own first romance. Through it all. Pat shares her experiences with her beloved friends and discovers the one thing that truly never changes: the beauty and peace she will always find at Silver Bush -- the house that remembers her whole life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55732 in Books
• Published on: 1988-07-01
• Released on: 1988-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
Patricia Gardner loves her old-fashioned home of Silver Bush, because she feels secure things there will never change. But Pat's life does change--starting with the arrival of her baby sister, her bout with scarlet fever and her first romance.

From the Inside Flap
Patricia Gardiner loved Silver Bush more than anything else in the world. She was born and raised in the beautiful old-fashioned house on Prince Edward Island, "where things always seemed the same" and good things never changed. But things do change at Silver Bush--from her first day at school to the arrival of her new own first romance. Through it all, Pat shares her experiences with her beloved friends and discovers the one thing that truly never changes: the beauty and peace she will always find at Silver Bush--the house that remembers her whole life.

About the Author
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, in 1874. Educated at Prince Edward College, Charlottetown, and Dalhousie University, she embarked on a career in teaching. From 1898 until 1911 she took care of her maternal grandmother in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, and during this time wrote many poems and stories for Canadian and American magazines.

Montgomery’s first novel, Anne of Green Gables, met with immediate critical and popular acclaim, and its success, both national and international, led to seven sequels. More autobiographical than the books about Anne is the trilogy of novels about another Island orphan, Emily Starr.

In 1911 Montgomery married the Rev. Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian clergyman, and they lived in Ontario, where he was the pastor of parishes in Leaskdale and, later, in Norval. They retired to Toronto in 1936.

Lucy Maud Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942.

Customer Reviews

Pat of Silverbush by L.M. Montgomery
This is a marvellous book by a best-loved author, set in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Although classified as a young adult novel, it will delight anyone who enjoys tales about family life and a love of nature. The sequel, Mistress Pat, is just as delightful.

Excellent
While I have dearly enjoyed Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, this was also an excellent read. The story of Pat is different from LM's other heroines, and the stories therein were a delight to read. Pat is very much a homebody unlike the other heroines, so this book was different but nonetheless wonderful to read.

I had to love it...
Okay, an avid L.M. Montgomery reader I am; I've read all the Anne and Emily books many times over, and most of Montgomery's other works at least once. I hadn't read the Pat books, but on recommendations here, I decided to buy them. I'm not disappointed.

Two major differences between Pat and Anne & Emily: 1) Pat has wonderful parents 2) Pat isn't a writer. I found both very refreshing! Surely, Pat is obsessed with scenery as every one of Montgomery's heroines inevitably are - you have to read about the glory of birches (again), the mists on hills (again), ferns growing in sundry places - mainly "frosted ferns" (again), lots of shadows (again), "golden" things (again), try to picture flowers of many, many names (again), etc, etc, over and over.

Endearing to me is how Montgomery brings to life all the different cats and dogs in her stories, and she does this to perfection, in my view, in this book.

The shining star, to me, is Judy Plum, the Irish maid - really, a wonderful member of the Gardiner family. You have to read her Irish brogue, but I didn't find it difficult at all.

And, besides the orgies over nature, as all Montgomery heroines have, Pat is the same as most other Montgomery heroines in that she is totally resistant to love, even though she meets the right guy for her while very young. I am just beginning to read Mistress Pat, the second book...and I am aggrieved to see it covers 11 years - Pat will be going on 30 before she finally gives in to loving her sweetheart in return!

Ah, well...