When Emily Starr's father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Emily is sent to New Moon Farm to live with her stern Aunt Elizabeth and the other unmarried Starr women. She arrives carrying a grief so deep it feels unsurvivable, and at first the house on the hill seems as cold as the stone face of her Aunt Ruth. But Emily has a secret weapon: words. In a worn notebook, she writes her way through sorrow, transforming pain into poetry, observation into art. She finds unexpected kinship with three other lonely, gifted children who form the "Beaded Circle", a secret society of the imagination. Yet New Moon is no Green Gables; the path to belonging is bumpy, the misunderstandings frequent, and the world often deaf to a creative girl's fierce inner life. This is Montgomery's darker, more psychologically complex twin to Anne, a book for anyone who has ever felt that their truest self remained invisible.
