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JANETTE OKE
Janette Oke has won over millions of readers with her heartwarming, emotionally involving historical novels about love, hope, and family life on the Canadian prairie. Oke's first novel, Love Comes Softly, published in 1979, heralded the birth of the Inspirational Fiction genre; before then, there was little in the way of fiction aimed specifically at Christian readers. Since then, Oke has written dozens more novels in the same warm, nostalgic style. She has a gift for creating engaging protagonists, mostly young women, with whom readers can easily sympathize and whose dilemmas are universally understood. All of Oke's novels are fairly short, gentle reads, and readers appreciate how her clear storytelling, folksy dialogue, and rural settings call to mind a simpler time and more old-fashioned way of life. (NoveList)
Read-A-Likes include:
Ruth Glover's "Saskatchewan Saga"
Leisha Kelly's "Wortham Family series"
Catherine Palmer's "Prairie Rose," and "English Ivy"
Tracie Peterson's "Land of My Heart," and "Heirs of Montana" series
Eugenia Price's "Lighthouse," and "St. Simon's Island" trilogy