What to Look for in Winter
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Aug '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
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.
One of the most extraordinary literary autobiographies of this or any other year * The Times *
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 * Scotsman *
A searingly honest, beautiful book -- Kate Mosse * Daily Telegraph *
One of the most devastatingly moving memoirs I've ever read...a work of beauty and truth * Independent *
Miraculous -- Hilary Spurling * Guardian *
The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs * Daily Telegraph *
Startling and discomforting, complicated, hilarious and heartrending * Sunday Telegraph *
McWilliam writes with elegance, with sardonic humour and with honesty...readers can only be grateful for this unforgettable book -- Daisy Goodwin * Sunday Times *
It's a book written out of sorrow and pain and love. A book that, for all the brilliance of its author, doesn't seem completely aware of everything it has revealed -- Andrew Motion * Guardian *
Beautiful, harrowing and in every way remarkable * New Statesman *
ISBN: 9780099539537
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 31mm
Weight: 341g
496 pages