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Fiber Arts and Fiction Book Club

"The Resistance Knitting Club" by Jenny O'Brien

This unique event combines fiber arts with literature. Each month read a book about fiber arts, and join us for a discussion about the book while we craft. Knitters, crocheters, and more welcome!

November's Book will be The Resistance Knitting Club by Jenny O'Brien.

Inspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two.

Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French – a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges...

Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a simple shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies. Each mistake means execution.

Fellow agent, Harry Dennison, is the only person who knows her real name. But when the Gestapo close in, Lenny faces an impossible choice in the Metro tunnels beneath Paris – one that will haunt her family for generations. Because in the resistance, the most dangerous secrets are the ones you keep from those you love most.

Call 740.453.0391 ext 132 or email reference@muskingumlibrary.org for more information.

Borrow a copy of the book from the Muskingum County Library System.

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