Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields Republic of Love

If I said it’s like Anne of Green Gables

Groundwood Books, 2011 Cover:Murray Kimber

Well, then, I’d be lying. Because nothing is like Anne of Green Gables, right?

But I’ll Be Watching gave me a lot of the same feelings that reading my battered copy of Montgomery’s story gives me.

That’s bound to sound hyperbolic, so let me explain.

Pamela Porter’s novel opens in [...]