![]() ![]() , hits her storytelling stride, poignant twists propel the plot and help the pacing find a pleasant rhythm. It takes a while, but when Jacobs, who worked at Redbook Club members' troubles don't intersect so much as build on common themes of domestic woes and betrayal. 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. 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. The Friday Night Knitting Club written by Kate Jacobs is about a single Mum, Georgia Walker, her shop on Broadway’s Upper East Side in New York and a group of friends who visit her yarn shop. ![]() ![]() But when Dakota's father reappears and a former friend contacts Georgia, Georgia's orderly existence begins to unravel. 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. ![]()
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