A Single Thread

After reading two fairly heavy novels just before this one, A Single Thread was a pleasant escape. For me, “light fiction” doesn’t always engage me enough to provide me the escape that I look to reading to give me, so it’s a fine line.

This author Marie Bostwick straddled that line perfectly.

The novel opens up with Evelyn Dixon driving from Texas to Connecticut (if you know me, you’ll know that this appealed to my own experience) after her marriage ends. When she finds a picturesque town and an empty building available for lease, her dream of opening a quilting shop becomes an inescapable preoccupation.

There she is in a strange town with no friends, but she’s determined. When she’s hit with a surprise diagnosis, her acquaintances quickly become friends to rally around her.

If you are a fan of Jan Karon’s Mitford series, I am fairly certain you’ll like this book. It has the same comfortable and caring feel and focus on friends, family, and community, presented in an engaging, believable, and perfectly clean story. Though I’m not a quilter, if you are a quilter, I’m sure that you’ll love the imagery and craft-talk.

This book stands alone, but after finishing this book, I found out that there are more to come in this series. A Thread of Truth releases at the end of this month, focusing on a different character.

Managing Editor Jennifer Donovan also blogs at Snapshot about life with her tween daughter and preschool son.