A union soldier s wife wonders what happened to the quilt she sent him for christmas even as she adjusts to widowhood and creates a new life with other women touched by war.
A quilt for christmas review.
In sandra dallas novel a quilt for christmas it is 1864 and eliza spooner s husband will has joined the kansas volunteers to fight the confederates leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land eliza is confident that he will return home and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep will warm during his winter in the army.
In fact even though it rehashes things from previous books chiaverini describes all incidences within the book well enough that no reference from the firs seven are needed.
Dallas flair for poetic description is not flowery but exquisitely simple and provides a truly mental picture.
Kansas settlers eliza and will share a deep love and a strong marriage and she s convinced he ll come back from serving in the union army.
Sandra dallas has done it again.
When she is asked to help hide an escaped slave she must decide for herself what is right and.
3 84 rating details 2 347 ratings 444 reviews in sandra dallas novel a quilt for christmas it is 1864 and eliza spooner s husband will has joined the kansas volunteers to fight the confederates leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land.
I think she scored 100 on her new book a quilt for christmas.
The christmas quilt is one of many in the elm creek quilt series by jeniffer chiaverini.
I have all of her books and delight in reading and re reading them.