THE KNITTING CIRCLE: The uplifting and heartwarming novel you need to read this year - Softcover

Hood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847560105 ISBN 13: 9781847560100

Publisher: Avon, 2011

Synopsis

Come on in and join the knitting circle – it might just save your life...

Spinning yarns, weaving tales, mending lives...

Every Wednesday a group of women gathers at Alice's Sit and Knit. Little do they know that they will learn so much more than patterns...

Grieving Mary needs to fill the empty days after the death of her only child.

Glamorous Scarlet is the life and soul of any party. But beneath her trademark red hair and beaming smile lurks heartache.

Sculptor Lulu seems too cool to live in the suburbs. Why has she fled New York's bright lights?

Model housewife Beth never has a hair out of place. But her perfect world is about to fall apart....

Irish-born Ellen wears the weight of the world on her shoulders but not her heart on her sleeve. What is she hiding?

As the weeks go by, under mysterious Alice's watchful eye, an unlikely friendship forms. Secrets are revealed and pacts made. Then tragedy strikes, and each woman must learn to face her own past in order to move on...

This heartbreaking and uplifting novel is the perfect book club read, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Keeper of Lost Things

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

‘Just like a woolly jumper, this book is cosy and perfect for long winter nights! ... truly heartwarming.’ Closer

About this title

Review

Praise for The Knitting Circle

‘Just like a woolly jumper, this book is cosy and perfect for long winter nights! ... truly heartwarming.’
Closer Magazine

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

From the Publisher

A beautifully-written, warm and poignant novel, perfect for fans of Cathy
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

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847560105
• ISBN 13: 9781847560100
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 434