Needles and Pearls - Gil McNeil

Title: Needles and Pearls
Author: Gil McNeil
Genre: Fiction, Chicklit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 371
Date read: June 2012, April 2014

A year after her husband's death, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving in their new seaside home, the wool shop is starting to do well and despite two weddings, an in-school knitting project and Trevor the Wonder Dog coming to stay, she's just about keeping her head above water. But boys, babies and best friends certainly make life a lot more interesting. Can Jo cope when things get really complicated? Because if knitting truly does keep you sane when your life starts to unravel then it looks like Jo is going to need much bigger needles.

Lovely feel-good novel. I loved the first book in the series, and wanted to see if the sequel(s) lived up to it. This one definitely did. There's no real plot to it, just a description of 8 months in the life of Jo Mackenzie, but between her quirky neighbours, her energetic sons, her famous TV-speaker best friend and the local Diva, life is never dull.

I want a local yarn shop like Jo's though!