The British literary sensationthe most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs (The Telegraph)the story of a celebrated writers sudden descent into blindness, and of the redemptive journey into the past that her loss of sight sets in motion. Candia McWilliam, whose novels A Case of Knives, A Little Stranger, and Debatable Land made her a reader favorite throughout the United Kingdom and around the world, here breaks her decade-long silence with a searing, intimate memoir that fans of Lorna Sages Bad Blood, Mary Karrs Lit, and Diana Athills Somewhere Toward the End will agree cements her status as one of our most important literary writers beyond question (Financial Times).The British literary sensationthe most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs (The Telegraph)the story of a celebrated writers sudden descent into blindness, and of the redemptive journey into the past that her loss of sight sets in motion. Candia McWilliam, whose novels A Case of Knives, A Little Stranger, and Debatable Land made her a reader favorite throughout the United Kingdom and around the world, here breaks her decade-long silence with a searing, intimate memoir that fans of Lorna Sages Bad Blood, Mary Karrs Lit, and Diana Athills Somewhere Toward the End will agree cements her status as one of our most important literary writers beyond question (Financial Times).