I can't believe it's a year since we first mentioned the concept of "Knit Lit" - where does the time go? But in the past year, we've actually reviewed three knitting-heavy books so the subject was a shoe-in for this week's Tuesday Three. Funnily enough all three of these books are part of series - knit lit is obviously here to stay!
Kate Jacobs' The Friday Night Knitting Club is the charming story of Georgia Walker - single mother to a mixed-race daughter, Dakota, and proprietor of a knitting shop in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Encouraged by Georgia’s mentor, Anita, and assistant, Peri, local women begin to gather in the shop on a Friday evening to chat, knit and eat treats cooked by 12-year-old Dakota ... and The Friday Night Knitting Club is born.
But then Dakota’s father James reappears on the scene wanting a relationship not only with Dakota, but with Georgia too. Georgia’s former best friend, Cat, also turns up, unsatisfied with her glamorous life. Everything seems to be changing and Georgia’s not sure she’s ready.
In Debbie Macomber's Back on Blossom Street, Lydia owns a yarn shop where a group of women come together for a knitting class. Alix, who's about to be married but whose wedding organizing has been overrun by her future mother-in-law and another friend. Collette, who is widowed but recently pregnant by her ex-employer. And Lydia's sister, who also has a crisis which affects her whole family. All that and knitting patterns too!
Gil McNeil's Divas Don’t Knit is the story of Jo Mackenzie, a widow with two young sons. Needing a change to get over the shock of losing her husband (even though he was about to leave her), she takes up her grandmother's invitation to move to the country and take over the running of the family's wool shop.