Book description
First published in 1935, Young Renny takes us even further
back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of
Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to
marry the young man next door, Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle
Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances
abroad on high living and reside again at Jalna. But the plot thickens
further, when two outsiders join the mix: A gypsy woman, who seduces
Renny, and a distant cousin from Ireland, who befriends Gran, moves
into Jalna, and spies on the family. This is book 4 of 16 in The
Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Whiteoak Heritage.
In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto
when she won a ,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly
for her novel Jalna. The book became a bestseller and was
adapted for stage, screen and television.
