Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099539537
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 341g
RRP: £13.99
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed especially cruel to someone whose life depended on reading and writing. As McWilliam's sight disappeared she looked inwards and began to remember her Edinburgh childhood, her mother's suicide, her teenage escape into another identity, her marriages, her children and, stalking all these memories, her increasing alcoholism.
What To Look For In Winter is a magical, uplifting and truly wise book about families and friendship, love and loss and that most elusive of things - a sense of self.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099539537
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 341g
RRP: £13.99
One of the most extraordinary literary autobiographies of this or any other year
An essential book in all of its aspects, a thing of beauty and of unbearable hurt, of dreadful harm and intense humanity...This is the work of a capacious, open, vulnerable and unfailingly generous soul
A searingly honest, beautiful book
One of the most devastatingly moving memoirs I've ever read...a work of beauty and truth
Miraculous