![]() ![]() Girl in the dark a memoir Large print edition. Anna asks herself "By continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home - do I do wrong?" Anna brings us into the dark with her, a place from which we emerge to see love, and the world, anew. Girl in the dark by Anna Lyndsey, 2015 edition, in English - Large print edition. But she cannot enjoy a normal life with him, cannot go out in the day, and even making love is uniquely awkward. In many ways he is Anna's savior, offering her shelter from the light in his home. ![]() And throughout there is her relationship with Pete. During periods of relative remission she can venture cautiously out at dawn and dusk, into a world that, from the perspective of her normally cloistered existence, is filled with remarkable beauty. Now, when her symptoms are at their worst, she must spend months on end in a blacked-out room, losing herself in audio books and elaborate word games in an attempt to ward off despair. The reaction soon spread to her entire body. Jean-Dominique Bauby who becomes a hero of Lyndsey’s wove a poetic narrative out of his experience of being. Soon this progressed to an intolerance of fluorescent light, then of sunlight itself. Girl in the Dark is a memoir (written under a pen name) of those nine years. But then she started to develop worrying symptoms: her face felt like it was burning whenever she was in front of the computer. Read 472 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() She was ambitious and worked hard she had just bought an apartment she was falling in love. ![]()
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