Warm and Tender

The older I become, the more I truly love my fellow human beings. Women, however, have a special place because we're the ones who can talk to each other.
The book I've just finished is a great example of that.
It is The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (2007)
The main character, Georgia, is an almost middle age woman who owns a small yarn shop. Her primary focus is her twelve-year old daughter, whom she is raising alone. Sometimes women who are learning to knit hang around her shop in the late afternoons so that if they run into a problem with what they're knitting, Georgia can help them out.
This evolves into a regular meeting place which Georgia feels she has to tolerate because the women are, after all, her customers. She ends up loving the group.
There are several women's stories wound through this book, and while the book has sorrow, it is offset by the love it contains.
That's love, not mush.