Publisher:
Hot Key Books
Release
Date: 7th
August 2014
Edition:
UK paperback,
purchased
The
master of mohair is back!
Fresh
from his triumph at Knit fair UK, Ben Fletcher has now been invited to New York
to take part in another competition, and his imagination is already working
overtime: diners, romantic strolls in Central Park with his girlfriend Megan,
and epic knitting!
But
Megan mysteriously pulls out, so Ben is forced to take his mate Gex – wannabe
gangsta and major liability.
Things
are starting to go wrong already...
Is
Megan cheating on Ben? And can he last a week without wanting to push a knitting
needle up Gex’s nose?
Boys
Don’t Knit was
one of my most pleasant reading surprises of the beginning of the year so I was
very excited to pick up a copy of An
English Boy in New York at YALC.
Ben’s prize for winning the
knitting competition in Boys Don’t Knit is
a trip to New York and Knit Fair USA. And there’s something about The Big Apple
that turns Ben into a bit of a girl magnet, which is all round hilarious. And a
companion of Gex means that he’s also getting into a bit more trouble than he
had planned... I have to admit that I really struggled to see Gex as the
charmingly idiotic best friend; he’s actually just an idiot for most of the
novel. It wasn’t until the end that I realised why him and Ben are actually
friends.
Lots of Ben’s time in New York
was spent doing PR: giving interviews, meeting with scary businessmen and
saying things he really doesn’t quite mean. All of this led to Ben battling a
knitting machine in front of huge audience. For most of the novel, I wasn’t as
fussed by it as I did the first book. Ben’s charm and awkward adorableness was
there, but there was a little something missing. Once it got into the home
stretch and it became about Ben and his knitting rather than Megan or Brandi or
being a newly famous British boy knitter, I remembered what I loved about the
first book.
Though I didn’t enjoy An English Boy in New York nearly as
much as I did Boys Don’t Knit, I still
love Ben and I’ll definitely read his further adventures.
Sophie
I finished it this morning and loved it. Shame you didn't enjoy it as much as the first!
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