Juliet finds herself running a safe house for a Russian defector until the war’s end, after which she lives in an unspecified location abroad for decades. Her growing realization of the serious nature of what at first seems like an “espionage lark” is made more intriguing by her attraction to her enigmatic boss. Initially recruited to transcribe secretly recorded conversations between British fascist sympathizers who think they are conspiring with the Gestapo, Juliet Armstrong is one day given an infiltration assignment (and a gun), during which she discovers an important document-and just like that, she becomes an undercover agent. It might not be a Friday night knitting club but I would love to find a knitting group like the one in the book.Atkinson’s suspenseful novel (following A God in Ruins) is enlivened by its heroine’s witty, sardonic voice as she is transformed from an innocent, unsophisticated young woman into a spy for Britain’s MI5 during WWII.

(I’m currently finishing a crochet baby blanket so can’t really start another project). These made me want to drop the book and grab my needles to get some knitting done. There are also some real moments of frustration. I hope that one day I can teach my kids to knit and crochet. The Friday Night Knitting Club – don’t you want” What do I think so far… These women are of different ages, from different backgrounds and facing different problems, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit. Īnd as the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything.

It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia’s store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. I started reading it because I had been looking for “ The Jane Austen Book Club” which I thought would be somewhere in the chart as the film of the book has just been released in the cinema (except they aren’t showing it in Bedford – I would have to go to MK to see it).Īnyhoo so I bought this book and started reading it. At the speed I read books, I don’t like to spend too much on books that I’ll finish in a couple of days. I bought this book from a well-known supermarket about a week or so ago.

The friday night knitting club series