Mazo de la Roche Books in Order

This short stage comedy turns ordinary worries, class tensions, and sharp-edged talk into something funny and a little sad. It shows de la Roche's early skill with character, rhythm, and social detail.

De la Roche reshapes the Whiteoak family saga for the stage, tightening Jalna's rivalries into a more immediate domestic drama. Grandmother Adeline still dominates the room, even when everyone else thinks they are in charge.

At the Ontario estate called Jalna, the Whiteoaks live loudly, love badly, and fight over almost everything. An outsider drawn into the household discovers that the family's charm and cruelty are impossible to separate.

The quarrels, loves, and private grievances of the Whiteoak clan deepen as the Jalna saga continues. Against that daily uproar stands Grandmother Adeline, whose looming presence shapes the family until the very end.

On his twenty-first birthday, Finch Whiteoak inherits money that immediately stirs envy and argument. A trip to England gives him new freedoms and romantic confusion, but Jalna keeps pulling him back into its rivalries.

Renny tries to hold Jalna together after loss has shifted the family's balance. Financial strain, a dangerous love affair, and the demands of the whole clan test how far the master of the house can bend.

This quiet, unusual novel stays close to the world of two small children, Gillian and Diggory. Their games, fears, affections, and sudden storms of feeling become a whole drama in miniature.

Adeline and Captain Philip Whiteoak leave England for Canada and set out to build the house that will shape generations. Their marriage, ambitions, and brushes with hardship give the family saga its beginning.

Eighteen-year-old Renny Whiteoak is proud, reckless, and not yet ready for the fallout of adult desire. A seductive outsider and a scheming Irish cousin disturb life at Jalna just as Meg's engagement begins to crack.

Renny and Alayne try to steady Jalna in the 1930s, but fresh trouble keeps breaking through. Finch and Sarah return from honeymoon, Eden's private life causes an uproar, and Wakefield is torn by serious doubts.

Gillian and Diggory return, a little older and no less vivid, in this close-up of childhood life inside one busy home. De la Roche watches their rivalries, games, and feelings with unusual tenderness and precision.

Shaw Manifold grows from a lonely farm boy into a forester shaped by hard work, fierce loyalties, and ambition. Just as his career opens up, illness forces him into the hardest struggle of his life.

Home from war, Renny Whiteoak finds Jalna changed and his younger brother entangled with the alluring Mrs. Stroud. Trying to restore order only pulls him deeper into the family's most dangerous emotional snare.

In 1939, Renny sails to Ireland and England with his daughter, ostensibly to buy a racehorse. What he really finds is a tangle of love affairs and family complications involving Finch and Wakefield.

During the war years, the scattered Whiteoaks come home one by one after long separation. The reunion brings warmth, strain, and change, as old loyalties are tested by a very different world.

Young English governess Mary Wakefield comes to Jalna to care for Philip's motherless children. When Philip falls in love with her, the match sets off resistance, pride, and emotional skirmishes inside the Whiteoak house.

In 1948, Adeline Whiteoak sails for Ireland and London with Finch and Maurice, and quickly falls in love. Back at home, another threat is gathering, as outside interests begin to endanger Jalna's peace and beauty.

In 1923, love affairs, schemes, and money troubles stir the household at Jalna. While Piers and Pheasant face matters of the heart, Eden is drawn into a speculative venture that puts even family savings at risk.

New visitors from Ireland arrive at Jalna to settle Adeline's future, but they bring fresh complications with them. Maurice and Finch return as well, and a year that begins in ceremony turns into one of the estate's most unsettled.

Lambert is a little lamb with a singing voice and a talent for winning hearts. Carried off by the gruff Mr. Van Grunt on an unlikely polar adventure, he turns captivity into an odd friendship.

As the Whiteoaks prepare to mark Jalna's hundredth year in 1953, celebration gives way to fresh strain. A troubled marriage, a reckless young man, and old family wounds threaten to overshadow the anniversary.

It is 1863, and early life at Jalna is shaken when Carolina cousins arrive carrying the tensions of the American Civil War with them. Their polished manners hide a dangerous secret that unsettles the growing Whiteoak household.

A striking young woman named Delight Mainprize arrives in a small Ontario town and upends it almost at once. Admired by men and resented by women, she becomes the spark for a sly social comedy about beauty, desire, and belonging.

A collection of animal stories that mixes affection, observation, and a little mischief. De la Roche treats beasts as living creatures with their own temperaments, not just props in human dramas.

A hospital mix-up leaves an American boy and an English boy growing up in the wrong families. When the truth emerges, both households attempt an exchange, only to find war and loyalty complicating everything.

This collection brings together de la Roche's shorter fiction across different periods of her career. The stories range from family sketches to darker emotional pieces, showing her feel for houses, outsiders, children, and animals.

Three motherless boys are sent away while their father travels, and their new life becomes a lesson in freedom, discipline, and imagination. Early de la Roche, it blends boyhood adventure with a sharper look at authority.

Part travel book, part history, this portrait of Quebec City lingers over its harbour, old streets, buildings, and long past. De la Roche writes with a strong feel for atmosphere, memory, and the life of the old port.

This volume gathers three one-act plays about people living close to the bone: servants, old men, and working women. De la Roche finds humor and pathos in small rooms, sharp talk, and everyday disappointments.

In the seaside town of Saltport, brooding Diego Palmer and his restless mother Fay dream of escape from the family bakery. A chance to travel to Europe opens old desires and pulls the whole family toward trouble.

De la Roche looks back on her childhood, writing life, and years with Caroline Clement in a memoir that is warm, guarded, and occasionally prickly. It is her closest self-portrait, though still full of reserve and mystery.