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Between running her Manhattan yarn shop, Walker & Daughter, and raising her 12-year-old biracial daughter, Dakota, Georgia Walker has plenty on her plate in Jacobs's debut novel. But when Dakota's father reappears and a former friend contacts Georgia, Georgia's orderly existence begins to unravel. Her support system is her staff and the knitting club that meets at her store every Friday night, though each person has dramas of her own brewing. Jacobs surveys the knitters' histories, and the novel's pace crawls as the novel lurches between past and present, the latter largely occupied by munching on baked goods, sipping coffee and watching the knitters size each other up. Club members' troubles don't intersect so much as build on common themes of domestic woes and betrayal. It takes a while, but when Jacobs, who worked at Redbook and Working Woman, hits her storytelling stride, poignant twists propel the plot and help the pacing find a pleasant rhythm. (Jan.)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Georgia Walker's entire life is wrapped up in running her knitting store, Walker and Daughter, and caring for her 12-year-old daughter, Dakota. With the help of Anita, a lively widow in her seventies, Georgia starts the Friday Night Knitting Club, which draws loyal customers and a few oddballs. Darwin Chiu, a feminist grad student, believes knitting is downright old-fashioned, but she's drawn to the club as her young marriage threatens to unravel. Lucie, 42, a television producer, is about to become a mother for the first time--without a man in her life. Brash book editor KC finds her career has stalled unexpectedly, while brilliant Peri works at Walker and Daughter by day and designs handbags at night. Georgia gets her own taste of upheaval when Dakota's father reappears, hoping for a second chance. The yarn picks up steam as it draws to a conclusion, and an unexpected tragedy makes it impossible to put down. Jacobs' winning first novel is bound to have appeal among book clubs. Kristine Huntley
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The hours of WALKER AND DAUGHTER: KNITTERS were clearly displayed in multicolored letters on a white sandwich board placed just so at the top of the stair landing. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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The hours of WALKER AND DAUGHTER: KNITTERS were clearly displayed in multicolored letters on a white sandwich board placed just so at the top of the stair landing. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Friday Night Knitting Club review,
This review is from: Friday Night Knitting Club (Hardcover)
What a delightful book by first time author Kate Jacobs!It was a terrific read, kept me intrigued the whole way through. Kate really makes you feel as if you know the characters which keeps you wanting to turn the page and not put the book down.You get wrapped up in the life of the Knitting Club and it made me want to run out and take up knitting.I would recommend this book as a enjoyable read, and i cannot wait to see the movie with Julia Roberts. I look forward to the next book by Kate Jacobs.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: The Friday Night Knitting Club (Paperback)
I continued reading the book past the first few chapters despite being irritated by the "writing down" to the reader and the poor character development because of the hype that I now realize was manufactured. I didn't find it a warm woman's read in any way. I kept reading past the half-way mark because I was slightly invested in the outcome of a sub-plot for a minor character (Darwin). The twist near the end was melodramatic and unnecessary. My take on the book was that it was an early draft of the possibility of a good published novel. I gave it 2 stars rather than 1 because of that one minor character that had some dimension.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: The Friday Night Knitting Club (Paperback)
The Friday Night Knitting Club is a nice read. At times, it felt that the book dragged on just a bit, but it is such a relaxing and heartwarming story that I kept on reading and found that it picked up further into the story.It actually reminded me of a New York version of a Maeve Binchy-type story.
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