Locket’s Book & Craft Club 2025 - Book #1 Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Locket's Book & Craft Club is continuing in 2025 - what books and crafts will we encounter this year?!!  Every two months or so there will be a new book recommendation and the opportunity to pre-order the special craft box that I have put together to go with the book and come to a special Knit Group/Book Club meeting either in person at Lucy Locket Land or virtually via Zoom.

Please note, you will need to have signed up for the Craft Box to come to the Book Group meetings

The Craft Boxes will vary and you will be given an indication of what type of project it will contain.  You can also choose to sign up for each one or just whichever takes your fancy - there's no tie-in.

My first book for 2025 is Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier - the story of the fossil hunting legend Mary Anning who is remembered in the tongue twister “She Sells Seashells”

This was the first Tracy Chevalier novel that I read and I loved it! A blend of scientific discovery, social conventions of class and education, the place of women in academia and the growing conflict between traditional religious viewpoints and emerging scientific evidence - and a really good read too! 

You can read it in any format you prefer - paperback, kindle, audio, library lend - whatever suits you and your lifestyle best.

The kit this time is a crochet project 

The exact contents of the craft box are secret but will include 

• Jamieson’s of Shetland Heather 100% wool Aran
• a 5mm soft grip crochet hook 
• a printed booklet featuring a crochet pattern by a well known designer
  
• Secret "extras” 
• in a tissue-lined box
• plus entry to the in-person or virtual Book Group Meeting in a month or two (dates to be confirmed)

The book itself is not included so you can choose your preferred format

See below for the Amazon synopsis

Mary Anning may be young and uneducated, but she has “the eye”. Scouring the windswept Jurassic coast near Lyme Regis, she find the fossils nobody else can, making discoveries that will shake the scientific world of the early 19th century. But science is a male-dominated arena, and there are many who disapprove…

She finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot: unmarried, middle-aged and middle class, and a fellow fossil enthusiast. If they can weather differences in their age and standing, and overcome professional envy, will true friendship prove the rarest find of all?