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