The Golden Road: a 1913 novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. As a child Montgomery learned many stories from her great aunt Mary Lawson. She ... these in The Story Girl and The Golden Road.

The Golden Road By Lucy Maud Montgomery The Golden Road is a 1913 novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery.As a child Montgomery learned many stories from her great aunt Mary Lawson. She later used these in The Story Girl and The Golden Road. Montgomery married on July 5 1911 and left Prince Edward Island. She arrived at Leaskdale Ontario in October where her husband served as the minister of St. Pauls Presbyterian Church. She began work on this novel on April 30 1912 and gave birth to her first son on July 7. She finished the novel on May 21 1913 saying I have been too hurried and stinted for time. I have had to write it at high pressure all the time nervously expecting some interruption. The book was published on September 1. It was dedicated to Mary Lawson.The plot is based around the character Beverley who remembers his childhood days with his brother Felix and friends and cousins Felicity Cecily Dan Sara Stanley (the Story Girl) hired-boy Peter and neighbor Sara Ray. The children often played in their familys orchard and had many adventures even creating their own newspaper called Our Magazine. More character development takes place in this novel than in its predecessor and the reader is able to watch the children grow up in particular they are able to watch Sara Stanley leave the Golden Road of childhood forever. They also are able to see the beginnings of a relationship between Peter and Felicity as chemistry between them starts to build it also seems that Beverley and Sara Stanley are drawn to each other but this is left undeveloped. Throughout the story it is hinted that Beverleys cousin Cecily is consumptive in a passage where the Story Girl tells their futures the adult Beverley confirms that Cecily never left the Golden Road. As well Beverley strongly hints that Peter and Felicity will be married. The novel ends after Saras father collects her to give her a proper education and their small group is never complete again.Ive thought of something amusing for the winter I said as we drew into a half-circle around the glorious wood-fire in Uncle Alecs kitchen. It had been a day of wild November wind closing down into a wet eerie twilight. Outside the wind was shrilling at the windows and around the eaves and the rain was playing on the roof. The old willow at the gate was writhing in the storm and the orchard was a place of weird music born of all the tears and fears that haunt the halls of night. But little we cared for the gloom and the loneliness of the outside world we kept them at bay with the light of the fire and the laughter of our young lips.