Jane of Lantern Hill

Eleven-year-old Jane Victoria lives in a gloomy house with her mother, her aunt, and her strict grandmother, who keeps every aspect of domestic life under firm control. The girl is sincerely convinced that Merry Street is the saddest street in the city, even though her short life has given her little reason to think so. Everything changes one spring morning, when Jane receives a letter from the father she has believed dead all her life — it turns out that he is alive and living on Prince Edward Island. He asks his daughter to come and spend the summer holidays with him, and although Jane goes there at first almost against her will, convinced that he is to blame for the separation from her mother, the journey becomes the moment that changes her life completely.
On the island, surrounded by picturesque landscapes and warm summer adventures, Jane gradually begins to open up — she learns to cook clam chowder, gives names to calves, befriends the local people, and for the first time feels truly free. It is here, far from her grandmother’s rigid rules, that the girl finds her true name, her own voice, and a home where she can be herself rather than the person others tell her to be.