"This edition of The Blue Castle is based on the version published in Toronto in 1988 by Seal Books. Some minor errors have been silently corrected."--Title page verso.

All her life, Valancy Stirling lived on a quiet little street in an ugly little house and never dared to contradict her domineering mother and her unforgiving aunt. At twenty-nine, she's never been in love, and her only consolation has been the forbidden books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle. Then, one day, she gets a letter and decides that things need to change.