The Blue Castle

A Romantic Novel

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: John Rayburn

If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington’s engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.

Valancy wakened early, in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn. She had not slept very well. One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.

Deerwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood. But Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man.

Public Domain (P)2024 John D. Rayburn

Narrator was terrible

I started listening because I have read this story and looked forward to hearing it. I stopped because of the narration

Horribly painful narrator - skip this version

I can't give a fair fair review of the story because the narration was so horrific. it is a complete disservice to the story. I'll be returning this one. I had to hang on to it long enough to listen to enough of it to be able to rate it and warn other potential purchasers.