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.
