Blue Castle

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medicine of the Stirling clan." Valancy is skeptical about whether they really work (Chapter 5; 25). Gladys (Cousin Gladys, Aunt Gladys) - Valancy's aunt who is a neurotic hypochondriac. Gladys is "really First Cousin

My heart almost skipped a beat, when I went through the following lines ( These are my favorite lines, I have ever read)- At some point in time, Valancy decides she knows one thing. She loves Barney with all her heart. When Valancy's childhood friend passes, she knows she will have to leave and return home - then she has an idea. She lets Barney Snaith read the letter from the doctor and then asks Barney if he will marry her - he says yes, but makes it clear she must not expect love from him. Within a couple of days, she's married to Barney and they set out for his home in Muskoka. To Valancy's delight, she recognizes Barney's simple home, set in the midst of splendor in the beautiful mountainous area as the real life rendition of her Blue Castle.Post coming out of the clutches of her domineering and imperious family, she lands into a job of a caretaker of one of her former schoolmates, Cissy(who is passing away due to consumption). While working, she develops closeness with Barney Snaith! This is the story of 29-year-old spinster, Valancy Stirling, the old-fashioned and archaic word for single woman being used because those were conservative times where a woman who was single after a certain age was considered to be a loser. As the book said, "She was twenty-nine, lonely, undesired, ill-favoured--the only homely girl in a handsome clan, with no past and no future." Our heroine is single, miserable, and part of a large clan where she sees herself as invisible, has a lot of fear, has no friends, and has never really known happiness in her life. In her sad existence, all she has is her blue castle: her imagination. A pivotal experience in her life (no spoilers), however, changes her life forever.

Clayton - a man engaged to Jennie Lloyd, who built a house for her and furnished it in readiness for their marriage (Chapter Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her year in which she finds a blue castle of happiness in the Canadian woods. The Blue Castle is a story of courage, of finding one's inner strength to fight fear, of standing up to family bullying and oppression, of finding life and living it on one's own terms, and finally of healing with the help of nature and love. The story is simple, perhaps too simple, but that didn't in any way impede the strong message of hope that is conveyed. In the present trying times, there are moments that our courage fails us when we lose hope that there could be better times ahead for us. In these moments of despair, Valancy Sterling gives us hope to journey through life amidst many adversaries.that Uncle James had reported seemed very alarming," and he "put up a hand to conceal a smile several times" before Uncle James stalked off (Chapter 13; 73-74). minister who once tried to reform Roaring Abel (Chapter 14). Probably the same Presbyterian minister that L.M. Montgomery calls Rev. Bradly in Chapter 24. The freedom and life that Valancy experiences after the big turning point in her life warmed my heart. And it made me laugh to read how Valancy's relatives thought she had gone mad because of course free-thinking women have clearly lost it.