The Great Christmas Knit-Off - Alexandra Brown

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Title: The Great Christmas Knit-Off
Author: Alexandra Brown
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 400
Date read: December, 2015

Heartbroken after being jilted at the altar, Sybil has been saved from despair by her knitting obsession and now her home is filled to bursting with tea cosies, bobble hats, and jumpers. But, after discovering that she may have perpetrated the cock-up of the century at work, Sybil decides to make a hasty exit and, just weeks before Christmas, runs away to the picturesque village of Tindledale.

There, Sybil discovers Hettie’s House of Haberdashery, an emporium dedicated to the world of knitting and needle craft. But Hettie, the outspoken octogenarian owner, is struggling and now the shop is due for closure. And when Hettie decides that Sybil’s wonderfully wacky Christmas jumpers are just the thing to add a bit of excitement to her window display, something miraculous starts to happen.


Lovely read :) I was instantly charmed and found myself longing to go celebrate Christmas in a cozy English village like Tindledale where everybody knows everybody, everybody cares for their neighbour, and everybody wants to gather either at the pub, at the bookstore or to knit and natter!

Parts of it were perhaps a bit too perfect, but I tend to think that's allowed for Christmas stories :) It was a wonderfully cozy read and I never wanted to leave.