Anita, whose husband has been dead for many years, develops feelings for the man working in the deli next door to the yarn store. Lucie, the television producer, finds herself pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to think about how to suddenly balance a fast-paced career and a family. Peri, who is working part-time at the yarn shop while she finishes law school, is beginning to wonder if she might enjoy her life more if she quit school to start her own line of designer felted purses. She wonders about starting a family, and how her and her husband's careers are getting in the way of their chance to settle down and have children.

Meanwhile, Darwin, the doctoral student, is struggling in a long-distance relationship with her husband, who is completing a residency far away from New York. This rekindling becomes even more strange and twisted when Jamie, Dakota's long-lost father with whom Georgia hasn't had a relationship for all of Dakota's childhood, shows up wanting to play a much more significant role in his daughter's life. Georgia's own conflicts during the book begin when she stumbles upon her former best friend Cat Phillips, whom she hasn't seen in years and did not expect to meet again. Other characters of the series include the high-spirited widow Anita, who is in her seventies TV producer Lucie Darwin, a doctoral student struggling to pin down a topic for her thesis Peri, who works part-time at the yarn shop and KC, an editor with thoughts to change her career – and the trajectory of her life as a whole. The book follows the many members of the knitting club through their hectic and highly relatable day-to-day lives, with a particular focus on Georgia and her relationship with Dakota.

Georgia runs a successful yarn store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan she and Dakota begin the Friday Night Knitting Club both to bring people into the shop and to serve as a kind of support group and place to unwind after a long week in the city. The book follows main character Georgia Walker and her biracial daughter Dakota. Kate Jacobs’a realistic fiction, The Friday Night Knitting Club, is the first novel in a series that follows the main characters as their lives – and their knitting projects – progress.

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