Out to Canaan (by Jan Karon)

I’m so enjoying re-reading the ‘Mitford’ series by Jan Karon. Father Tim is a delightful creation; he’s a sixty-something balding priest in an Episcopalian church in the USA. The novels are all told from his point of view, set in the fictional small town of Mitford.

In the first couple of books Father Tim fell in love with his neighbour Cynthia, as well as adopting a teenage boy and a large dog. He interacted with the folk in his town, put up with a difficult (but quite efficient) secretary,...