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 Great girly book with an ending you don't see coming! March 14, 2008
Great book for girlie book club discussions!
Nice story about a group of friends who have little in common and find mutual satsisfaction at the knitting club.
The ending upset me a bit... didn't see it coming and wanted it to end nicer.
 Don't read this book:join a REAL knitting group February 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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, and with a cast of wooden characters, this book starts off as boring, descends into mawk, and 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 and realised that it was actually 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 and have fun.
Heat says 'worth taking a duvet day for'. I say 'Only to recover from this abhorrence' January 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was expecting some light fluffy chick-lit with this book. Instead I got cardboard cut out characters - an uptight career woman, a single mother, an Asian student, an older rich mentor, the wise Scottish grandma - sickly sweet sentimental scenes, wooden dialogue and plot for plots sake.
Almost entirely unreadable. The prose is awful; full of unneccesary adjectives and ridden with cliches. Characters are given epithets soon after introduction 'Anita, her trusted friend' etc
The perspective is very odd changing with various characters but in such a removed way you never get any real insight or understand the motivations characters have for doing anything.
This book is a mess of platitudes, cliches and stock characters. Save yourself time and money and do not buy this book. I spent time reading this book - time I will never get back! - let me tell you now, it is not heartbreaking or touching or wellwritten; it is rubbish. It does not even deserve 1 star, but amazon's rating scheme is kinder than me.
5*? really? January 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't understand why this book has so many rave reviews. It started off slow, could hardly be described as well written and was full of cliches and plot devices that left me scratching my head in confusion.
It reminded me of one of those bad made-for-tv movies you get on the Hallmark channel. No real emotion and a lot of smaltzy advice and overacting.
Average at best, and definitley not worth the hype.
 Loved it November 27, 2007
I found the start of the book a little slow but I am so glad I read on as I ended up falling in love with the story and the characters. This is a heart warming and inspiring read. The end was a surprise but made sense. A wonderful group bought together through knitting and one lady - Georgia the knitting shop owner (along with her smart and sassy young daughter). This, as the cover says, is a book to take duvet day for there is a lovely moral to the story.
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