Lisa Ireland

And I still, like, I'm tearing up now.

I'm thinking about that terrible scene where we know he's gone.

So I don't know, it's a comfort read for me.

Even they feel like friends, the people of Avonlea.

Mrs Lind, who's the nosy neighbour who...

has something to say about everything that Anne does, but still has fondness and kindness for Anne.

All Anne's beautiful friends, the lovely Diana, who's not dramatic and exciting like Anne, but is a perfect foil for all Anne's crazy sort of schemes and things.

So yeah, I love these people.

They're like, I feel like they're my family.

I think it's something that's endlessly fascinating, particularly to women, because friendship is something that we all experience and are all seeking, I think.

It's a rare person who doesn't seek to have a circle of friends.

And it's by choice.

Our friends are the people that we choose to have in our lives.

We're stuck with our family.

I think our friends are the family that we choose ourselves.

And I know that's a bit of a cliche, but I've found it over the years to be really true.

And particularly when we find ourselves isolated for some reason, if we move away from home, I've lived overseas, for instance, and

In that time, I had no family when I was living in London, no family nearby.

It was hard in those days to contact my family.

So my friends were the family I counted on.