The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - Hardcover

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743260171 ISBN 13: 9780743260176

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia, 2005

Synopsis

Coming of age in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the troubled years before the Civil War, dutiful quilter Dorothea Granger postpones her dreams of an education and agrees to sew an unusual quilt to fulfill her uncle's deathbed request, realizing afterward that the quilt pattern contains an Underground Railroad map. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Some of the most compelling characters you'll ever want to meet."

-- "Green Bay Press Gazette"

"Imparts a healthy dollop of history in a folksy style, while raising moral questions in a suspenseful narrative."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Warm and wise, full of quilting lore...One of the beauties of this series is that readers can start at the beginning or jump to the end. Each novel stands alone, while for devoted followers, each new volume is like a visit with old friends."

-- "The Advocate" (Nashville, Tenn.)

"Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts books...have become classics of their kind."

-- "The Dallas Morning News"

About the Author:

Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of seventeen Elm Creek Quilts novels, as well as four collections of quilt projects inspired by the series, and is the designer of the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines from Red Rooster Fabrics. She lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743260171
• ISBN 13: 9780743260176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320