![]() ![]() ![]() The four Merediths and their abstracted father are pleasant enough, but total strangers who take away time from the established families of previous volumes. I began Rainbow Valley convinced that it was going to be one of the weakest installments in the series. The Blythes may welcome them but it seems they will never be accepted by the rest of the community… The children are left to free-range most of the time and they do their best to bring themselves up, but as the minister’s sons and daughters, they are subjected to ferocious scrutiny – with tomboy Faith especially good at shocking the elders of the church. The Meredith kids all mean well, but their father (a distracted scholar at the best of times) is a heartbroken widower with no time for them while the housekeeper is crotchety, half-blind Aunt Martha. In this spinoff to the regular Anne series, the four older Blythe children befriend the four children of the town’s new minister: Jerry, Faith, Una and Carl. First Line: It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden West between its softly dark shores. ![]()
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