Although intended for Young Adult readers, I was hooked on Mattie's Story from the first few pages. It's a year in the life of fifteen-year-old Mattie Cameron, just newly graduated from a one-room school on Prince Edward Island (PEI), who marries a man eight years her senior. Set on PEI in the 1830s, Mattie and her husband David are descendants of the Selkirk Settlers who arrived on the Island from Scotland in 1803. The novel provides a rich backdrop of Island life in the remote rural communities of the time, when visiting a neighbour might have meant a five mile walk to his or her house, and another five mile walk back home again.