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After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her, each teaching Mary a new knitting technique and, as they do, revealing their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Eventually Mary is able to tell her own story of grief and in so doing reclaims her love for her husband, faces the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and finds the spark of life again.
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A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss. The novel, like knitting, seems to make itself up as it goes along, the threads bound and gathered into a whole.--Carrie Brown
Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope.--Allison Lynn
A heartbreaker.--Elissa Schappel
Powerful and affecting.--John Marshal
One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief...Undeniably real. The lesson--that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live--cannot be dismissed.--Julie Wittes Schlack
Hood's words...pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real.--Peggy McMullen
This book is rich in sensory detail...This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time.--Jan Marin Tramontano
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Acutely moving...The women's tragedies unfurl like skeins of yarn rolling down a slope.--Allison Lynn
A heartbreaker.--Elissa Schappel
Powerful and affecting.--John Marshal
One can only admire Hood for the effort she takes in this book to describe an insupportable grief...Undeniably real. The lesson--that being willing to share our stories, we learn how to live--cannot be dismissed.--Julie Wittes Schlack
Hood's words...pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real.--Peggy McMullen
This book is rich in sensory detail...This book shines a light on women helping each other and the world one stitch at a time.--Jan Marin Tramontano
A beautifully-written, warm and poignant novel, perfect for fans of Cathy
Kelly, Maeve Binchy and Elizabeth Noble.
Kelly, Maeve Binchy and Elizabeth Noble.
* Cosy and heartwarming reading for the autumn nights drawing in.
* There are around 5 million knitters and over 130 knitting clubs in the
U.K alone, and the trend is ever growing. The number of knitting groups in
the U.K increased by 20% in 2005.
* Consumer-focused retailer sales and marketing campaign.
Praise for Ann Hood:
`A heartbreaker'
Vanity Fair
`An engrossing storyteller ... [This book] works its magic.' Sue Monk Kidd,
author of The Secret Life of Bees
`What a gift for Ann Hood, who suffered a loss nearly identical to Mary
Baxter's, to have made of her grief.'
Newsday
`Memorably stirring and authentic.'
Los Angeles Times Book Review
`Ann Hood writes with the ease of a born storyteller.'
Chicago Tribune
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0393330443
- ISBN 13 9780393330441
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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