The Sugar Camp Quilt

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Jennifer Chiaverini's New York Times best-selling Elm Creek Quilt novels, with their irresistible blend of storytelling magic and quilting lore, have captured the hearts of countless fans. In this moving novel about morality, freedom, and the power of human courage, Chiaverini whisks listeners back to antebellum America.

As the nation moves toward civil war, one resident of Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, has her life irrevocably changed. Dorothea Granger is asked by her uncle, shortly before his violent death, to stitch an unusual quilt. When she learns that the quilt contains hidden clues for the Underground Railroad, Dorothea makes a brave decision. She will put her own life at risk to continue the work that cost her uncle his life.

The Dallas Morning News hails the Elm Creek Quilt books as "classics of their kind", and this stirring historical yarn is another satisfying entry in the series.

©2005 Jennifer Chiaverini (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"Even a newcomer to the popular Elm Creek Quilts series will quickly get caught up in the lives of the ladies who stitch." (Publishers Weekly)

Another great book in the series

I liked the history in this book. It brought us back to Dorothea and the underground railroad. Truly enjoyed the story.

Amazing

Oh, how I wasn’t ready for the end, made me long for more. Now on to next book in series.

Poor Narration.

The problem I have with the narrator is that she sounds the same every single time she is being someone else. She makes her voice and her words clipped and sound silly. I think Jennifer’s writings are great but she needs to find a better narrator.u

Rich real-bodied characters

I felt joy in the discovery of the characters as they developed throughout the book to the very end.

audio book

I enjoyed this book on audio. The reader was very entertaining with voice changes and kept the story moving nicly.

Sugar Camp

l love the story and the historical time and bravery of all the abolitionist. Worth lisyrnibg. Getting ready to get next book.

Love this series

Did not want the story to end. The story draws you in and you c n't wait for what happens next.

The sugar Camp quilt

I absolutely love these quilt stories. I get so involved in them that I finish a book before I even realize that I am that close to the end.

The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

Long a fan of The Elm Creek Quilts series, I hadn’t happened upon this one until now. And its one of my favorites. At age nineteen, Dorothea Granger is nearly considered an old maid for the times in which they lived. She, her mother and father lived on a farm with her uncle Jacob, having lost their own farm to a flood and poor money management. Uncle Jacob, expert at tapping the maple trees, was so gruff with them all and a hard task master. Dorothea was a teacher at the local school until the local school board hired the son of a wealthy land owner to take her place. And at their very first meeting, Dorothea and Thomas Nelson, with his university education rubbed each other the wrong way. But as time passes, Dorothea will learn that things are not always as they appear. This is a lovely story, rich with political tensions of the times and descriptions of the prejudices endured by escaping slaves (and freed slaves) by those who considered themselves “better” than them. The trials and injuries that these people went through, along with anyone brave enough to aid in their escape and transit into Canada, makes for an interesting and harrowing tale. The secrecy and danger involved in the Underground Railroad was ever present during this time prior to the Civil War, and continued during and even after. People with money, power and influence often put on a show that turned out to be anything but what it looked like . . . then and now. This is one of my favorite quilt books as well as historical fiction stories.

Great story! Great audio narrator!

Love this author! And any book narrated by Christina Moore is instantly a fav!

This is an interesting, somewhat suspenseful story.