There is nothing like a trip back to Mitford to put your head and your heart back in a happy place!!!!
I have loved this series for 20 years. In this installment, our Dooley is getting hitched. I love how Karon gives us little snippets from several different viewpoints - we hear from Father Tim and Dooley and Lace and a myriad of other wonderful, eclectic, and wonderfully simple people who are preparing for an outdoor wedding at the Farm. Father Tim Kavanagh is still central to our story, but this is Dooley and Lace's day - and the (years) two weeks leading up to it are fraught with all kinds of small town traumas, family secrets, gifts and blessings - oh the blessings. There is even a reference to Barnabas!!! Sniff!!!! And omgash, Harley and his dentures - and burying a bottle of bourbon (to keep the rain away, a-course!). Plus, I double dawg dare ya not to fall in LUV with Jack Tyler. I just love this stuff!!!
I wonder how many more of these stories she will write - then, I hope to be blessed with more. Start at the beginning of the series if you want to know lots of references here - it is worth the trip back to Mitford just to know what OMC stands for - yum. Heckfire, maybe I will read it all again too. Classic Southern Literature - and boy howdy, does she do vernacular well!!!
I have loved this series for 20 years. In this installment, our Dooley is getting hitched. I love how Karon gives us little snippets from several different viewpoints - we hear from Father Tim and Dooley and Lace and a myriad of other wonderful, eclectic, and wonderfully simple people who are preparing for an outdoor wedding at the Farm. Father Tim Kavanagh is still central to our story, but this is Dooley and Lace's day - and the (years) two weeks leading up to it are fraught with all kinds of small town traumas, family secrets, gifts and blessings - oh the blessings. There is even a reference to Barnabas!!! Sniff!!!! And omgash, Harley and his dentures - and burying a bottle of bourbon (to keep the rain away, a-course!). Plus, I double dawg dare ya not to fall in LUV with Jack Tyler. I just love this stuff!!!
I wonder how many more of these stories she will write - then, I hope to be blessed with more. Start at the beginning of the series if you want to know lots of references here - it is worth the trip back to Mitford just to know what OMC stands for - yum. Heckfire, maybe I will read it all again too. Classic Southern Literature - and boy howdy, does she do vernacular well!!!
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