A Good Yarn

By: Debbie Macomber

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

You might have heard about a wonderful little yarn store in downtown Seattle. Debbie Macomber can take you there!

In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived and so has Lydia Hoffman, the owner. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness.

Elise Beaumont joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes. Living with her daughter, Aurora, Elise learns that her onetime husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of how Elise feels about him.

Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a divorce and joins the knitting class as the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope.

Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager. She's staying with her grandmother, who's trying to help by taking her to the knitting class at A Good Yarn.

Four women, brought together by the craft of knitting, find companionship and comfort in each other. Who would've thought that knitting socks could change your life?

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©2005 Debbie Macomber (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Critic reviews

• 2005 Audie Award Nominee, Romance

"An unbreakable bond is formed among the knitters in this sweet and poignant story of real women with real problems becoming real friends." (Booklist)

a good yarn

A really fun book. Visiting old friends and making new friends. It is a feel-good book. Want to listen until the last page!! And then wonder how long before the next installment.

A Nice Story

Although I'm usually the Thriller type, I got this book because of the knitting content - yes, I knit socks!!! A nice, pleasant story with nothing to offend anyone & a happy ending too!! I would recommend this book to readers of light fiction who just want to relax & be entertained.

Great book

Debbie Macomber is very skilled at drawing in the reader into the plots by creating great characters. This book is no exception. It was a perfectly created yarn!

Good, cozy story...

I really enjoyed this second installment in the Blossom Street series. The characters are pretty realistic and seem like old friends. I especially enjoyed the knitting tidbits.

Knitting and Friendships Forage On

Another new group of beginning knitters, a group who looks like they won't be a group to bond. Their project is learning to knit socks. The socks they knit and the the people they knit them for forage a strong bond. Unexpected friendships, disappointments and hurt feelings and the gift of forgiveness are wonderful ingredients for a charming story. I truly enjoyed this book. I have never knitted, but after going through the loss of my husband and having an extremely hard time I think I will find a "Good Yarn" place and learn how to knit. Maybe, I can heal too.

Easy listening story

The equivalent of easy listening music, this pleasant story is engaging and enjoyable. The plot is not complicated, the characters are somewhat two dimensional, and you know the conclusion is coming from a mile away. If you like to knit, all the better!

Good, but sad

This book was good if you like knitting, but it wasn't a happy book, there was no happy ending. It did use knitting terminology a lot.

Giving

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I’m looking forward to the next in the series. The narrator did a wonderful job.

Like a warm hug for your heart

The second installment in the Blossom Street series is amazing is the first I felt like I was right there with all the ladies. Debbie has a gift for creating characters that we can relate to.

It was a Good Yarn

It was a little confusing at first, figuring out all the characters and who belonged with who, but the narrator did such an exceptional job of voicing everyone in such a way, that soon I was able to know who was “talking” just by the way she was voicing them. Very impressive! I felt like I got to know and appreciate all of them and their story lines, which all tied together nicely and concluded in a very satisfactory way, it was an enjoyable listen to knit along to,