This book about darkness shines with lucid writing and flashes of bold imagination.' - The Sunday Times 'With black humour, she describes her strategies for living as full a life as possible without becoming an emotional basket-case. It's honesty, bravery and touches of black comedy will be a help to anyone suffering from a chronic illness, as well as to those who - at least for now - are spared. It is the story of how, through her determination to make her impossible life possible and with the love of those around her, she has managed to find light in even the darkest of places. Told with great beauty, humour and honesty, Girl in the Dark is the astonishing and uplifting account of Anna's descent into the depths of her extraordinary illness. During the worst, she must spend months in a darkened room, listening to audiobooks, inventing word-games and fighting to keep despair at bay. Now her extreme sensitivity to light in all forms means she must spend much of her life in total darkness.ĭuring the best times, she can venture cautiously outside at dusk and dawn, avoiding high-strength streetlamps. Then the burning spread and the problematic light sources proliferated. It began with a burning sensation on her face when she was exposed to computer screens and fluorescent lighting. She enjoyed her job she was ambitious she was falling in love.
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