A Tangled Web

“A Tangled Web” is one of the few books for adults written by a Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1924) famous for her children’s bestseller “Anne of Green Gables”. The proposed novel is equally interesting and catching. It is full of intrigue, at the same time it depicts the life as it is when tragic and comic things ever go side by side. It is a story of a big clan where over three generations sixty Penhallow family members married sixty Darks having made a tangled web of relations and emotions.

No one of the Penhallows and the Darks could have imagined what their clan’s meeting would result in and what a plot Aunt Becky had prepared for them. Each of them cherished some hope to inherit a valuable family heirloom — the jug. But no one expected that they would have to wait for the crucial moment for the whole year and control their actions and deeds to get what they want. In the meantime, the jug starts in an incredible way influencing their lives and intruding into their fate. But how could one expect a simple decision from Aunt Becky — a person of a jeering nature and ability to see everyone through?

“Заплутане павутиння” — одна з небагатьох книг для дорослих, написаних канадською письменницею Люсі Мод Монгомері (1874—1924), відомою своїм дитячим бестселером “Енн із Зелених дахів”. Пропонований роман не менш цікавий і захопливий, він сповнений надзвичайної інтриги та водночас розповідає про життя як воно є, коли трагічне й комічне завжди опиняються поряд. Це історія великого клану, де за три покоління шістдесят членів родини Пенхеллоу одружилися із шістдесятьма Дарками, сплівши таким чином заплутане павутиння відносин та емоцій.