![]() ![]() ![]() Following the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club is this charming story of sisterhood.Īt the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club-including Georgia’s college-age daughter, Dakota-rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce for Darwin, the hope for a family for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother and for seventy-something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.Īs the club’s projects-an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat-are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. ![]()
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