Reviews
'This is an astonishingly honest memoir about blindness, failed marriages and alcoholism as well as the joys of motherhood and the natural world.All delivered in a beautiful, athletic style one can only envy.' (Edmund WhiteEdmund White), This is an astonishingly honest memoir about blindness, failed marriages and alcoholism as well as the joys of motherhood and the natural world. All delivered in a beautiful, athletic style one can only envy., Sparkles with vivid descriptions….An astonishingly beautiful portrait of what the world looks like when you can no longer see it., Not just a remarkable memoir...but also a blissful celebration of the poetry of her prose....Anyone who enjoys a play of words and appreciates the turn of a phrase in a beautifully constructed sentence will value this book for years to come., [A] shimmering memoir….The unblinking contemplation of a life whose woozy chutes-and-ladders path led, literally and otherwise, into darkness….Eloquently recalled….McWilliam gathers the ineffable spaces of her past and knots them into something practical, expansive, and enduring., '[An] astonishing memoir - sprawling, riveting, out-of-control, heartbreaking, hilarious and at times so vivd and captivating that, yes, you might wish you had stood in McWilliam's shoes.' (Susan Ager, Minneapolis Star Tribune), Candia McWilliam's much-praised memoir What to Look for in Winter is my favourite book of the year, startlingly honest, wry, sad and wise., '[A] shimmering memoir'.The unblinking contemplation of a life whose woozy chutes-and-ladders path led, literally and otherwise, into darkness'.Eloquently recalled'.McWilliam gathers the ineffable spaces of her past and knots them into something practical, expansive, and enduring.' (Jan Stuart, Boston Globe), What a precise, poetic dissection of a life this is; how brave she was, and how wise, to undertake it., [An] astonishing memoir - sprawling, riveting, out-of-control, heartbreaking, hilarious and at times so vivd and captivating that, yes, you might wish you had stood in McWilliam's shoes., An astonishingly honest memoir about blindness, failed marriages and alcoholism as well as the joys of motherhood and the natural world. All delivered in a beautiful, athletic style one can only envy., The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs., 'One of the most extraordinary literary autobiographies of this or any other year.' (The Times (London))
