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After the happily ever after for Anne and Gilbert. Gilbert finally has his dream come true in the beautiful red-headed wife with stars in her eyes as he brings her across the threshold of the lovely little house on the shore with its tradition of happy brides.Green Gables is no longer home, but Anne discovers a full life can be had in her little House of Dreams in Four Winds Harbor. Her nearest neighbors are the lighthouse keeper, Captain Jim Boyd, with his fine manners and captivating yarns, the man and methodist-despising Cornelia Bryan, and a gorgeous embittered Leslie Moore with a past as sad as they come, but all 'of the tribe who knows Joseph' as Miss Bryant would say for Anne's kindred spirits.I chuckled, I sighed, I cried and delighted in this place by the sea. It has been years since I first read it and had forgotten all the life lived in Anne and Gilbert's newlywed home. Did I hope that Anne would take up her pen to write Captain Jim's life story for him? Sure. And, I earnestly yearned for poor Leslie's hopes when handsome Owen Ford came to the shore for the summer. Not an Anne-ish scrape in the whole and somewhat muted when it comes to her personality, but still a solid and lovely story as told by the talented Susan O'Malley who narrated the story and cast of characters well.
