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Book IX in the Whiteoaks series. This volume describes what the youthful Finch did with the embarrassingly large fortune left to him by his centenarian grandmother. He becomes deeply involved with the affairs of his elderly uncles and takes them to England on a belated visit to their sister Augusta and in the beautiful Devonian setting, falls in love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalna_(novel_series) -
In 1893, Adeline Whiteoak rules Jalna as firmly as ever even though it now belongs to her son Philip. He has two motherless children and not only Adeline, but his brothers and sister, want a share in their upbringing. So in the warm Canadian summer, Mary Wakefield is brought from England to be their governess. Book XI of the Jalna series; chronologically, this volume comes between The Building of Jalna and Young Renny. -
Book XIII of Jalna. The Whiteoak family reunites after a year of separation. Piers, Renny, and Wakefield return in 1943 during the Second World War. Finch has been off on a concert tour, and Maurice has come home from Ireland. Fifteen-year-old Adeline returns from school and is now the stunning reflection of her namesake. It's a time of change and strain, but the family remains united against all others. -
Book V of Jalna. When Renny Whiteoak came home from the war he discovered many strange things at Jalna. Not least among them was his young brother Eden's romantic affair with an attractive widow. Renny determined to put a stop to it. But when he met the infamous Mrs. Stroud, Renny found himself reluctantly entangled in her dangerous web. -
Whiteoaks: Mazo de la Roche
$18.00Book VIII of the Jalna chronicles of the Whiteoaks family. It is the successor to Jalna in which the central characters were Piers and Eden. Here it is their younger brother Finch, sensitive, misunderstood and musical, and finding growing up a torturing business. Twice he tries to escape, but the spell of the old red-brick house drags him back with that peculiar haunting power that influences every character in this striking saga of Canadian country life.
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Book IV of Jalna. 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…
