ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by Lucy Maud Montgomery // Anne is a little girl with the strength and heart of a lion, and an imagination and daring that adds shades of technicolour to Green Gables. I remember wanting to be ‘Anne with an e’ when I was little, she was loud whilst I was quiet and stubborn whilst I gave in. Her talkative vivacity and imagination felt brave to my eight-year-old brain. And I think now, that’s maybe what Lucy Montgomery intended, to teach little girls that they can be bold and loud when everyone else told them to be good and quiet.