Knitting: A Novel

Anne Bartlett

Aug 2006 · Sold by HMH

About this ebook

“In the tradition of Anita Brookner and Barbara Pym, Anne Bartlett has written a sly, stirring look at women’s lives” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion).
 
Sandra, a rigid academic, is struggling to navigate the world after losing her husband to cancer. Martha, a self-taught textile artist with her own secret store of grief, spends her days knitting elaborate projects charged with personal meaning. After a chance meeting sparks a friendship between these two very different women, they begin to collaborate—leading to surprising events that will help heal them both, in a novel of “subtle beauty” (The Washington Post).
 
“A moving story about true love and haunting grief.” —Adriana Trigiani
 
“A wonderful tale . . . deeply satisfying.” —Connie May Fowler
 
“An experience as sensual and mystical as plunging your hands into skeins of wool and color . . . A joyful narrative of creating and connecting.” —Sena Jeter Naslund

Ratings and reviews

Light and easy read. Emotional but good.

About the author

Anne Bartlett spent her childhood in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. While raising her four children, now grown, she worked as an editor, a ghostwriter, and a feature writer as well as original creations for clothing designers. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, where she graduated with a PhD in creative writing. She lives with her husband, who has been a pastor for more than thirty years (a background she has drawn on for this book), in South Australia.