KNIT TWO (Kate Jacobs)

Sometimes when you read a book you come to care about the characters and wonder what might have become of them after the story ends.  You can stop wondering about these women!  Jacobs does a great job of picking up the lives of the women of the Friday Night Knitting Club 5 years after Georgia Walker's death.  It was a little difficult to remember the details of the lives of Peri, Catherine, Anita, Dakota, James, and the rest of the cast, but as the story developed it all came back to me.  Dakota is now a student at NYU despite her dreams of becoming a pastry chef.  Her father, James has higher aspirations for his daughter, hoping that she might someday join him in achitecture or perhaps find a successful career as a lawyer.  Peri is managing Walker & Daughter and designing pocketbooks, Catherine has opened a small store, Anita is still, at 78, in love with Marty, Lucie is coping badly with single motherhood and trying to care for her own aging mother, and Darwin is expecting a baby. This is a novel about the strength of women's friendships.  It has a terrific surprise ending, maybe not so realistic, but satisfying nonetheless.  If you enjoyed "The Friday Night Knitting Club" I think you might just enjoy this one even more!