Product Description

Old Yarns
It is five years since the members of The Friday Night Knitting Club bonded during divorce, job loss, romance, birth – and the sudden death of their dear friend, Georgia. But the Walker and Daughter knitting store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is still going strong.

New Patterns
Drawn together by their love for Georgia’s daughter, 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 single mum and carer for her elderly mother, and for Anita, marriage to her sweetheart over the objections of her grown-up children.

A love letter to the power of female friendship and, of course, knitting, Knit Two is entertainment with heart.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17940 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
Praise for THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB:

'Have a tissue box ready for this emotional rollercoaster of a book' (She )

'Funny, sad and effortlessly hip' (thelondonpaper )

About the Author
Kate Jacobs is the author of the No 1 New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club and Comfort Food. She left her native Canada to earn a graduate degree at New York University – and made her home in Manhattan for a decade, where she worked at Redbook, Working Woman, Family Life and LifetimeTV.com. Currently she lives in Southern California with her husband. To find out more about her novels, visit Kate’s website at www.katejacobsbooks.com.

Customer Reviews

Sequels not always a good idea
I quite enjoyed the 1st novel, Friday Night Knitting Club-maybe because the characters were new and I could associate with the varying stages of knitting expertise within them and a strong lead character Georgia to bring them together. Unlike in many novels I thought Kate Jacobs was brave to allow this main character to die, so was suprised that Knit 2 has been written. All I can say is that this book just dragged out the fact that Georgia died 5 years ago and no-one can get over it and move on(in life 1 or 2 of the characters maybe, but not all of them). Disappointed and don't think I will be in a hurry to read Kate Jacobs again (Comfort Food was hard work as well)

Bit too slushy and sentimental for me
Georgia is still almost the main character in this story. The members of the club cannot get over her absence even though she's been gone five years. Daughter Dakota is growing up, Darwin is pregnant with twins, Catherine is drifting and Anita is trying to make an important decision.

I did enjoy some of this book but I'm afraid the style annoyed me. It read like journalism in many places as though the author was simply reporting what happened. There was very little about knitting and far too much about characters obsessing about a perceived imperfection in their - to me - relatively perfect lives.

The section which brought the story to life for me was when Catherine, Lucie and Ginger, Dakota and James went to Italy. There is far less navel gazing and woe is me! dialogue and narrative as though Italy has removed their collective neuroses. If it hadn't been for this sequence I would have given the book only two stars.

I found the previous book a bit too slushy and sentimental in places and had thought this would be less so. Unfortunately there was even more and while I did read to the end I don't think I shall be reading the next one - if there is a sequel.

good
This is a lovely book to read & I was glad there was a sequel to The Friday Night Knitting Club. I must confess that i didn't enjoy it quite as much, but it was great to learn what happened to the characters several years on from the first novel.