Josephine "Josie" Shelby Sullivan is the daughter of a New York Times best-selling author of romance novels. Her relationship has always been closer to her father than her mom Shelby, but she loves them both dearly. A single mom with a 16 year old daughter; Orli is the perfect daughter.
Discovering her pregnancy during her freshmen year of college, her choice was to go it alone. Orli's father Grant Cooper was on the cusp of beginning his career as an attorney, and Josie's aspirations didn't include marriage at the time even though she was deeply in love with Grant.
Grant has been in Orli's life at all times and she visits him in Boston often. Josie's home is Cedar Key, Florida where she has just been laid off from her nursing position in Gainesville. An avid knitter, Josie is asked to help out at Yarning Together while one of the owners is recovering from an arm injury. This fills in for income until she is offered a position with Dr. Simon Mancini who is starting a new practice on the island. Feeling an interest more than as an employee, Josie is confused as to her true feelings for her first real love, Grant.
The group of close- knit friends surrounding Josie share her love of knitting, even offering Josie the chance to hold a knitting class for men. Shelby's medical scare shakes Josie to the bone, creating a new intimacy with her mother that is totally new to her. With Grant in her life, now is the time to consider that her own true happiness might mean realizing that love, home and happiness is where the heart is not the geographical locality in which she resides.
The warm and fuzzy feelings between the women of the knitting group and surrounding family, is what life is all about. A strong and stubborn woman determined to make it on her own, has to face facts that it is ok to need someone else. Terri DuLong has a knack for setting her characters in small but warm communities where love and kindness abounds.
FAREWELL TO CEDAR KEY is not the first I have read by this author and definitely not the last. All endings lead to new beginnings and Terri DuLong includes this in her writings.
"You'll fall instantly in love with Cedar Key and this homespun knitting community." --Lori Wilde New York Times bestselling author Terri DuLong welcomes you to the colorful community of Cedar Key, Florida--a place where hearts are warm and friendship is true… Josie Sullivan adores her Cedar Key home. It's been the ideal place to raise her daughter, Orli, who's just turning sixteen. Now that Josie has realized her dream of becoming a registered nurse, she's been offered the perfect job too--helping Dr. Simon Mancini run his new practice. Until the clinic opens, Josie is filling in at Yarning Together, where she launches a series of knitting classes for men. Yet for all the vibrant changes, there are some tangled threads. Josie's romance-author mother, Shelby, receives a worrying diagnosis. And though Josie has always guarded her independence, her connection to Orli's father, Grant, seems to be rekindling. Most of all, as Shelby's college classmates rally around their dear friend, Josie begins to see that "home" is more than a place;it's the relationships woven into each life, strand by strand…
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