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The Blue Castle
This is the story of Valancy Stirling, who has lived for nine-and-twenty years under the gray roof of other people’s opinions. In the little, respectable world that has been built around her, Valancy is expected to be dutiful, silent, convenient, and grateful for very little. She has never been loved as she longed to be loved, nor allowed to dream aloud without being laughed back into obedience. Then comes a doctor’s sentence, sudden and terrible, and with it a strange gift: the knowledge that life, if it is to be lived at all, must be lived truthfully. So Valancy begins to say what she thinks, to desire what she desires, and to look beyond the dim rooms of her old life toward the blue castle of her imagination. In doing so, she discovers woods, freedom, laughter, courage, and a love that asks her not to become smaller, but more herself. The Blue Castle is a tender rebellion against fear, family tyranny, and the quiet wasting of the heart. It is a book about awakening late, but not too late; about finding beauty after years of dullness; and about the brave, dangerous happiness of belonging at last to one’s own soul.
- Language
- EN
- Genres
- fiction, novel, women's fiction
- Published
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