I mean, it has the word “knit” in the title, and there’s a bike in front of a knitting shop on the cover. This book just screams cozy bedtime read–and it doesn’t disappoint.
Set in a tiny cottage in the far north of Scotland where everyone grew up with everyone else, and they all know one another’s business, Gertie still remembers the “cool” girls from high school who never gave her a second glance, and especially her crush, Struan, who humiliated her by rejecting her knitted gift (or so she thought). She’s never really gone anywhere or done anything, and still lives in the same tiny cottage she grew up in with her mother and grandmother. When she suddenly develops an impossible crush on the millionaire owner of a local airlines, she decides to actually quit her job at the local grocery story, and take a chance at a different life.
I loved the setting just as much as the characters, and could picture the Scottish highlands as the author described them. Her prose is very stream-of-consciousness, but for this style of writing, it really works.
My rating: ****
Language: It was there, but somehow the way it was done didn’t bother me. Maybe because it was sporadic?
Violence: none
Sexual content: I think there was some? But not a lot, if any–it’s possible I might be confusing this book with another by the same author that I read next (and subsequently stopped reading)
Political content: none
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