Kate Jacobs Books In Order

The Friday Night Knitting Club

A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together even when we least expect it.

Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker’s little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia’s regulars, who gather once a week to work on their latest projects and to chat and occasionally clash over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.

Georgia has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the store and raising her spunky teen daughter, Dakota, by herself. Thank goodness for Anita, her mentor and dear friend, and the rest of the members of the knitting club who are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop’s bins. There’s Peri, a prelaw student turned handbag designer; Darwin, a somewhat aloof feminist grad student; and Lucie, a petite, quiet woman who’s harboring some secrets of her own.

However, unexpected changes soon throw these women’s lives into disarray, and the shop’s comfortable world gets shaken up like a snow globe. James, Georgia’s ex, decides that he wants to play a larger role in Dakota’s life and possibly Georgia’s as well. Cat, a former friend from high school, returns to New York as a rich Park Avenue wife and uneasily renews her old bond with Georgia. Meanwhile, Anita must confront her growing and reciprocated feelings for Marty, the kind neighborhood deli owner. And when the unthinkable happens, they realize what they’ve created: not just a knitting club, but a sisterhood

Knit Two

The Sequel to the Beloved 1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club The sequel to the number one New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, Knit Two returns to Walker and Daughter, the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker and her young daughter, Dakota. Dakota is now an eighteen year old freshman at NYU, running the little yarn shop part time with help from the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by the sense of family the club has created, the knitters rely on one another as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventysomething Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. As the club’s projects an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn t the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: it s the care and attention you bring to the craft as well as how you adapt to surprises.

Knit the Season

Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh out loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker’s trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother’s best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota’s mom, Georgia Walker from Georgia’s childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom. From Thanksgiving through Hanukkah and Christmas to New Year’s, Knit the Season is a novel about the richness of family bonds and the joys of friendship.

Comfort Food

In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club, a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment and manages to spice up her own life at the same time.

Shortly before turning the big 5 0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta Gus Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she d rather not her own. She’s getting tired of being the hostess, the mother hen, the woman who has to plan her own birthday party. What she needs is time on her own with enough distance to give her loved ones the ingredients to put together successful lives without her.

Assisted by a handsome up and coming chef, Oliver, Gus invites a select group to take an on air cooking class. But instead of just preaching to the foodie mas*ses, she will teach regular people how to make rich, sensuous meals real people making real food. Gus decides to bring a vibrant cast of friends and family on the program: Sabrina, her fickle daughter; Troy, Sabrina s ex husband; Anna, Gus s timid neighbor; and Carmen, Gus s pompous and beautiful competitor at the Cooking Channel. And when she begins to have more than collegial feelings for her sous chef, Gus realizes that she might be able to rejuvenate not just her professional life, but her personal life as well…
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