I bought this book without opening it. I love all of the others and I was anxious for a little more Mitford. The margins are large, there are a lot a blank pages in this book -- and -- it is extremely "wordy". It appears that Jan Karon needed to turn in a paper for her "middle school" English class and it needed to have a certain number of words. She must have opened her thesaurus periodically to just write down descriptive word, after word, after word. This book was definately NOT up to the standard of the others. I would not buy it - check it out of the library or borrow it from a friend. It is NOT worth adding to your book library with the other Mitford books. Trouble is, now I'm not sure I want to buy her next book - I'll have to read the reviews first next time.