Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley December 27, 2022
Author Kate Solley.
Distributor: Booktopia
ISBN: 9781922848369
Publisher: Affirm
Release Date: 27 December 2022
Website: https://www.booktopia.com.au
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Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance is a seriously good, entertaining read once you get past the first chapter, which appears to be a little muddled, but really is not as it establishes the flow of the story and the range of interesting and intriguing people to be met, as somehow or other, by about chapter 5 you find yourself joining the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) umm, and no men.
Meredith decides she needs more in her life other than work and makes what will be a monumental decision, to establish a crochet group in Copeton on a Tuesday evening. She has little, if any social skills, no friends and a desire to make sure everything goes according to carefully drawn up plans.
Claire is drowning under the weight of a family of five small children and domestic bliss is certainly not her forte. She needs an outlet – perhaps this will be the perfect answer as she has huge amounts of wool, crochet hooks and unfinished ‘projects‘ filling the spare spaces in her house.
Yasmin, expecting her first child, missing her mother terribly and terrified of her forthcoming role as a mother, works at the Copeton Council. She is also a proud Australian born Muslim woman and would like to create a lovely outfit for the new babe.
Harper is angry; she is angry at everything; Young, just out of gaol and resentful of life in general, she is asked to join the group by her support worker as she is brilliant with crochet.
Luke brings along his grandmother and decides to stay, much to Meredith’s chagrin, and a clandestine knitter also joins the group. Poor Meredith, as things somehow never seem to go to her schedule which she finds very frustrating.
When there is talk of a Mosque being built and refugees being encouraged to settle in the town, it attracts the attention of a group of rather ugly anti-muslim protesters whom it would appear, will stop at very little to get their point across.
When it comes to the point that one of the members of the Collective is threatened and things begin to get out of control, the Copeton Craft Collective becomes the Copeton Craft Resistance, fighting back with some very clever yarn bombing, wonderful photography and some very sneaky tactics.
Kate Solley has created a delightful, feel-good, binge worthy as they say, and don’t feel guilty, story that is a real pleasure from the first to the last page. Her characters become very real, the threat to all they hold dear is one sadly we can all relate to and their solution is superb!
Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance is a definite must read over the summer season as you to join the ladies, and one man, of the Copeton Crochet Collective.