What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness

The British literary sensation—“the most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs ” ( The Telegraph )—the story of a celebrated writer’s 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 Sage’s Bad Blood , Mary Karr’s Lit , and Diana Athill’s Somewhere Toward the End will agree “cements her status as one of our most important literary writers beyond question” ( Financial Times ).