A heartwarming tale of friendship, community and yarn-based subterfuge.
Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because
it would be like having friends -- only with her in charge -- and because there
would be no men. It comes as a nasty shock, then, when Luke, the handsome
grandson of no-nonsense Edith, decides to stay and learn to crochet. Claire has
five children, which is why people sometimes look at her with mild concern. She
longs for an Insta-perfect life like her online hero, Siobhan, but she's
drowning in domestic failure. She joins the Copeton craft group in the hope of
making some non-virtual friends. Yasmin is Muslim and proud. But sometimes it
would be great if people stopped asking her about her hijab and instead asked
who she thought was going to win MasterChef. With plans for a new mosque,
Copeton becomes a breeding ground for Islamophobia. The Copeton Crochet Club
becomes the Craft Resistance.
Together, this small band o...