The Shop on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber

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Title: The Shop on Blossom Street
Author: Debbie Macomber
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 416
Date read: August, 2012

There's a little yarn store in Seattle.

It's owned by Lydia Hoffman, and it represents her dream of a new life free from cancer. A life that offers a chance at love...

Lydia teaches knitting to beginners, and the first class is "How to Make a Baby Blanket." Three women join. Jacqueline Donovan wants to knit something for her grandchild as a gesture of reconciliation with her daughter-in-law. Carol Girard feels that the baby blanket is a message of hope as she makes a final attempt to conceive. And Alix Townsend is knitting her blanket for a court-ordered community service project.

These four very different women, brought together by an age-old craft, make unexpected discoveries--about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to friendship and more...

I picked up "Back at Blossom Street" at a whim at a garage sale, not realizing until I sat down to actually read it that it was the third in a series. Not one to let a small thing like that stop me, I immediately turned to Amazon and as they had the two first ones at a reasonable price, I bought them and started reading. It took me less than 10% to fall in love with the series.

"The Shop on Blossom Street" is a wonderfully cozy story. There's not much plot to it, but it's simply a charming comfort-read. I liked the main characters and enjoyed getting to know their good and bad sides. I especially enjoyed seeing the relationship between Margaret and Lydia evolve.