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Written by Jan Karon - Audio book performed by full cast - Dramatized Fiction - 6 CASSETTES - 6 hours, 36 minutes

Publisher, Focus on the Family Publishing (September 2003)

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Cast includes:

Dean Jones as Father Tim Kavanagh
Pat Starr as Cynthia Coppersmith
Betsy Blair as Sadie Baxter
Paul Freeman as Hal Owen
Ethan Maccoby as Dooley Barlowe
David Suchet as Peter Jamison
and many others including Jan Karon as a parishioner

Mitford. Where a handshake, a warm embrace and a friendly word are as inviting as a cup of coffee at the Main Street Grill or a slice of pie made from Miss Sadie's world famous apples.

Here you'll find the joy of life's little dramas... In the surprise companionship of a stray dog. In the rough-and-tumble world of a boy's heart. In the generosity of a matron's gift to her community. In the steady friendship of neighbors. In the nobility of a promise by a parish priest. In a love rekindled. In the gentle gossip and humorous quirks of townspeople who enjoy their world, for all of its ups and downs.

Hosted by Jan Karon, this faithful dramatic adaptation of At Home in Mitford brings to life the many characters and stories now loved by millions of readers. The loving and compassionate Father Tim, the rambunctious Emma, the spunky Puny Bradshaw, the wayward Dooley, crusty old Miss Rose and Uncle Billy, Homeless Bobbes, newcomer Cynthia Coppersmith and the ever-faithful Barnabas. They're all here to welcome you home.

Join the people of Mitford as they go through a season of life—where an ordinary day can yield extraordinary possibilities. Once you've been to Mitford, you'll never want to leave.

About the Author: Jan Karon was born in the foothills of North Carolina, where, she says, "common speech is uncommonly musical." Descended predominately from Irish, Scottish, and German lines, Jan has a strong interest in the impact of these old cultures on a youthful America.

You can hear much vernacular "music" in Jan's novels, which are set in Mitford, a small town not unlike Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Mountain dialect and mountain humor create much of the Mitford spirit.

In 1988, Jan left a successful career in mainstream advertising and moved to Blowing Rock to live a lifelong dream of writing books. "I love to live where people say 'ain't'," she says, "…where speech is still energized by the past, and holds on to its color and grace. When I was growing up, many still used the old English, 'hain't', which, I'm sorry to say, has nearly vanished."

In This Mountain, a recent addition to the Mitford novels, was released this spring and went instantly onto the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, and Washington Post bestseller lists. There will be two more Mitford novels, a bedside companion and a cookbook.

After the Mitford series is ended, she hopes to complete a novel about the building of a mid-eighteenth century Georgian house. "There'll be a lot of 'haint's' in it," she declares.

Jan was born in 1937, "the premier year of the Packard automobile," and was christened Janice Meredith, after the title of a popular novel. In the opening paragraphs of the novel, someone calls "Janice! Janice Meredith!" The little girl doesn't answer, because she is, of course, immersed in the reading of a book.