Leanne Fortune
2 books read for LibriVox
- You’ll love Emily Starr for her fierce imagination, her stubborn pride, and the way writing becomes a lifeline as she grows up under the Murray family’s strict eyes. It’s more inward and prickly than Anne, with a melancholy edge, but Emily’s friendships and small acts of defiance stay with you.
- You settle into Lucy Snowe’s guarded, lonely mind and watch her navigate Madame Beck’s boarding school, where people inspect one another as carefully as locked rooms. It’s moody, inward, and sometimes deliberately opaque, but if you like emotional tension beneath ordinary conversation, its restraint keeps opening into surprise.