The Rolling Years is the first novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) set in her childhood Laurel Highlands and Allegheny Mountains of Western Pennsylvania.

The three novels feature happy endings while critiquing excesses of patriarchy, strict Calvinism, and industrialization from a woman's perspective.

[1] The Rolling Years is a family chronicle (1852–1910) of three generations of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in rural Western Pennsylvania and their struggles to maintain their strict faith.

Sarah bears 12 children (of whom five survive) to her dour Calvinistic husband; her bitterness about her repeated, difficult confinements is effectively shown.

The novel dramatizes the gradual weakening of the strict Calvinism of the Scottish immigrants in an increasingly secular society.