Christy

In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains — and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two remarkable young men, and by a heart torn between true love and unwavering devotion.

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An adaptation of the 1967 novel chronicling the experiences of a young woman after she arrives to teach school in a small town in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1912.

At nineteen, Christy Huddleston left home to teach school in the Smokies—coming to know and care for the wild mountain people, with their fierce pride, terrible poverty, and dark superstitions.

Dallas Times Herald

Wonderful. . . an epic novel.

Born in Johnson City, Tennessee, the daughter of Minister John Ambrose Wood and his wife Leonora, Catherine Marshall was married to Presbyterian minister and Chaplain of the U.S. Senate Peter Marshall. After her husband's death, she wrote his biography, A Man Called Peter, a book that enjoyed tremendous success and became a major motion picture. She followed with numerous devotional books and three novels, two of which — Christy and Julie — became national bestsellers. Christy was also made into an extremely popular television series. Catherine Marshall died in 1983, but the popularity of her inspirational writings continues.