The Friday Night Knitting Club |  | Author: Kate Jacobs
Creator: Carrington Macduffie
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  185 reviews
Sales Rank: 781040
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 9
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Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 4.1 x 2.7
ISBN: 1433201801
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781433201806
ASIN: 1433201801
Publication Date: August 2007
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Product Description
A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it.
Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia's regulars, who gather once a week to work on their latest projects and to chat-and occasionally clash-over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.
Georgia has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the store and raising her spunky teen daughter, Dakota, by herself. Thank goodness for Anita, her mentor and dear friend, and the rest of the members of the knitting club-who are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop's bins. There's Peri, a prelaw student turned handbag designer; Darwin, a somewhat aloof feminist grad student; and Lucie, a petite, quiet woman who's harboring some secrets of her own.
However, unexpected changes soon throw these women's lives into disarray, and the shop's comfortable world gets shaken up like a snow globe. James, Georgia's ex, decides that he wants to play a larger role in Dakota's life-and possibly Georgia's as well. Cat, a former friend from high school, returns to New York as a rich Park Avenue wife and uneasily renews her old bond with Georgia. Meanwhile, Anita must confront her growing (and reciprocated) feelings for Marty, the kind neighborhood deli owner. And when the unthinkable happens, they realize what they've created: not just a knitting club, but a sisterhood
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 As the cover says... August 16, 2008
... This plays out as a "Steel Magnolia's set in Manhattan" and I was not let down. A nicely written account of how womens lives connect and develop into deep friendships. I was hanging on the writers every word, not being able to put the book down. I wish this would be made into a movie soon. I cannot say enough good things about this story.
 Enjoyable but formulaic August 14, 2008
I like a good chick-lit book once or twice a summer, and this one fit the bill. There were some likeable characters, and it was fun to see some different kinds of conflicts, like the 72 year old woman suddenly rediscovering her sexuality, and I loved the scene where James' mother gives him a dressing down. Some of the characters were too one-dimensional -- Georgia was just too good to be true much of the time, and Cat too stupid for redemption, and Darwin too annoying overall. I know I was supposed to cry when Georgia died, but honestly, her role seemd to be to be the catalyst for everyone else to get her life together, and once that happened, she kinda had to die because her purpose was served. The writer has obvious talent and some passages were either incredibly insightful (like why New Yorkers never invite you to their homes) or just plain lyrical. It's not great literature, but it's not bad, either, and she is definitely an author I would read again. But the book will go in my giveaway/trade pile because it's really not deep enough or satisfying enough for a second read.
 Lukewarm August 14, 2008
I just never really got into the characters. I can knit well, so I wanted to like this book. It seemed like there was something missing . . .
A BOOK FOR WOMAN EVEN IFTHEY DON'TKNIT August 9, 2008
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A GROUP OF WOMAN WHO HAVE LITTLE IN COMMON EXCEPT THE LOVE OF KNITTING. YET AS TIME GOES ON THEY DISCOVER THEIR BONDIS STRONG. YES THERE IS A LOVE AFFAIR.
IT IS A STORY OF REDEMTION AND RENEWAL. IT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH AND CRY.
A Good Summer Read! August 8, 2008
I read this book and marveled at how I picked such a great novel about women, love, friendship and of course knitting. The writing is fresh; the characters memorable. No, you are not going to learn how to knit just from reading a novel about a knitting club but the beauty is that it makes you want to learn how by taking a formal class or joining your own local knitting club. I loved every page of this book. I thought the characters were well developed because I understood each and every one of them and their thoughts-their struggles. Sure Georgia's character may have irked me after a while...what with her musings and lingering resentment for her daughter's father but I could understand her character and WHY she felt as she did. I felt a connection with the other characters as well even the clueless Cat Phillips...and while I don't condone James's earlier abandonment, I understood his fear and WHY he jeopardized his and Georgia's relationship. There was a reason, I think, why the author wrote James and Cat's reappearance into Georgia's life. No, it may not have the fairy-tale ending and yes that was disappointing but at the same time I did not expect it to end any differently. For those who want a realistic view into the lives of the modern day independent woman who just so happens to knit, I say give this book a chance. I did and I do not regret it.
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