Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0553213776, Paperback)

Kilmeny of the Orchard is a novel written by popular novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery, who is best known as the author of Anne of Green Gables. This work is the story of a young man by the name of Eris Marshall who goes to Prince Edward Island and meets a mute girl with perfect hearing, named Kilmeny. He hears her during a walk in the woods playing the violin. He spends a great deal of time with her and proposes marriage, and is rejected and is told that she will only embarrass him and that her disability will make him an object of public ridicule. Kilmeny of the Orchard is highly recommended for those who enjoy the novels of author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and for those discovering her wealth of writings for the first time.