Review: Fraying Skeins by Nancy Jardine
Fraying Skeins Silver Sampler Series, Book #3 by Nancy Jardine Review: I've enjoyed reading the first two novels in this remarkable series – Novice Threads and Tailored Truths – so I was looking forward to reading more of Margaret Law's adventures in Victorian Scotland. Now widowed, Margaret faces a stark choice – stay in Peterhead and continue working for her dodgy father-in-law, or start afresh, again. Not a great choice at all, given his unsavoury intentions towards her. She flees to Aberdeen, where she finds lodgings for herself and her young son, Jamie. Work is hard to come by, yet her varied experience pays off. What begins as a job cleaning students’ lodgings soon sees her helping those same young men with their studies. And her life changes again, as unexpected opportunities arise that she never dreamed of. In the meantime, she meets Johnny again, a former friend of her late husband's and aspiring tailor. Despite being nine years older than him, they soon grow...
