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There is a story, well-known, of the Changi Quilt and the women who pieced it.
There is another story, lesser known of a monkey that brought peanuts to a woman at the end of the world. The monkey's name was Puck, and the woman Una Meredith.
This is the story of Puck the monkey and Una Meredith and of how, after the Second World War ends, they put their family back together. Twice.
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- Part 8 of Pieces of Lives
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In the 1920s, Carl and Una Meredith set off to Singapore. Una goes for mission work, and Carl goes for a position at Raffles University. Over twenty years later, they've stayed for the lives they've built. But when World War Two looks towards the Pacific, that choice to stay turns dangerous...
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- Part 7 of Pieces of Lives
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To start, wrote Anne Blythe, you must find a suitable person.
She did not mean it to be read aloud any more than she meant to write a story endorsing Rollings Reliable Baking Powder.
The great thing about age, though, is that it's so much easier to laugh at oneself. And Gilbert loved this story. Recipe, really. So on a golden summer eventide, Anne reads it aloud to her children, to their spouses, to Gilbert who loved it.
And who better than Anne Shirley to take as an authority on perfect happiness? After all, she was imagining it years before she found it.
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- Part 48 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Into the Storm, Through the Storm by Alinya
Fandoms: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
27 Apr 2025
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Way back in the '20s, Una Meredith went to teach at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, and Carl Meredith went with her. Somewhere along the way, Rosemary and John Meredith made peace with the fact they were never coming back. And that was fine; Singapore, said everyone, was an impregnable fortress. If anyone invaded, well, Mother England would see them safe.
So, you can imagine the jolt when casually, the word comes over the radio that Singapore, mighty, impregnable fortress that it is, has in fact, fallen...
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- Part 8 of Our Foreign Correspondents
- Part 47 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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It's the summer of 1939. The world hovers on the edge of a precipice. As her children and their families come home in their twos and threes, Anne Shirley is feeling meditative.
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- Part 46 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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The news that Dr Bruce Meredith was to be married would have been impossible to keep secret, had the parties concerned been trying. That they were not particularly trying only exacerbated the fact that it went round the village of Glen St Mary at a speed that would have embarrassed the average forest fire.
Such are the hazards of life in Glen St Mary. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone voices that opinion. Even people no longer in the Glen but only Glen-adjacent have opinions.
Ah well. At least its an excuse to get the whole Blythe-Meredith-Ford collective togehter. Their elders have been trying to do exactly that for years.
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- Part 45 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Teddy Lovall, Kingsport Inspector-in-residence at the home of Jem Blythe, does not want to be at a conference in Toronto. And that's before the murder happens. When it does, well, Jem and the other Investigateers are onto a good thing, back in Kingsport, if you ask Teddy Lovall. As for the next time one of these conferences comes up, Constable Benwick may go and that's flat.
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- Part 19 of The Kingsport Chronicles
- Part 44 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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The Circus was Constable Benwick's idea. Going to it, not its arrival in Kingsport. It was supposed to be a nice, normal family night out among friends. Or, you know, as close to a nice and normal evening out as Jem and Faith were likely to get, considering the friends.
It almost worked, too. If you made allowances for sentimentalizing circus monkeys and stuff of that ilk. But then a woman fell from the trapeze. Cause...to be determined.
It would be wrong to say Jem regretted going into police surgery rather than following in his father's footsteps as a country doctor. But it really would be nice if just once, he could go out for an evening and not bring work with him. Ah, well. If wishes were horses, eh?
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- Part 18 of The Kingsport Chronicles
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In September 0f 1938, Rilla Ford gives one of her famous dinner parties. Very nice. Very elegant. Highly catastrophic for several members of her family.
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- Part 13 of Realism and Romance
- Part 43 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Jims didn't mean to say anything. Certainly not anything earth-shattering. Defiitely not about what Jem Blythe in boyhood would have called "the mushy stuff."
But on this particular afternoon, he and Amanda Meredith were judging a sandcastle. It was a very long, very hot afternoon. They had to talk about something. In retrospect, Jims would not have picked "the mushy stuff." Also in retrospect, it's entirely possible that neither would Amanda Meredith. But here they both were, talking love and romance by the edge of the sea.
Oh? The sandcastles? Someone won, probably. Neither of the judges ever remembered who.
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- Part 12 of Realism and Romance
- Part 8 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 42 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Being the letters of Gilbert Blythe, Jonas Blake and John Meredith during the inter-war years.
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- Part 6 of Pieces of Lives
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When Sissy Ford, cherished daughter of hte house of Ford, catches polio in summer of 1937, the whole family is harrowed. Gilbert thinks he should have stopped it because he's a doctor. Her parents think they could have stopped it by - well, but every parent thinks they should be able to save their child.
But Sissy survives. And it turns out that's an awful lot harder than succumbing to illness. So very much harder.
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- Part 11 of Realism and Romance
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Rilla and Ken set off on a summer holiday to Europe. They go at entirely the wrong time of year, if one trusts the word of Katherine Brooke, but Rilla's inclined to take this with a pinch of salt.
Oh, Venice hurts a little, because she can't show it to Walter, but it's otherwise a perfectly incandescent holiday. At least it is until word comes from Jims to say one of the children isn't well...
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- Part 10 of Realism and Romance
- Part 41 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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"Don't worry,' says Jims Anderson, flanked by the little Fords as he waves Rilla and Ken off on a European holiday.
"We'll be fine. Absolutely fine."
He means it too. There's one minor catch; It's June of 1937, and Toronto is rife with polio...
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- Part 9 of Realism and Romance
- Part 40 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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An evening out for dinner and the local fair is unexpectedly hijacked when a ghost from the past comes looking for Jem's friend and colleague, Superintendent Geordie Carlisle. It's all hands on deck not just to solve the current murder, but find out what really happened in the far-gone past while they're at it. With help, obviously, from God Tuesday the Dachshund and little Sophy Blythe's doll collection. It wouldn't be a proper case without either.
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- Part 17 of The Kingsport Chronicles
- Part 39 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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In 1935, John Meredith finally remembers his congregation owes him a sabbatical and travels to his family in Singapore. It's the ideal opportunity to meet new family and reconnect with old. But it's more than a bit disconcerting for the family members who have only met him and Rosemary through letter. What are they like? And what will they think of Carl Meredith's foreign bride?
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- Part 7 of Our Foreign Correspondents
- Part 38 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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It's a funny thing about grief. It comes in different shapes, colours and sizes, not unlike clothes. If only it had a returns policy. Another funny thing; Sometimes it's easier to tell it to an unsuspecting stranger than immediate family. So Nan's young daughter discovers on the eve of Susan Baker's funeral.
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- Part 7 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 37 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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As it turns out, the world doesn't have to end with visions of pipers and white hot flames of sacrifice. A telephone call is more than sufficient, and that Shirley Blythe will tie to.
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- Part 16 of The Kingsport Chronicles
- Part 36 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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In 1935, Rilla and her family embark on a holiday at the Inn at Lake Devine, where the Adirondack chairs are red, the water is warm, and the islands aren't really islands so much as rocks. Susan is beside herself - a Yankee holiday spot! - but the American resort turns out to be the least of the Ford family revelations. Just ask Jims...
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- Part 8 of Realism and Romance
- Part 35 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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There are strange things done by the midnight sun...but none quite so strange as the long Ontario winter Nelly comes into the lives of Nan Blythe as was, her family and friends.
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- Part 6 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 34 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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- 4,320
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