Seasons of the Heart · Book 4

Spring's Gentle Promise

by Janette Oke

Published
1 January 1989
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9780764226670
Type
novel

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Cover of Spring's Gentle Promise

About this book

Spring's Gentle Promise closes the quartet in 1989 at 288 pages, the longest of the four, following Joshua Chandler into his own adult choices after a childhood shaped by his mother's death and his father's quiet, faith-centered upbringing.

Its place in Seasons of the Heart

Spring's Gentle Promise is book 4 in the Seasons of the Heart series. It follows Winter Is Not Forever. See the full Seasons of the Heart reading order.

Seasons of the Heart follows Joshua Chandler, a boy growing up on the Canadian prairie in the years after the death of his mother, as he's raised by his father and comes of age across the four seasons that give the books their titles and structure. Where Oke's Love Comes Softly and Canadian West series center adult courtship, this series is closer to a coming-of-age story, following Joshua from childhood grief through adolescence, faith, and eventually into his own adult choices, with the changing prairie seasons…

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