About this title: Gil McNeil's BEACH STREET KNITTING SOCIETY AND YARN CLUB is a fresh, uplifting, funny novel about knitting, the art of life, and how a young mother learns to start over after her husband's sudden death.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 2009-03-17
ISBN-13:9781401340803ISBN:1401340806
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Voice
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781401340803ISBN:1401340806
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Remnant of sticker on front cover; red ink from printing on cover smudged around edges; no marks. Paper wraps; glued binding. 404 p. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Voice
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781401340803ISBN:1401340806
Description: Very Good++ Voice 2009 SOFTCOVER. Prerelease version. Unread, faint soil to front cover. Product Description"Funny and sparkling--a profoundly moving study of motherhood and true love. "--Ruth Rendell "Warm and wonderful. "--Cosmopolitan (UK) "It is now official: knitting is the acme of cool. "--Good Housekeeping (UK) "A believable, warm and funny novel with a touch of romance--I'm already looking forward to the sequel. "--Knitting Magazine For every woman who has ever dreamed of starting over ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781401340803ISBN:1401340806
Description: New. Gil McNeil's BEACH STREET KNITTING SOCIETY AND YARN CLUB is a fresh, uplifting, funny novel about knitting, the art of life, and how a young mother learns to start over after her husband's sudden death. read more
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"This book is great and very funny. I love the way it's written with dialogue and then with inner dialogue, which is very witty!
The book to me, seems a bit of a cross between "How Does She Do It" and "Friday Night Knitting Club." Both wonderful stories that are realistic and heartwarming and centered around the life a recently widowed wife makes after her husband tells her he wants a divorce and dies suddently in a car crash.
Jo moves out of London to the country, where she lives close to her Gran, and takes over her Gran's knitting shop. She has lots of unexpected adventures with her "famous" best friend by becoming a knitting coach to a star, starting a knitting program in her sons' school and most of all, creating wonderful friendships with the group members of the "Stitch and Bitch" club she creates.
"I loved this book. I started it last night, and basically read all day today (it's now 5:30 pm and I'm still in my pj's. This book was published in England in 2007 as "Diva's Don't Knit." I want to warn readers that the Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club does not exist (at least not in this book). Jo Mackenzie is recently widowed and left with 2 young boys to raise. She decides to leave London and move to a small town on the beach and take over her grandmother's yarn shop. She quickly settles into the community, makes friends and continues to raise her sons. I gave it 5 stars, because immediately on finishing the book, and searched out her web page. She has written a sequel to this book and 3 earlier novels. I will be searching out and reading all of them."
"I just finished this book and feel it is worth sharing. The story is of a woman who experiences finding out about her husbands infidelity and then his death in the same short period of time. She moves to a small town to run the knitting shop her grandmother had owned. As she works through the first year after her husbands death, she is surrounded by the support of other women. I enjoy books in which the author shows how women can be there for one another."
"I am currently reading this book. My books finally got here from the library. The library is in the process of moving to a new building, so they have not been lending books. So far this is just the kind of book that keeps my interest, thanks Barb for recommending it. I am about half way through and can't wait to get finished and find out what happens to Jo and her family.
I have finished this book and enjoyed it very much. It had a lot of humor and mothering dos and don'ts. The characters were well defined and made a good story. After reading all of these knitting books I now know what I want to do in my retirement years, run a knitting shop. I enjoyed Jo and especially Gran who gave her the shop to start with. I wish I had a Gran that could do that for me!"
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