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Title: Written by a tired Jan Karon or an indifferent committee?
Review: Compared to her earlier Mitford books, this one was a major disappointment. Not much text even though the hardcover book was 186 pages long: too much white space including wide margins on each page. The character sketches seemed more like outlines than in-depth discussions by and about the people we thought we knew. The quality of writing that I'd come to expect simply wasn't there, but perhaps the author was responding to pressure by the publisher to get this book out in a hurry. What a shame, since she's already proved she can do better.
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