Mitford becomes a celebration of the strength and good humor of the human spirit. Seen through the eyes of Father Tim, the long-suffering Village Rector, Mitford abounds in both mysteries and miracles, compelling readers to return again and again to this beloved series. The themes of At Home in Mitford are familiar ones: love and faith, courage and sacrifice, but through Father Tim's eyes, the townspeople and the challenges they face become new again. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mitford is a crazy quilt of saints and sinners lovable eccentrics all. Tim is feeling tired and burnt out, and the novel tells the story of Tim over the period of about one year. He is part of the colorful landscape of people who have both tales to tell and secrets to keep. The first novel in 1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karons beloved series set in Americas favorite small town: Mitford. At Home in Mitford details the life of Father Tim, sixty, the son of a dark and silent Episcopal father, and loving Baptist mother. But an enormous black dog responding only to scriptural commands adopts him he acquires an outspoken young boy and an attractive, artistic neighbor stirs up frisky feelings in his heart. When gentle, middle-aged Father Tim first arrives at the rectory, he longs only for a personal and spiritual routine. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon, is a delightful novel that details the life of Father Tim, the rector of Lords Chapel in Mitford, North Carolina. At Home in Mitford captures all the wonderful characters, special moments, and unhurried charm of life in a place many would move to if it were really on the map. There, she began writing about a small fictional town not unlike her new home. I had a hard time with the way the town wanted to change Father Tim. Anyone who had strayed from the path of God was saved by just one prayer. The story never really seemed to go anywhere. Jan Karon left an award-winning career in advertising to settle in a peaceful village in North Carolina. We here in Blowing Rock consider it to be Mitford because author Jan Karon lived here when she was inspired to write At Home in Mitford and other books in. Father Tim, a bachelor rector in the small hill town of Mitford, North Carolina, gets more than he bargained for when he yearns for more excitement in his. The town of Mitford was way too good to be true.

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