The seventh novel in the «Anne of Green Gables» saga, «Rainbow Valley» finds Anne married with six children. The focus of «Rainbow Valley» is less upon Anne and more upon her neighbor, Presbyterian minister John Meredith and the interaction between his and Anne's children. This novel follows Anne at age forty-one and continues the tale of Lucy M. Montgomery's most popular and well-loved character.
I really think the only reason not to find Rainbow Valley one of L. M. Montgomerys better novels in the Anne series is because it obviously has the least to do with Anne or her children. Once Anne finally married Gilbert in Annes House of Dreams (1917), Montgomery seemed to be at a loss as what to do with her delightful red-headed orphan now that she was a mother. So when this book was written in 1919 she focused on the four Meredith children who beloned to new Presbyterian minister, John...
