A New Song (by Jan Karon)

I am thoroughly enjoying re-reading Jan Karon’s ‘Mitford’ series about Father Tim, an Anglican priest in a small town in the United States. Mitford is fictional, but I gather it’s supposed to be in North Carolina on the East Coast. I last read ‘A New Song’ in 2006, and all I remembered about it was that it was set somewhere other than Mitford. 

The book opens as Tim and his wife Cynthia are trying to organise their house and pack for their journey to Whitecap Island, where he’s about to take...