Click at your own risk if you intend to read this book!) Don’t go into this expecting a typically happy ending. I ran across an online review while I was reading this that, without giving away too many details, said the ending was “depressing,” so I was braced for something bad to happen at the end, and something bad does happen. Frankly, that would be enough of a cast for a novel of this scope, but Jacobs also throws in the women of the titular knitting club that meets at Georgia’s store, and this is where I think she goes a little overboard, cramming too many storylines into a novel that can’t quite bear the weight. Georgia has a twelve-year-old daughter, a mentor-like older friend who helps out in the shop, a former best friend who treated her badly years ago and has now reappeared, and an ex-lover who also treated her badly and has also reappeared wanting a place in her life. It’s the story of Georgia Walker, a single mom in New York City who owns a knitting shop. Heartwarming, tear-jerking, and just a teensy bit formulaic, this novel was an enjoyable read but not one I’ll be stirred to read again. The Friday Night Knitting Club is one of those books that fits very comfortably in the “women’s fiction” niche - commercial rather than literary, but much better-crafted than most genre fiction.
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