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Back on Blossom Street

Macomber, Debbie. (Author).

Summary: There’s a new shop on Seattle’s Blossom Street—a flower store called Susannah’s Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired a young widow named Colette Blake. A couple of months earlier, Colette had abruptly quit her previous job—after a brief affair with her boss. To her dismay, he’s suddenly begun placing weekly orders for flower arrangements! Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz’s new knitting class. Lydia’s previous classes have forged lasting friendships, and this one is no exception. But Lydia and her sister, Margaret, have worries of their own. Margaret’s daughter, Julia, has been the victim of a random carjacking, and the entire family is thrown into emotional chaos. Then there’s Alix Townsend. Her wedding to Jordan Turner is only months away—but she’s not sure she can go through with it. Her love for Jordan isn’t in question; what she can’t handle is the whole wedding extravaganza engineered by her mentor, Jacqueline, with the enthusiastic cooperation of her future mother-in-law. A reception at the country club and hundreds of guests she’s never even met—it’s just not Alix. Like everyone else in Lydia’s knitting class, Alix knows there’s a solution to every problem…and that another woman can usually help you find it!

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  • ISBN: 9780778324515 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780778325352 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    393 p. : 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA Books, c2007.
Subject: Female friendship -- Fiction
Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
Knitters (Persons) -- Fiction
Knitting -- Fiction
Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction
Genre: Love stories.

Available copies

  • 9 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Rossland Public Library FIC MAC (Text) BR36953 Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2007 March #1

    Women who share a love of knitting support each other through the vicissitudes of life in Macomber's unsurprising third novel set on Seattle's fictional Blossom Street. Lydia Goetz, the proprietor of the knitting store (and series anchor) A Good Yarn, has begun teaching a new knitting class on prayer shawls. Fellow knitters include Colette Blake, a 31-year-old widow who rents the apartment above the shop and whose grief over her dead husband is being supplemented by confusion about her relationship with former boss and possible criminal Christian Dempsey. Also casting on is Alix Townsend, the daughter of a family of miscreants and now engaged to the Rev. Jordan Turner and so stressed over wedding planning that she wonders if she's pastor's wife material. Closer to home, Lydia's niece Julia is the victim of a carjacking and an ineffectual justice system, and Lydia is feeling bereft because, thanks to her history of cancer, she may never give birth to her own child. Readers will get exactly what they expect: a litany of feel-good, unassailable instances of the benefits of friendship, tolerance and knitting; happy endings for all; and simple if saccharine prose. Readers who already cherish life la Blossom Street will welcome this slight variation on the theme. (May)

    [Page 40]. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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