The Friday Night Knitting Club

By: Kate Jacobs

Narrated by: Carrington Macduffie

Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

The New York Times bestselling sensation that’s “Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan” (USA Today)

Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on their latest projects—and share the stories of their lives…

Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker’s little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Its Friday night knitting club is improvised by some of Georgia’s regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat—and occasionally clash—over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.

However, unexpected changes soon throw these women’s lives into disarray, and the shop’s comfortable world gets shaken up like a snow globe. When the unthinkable happens, they realize that what they’ve created is not just a knitting club—it’s a sisterhood.

©2007 Kathleen Jacobs (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Critic reviews

• Nominee, 2008 Audie Award, Fiction

"Kate Jacobs' breezy first novel reads like Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan." (USA Today)
"[P]oignant twists propel the plot and help the pacing find a pleasant rhythm." (Publishers Weekly)

Awesome Story

This had an awesome story line, about friends reuniting. Make sure you have a box of tissues at the end.

cool love story with knitting instructions

I am a knitter and actually knitted a sweater while listening to the love story with a twist 🪢

Friday night knit club

The story was interesting. However, I felt it didn’t need to be as long as it was. 20 chapters but not 30 plus

Sad

Main character death is horrible a single parent buildup, thinking that one thing might actually go right and then you kill her off smh life is the worst reading, is like an escape from real life the story would have ended up just as good if she was still alive and getting  married and having another kid if not better I’ve have read/listen to thousands of books. This is the only one that made me really actually sad. I’m not sure I would really recommend it. It wasn’t written poorly just the story sucked or maybe it was poor plot choice it’s like yeah sure read it and you’ll get really sad so I’m not recommending it 

This book had a huge negative distraction!

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I am a fan of reading and listening to good books. Books with great storylines and plots that keep you on the edge of your seat. I listen to books mainly because I like to listen to them during my commute or when I am traveling. I choose books that are interesting to listen to and have an interesting plot. So to answer the question I chose this book because of the storyline. After clicking the accepted purchase button, I continued to read other reviews. One review pointed out the accents used by the narrator in the book and how they were sometimes strange, to say the least. But to stay focused the book took a long time go get through. It was rather long and I actually stopped towards the middle and started another book, finished that book and then continued.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Dakota was my favorite character. She was spunky. Dakota and Anita's accents were the only ones that truly fit the character. Georgia seemed like a white girl trying to sound black at times. James although he was an educated architect somehow the narrator made him sound uneducated and ignorant. Black men and especially educated black men do not sound like that... research please....!!! During the dialogue for James I kept thinking with this voice he should be saying "Ho de do, ho de do"(Hold the door)

K.C. was over the top and not in a good way.

Darwin was strange and her accent was edgy and nervous. It just didn't ring true.

Peri the assistant in Georgia's knitting store sounded like a cross between Puerto Rican and Jamaican. But then when it is mentioned that she comes from Chicago I am left scratching my head.

Cat her voice isn't as annoying as most and she does reconnect with Georgia.

Marty did sound Jewish if that's even possible.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The voices were really not good at all. I tried to focus on the plot and put the voices out of my head but especially when James and Peri spoke it was difficult. Bad scene man, bad scene.

Was The Friday Night Knitting Club worth the listening time?

This was a book I would prefer to read on my own.

Any additional comments?

The plot was generally good. Some of the story was unrealistic and some was just too sappy and attempted to pull at the heart strings way too much. And the attempt to make Georgia into a Saint was annoying. The fact that they had to make the dead beat father a black man was unnecessary. I know it fit with the storyline as far as Dakota being different and wanting to know her roots. But they played James as a deadbeat dad and then gave him the voice that sounded ignorant. So that was a double scoop of unacceptable.

Loved it!

I really loved this book, by the end I was completely endeared to the cast of characters. Great read (especially if you are a knitter!)`

A Must for Knitters

Knitting- based novels have captured the hearts of die-hard knitters across the nation. The Friday Night Knitting Club ranks among the best. It touches the heart without being saccharine, and has enough action to keep up interest. If one has a knitting group, it is easy to relate to the companionship among the knitters. Count me in.

Friday Night Knitting Club

This was an outstanding book, with an ending I was not prepared for. Great book.

Just couldn't care enough

I tried to like this, but just couldn't care enough about any of the characters to - - well, care. Just not well paced or interesting.

narration issues

The book is OK. The narration is not so great. In particular, the voices of the two black characters are bizarre and, to me, grating. The voices don't fit what we know about the characters.