A publishing event: #1 New York Timesbestselling author Jan Karon returnsand invites her millions of fans to join her again in Mitford.
After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors.
While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he’s offered one, he decides he doesn’t want it. Maybe he’s lost his passion.
His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with his own passionfor the beautiful and gifted Lace Turner, and his vision to become a successful country vet. Dooley’s brother, Sammy, still enraged by his mother’s abandonment, destroys one of Father Tim’s prized possessions. And Hope Murphy, owner of Happy Endings bookstore, struggles with the potential loss of her unborn child and her hard-won business.
All this as Wanda’s Feel Good Café opens, a romance catches fire through an Internet word game, their former mayor hatches a reelection campaign to throw the bums out, and the weekly Muse poses a probing inquiry: Does Mitford still take care of its own?
Millions of fans will applaud the chance to spend time, once more, in the often comic and utterly human presence of Jan Karon’s characters. Indeed, they have never been more sympathetic, bighearted, and engaging.
Praise the Lord’s Chapel, Mitford is back I didn’t gulp down Mitford. It deserves slow succulent reading. A morsel, then contemplation; like taking a bite of Esther Bolick’s orange marmalade cake, set down fork, roll tongue, and salivate. This return to Mitford, after Father Tim’s gadding about other parishes, is a balm of Gilead. This NEW MITFORD NOVEL had been prayed for by Jan Karon fans for years. It’s back and as good as ever.If it’s your first time in Mitford, no worries, Jan Karon introduces…
Hope to all `Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good’ is the latest and much anticipated continuation of the Mitford series; although one would not necessarily have to have read the previous volumes – you will probably want to. There is a peace and a reality in Jan Karon’s writing. Father Timothy and his wife Cynthia have returned to Mitford after a trip to Ireland. Readers might notice that Father Tim has turned into a bit of a curmudgeon. After such a long absence, it almost seems as if many in the…