Review #4 Audio At Home in Mitford narrated by John McDonough The story was engaging, and I particularly liked Karon’s humor. The middle-aged romance was a nice touch, and handled respectfully. By the last third of the book I was zigzagging around, trying to remember some of the lesser characters that kept popping up. The characters are well drawn, although I think that there are too many of them. Some people may be turned off by the beliefs of many of the characters, but at this point I’ll take tolerant, practicing Christians over most stories on the nightly news. There’s sweetness and wholesomness to it that fits perfectly with the holidays. We’ve been reading a lot of heavy stuff lately, and no one wanted to drag corruption and war and other chaos into our Christmas season, so At Home in Mitford it was. We've sold 10,000 of Jan's books and don't see any end to the Mitford phenomenon.I’m only thirteen years late reviewing this one, but I’d never picked it up until my book club chose it for our December meeting. Bookstore owner, Shirley Sprinkle, says, 'The Mitford Books have been our all-time fiction bestsellers since we went in business twenty-five years ago. At Home in Mitford, Karon's first book in the Mitford series, was nominated for an ABBY by the American Booksellers Association in 1996 and again in 1997. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.'Įnthusiastic booksellers across the country have introduced readers of all ages to Karon's heartwarming books. 'I made real sacrifices and took big risks. 'I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author,' she says. Several years ago, Karon left a successful career in advertising to move to the mountain village of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and write books. For Pete's sake, hadn't Rhett Butler used that very same word and gotten away with it? After my grandmother's exceedingly focused reproof, I've written books without cussin' ever since.'

When she found it, she discovered the one curse word I had, with pounding heart, included in someone's speech. 'The manuscript was written on Blue Horse notebook paper, and was, for good reason, kept hidden from my sister.

Jan wrote her first novel at the age of ten. Jan Karon, born Janice Meredith Wilson in the foothills of North Carolina, was named after the title of a popular novel, Janice Meredith.

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon