BOOK
DESCRIPTION
Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn't have the creativity needed. But there's an elusive artisan in the Blue Ridge Mountains who could save her--if only she can find her.
To track the mysterious weaver down, Lorna sees no other way but to seek out the relationships she abandoned in shame. As she pulls at each tangled thread from her old life, Lorna is forced to confront the wounds and regrets of long ago. She'll have to risk the job that shapes her identity as well as the hope of friendship--and love--restored.
In this seamlessly woven historical tale, award-winning Appalachian author Sarah Loudin Thomas delivers a poignant novel of friendship, artistry, restoration, and second chances.
MY REVIEW
Set in North Carolina around the Biltmore
estate, this is three separate stories entangled together by circumstances
outside of control.
We learn of Arthur, Gentry and Lorna who all
worked on the Biltmore Estate as a part of training operation that also
included weaving and woodworking. Arthur stayed around but expanded on his own
business.
While the stories were their own, they were very
much intertwined. These characters learned from each other. Some of the lessons
were difficult and others were unexpected.
This book is written from all three points of
view and it goes between what is their past and their present. Each has
difficult circumstances brought about by the times and others in their world.
The glimpses of the Biltmore estate are beautiful and the lives of the
characters are rich and interesting.
Ultimately their threads are entangled and
eventually come together again in an unexpected and beautiful way, much like
the cloth that is woven throughout the book. I enjoyed this story very much and
the look into the lives of hardworking people that sometimes struggled with
what it meant to survive. The messages of forgiveness and love are woven
throughout, much like the characters. This was a beautifully written story and
I would recommend it to others.
I received an early copy from the publisher and
NetGalley and this is my honest review.
AUTHOR
BIO
Sarah Loudin Thomas (sarahloudinthomas.com) is the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Finder of Forgotten Things, The Right Kind of Fool, winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the Year, and Miracle in a Dry Season, winner of the 2015 INSPY Award. She worked in public relations for Biltmore Estate for six years and is now the director of Jan Karon's Mitford Museum. A native of West Virginia, she and her husband now live in western North Carolina.
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