Review: ripples in life
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2013
Ripples Along the Shore by mona HodgsonThird book in the series and I've read the prior two. Love this series, It's about family, love and surviving with the work your hands do.This one is mainly about Caroline and how she travels to St. Charles after being notified her husband was killed in the war. She will at least have her friends and one sister around her-the quilting ladies and her sister, nieces and one nephew.1866 is the time frame when life was simple.  Garrett Cowlishaw is the man who comes to their rescue with getting her trunks to her sisters house. He had also delivered the letter about her husband.Many times prayer is quoted during the book depending on the circumstances-they are most rewarding revelations.For so many of the widows and soon to be married women it's a new era, God has a plan for their new changes in life.Love reference to scraps of cloth and how it relates to grief! " A quilted hear is a transformed heart"Garrett along with many others hates how Jewell is treated from her husband in a wheelchair. Caroline is having thoughts of also going in the wagon trail heading west...Double wedding in a barn-what a ceremony!  Love prepared sounds heavenly!Love references to the ladies who meet once a week to quilt. Love hearing about the quilting blocks they are making and assembling 2 quilts and the cause.Interesting to find out who will be going on the trek west and for what reasons. The story also catches up with the others in town, their families and lifes.Authors other works are noted at the back.I received this book from Net Galley via Random House and WaterBrook Multnomah Publishers in exchange for my honest review.