Summer on Blossom Street

About this book

Knitting and LifeThey're both about beginnings--and endings. That's why Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom Street, offers a class called Knit to Quit. It's for people who want to quit something--or someone!--and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander, who's trying to get over a man. Alix Turner and her husband want a baby, so she has to quit smoking. And Bryan Hutchinson needs a way to deal with the stress of running his family's business.Then there's Lydia's friend Anne Marie Roche. She and her adopted daughter, Ellen, have finally settled into a secure and happy routine--when a stranger appears asking questions.Meanwhile, Lydia and her husband, Brad, have their hands full with the angry, defiant twelve-year-old who unexpectedly becomes their foster child....But when your life--and your stitches--get snarled, your friends can always help!

Subjects

  • cancer
  • cancer in fiction
  • domestic fiction
  • female friendship
  • female friendship in fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, family life, general
  • fiction, romance, contemporary
  • friendship, fiction
  • knitters (persons)
  • knitting
  • knitting in fiction
  • large type books
  • literature
  • new york times bestseller
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-17
  • nyt:mass-market-paperback=2010-05-16
  • patients
  • relationship novel
  • romance
  • seattle (wash.), fiction
  • self-help groups