What to Look for in Winter
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 iden...
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 iden...
