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About the Book

“An astonishing memoir” Sonali Deraniyagala, author of Wave
BOOK OF THE WEEK ON BBC RADIO 4
‘Oh, what can I not do, in my dreams. In my dreams I travel on trains and climb
mountains, I play concerts and swim rivers, I carry important documents on vital
missions, I attend meetings which become song-and-dance routines. My body lies
boxed in darkness, but beneath my closed eyelids there is colour, sound and
movement, in glorious contrast to the day; mad movies projected nightly in the private
theatre of my skull.’
Anna Lyndsey was living a normal life. She enjoyed her job; she was ambitious; she
was falling in love. Then the unthinkable happened.
It began with a burning sensation on her face when she was exposed to computer
screens and fluorescent lighting. Then the burning spread and the problematic light
sources proliferated. Now her extreme sensitivity to light in all forms means she must
spend much of her life in total darkness.
During the best times, she can venture cautiously outside at dusk and dawn, avoiding
high-strength streetlamps. During the worst, she must spend months in a darkened
room, listening to audiobooks, inventing word-games and fighting to keep despair at
bay.
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. 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.

Reviews
"In this astonishing memoir Anna Lyndsey takes us into the world of a rare and
shocking illness, and we emerge awed by a shining love story. Anna writes with such
honesty and grace and mischief about how her condition forces her to retreat into
blackness – yet we see that this new space she so bravely creates for herself is
suffused with light" - Sonali Deraniyagala, author of Wave, winner of the PEN/Ackerly
Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
"The premise of Girl in the Dark seems lifted out of a Gothic novel: A woman whose

About the Author

Anna Lyndsey worked for several years in London as a civil servant until she became ill. She now lives with her husband in Hampshire. Anna is writing under a pen name.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781408858271
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Weight: 332 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1408858274
  • Publisher Date: 2015
  • Depth: 20
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 135 mm

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