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A review by kiwikathleen
The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
4.0
I do like this series! I like the quilting aspect - I'm not a quilter myself (well, I've made a couple but they're completely irregular in design and totally amateur in the stitching) but I admire the work and so reading about it is fascinating. I also enjoy getting to know the key characters bit by bit, and the way the author moves the focus in each of the books. The people are just like you and me, and that's restful.
In this one, Sylvia (the owner of Elm Creek) meets a woman who shows her an old quilt that she and her family have always called the 'Elm Creek Quilt' (I may have the name slightly wrong as I don't have the book beside me right now). Sylvia has never heard of it before - how can it be linked to her family? And, distressingly, the ancestors of the woman who owns it were slave owners! In her search to uncover the history of this quilt, Sylvia finds 3 old quilts in the attic, and a journal written by Gerda, the sister of Hans Bergstrom, who founded the Bergstrom Thoroughbred stables and built Elm Creek.
This is a lovely mixture of historical novel with the issues of slavery (including the Underground Railroad), the Civil War, and various other items that could cause scandal in the 1860s, and contemporary novel with issues of friendship and of dealing with discomfort.
In this one, Sylvia (the owner of Elm Creek) meets a woman who shows her an old quilt that she and her family have always called the 'Elm Creek Quilt' (I may have the name slightly wrong as I don't have the book beside me right now). Sylvia has never heard of it before - how can it be linked to her family? And, distressingly, the ancestors of the woman who owns it were slave owners! In her search to uncover the history of this quilt, Sylvia finds 3 old quilts in the attic, and a journal written by Gerda, the sister of Hans Bergstrom, who founded the Bergstrom Thoroughbred stables and built Elm Creek.
This is a lovely mixture of historical novel with the issues of slavery (including the Underground Railroad), the Civil War, and various other items that could cause scandal in the 1860s, and contemporary novel with issues of friendship and of dealing with discomfort.