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Bezig met laden... A Quilt for Christmasdoor Sandra Dallas
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. What a lovely read this is. I love this author’s books and haven’t read a bad one. It’s set during the American Civil War and is the story of courageous women, their children and their circle of friends. To be honest, it’s not about Christmas or about quilting. A lovely story of family, tolerance and struggles. ( ) A Quilt for Christmas by Sandra Dallas is the story of Eliza, a strong woman who is overseeing her family and farm in Kansas as her husband is off soldiering in the American Civil War. As the book opens she has just finished and sent off to her husband a special quilt meant to keep him warm and sheltered while he is away from his family. While she and her family are staunch believers in freeing the slaves, she is a little off-put by the hatred toward Southerners expressed by her husband in his letters and also that her son seems to be absorbing this hatred. Sh opens her home to a neighbour widow who needs to escape from the bad treatment she is receiving at the hands of her in-laws and then when the war is over and she learns that she, too, is a widow, she allows an ex-Confederate soldier to stay on her farm as a hired man. She and this man develop feelings for each other much to her son’s disapproval. A Quilt for Christmas beautifully illustrates the courage and commitment of the women left behind as their men went to fight in the War. As a border state, Kansas had people of both persuasion living side by side and bad feelings toward each other and hiding slaves and moving them along was a decision that each individual needed to make. Family, friendship, loyalty, and tolerance are all important themes in this short but well written account of life in the 1860s. This book is more than a Christmas book. Eliza sends her Union soldier husband a quilt for Christmas, but then finds out later that not too long after he received the quilt he died in the Civil War. Later a Confederate soldier who found the quilt brings it to her. He ends up working as a hired hand for Eliza and her two children and then they fall in love, much to her son's dismay. Although Eliza has faith in God, the book isn't preachy. Lovely... there is so much good in this story. Women who band together to support one another through truly difficult things. War and all the high emotion that comes along with it and for the lucky, a realization that there is more in common than different. And grief ... I know that grief of losing a husband and trying to move forward. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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 months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a 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. And when she is asked to help hide an escaped slave, she must decide for herself what is right, and who can she can count on to help her."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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