5/12/2023 0 Comments Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey![]() ![]() A tribute to the power of humanity, generosity and endurance, Girl in the Dark is incredibly powerful stuff.” - The Guardian (London) “Sparkles with dark humor and wonder at the world. Her insights jump off the page like challenges… extremely readable and upliftingly brave memoir.” “Stories about illness or adversity often end up feeling like self-help books. A luminous account that celebrates everything that is best about being human.” a gorgeous writer of rare honesty and wit.” ![]() Susannah Cahalan, author of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire ![]() This book is a gift, a testament to the power of art as a saving grace.” I read this book, a memoir that reads like an epic poem, pen in hand, feverishly underlining sentence after sentence. But this story is so much more than a medical mystery or a nightmarishly true tale. “The premise of Girl in the Dark seems lifted out of a Gothic novel: a woman whose flesh is burned by light is confined to a dark box of a room. Its 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.” “What stays with the reader is gutsiness, her imagination and fortitude.” reveals the quiet, ingenious consciousness of a poet.” has found new ways to look at the world, out of the darkness.” ![]()
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