Alison Reads

Mary’s beloved only child dies of meningitis at the age of five. A year later, Mary is still traumatized and can barely function. Her mother convinces her to learn to knit, and she relunctantly joins a knitting circle and begins to heal. My problem with this book was that every single member of the knitting circle had suffered a terrible trauma. While the emotional part of the book was accurate and well done (the author lost a child herself, so she understands her character), the knitting part was not as accurate. One newbie knitter knits her first sock during the course of a single conversation (an hour?) which is just not realistic. Recommended with reservations.