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Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on their latest projects—and share the stories of their lives...
At the center of Walker and Daughter is the shop's owner, Georgia, who is overwhelmed with juggling the store and single-handedly raising her teenage daughter. Happy to escape the demands of her life, she looks forward to her Friday Night Knitting Club, where she and her friends—Anita, Peri, Darwin, Lucie, and K.C.—exchange knitting tips, jokes, and their deepest secrets. But when the man who once broke Georgia's heart suddenly shows up, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her world is shattered.
Luckily, Georgia's friends are there for encouragement, 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; its a sisterhood.
Book Number: One
Genre: Adult | Contemporary | RomanceÂ
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A tale of many women interwoven together by their love of knitting and the joy they get from hanging around with one another and giving each other the support they have never been able to find in any other part of their lives.Â
Georgia Walker is a single-mom who also runs her own yarn shop called Walker and Daughter. Her life is often difficult and full of strife, but she loves what she does for a living. Every Friday night, she escapes some of the turmoil of her stressful life alongside her friends at the Friday Night Knitting Club. Then one day, her ex appears out of the blue and wants to meet his thirteen year old daughter. Georgia feels overwhelmed by the changes rapidly occurring in her life, but at least she has her trustworthy knitting friends to help relieve the burden.Â
This book took me a long time to plod through. I misplaced it for a while and didn't have the desire to go hunt it down. And yet, the ending of the book caught me completely by surprise and put me through the wringer. I was distraught by the events that were happening to the Club. This surprised me, because I didn't think I felt that strongly for any of the characters.Â
The characters were an eccentric bunch for mostly being a middle age bunch of women who like to knit. Each women has her own struggles and problems that the book addresses, which allows the story to encompass many different topics. Some of them include struggling to find the career you want, getting divorced, falling in love after a longtime partners death, and rediscovering the love of your life.Â
Overall, "The Friday Night Knitting Club" is really a story of unlikely friendships, rediscovering one's self, and recuperating when life doesn't go your way. I think that many people could see themselves in the women of the Club and find many aspects of this book relatable. However for me, this book was missing something that truly drug me into the story.Â
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The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club
The sequel to the number-one New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, Knit Two returns to Walker and Daughter, the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker and her young daughter, Dakota. Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, running the little yarn shop part-time with help from the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club.
Drawn together by the sense of family the club has created, the knitters rely on one another as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventy something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.
As the club's projects—an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat—are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn't the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: it's the care and attention you bring to the craft—as well as how you adapt to surprises.
Book Number: TwoÂ
Genre: Adult | Contemporary | Romance
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Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker-from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom. From Thanksgiving through HanukÂkah and Christmas to New Year's, Knit the Season is a novel about the richness of family bonds and the joys of friendship.
Book Number: Three (Last Book)Â
Genre: Adult | Contemporary | RomanceÂ
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