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Variable Winds at Jalna

Mazo de la Roche

Publisher: Dundurn

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Summary

First published in 1954, in Variable Winds at Jalna, the immediate sequel to Renny’s Daughter,
 Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland
 for his official acceptance by the family as Adeline’s 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.
Available since: 12/02/2010.

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