Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens Is An Enthralling

Sometimes The Most Ordinary Things Are The Ones We Learn To Miss The Most.

Beginning Writers Are Often Advised To 'write What You Know,' And Since I Knew About Quilters - Their Quirks, Their Inside Jokes, Their Disputes And Their Generosity, Their Quarrels And Their Kindnesses - The Lives Of Quilters Became A Natural Subject For Me. Quilting Wove Together My Two Themes As Completely And Effortlessly As I Could Have Hoped.

Mary Lincoln Provided Elizabeth Keckley With Opportunities For Social And Economic Advancement She Probably Had Never Imagined During Her Years As A Slave, While Elizabeth Offered Mary The Loyal, Steadfast Friendship She Craved But Had Always Found So Elusive.

In My Contemporary Stories, I Write About Today's Quilters, Inventive Techniques They Use, And How Technology Has Influenced Their Art. Novels Set In The Past Let Me Have Fun Researching Patterns That Were Popular And Fabrics And Tools Available To Quilters Through History.

Ignorant People, Whispering Cruel Rumors, Her Mother Whispered. Pay Them No Mind.