The Shop on Blossom Street Audio Book

The Shop on Blossom Street
Author: Debbie Macomber
Reader: Linda Emond

A complex, lovely story, a tale of four women who meet in a knitting class, expecting only to learn about yarnwork and needles. But life is often surprising. As they come to appreciate the complexity of patterns, stitches, and colors, theymake unexpected discoveries. "The warmth of Emond's voice so embodies the tenacious characters as to deliver a worthwhile story of change and hope."—AudioFile   » Read More

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