Emily of New Moon is Lucy Maud Montgomery's coming-of-age novel about imagination, grief, ambition, and the making of a young writer. After losing her father, Emily Starr goes to live with relatives at New Moon, where family discipline, friendship, and the pull of creativity shape her inner life. Montgomery gives Emily a fierce sensitivity and a strong desire to write.
The novel is beloved because it treats artistic vocation as both gift and burden. Emily of New Moon offers gothic touches, rural beauty, emotional intensity, and a heroine different from Anne Shirley yet equally vivid. Readers interested in writerly childhoods, family fiction, and Montgomery's deeper, more inward storytelling will find a memorable beginning to the Emily series.
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