Mary Baxter loses her five-year-old daughter to meningitis. Mary and her husband, Dylan, struggle to preserve their marriage, but the memories are too painful, and the healing too difficult. Mary can't focus on her job as a writer for a local newspaper, and she bitterly resents her emotionally and geographically distant mother, who relocated to Mexico years earlier. Still, it's at her mother's urging that Mary joins a knitting circle and discovers that knitting soothes without distracting. The structure of the story quickly becomes obvious: each knitter has a tragedy that she'll reveal to Mary. There's a lot of knitting, both actual and metaphorical. This novel, though well-written, was too contrived in the way each person in the knitting club called on Mary to reveal their pasts.

Georgia Walker's entire life is wrapped up in running her knitting store, Walker and Daughter, and caring for her 12-year-old daughter, Dakota. With the help of Anita, a lively widow in her seventies, Georgia starts the Friday Night Knitting Club, which draws loyal customers and a few oddballs. Darwin Chiu, a feminist grad student, believes knitting is downright old-fashioned, but she's drawn to the club as her young marriage threatens to unravel. Lucie, 42, a television producer, is about to become a mother for the first time--without a man in her life. Brash book editor KC finds her career has stalled unexpectedly, while brilliant Peri works at Walker and Daughter by day and designs handbags at night. Georgia gets her own taste of upheaval when Dakota's father reappears, hoping for a second chance.

Nice premise, but the characters where never really developed to the point of being interesting or likable. I never could understand why these women were so drawn to Georgia and Dakota's name got on my nerves. Very draggy and predictable.

A great easy read for anyone who loves a story of friendship and the notion of chasing your dreams. In this book you'll meet a wide array of characters that come together and share their passions, memories, and fears, and who eventually form a sisterhood together. This book was witty, imaginative, and truly heart-wrenching.