Mitford

Mitford is the small town in which Timothy Kavanaugh lives and is the main setting of the novel. Mitford is a fictional town in North Carolina and has all of the hallmarks of the stereotypical small town.

The author paints the town as being lovely and peaceful. A map of the town is included in the front of the novel. Mitford contains the usual array of businesses such as a café, a bookstore, a grocery store, a gas station, and a bakery. It is within these businesses and the homes of the residents of Mitford that the action of the novel takes place.

The people of Mitford all seem to know one another and Timothy knows them all since he had been the priest at Lord’s Chapel there for a number of years. The people of Mitford are as varied as one might expect them to be...