Anne White's Reviews > The Heart of the Family

If you enjoyed Pilgrim's Inn (the second book of the Trilogy), you don't really need to read this book to find out what happened next, because not much happened next. A lot of the book takes place on one summer afternoon in the woods, a bit like Goudge's Henrietta's House although without the literally magic bits--the supernatural here is more towards the theological and philosophical. If you are in the mood for wandering through Knyghtwood and listening to what's on the mind of Goudge and her characters (from very old to very little), you may find a special place also for this book.

(I kept coming back to Father Tim's big sermon on pain and surrender in Jan Karon's In This Mountain--there are some similarities.)