Blue Castle

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When Valancy begins to feel some heart pains, she finally has the courage to go a doctor on the sly and find out why she is having these difficulties. His answer via letter causes her to have the courage to decide she will no longer be the passive, dull dog she has been in the past. When she finds out a childhood friend is suffering from TB and has nobody to care for her but her rough, often drunk alcoholic father - Roaring Abel, Valancy decides she will take up the post.

Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds, evidently used The Blue Castle as the basis of her novel The Ladies of Missalonghi—subconsciously, as she alleged—to the point of provoking accusations of plagiarism. [2] Plot summary [ edit ] Valency then takes us on an adventure to her beloved Blue Castle, a place in her dreams which she visits when life becomes too unbearable. A place of calm, comfort and beauty which she created, and that is what makes it so special. I think we all have a place like that, whether it be in our minds, or reality. My place of calm is the forest. She is forever made to feel like an outsider, and is called a Doss! Blue castle, as an imaginary place, comes to her rescue, which she finally MANIFESTS! Dr. - a successful businessman and millionaire who sells medicines and cure-alls for various ailments. He is Barney's father. He is described as a "stout, short, pudgy man, with a broad,

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At some point in time, Valancy decides she knows one thing. She loves Barney with all her heart. When Valancy's childhood friend passes, she knows she will have to leave and return home - then she has an idea. She lets Barney Snaith read the letter from the doctor and then asks Barney if he will marry her - he says yes, but makes it clear she must not expect love from him. Within a couple of days, she's married to Barney and they set out for his home in Muskoka. To Valancy's delight, she recognizes Barney's simple home, set in the midst of splendor in the beautiful mountainous area as the real life rendition of her Blue Castle. This is the sort of book that makes me so glad to be a reader. Montgomery is an EXTREMELY talented and beautiful writer. Recently I've been finding myself wanting to read more of her work because it's honestly like a balm. There's a feeling I would get very often as a child when I was discovering the world of literature and everything was fresh and new; it's a feeling that as an adult I rarely get close to reliving, but in this book I did see some glimmers of it. Wood, Chris; Grenard, Philip; MacAndrew, Barbara (15 February 1988). "A Tale of Twin Spinsters". Maclean's. p.59. (subscription required)

After Cissy passes away, Valancy asks Barney to marry her, while confessing that she is about to die soon! Agreeing on the proposal, he takes her to live on his island in the woods, which ofcourse Valancy calls as “The Blue Castle”.Redfern), Dr. Redfern and Barney moved to Montreal where he began to invent his cure-alls and became rich (Chapter Understandably she's grumpy but powerless, until one day she has enough. Her doctor says she has a terminal heart disease and under a year to live, and she finally rebels, becomes independent and falls in love with an outsider in the process.