These high green hills jan karon5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() In the year that passes, the holidays (both religious and secular) are celebrated the community reaffirms its identity and the deaths of the town's oldest inhabitant and of a child are balanced by the birth of twins to Tim's young housekeeper. Thanks, though, to a splendid parish tea party-a tea for which Cynthia redecorates the rectory and provides delicious food-the ladies are mollified. Cynthia, a children's book author and illustrator, is not, however, a traditional clergyman's wife-a shocking bit of news for Tim's secretary Emma and the Episcopal Church Women. A longtime bachelor, he is touchingly surprised by the joy marriage to neighbor Cynthia has brought him. As the story opens, 60ish Episcopalian Rector Father Tim Kavanagh has just returned from his honeymoon. Like its popular predecessors (At Home in Mitford and A Light in the Window, not reviewed), the author's latest celebrates the lives of several Mitford citizens while offering vignettes of many more. The literary equivalent of comfort food in a tale of middle- aged love in Mitford, a fictional North Carolina small town: a novel that restores rather than provokes as it deftly portrays men and women caught up in the human condition. ![]()
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