Book description
First published in 1954, in Variable Winds at Jalna, the
immediate sequel to Rennys Daughter, Maitland Fitzturgis and
his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official
acceptance by the family as Adelines husband. Finch and Maurice also
return, and Maurice brings with him his own problematic affairs of the
heart. It quickly becomes one of the most fateful years that Jalna has
known, and the story ends with more than one peal of the wedding
bells. This is book 15 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It
is followed by Centenary at Jalna.
Mazo de la Roche, in 1927, was an impoverished writer in Toronto
when she won a ,000 prize from The Atlantic Monthly for her
novel Jalna. The book became an immediate bestseller and was
eventually adapted for stage, screen, and television.
