A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 New York Times-bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs.Wounds heal, bonds grow stronger, and celebrations continue…Welcome back to beloved Mitford. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn’t need a steady job … Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn’t need a steady job to prove himself. Then he’s given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows.
Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it’s life as usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who’s still running for office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind compared to Muse editor J.C. Hogan’s desperate attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be high-def TV or his pork-chop marinade? In fiction, as in real life, there are no guarantees.
Twenty minutes from Mitford at Meadowgate Farm, newlyweds Dooley and Lace Kavanagh face a crisis that devastates their bank account and impacts their family vet practice. But there is still a lot to celebrate, as their adopted son, Jack, looks forward to the most important day of his life–with great cooking, country music, and lots of people who love him. Happily, it will also be a day when the terrible wound in Dooley’s biological family begins to heal because of a game–let’s just call it a miracle–that breaks all the rules.
In To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon weaves together the richly comic and compelling lives of two Kavanagh families, and a cast of characters that readers around the world now love like kin.
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Beautifully written book, with Christian principles. Good clean book for all ages!
Great series! I’ve read this series three times! I love “going to Mitford!”
Read any of the Jan Karon books and you will be left wanting more!
Love this story! So rich/characters stay with me
Jan Karon is Jan Karon, and this book does have the wonderful flavor and sweet Christian funk of the entire franchise. But I do have to agree with the unhappy reviewers who points out that the story randomly jumps all over the place and readers often have no idea whose story is on that particular page. Whoo! I thought it was just me! Not much story there, but the nice tone is always vintage Karon for whatever that’s worth.
I have read just about every book in the Mitford Series and enjoyed them all. I love Jan Karon’s characterizations which to me is important in every book I read. Over time the characters become people you “know” and care about. The fact that it is a series is exciting because if you like the style of the first you have 10-11 more books to look forward to reading. Four stars indeed.
I’ve enjoyed the “Father Tim” series over the years. The characters are interesting, the problems they face are down to earth.
I like all things Jan Karon. Got a little slow here and there, but overall a worthy read.
Great read.
Such peaceful, relaxing reading.
Jan Karon is one of my favorite authors and this book didn’t disappoint!
Visits to Mitford are wonderful. The characters feel like family. The story was satisfying on more than one level. It is better to read the series in order as there are recurring characters and situations that will not be well understood unless one has the full story. Highly recommended for those who have read the previous books.
I liked this book but not as much as earlier ones. The characters were named so that it was hard to keep them straight (male names on female characters for example). I would really give it 3.4 stars but since I couldn’t do that I just kept it at a 3.
Jan Karon’s Mitford series characters become like family and one wants to follow them and participate in their joys and sorrows.
Jan Karon is one of my favorite authors, I have read all the Mitford Series books and always look forward to the next adventure in Mitford.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all of Jan Karon’s books in the series about Father Tim. This one is no exception. It is inspirational yet very funny. The characters are so original and believable and the story is very entertaining. I have read the whole set twice!!
Love all of Jan Karon books.
Takes my mind and heart into goodness and hope and gives it a rest from all kinds of stressors!
Any Jan Karon book is a good read. One of those grab a cuppa tea, find the easy chairand curl up kind of books.
Another terrific Jan Karon must read book.