The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.
Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Loved this book. Comment: I felt this was a wonderful heart warming story and enjoyed it very much. I even picked up the seqeal Knit 2 and loved that one as well. Customer Rating: Summary: Friday Night Kniting Club- lets get together and Knit Comment: I loved it
the friendships formed
someone to talk to about anything
another reason to look forward to FRIDAY
the importance of friendship with something in common bringing you together
teaching our children an age old technique of knitting
craft groups are a dying art Customer Rating: Summary: Knitting Life Comment: I really enjoyed this book and would recommended to anyone I know. I initially bought it unsure that it was really a book for me, but was I happily surprised. For me at least, this book in its creation shows the complexity of life with the complexity of learning how to knit. It can be frustrating at first but eventually you will create something of very own that you can be proud of. And yes there may be times where you will unravel some of your work to rework it, but you will learn something in the process that makes you a better knitter. But in the end, like life, you must bind your work off to begin a new one.
Yes, I'm a sap, but overall I think most anyone will enjoy this book. ;o) Happy reading. Customer Rating: Summary: Unrealistic and cliche' ridden Comment: Gutsy young woman topped by red hair with uncontrollable curls - her grandmother lives in Scotland, of course. - CHECK
"Wealthy socialite" friend with unlimited cash whose patronage promises to make her career - CHECK
Handsome successful father of her child who begins to see the light about the heroine and worships the child, also with unlimited cash - CHECK
2 bedroom apartment in Manhattan upstairs from a knitting shop which is somehow financed by an unmarried mother with a low paying job - CHECK
Quirky, racially diverse group of friends willing to give and receive their support to one another - CHECK
Kindly elderly friend with seemingly unlimited financial resources who convinces heroine to start the shop based on the amazing "gift" for knitting she witnesses from the red headed stranger's knitting on a park bench in NYC.
Down to earth, heart of gold, native New Yorker deli owner downstairs from the shop who looks out for their welfare of the cast- CHECK
Good fiction has the ability to make something not believable seem believable, but this doesn't do that - it is just too contrived, politically correct, and unrealistic to be enjoyable.
Customer Rating: Summary: Friday Night Knitting Club Comment: I really enjoyed this book. It was fairly predictable throughout, though there were a few unexpected twists. The message seemed to be that we can't run away from our family, and family love overcomes all other.
