Ysenda Maxtone Graham

A vision of what it means to be blind

In her powerful memoir-cum-manifesto, Selina Mills tells us what she misses most, what irritates her most and why she won’t have a guide dog

Reading by Braille, rather than John Gall’s method, would always be the choice of blind people. [Getty Images] 
issue 29 July 2023

  • Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness

    Selina Mills

    Bloomsbury, pp. 288, £20

To give us a sense of precisely how blind Selina Mills is she asks us to cover our right eye completely with our right hand and put a fist up in front of our left eye, so it blocks our central sight. ‘Now imagine the remaining sight is murky and blurry, as if covered in Vaseline or clingfilm.

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