From there she traded in her navy blazer to earn a Bachelor’s degree in journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa. As a result, Kate begged her parents to send her to boarding school in Victoria, BC. Back then, of course, it was tremendously boring, as only home can be to a teenager. It’s an area filled with friends and family and Kate loves to visit. Kate grew up near Vancouver, British Columbia, in the scenic and delightfully named town of Hope (pop. Kate Jacobs is the New York Times bestselling author of Comfort Food, Knit Two, and The Friday Night Knitting Club, which has over 1 million copies in print.

Currently-lives near Los Angeles, California, USA.

Education-B.A., Carleton University (Ottowa) M.A., New.

Raised-near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood. Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. (Jan.Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. , 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.

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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