After the success of writing the Mitford Series, Jan Karon sets out to explore the childhood of her beloved Episcopal priest, Father Timothy Kavanagh.
In this first book of a new series, Father Tim receives a cryptic letter of just two words – “Come home”. After much heart searching he drives from his home in Mitford, North Carolina to his hometown of Holly Springs in Mississippi with his best friend and loyal canine, Barnabas, for company. Surprised by how little the town has changed and expecting to be confronted with bad memories, Father Tim finds there is much more to his past than he suspected. Weaving flashbacks neatly into the story, Father Tim’s childhood unfolds. We glimpse his family and friends through his own childish eyes and discover what really happened as he learns the truth.
This book is much darker than the Mitford series and is a good read. However, I found the residents of Holly Springs are a little flat and story ties up too easily almost fairytale-like.
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