Love's Abiding Joy
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 217
- ISBN-13
- 9780871234018
- Type
- novel
About this book
Love's Abiding Joy, written by Janette Oke, is the fourth book in the Love Comes Softly series, released in 1983. It runs just 217 pages, the shortest entry in the series, and marks the point where the focus begins shifting from Marty and Clark to their children.
Key facts about Love's Abiding Joy
Love's Abiding Joy is a novel by Janette Oke. Readers have had it since 1983. It runs to 217 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Love's Abiding Joy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780871234018 to find the main one.
Love's Abiding Joy is book 4 of 8 in the Love Comes Softly series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with Love Comes Softly (1979).
Additionally, Janette Oke writes Seasons of the Heart, Canadian West and Women of the West, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our inspirational fiction, historical inspirational fiction and biblical historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Unfailing Love is the latest published Janette Oke book on file, from 2022.
About Janette Oke
Janette Oke (born February 18, 1935, in Champion, Alberta, as Janette Steeves) is a Canadian author widely credited with founding the modern inspirational prairie-romance genre. A graduate of Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury, Alberta, where she met her husband Edward, she raised four children before publishing her debut novel, Love Comes Softly, in 1979. See every Janette Oke book in order.
Its place in Love Comes Softly
Love's Abiding Joy is book 4 in the Love Comes Softly series. It follows Love's Long Journey. It is followed by Love's Unending Legacy. See the full Love Comes Softly reading order.
Love Comes Softly is the series that launched Janette Oke's career and, with it, the modern inspirational prairie-romance genre. It opens with young widow Marty Davis, stranded and pregnant on the 1860s American frontier after her husband dies in a wagon accident, entering a marriage of convenience with widowed farmer Clark Davis so that each can survive a winter neither could face alone. What begins as a practical arrangement becomes, over the following volumes, a lifelong love story, and the series widens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780871234018