The British literary sensationโโthe most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs โ (The Telegraph)โthe story of a celebrated writerโs 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 Sageโs Bad Blood, Mary Karrโs Lit, and Diana Athillโs Somewhere Toward the End will agree โcements her status as one of our most important literary writers beyond questionโ (Financial Times).