When Calls the Heart
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9781589260047
- Type
- novel
About this book
When Calls the Heart opens Canadian West in 1983 at 226 pages, introducing Elizabeth Thatcher, a well-to-do young schoolteacher from the East who takes a post in a rough Canadian frontier settlement and falls for Wynn Delaney, a North-West Mounted Police officer. It later lent its title and premise to the Hallmark Channel series of the same name, which quickly diverges into its own separate storyline.
Key facts about When Calls the Heart
When Calls the Heart is a novel by Janette Oke. Readers have had it since 1983. It runs to 226 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of When Calls the Heart. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781589260047 to find the main one.
When Calls the Heart is book 1 of 6 in the Canadian West series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Janette Oke writes Love Comes Softly, Seasons of the Heart 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 Canadian West
When Calls the Heart is book 1 in the Canadian West series. It is followed by When Comes the Spring. See the full Canadian West reading order.
Canadian West follows Elizabeth Thatcher, a well-to-do young schoolteacher from the East who takes a post in a rough Canadian frontier settlement and falls for Wynn Delaney, a North-West Mounted Police officer stationed there. The first four books, published in the mid-1980s, cover their courtship, marriage, and early life together as Elizabeth adjusts from Eastern comfort to frontier hardship; Oke returned to the series more than a decade later with two further volumes carrying the couple, and eventually their…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781589260047