Title: The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5/5
Single mother Georgia Walker is the owner of Walker and Daughter, a yarn shop in New York City and home of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Made up of six very different women (and one daughter), the club quickly changes from a place to receive knitting help to an opportunity to share the stories of their lives and find the comfort and companionship they were missing.
Truthfully I found The Friday Night Knitting Club a little slow to start. The first eighty pages were entirely from Georgia's point of view and was filled with her complaints. But as she slowly accepted the club and loosened up, she started to grow on me. And then we got to know the other characters and I was hooked. She introduced each character's personality quirks little by little, letting us get to know them without bombarding us with information. I love the knitting advice that precedes and directly relates to each section; who knew that life could be so easily reflected in a craft? The ending was absolutely moving and truly surprising, and I'm not normally caught off guard by much. The Friday Night Knitting Club is a book that I will recommend often, and I can't wait to read the sequel.
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