Title: Summer on Blossom Street
First published: 2009
Description: 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: Knitters (Persons), Literature, Knitting, Cancer, Knitting in fiction, Fiction, Romance, Patients, Female friendship, Cancer in fiction, Female friendship in fiction, Domestic fiction, Relationship Novel, Seattle (wash.), fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, family life, Large type books, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-17, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2010-05-16, Self-help groups
Places: Seattle (Wash.), Seattle, Washington (State)