by Jan Karon
Book 14 in the Mitford series (2017)
Publisher: Putnam
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After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn’t need a steady job to prove himself. Then he’s given one–but what, exactly, does it prove? Meanwhile, newly married Dooley and Lace face a crisis that empties their bank account and turns their household upside down. Is the honeymoon over? Is this where real life begins?
As the Mitford Muse editor stumbles on a quick fix for marital woes and the town grocer falls in love for the first time, Father Tim and Cynthia receive an invitation to yet another family wedding.
But perhaps the bottom line is this: While a star blinks out in the Mitford firmament, another soon blinks on at Meadowgate, and four-year-old Jack Tyler looks forward to the biggest day of his life–for now and forever.
Jan Karon weaves together the everyday lives of two families, and the cast of characters that readers around the world now love like kin.
If Karon self published instead of ‘contract’ published, and sold on Amazon, she could get out from under the stress of publishing deadlines. She can take her time with the gift she’s been given. Does her contract indenture her for life to her publisher? Any books in the continuing series would be so eagerly awaited, they would fly into our hands with no publisher promotion.
Hi. I read somewhere that “To be Where You Are” was possibly Jan Karon’s last Mitford book. But, it ended with such open-ended possibilities…..Father Tim & Cynthia heading out on the road for untold adventures in an RV just screams for continuation! Is that actually the final one? I also saw something about the series ending when he & Cynthia are in a small English village. (?)
I just read this and copied from the page on this website that lists all the books in order. “In an interview, Jan Karon mentioned that after writing To Be Where You Are, the 14th Mitford book, she might take a break before continuing to write. She spent too many years under a strict contract deadline and now she wants to just live and take it slow.” I read that as “a brake”, not “The End”.