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Come home to Marie Bostwick's poignant novel of new beginnings, old friends, and the rich, varied tapestry of lives fully lived...
At twenty-seven, having fled an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Peterman figures she has nowhere to go but up. Quaint, historic New Bern, Connecticut, seems as good a place as any to start fresh. With a part-time job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop and budding friendships, Ivy feels hopeful for the first time in ages.
But when a popular quilting TV show is taped at the quilt shop, Ivy's unwitting appearance in an on-air promo alerts her ex-husband to her whereabouts. Suddenly, Ivy is facing the fight of her life—one that forces her to face her deepest fears as a woman and a mother. This time, however, she's got a sisterhood behind her: companions as complex, strong, and lasting as the quilts they stitch...
Stitched into the heartwarming second installment of Bostwick's contemporary New England quilters series (after 2008's A Single Thread) is an unbreakable thread of friendship and faith. Following a pattern similar to her first (in which shop owner Evelyn Dixon fought breast cancer), Bostwick centers the action around a serious struggle: on the run from an abusive husband, Ivy Peterman and her children, Bethany and Bobby, find refuge in the New Bern, Conn., women's shelter. There, Ivy meets philanthropist Abigail Burgess Wynne and through her lands a job at Evelyn's shop, Cobbled Court Quilts. After 18 months of peace, Ivy's appearance in a Quilt Pink Day promotion, draws out her violent husband. When he appears at Evelyn's shop to confront Ivy, newfound friends and perspective give Ivy the strength to stand up to him, begin divorce proceedings and learn that hiding from fears won't resolve them. Bostwick switches effortlessly from Ivy's poignant story to quilting circle updates, keeping fans in the loop and on their toes with a surprising bit of marriage news. (June)
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John Stapleton
reviewed Thread of Truth on January 04, 2010
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I'm finding that I'm reading more and more books that deal with the strong friendships of women. This was no exception. Bostwick does a magnificent job of explaining how women get sucked into abusive relationships without becoming gory; although, there are parts that make you wince and get angry. The fact that this book and her first with these characters, A Single Thread, is set in a quilt shop doesn't hurt, either.
My only complaint with the book was the edition I read - the Kindle edition. There were too many mistakes - double-words, wrong tense, wrong pronoun, wrong verb, misspelled words. My experience has been there are more mistakes in the Kindle editions of books than there are in the hardback/paperback versions. Someone needs to tell the editors and publishers of the Kindle editions that proofreading is every bit as important in the Kindle edition as it is in the other editions. Hmmmm. Maybe I should hire myself out as a proofreader. Do you think they'd let me proof only those kinds of books that I like to read? Probably not.
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