Book description
First published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the
1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his wife, Alayne. Finch Whiteoak and
wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household
with Eden Whiteoak's love child. Meanwhile Wakefield Whiteoak is
engaged to Pauline Lebraux but is tormented by religious doubts. This
is book 11 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed
by Wakefield's Course.
Mazo de la Roche, in 1927, 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 an immediate bestseller
and was eventually adapted for stage, screen, and television.
