Lydia Hoffman is the owner of a new yarn shop called “A Good Yarn”. She has had two battles with cancer in her 30 years and is attempting to live each day fully. Starting the yarn shop is a leap of faith in her future. She is wary of emotional attachments because of unsuccessful relationships in her past. Men do not know how to form a relationship with a cancer patient.

Carol Girard has been a successful business woman who is desperate to have a child. Her quest to become pregnant is costing her enormous amounts of money and ruining her marriage.

Alix Townsend is a young woman working at a local video store. Due to unfortunate circumstances Alix needs to fulfill a community service obligation. She decides to knit a baby blanket to donate to a shelter. Alix has had a rough life so far but begins to change as she participates in the weekly knitting group.

Jacqueline Donovan is wealthy middle-aged woman disillusioned with her marriage. She also has an intense dislike for her only son’s Southern wife, Tammie Lee. Jacqueline also develops an intense dislike towards Alix Townsend which threatens the initial success of “A Good Yarn”. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Jacqueline’s life begins to change.

As The Shop on Blossom Street moves along, the relationships between the four women evolve. Although the women are from very different backgrounds their lives begin to intertwine with each other resulting in some astounding resolutions at the book’s conclusion.

Any reader who enjoys writers such as Maeve Binchy, Elizabeth Berg or Belva Plain may enjoy reading a book by Debbie Macomber. She has the ability to develop her characters and their relationships with each other in a gripping way which pulls the reader into the story. The Shop on Blossom Street is one of those books which is difficult to put down once it is begun.