KNIT TWO returns to the Manhattan knitting store, 'Walker & Daughter', five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia s daughter Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, running the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce, for Darwin, newborn twins, for Lucie, being both a single mom and caregiver for her elderly mother, and for seventysomething Anita, marriage to her sweetheart Marty over the objections of her grown children.As Kate Jacobs returns to the world of 'Walker & Daughter', she's once again keyed into many of the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter and friend. Every woman who picks up this book will see themselves in its characters - the very thing that made The Friday Night Knitting Club such a huge word-of-mouth success. A true love letter to the power of women s friendships, and, of course, knitting, KNIT TWO is entertainment with a heart.
While this is billed as knit-lit it really is less about the knitting (actually sometimes the knitting seems a bit superflous to the plot) and more about the women and how they're coping with the events of the last book. It's five years later and things have moved on, some of the characters haven't quite moved on and are still stuck in a bit of a rut.
There's a lot going on with the characters and it seems like Jacobs didn't want to leave any of them out of the fun so occasionally things get quite complicated and I sometimes wished that the focus would return to a single character for a while.
It's readable but I didn't find it all that special. In fact reading it felt like eating a lot of cheap chocolate, good at the time but a bad taste afterwards.
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15 February, 2010:
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