A Quilt For Christmas Review

Dallas flair for poetic description is not flowery but exquisitely simple and provides a truly mental picture.

A quilt for christmas review.

I have all of her books and delight in reading and re reading them. It is 1864 and eliza spooner s husband will has joined the kansas volunteers to fight the confederates. When she is asked to help hide an escaped slave she must decide for herself what is right and. When the unthinkable happens she takes in a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war and she finds solace and camaraderie amongst the women of her quilting group.

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. I think she scored 100 on her new book a quilt for christmas. 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. 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.

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. Sandra dallas has done it again.