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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060581992
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 0060581999
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Studio: HarperAudio

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Editorial Review:

Product 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.



Performed by Linda Emond






Rating: - More Than Knitting
There's a little yarn shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. It's owned by Lydia Hoffman, and it represents her dream of a new life free from cancer. A life that offers a chance at love...

Lydia teaches knitting to beginners, and the first class is "How To Make a Baby Blanket." Three women join. Jacqueline Donovan wants to knit something for her grandchild as a gesture of reconciliation with her daughter-in-law. Carol Girard feels that the baby blanket is a message of hope as she makes ... Read More

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Rating: - falls short of heart-warming
A friend of mine lent me this book, thinking I might like it since I have lived in Seattle and like to knit, but I was pretty disappointed. The idea for the story was promising, but the storytelling was just too packed with cliches, and the character development was downright phony.

The basic premise is that a cancer survivor opens a knitting store in an attempt at a fresh start: new job, new life, new independence from family. She holds an introductory knitting class, and meets three ... Read More

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Rating: - Debbie Macomber
I surely wish there were a shop like this in my neighborhood. These women could be life long friends of mine!

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Rating: - Good Reead!
This was just a really good story. The characters felt like people I could know and like. In fact I've now read all but Twenty wishes and loved them all!

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Rating: - good if you want something light
If you are looking for something light while you're waiting at the airport, etc., this is a good book. She does repeat herself a little bit, but maybe some people find that helpful if they can't remember characters.

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