Seasons of the Heart · Book 2
The Winds of Autumn
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN-13
- 9780764208010
- Type
- novel
About this book
Six years passed before Janette Oke returned to Joshua Chandler's story with The Winds of Autumn in 1987, continuing his adolescence at 255 pages as the changing prairie seasons keep serving as a deliberate metaphor for his emotional growth after his mother's death.
Its place in Seasons of the Heart
The Winds of Autumn is book 2 in the Seasons of the Heart series. It follows Once Upon a Summer. It is followed by 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780764208010