The Resistance Knitting Club is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.
The Resistance Knitting Club by Jenny O’Brien
Genre: Historical
Tour Dates: 6th - 13th February 2026
Publication Date: 6th February 2026
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Estimated Page Count: 300
Standalone Book 1 in new Threads of War series
Formats available: Netgalley Widget
Types of post available: Reviews (preferred) and basic promo / spotlight posts
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 SS 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.
About Jenny O’Brien
Jenny O’Brien writes complex thrillers and heartbreaking historical fiction, as well as intriguing romances. Silent Cry, initially self published, topped the Amazon kindle chart in both the UK and the USA. Most of her books have followed suit.
Jenny has over 40 years experience as a qualified nurse. She turned to creative writing as a hobby when her children were born.
Born in Ireland, she now lives in Guernsey with her husband and children.
BOOK NEWS
The Resistance Knitting Club comes out in February, 2026. A blend of Jenny’s two hobbies - knitting and reading. For more check out The Resistance Knitting Club Facebook Page. Join the conversation as well as share your crafting projects.
Follow Jenny O’Brien
Twitter and Instagram @scribblerjb
Blog Tour Schedule
Confirmed blogs will appear here.
6th February
The Intrepid Reader and Baker
bookescapeswithBabsW67
the.bookjunction
Keighley_reads
The Mysterious Universe of Books
Paper Moons & Prose
French Village Diaries
7th February
annette_reads_daily
jen_loves_reading
b for bookreview
8th February
Pickled Thoughts and Pinot
KarenKisReading
Sarandipity's
9th February
Lyndas_bookreview (IG)
Two Heads Are Better Than One
Let us talk of many things...
10th February
Jaffareadstoo
@twoladiesandabook
C L Tustin -Author
11th February
Booksreadbyprairiegirl
loopyloulaura
Left on the Shelf
12th February
Against the Flow
Bookworm86
Bookish Jottings
13th February
karen_loves_reading
readwithjackalope
Novel Kicks