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In THESE HIGH, GREEN HILLS we're once again in Mitford, a southern village of local characters so heartwarming and hilarious you'll wish you lived right next door.
At last, Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, has married his talented and vivacious neighbor, Cynthia. Now, of course, they must face love's challenges: new sleeping arrangements for Father Tim's sofa-sized dog, Cynthia's urge to decorate the rectory Italian-villa-style, and the growing pains of the thrown--away boy who's become like a son to the rector.
Add a life-changing camping trip, the arrival of the town's first policewoman, and a new computer that requires the patience of a saint, and you know you're in for another engrossing visit to Mitford--the little town that readers everywhere love to call home.

"In Karon's world, all that is good and pure about American culture and human nature resides in Mitford. To be sure, there are dramas and human failings, but the small town is nonetheless defined by its sanctity and its community. It's like Peyton Place, only the characters are nicer....As urban culture bustles with noise, ambition and striving, Mitford exists in a bucolic twilight zone....[T]here are no malls, no restaurant chains, no cineplexes, no tourists....The writing is simplistic....Her prose is unadorned, with few flourishes, basic verbs and high school grammar. The effect is both perfect and dull....What sustains the books is the underlying framework. Karon offers the solace that, somewhere, an America exists that conforms to the picture of small towns, white picket fences, homemade pies, the kindhearted country doctor..., the church, prayer..., life and death, community and home....Unlike potboilers, Karon's books offer an escape that is explicitly moral."

Zachary Karabell, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 08/22/1999

"Karon's novel has its serious moments. Though it is more of a chronicle of Mitford's events than a novel with a traditional plot, it does deal with the central issue of how Timothy Kavanaugh reconciles himself to the distressing prospect of retirement. As he adjusts to marriage and loses a beloved aging parishioner and benefactress, he comes to terms with some of his own suppressed conflicts. In particular, when he and his wife are lost in a cave, the experience turns into a spiritual revelation for him."

Louise Titchener, Book World, 11/10/1996

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