Women may come in all possible descriptions with no two
alike, but there is always one shared quality -- the ability
of one woman's friendship and understanding to lighten the
load of the other. Such are the lives of the women on
Blossom Street. Each with their own worries and fears, they
struggle to find answers to the trials of daily life.
Young Julia is the victim of crime, her mother not knowing
how to help her, her Aunt Lydia being the support they both
need. Alix Townsend is engaged to the handsome preacher
Jordan Turner, but her life hasn't always followed the
straight and narrow. Can she be the kind of wife a preacher
needs, and more importantly, can she make a kind of peace
with his domineering mother. Colette Blake, newly hired at
the flower shop, is a young widow filled with guilt. How
can she ever face her family with the news they must soon
hear?
The setting is Seattle's Blossom Street where a new flower
store, Susannah's Garden, has opened next door to a
knitting shop called A Good Yarn. Although gently paced and
with each chapter a shuffle from one character to another
as their lives and problems are revealed, the situations
presented keep you reading while knowing full well that
things will be satisfactorily resolved for all. Multiple
characters make it difficult for much of an in-depth
development, but a sense of personality and conflict are
adequate for readers to understand and sympathize. As a
bonus, the book includes instructions for a knit triangular
prayer shawl, Alix's lace prayer shawl and Alix's
stockinette stitch lace prayer shawl. The story is written
in true Macomber style and her devoted fans will not be
disappointed.
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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