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Sunday, December 18, 2005

The Quilters Apprentice


Jennifer Chiaverini 1998 Simon&Schuster HC 271pp

“Sarah leaned against the brick wall and tried to look comfortable, hoping that no one walking by would notice her or wonder why she was standing around in a suit on such a hot day.”

This women has a number of books on the shelves of my local library, there are apparently sequels to this novel.

It had a pretty cover and I was feeling in quite a soppy mood but even I felt the first stirring of concern when this – her FIRST novel – comes with a page of acknowledgements at the beginning, of the 'chicken soup for the soul' kind.

It all went down hill from there.

Sarah and her husband Matt move all of 3 hours away from their home town so Matt can take up a new job. Obviously it takes longer to get places in the US, because this means that Soppy-Sarah is now isolated and alone and looking for work in a new town. She mopes and sulks and honestly there wasn’t a page I read that I just didn’t want to slap her.

Linear I believe the plot would most kindly be described as. Linear in a Mills&Boonian kind of way. Sooky-sarah mets the crotchety mysterious old lady Matt works for who OF COURSE offers sulky-sarah a job in her wonderful old house. OF COURSE there is some kind of mystery spanning the generations OF COURSE Sarah solves it and fixes everything and gets to live in the old house with the lady who really was very nice.

I admit I cried but that had EVERYTHING to do with the thoughts of quilts and grandmothers and time that passes and doesn’t come back and NOTHING to do with this book.

Recommended for a soppy older relative whose literary taste runs to the extreme end of soppiness.

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