Customer Reviews
Lovely read - By: Ms. K. Marsh, 26 Sep 2008 
I thoroughly enjoyed this book: The Friday Night Knitting Club. Jacobs turned out to be a great writer, & I will definitely be looking out for her work. Here is the synopsis:
Casting on! It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles & wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat & before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. Finding a pattern! And as the needles clack, & the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns & yarn to life, love & everything. These women are of different ages, from different backgrounds & facing different problems, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit. The Friday Night Knitting Club - don't you want to join?
My favourite character was Georgia's daughter Dakota I think. I loved watching her grow up, search for her roots & I loved her passion for baking, one of my passions too! However, I did love alll the characters. Georgia was a beautiful character; strong, independent, reliable & a real role model, showing that women, especiallly single-mothers can make it big in life, can achieve what they want.
I adored the Club & the people who came along. The attempts at knitting made me laugh, & made me realise how bad I would be if I tried, however, because of this book I do want to give knitting a go. The friendships formed & the way they stuck together through everything was beautiful. This showed how friends can be formed in crazy places, but they are friendships that will last.
Jacobs searched alll kinds of issues, from knitting, to love, to race, to cancer. All were written about in a sensitive, commendable way & the issues are dealt with wonderfully.
My only complaints are that not alll the characters were explored as much as I would have liked. Both K.C. & Marty I felt I didn't know enough about & there was one story line involving Anita that I didn't feel was finished.
Even though this is a book based around knitting, there was not an overload of knitting in the book, & actuallly, it shows how people of any age can enjoy sitting down & following a pattern.
9/10 - a lovely book, highly recommend it!
Get your tissues at the ready........ - By: Gilly, 24 Sep 2008 
This is a great read for lovers of chick lit & knitting - like me! I must admit I did find the book a little slow to get going but I persisted with it & reallly warmed to the charachters.
The book tells a story of several women, alll from different backgrounds bonded to gether by knitting & friendship. It does get reallly weapy though so a box of tissues is a real must!
Most badly written book I've ever read - By: E. J. Edwards, 17 Sep 2008 
The review title reallly says it alll. This has to be one of the few exceptions to the rule, the flim can only improve on the book.
Beyond the poor writing style - did no-one bother hiring an editor? - the book was full of clichés & extremely predictable.
Knitters deserve so much more. Try something by the Yarn Harlot instead.
Great girly book with an ending you don't see coming! - By: Maswon Berks, 14 Mar 2008 Great book for girlie book club discussions!
Nice story about a group of friends who have little in common & find mutual satsisfaction at the knitting club.
The ending upset me a bit... didn't see it coming & wanted it to end nicer.
Don't read this book:join a REAL knitting group - By: la tricoteuse, 27 Feb 2008 Some misguided mag or other says that this is "worth taking a duvet day for", well only if you then use the duvet to smother yourself out of your misery. With leaden prose, devoid of the humour that often runs through chick lit, & with a cast of wooden characters, this book starts off as boring, descends into mawk, & ends up as cheese. (Cliches are its modus operandi). After a couple of chapters I flipped forward to see if it would get any better & realised that it was actuallly going to get far worse. I did try to make it to the end but...frankly, this is the biggest waste of money ever.
But, whatever you do, don't let reading this book put you off joining a real knitting group. In fact, don't read the book, just find a knitting group & have fun.
