Candia McWilliam is a talented and prize-winning novelist who has been on the judging committee for the Booker Prize. As a schoolgirl she won a national writing competition sponsored by Vogue magazine, and she went on to get a first class degree from Cambridge. Later she married the heir to an earldom. But she appears in her memoir as a damaged individual severely lacking in self-worth. In the aftermath of a failed marriage, and struggling with writer’s block, she became an alcoholic. During her 50s she developed a muscular spasm around her eyes (blepharospasm) leading to a ‘functional’ blindness – … Read more...