![]() ![]() There are seven novels in the series, this not including Jan’s companion works to The Mitford years such as cook books. The Mitford years officially begins with ‘At Home in Mitford’ published in 1994, the novel introduces the original players and the lives they lead, continuing to add and subtract characters as the series progresses, finally ending with ‘Somewhere Safe with Somebody good’, the last novel in the series, published in 2014.īeing Christian themed, The Mitford years presents what many have referred to as a light offering of theology, scattering the story with Bible themes in as organic a manner as possible, but typically avoiding a heavy handed and preachy approach, Jan Karon instead allowing the story to drive the means with which the different themes are introduced. ![]() The stories will often seek to engage readers in terms of the personal intricacies of the different characters, not only presenting their flaws and struggles but daily routines, pets, what they tend to have for lunch and so on and so forth, with the aim of generating a lively and wholesome image of each character. Jan Karon is described as introducing the town as its owner character, a place many readers look forward to visiting in each novel. The books are fictional in nature and Christian themed, often placing special emphasis upon the little town of Mitford within which its stories take place. ![]() The Mitford Years is a series of books from American Novelist Jan Karon set in Mitford, a fictional town in North Carolina, the novels centre on the character of Father Tim. ![]()
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