I just started this book and I didn’t expect to love it as much as I do so far. She takes over her Gran’s knitting shop and finds new friends in the women who drop in.

Six novels about knittingġ.) The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club by Gil McNeil – When Jo Mackenzie’s husband is killed in a car crash just after he asks her for a divorce, she packs up her two small boys and moves from London back to her seaside hometown. They allow you to choose a local bookstore from their list, but if you don’t, profits go into a general pool that assists all local stores that participate. However, if you’d like to support local bookstores, I’m also including a link to Bookshop. I’m sharing links to order these books via Amazon, which is an easy way to do it. But a few tackle some more serious subjects and would be good picks for book clubs…even if not everyone in the group is a knitter.Īlso, if you can’t decide whether to knit or read (I know! Decisions!) …you could always download the audio version and do both at once. Most of these books aren’t great literature – they’re fluffy reads that aren’t too taxing.

I haven’t noticed this myself, but if people keep getting murdered in strange and mysterious ways around the rest of you, I’m interested in hearing about it.

Many of them are mysteries – perhaps because people sitting and knitting have plenty of time to think? If the books are to be believed, the body count around knitters is shockingly high. There are a lot more out there than I expected. I didn’t realize until I started looking, that knitting novels are almost a genre of their own. Sometimes you’re just in the mood to unwind with a book and a hot drink, instead of the knitting (especially when you have just unraveled a day’s worth of work and you need to put it all away before you stab someone with your needles, though I’m sure they would deserve it).įor times like those, I have here six novels about knitting. Sometimes you need to mix things up, though. But for the most part, curling up in a comfy spot with a hot cup of something and a giant pile of fluffy yarn…well, there aren’t many better ways to wind down at the end of the day.

Knitting is therapeutic, I tell you (except, of course, for those times you discover a mistake several rows back and you must unravel an hour’s worth of work while cursing quietly).

Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton