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Search - The Shop on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No 1) (Abridged Audio Cassette)
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Book Description:
Four lives knit together-- There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy knitting supplies and patterns -- and now it's offering a knitting class. The first lesson: how to knit a baby blanket. For owner Lydia Hoffman, the shop represents her dream of beginning a new life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life that offers a chance at love ... and maybe marriage. Jacqueline Donovan is stuck in a marriage that has dwindled into an arrangement of separate rooms and separate lives. She disapproves of the woman married to her only son, but if she knits a baby blanket, she can at least pretend to like her pregnant daughter-in-law. For Carol Girard, the baby blanket brings a message of hope as she and her husband make a final attempt at in vitro pregnancy. And tense-looking Alix Townsend -- that's Alix with an "i" -- is learning to knit her blanket for her court-ordered community service project.
Brought together by an age-old craft, these four women make unexpected discoveries -- about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter and dreams.
Audio - Abridged, 3 cassettes, 5 hours, Performed by Linda Emond
Brought together by an age-old craft, these four women make unexpected discoveries -- about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter and dreams.
Audio - Abridged, 3 cassettes, 5 hours, Performed by Linda Emond
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- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Romance >> Authors, A-Z >> ( M ) >> Macomber, Debbie
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Ann C. (The book is about a unlikely group of women coming together for a knitting class that end up meshing in ways that you won't believe. It is a great book.
I'd never heard of Debbie Macomber--I just wanted to read this book because it's about knitting. Then I saw it was published by Mira Books (a Harlequin imprint), as are some of the books by one of my favorite chicklit authors, Jennifer Crusie. Turns out Macomber is much more of a traditional romance novelist than anything I've ever read--Mira Books categorizes this book as a "relationship novel," whereas Crusie's books are "romantic comedy" or "contemporary romance."
"The Shop on Blossom Street" is about a 30-year-old virgin/two-time brain cancer survivor, Lydia, who opens a yarn shop on Blossom Street in Seattle, Washington, called A Good Yarn. She teaches a beginners' baby blanket class to three women: Jacqueline, a haughty, celibate fiftysomething society matron; Carol, an infertile woman in her thirties; and Alix, a surly twentysomething drug offender with black & purple hair. (Macomber just mentions in passing that Alix is not inexperienced. Unlike the others, she's not defined by how much play she's getting.) Each chapter focuses on a different woman; Lydia's chapters are first-person & begin with a knitting-related epigraph, such as "'The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.' (Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer)."