Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great girlie read! October 24, 2008
I loved this book. I enjoyed the characters and their stories. The main character has to try to rebuild her life in a sleepy seaside town, after the death of her husband. She re-vamps her grandmother's wool shop and makes best friends along the way. It's a small town with a lot of love, somewhere anyone would like to live.
A great light hearted read September 14, 2008
After just taking up knitting again I bought this book for a nice light read and I am glad I did!
Its a great story about a woman rebuilding her life after her husband died taking over her grans knitting shop in a small seaside town. It has some really great laugh out loud moments as well as one or two sad ones.
I loved the story line and the characters are so real and I just couldn't put it down! A real must for knitters and non knitters alike!
Lose yourself for a few quiet hours August 18, 2008
I thought this book was a really good easy read. If you need to lose yourself from the world for a while, this is the one for you. Jo takes over her gran's woolshop and you follow her through her journey.
The book made me want to start knitting again, so that must be a good thing.
 Boring August 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first picked up the book, I thought this would be a good, enjoyable read, however I was quite disappointed. Where do I start? First of all, I didn't like the writing style at all; it seems as if the author was just Trying Too Hard, and the capital spelling of bits that were obviously meant to be funny was extremely annoying (yes, author, your readers do have a brain and know themselves which bits are - supposedly - funny). The main character, Jo, didn't do anything for me - I didn't warm to her and really couldn't care less what happened to her. The lengthy and frequent descriptions of the `antics' her boys got up to were equally as annoying and not really funny. Now I know this book isn't a thriller and didn't expect this to be a fast-moving story, but the plot was flimsy and so boring, nothing happening, I was very tempted to abandon this book altogether but thought I'd give it a chance and persevere. It did get a bit more interesting about half way through when Jo befriended the famous actress but if you were hoping that from now on the story finally picked up and got more interesting, think again. I most definitely won't be reading the sequel. In short, if you enjoy this type of book, there are plenty of better authors around, for example Katie Fforde.
 A fun yarn July 13, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this novel. There were some laugh-out-loud moments and, as a knitter and mother living in a seaside town myself, much to relate to.
Great to take on holiday, especially if you are off to a small British holiday resort. If you like Katie Fforde etc then you will probably appreciate this.
|
