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Emily, a young woman from Prince Edward Island, dreams of becoming a successful writer. However, when her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, leaves home to pursue his dream of becoming an artist, Emily's life falls apart. She agrees to marry a man she doesn't love, but in her heart, she must search for what being a writer really means. This, the final book in the EMILY trilogy, is the story of the heroine's dream of being a writer, the tragic accident that nearly robs her of that dream, and the pride that almost ruins her romance with her childhood sweetheart.
First publish date: July 1, 1983
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Lucy Maud Montgomery
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