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What to Look for in Winter
  • Published: 1 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446499085
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

What to Look for in Winter

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1 Oct 2011
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3 Oct 2011
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A beautifully written, moving and extraordinary work of autobiography from one of the leading figures of the British literary world.

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.
  • Published: 1 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446499085
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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About the author

Candia McWilliam

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988) which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994) which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation won the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, a collection of stories, Wait Till I Tell You (1997), and What To Look For In Winter (2010). In 2006 she began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became functionally blind as a result. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to enable her to open her eyelids.
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