The Knitting Circle is a searing portrait of a mother's loss, of her grief at her five-year-old daughter's death from meningitis, and of her healing process...she joins a knitting circle and slowly unfolds herself, awakening from her grief, as she learns to not only come to terms with her terrible loss but also finds kindred spirits amongst members of her knitting group, who each have their share of stories of loss, hope, and survival. It is a heartfelt story about how one learns to go on after enduring a tragedy, the loss of someone dear, and the fact that the story is semiautobiographical [the author herself lost her daughter to illness] makes it all the more real and poignant.