Divas Don't Knit - Tapa dura

PRAISE FOR GIL MCNEIL'S PREVIOUS NOVELS: 'A funny and touching novel. I wish I'd written it.' Arabella Weir 'Thinking of moving to the country with your kids? Read this book instead.' Phil Hogan 'Funny and sparkling...a profoundly moving study of motherhood and true love.' Ruth Rendell

Jo Mackenzie needs a new start. Newly widowed with two young sons and a perilous bank balance, she has to leave London to take over her grandmother's wool shop. They arrive in the pouring rain and Broadgate Bay is the kind of Kentish seaside town where the tide went out a long time ago and the dusty old shop is full of peach four-ply. Marmalade mohair, an A-list actress moving into the local mansion and a 'Stitch and Bitch' group will help, but it's not going to be easy. Very Large dogs, celebrity, small town intrigues, packed lunches and romance all loom large in Gil McNeil's funny and uplifting novel. "Divas Don't Knit" turns prejudices and assumptions upside down and tells it how it really is in the world of knit-one, purl-one. Knitting has never been so much fun.