Worse, the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing, and a suspicious real estate agent is trying to turn the beloved house on the hill into a spa. A brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development, and a tough survivor must hunker down for the fight of her life. They’re also trying to locate the scattered siblings of Dooley Barlowe, the mountain boy they love as their own. And the agony of mastering the church computer system is as boggling as the pandemonium that breaks loose when his quiet rectory becomes a nursery.Īll this, however, is small potatoes compared to what happens on a wilderness camping trip that sends him home a changed man.įather Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his talented and vivacious wife, Cynthia, are pondering the murky uncertainties of retirement. The mountain boy he’s learned to love as his own makes a heartrending decision. His wife is “aging” his already ancient kitchen walls, not to mention burning his draperies. Now he’s also married to Cynthia, his vivacious next-door neighbor.įor Father Tim, life in Mitford has never been so full of surprises.
She says, “I write to give readers an extended family, and a little town they can call their own.”įor years, Mitford’s sixtysomething rector has been happily married to his parish. Jan Karon left a successful, award-winning career in advertising to move to Blowing Rock, North Carolina, a peaceful village not unlike Mitford. And the mysterious Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory bag and baggage–not to mention uninvited.Ībounding with characters both old and new, A Light in the Window compels readers to do something they treasure: laugh out loud. Praise for the companion volume, At Home in Mitford: Cynthia, after all, sees in him a man of warmth and daring–if only he’ll meet her halfway.But now a wealthy widow is pursuing Father Tim with hot casseroles. He can no longer deny (even to himself), that he’s in love with his neighbor, Cynthia Coppersmith. MITFORD’S VILLAGE RECTOR, Father Tim, is running scared. The first edition (ISBN 0-7459-2803-X) was published in hardcover format by Doubleday in 1994. It is book two of The Mitford Years series. A Light in the Window is a novel written by American author Jan Karon.
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