From www.HeatherBarbieri.com ~ "You can always start again," Kate Robinson’s mother once told her, "all it takes is a new thread." Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, the struggling twenty-six-year-old fashion designer follows her mother’s advice and flees to Ireland, hoping to break free of old patterns and reinvent herself.Soon Kate is stranded in the Gaelic village of Glenmara, a hamlet in western Ireland with charms and problems of its own. There she develops a bond with members of the local lacemaking society.
Under Glenmara’s spell, Kate finds the inspiration that has eluded her and she and the lacemakers create a line of exquisite lingerie - and gain the strength to face long-denied desires and fears. But not everyone welcomes Kate to Glenmara and a series of unexpected events threatens to unravel everything the women have worked so hard for . . .
This isn't an overly exciting book but I enjoyed it.
The tone of it reminded me of the movie Calendar Girls.
I like most of the characters, especially Bernie who is happily filling in a gap in her life since her husband had died last year.
I hated Aileen and the priest ... why did they have to be so mean and nasty?!
And I thought that Kate hooked up with a fella too quickly (sorry for the spoiler). The story takes place over less than a month. Considering she just had her heart broken by Ethan and was mooning over him as she was going around Ireland before she landed in Glenmara, I couldn't see this happening.
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