【Feature】
★A Girl Behind Dark Glasses once was the Number 1 bestseller Amazon & Waterstones!
★A Girl Behind Dark Glasses was the Winner for The People's Book Prize 2019 for 'Best Non-Fiction'!
★In a funny, almost humorous account of her life story of battling a long-term chronic disease, Myalgic encephalomyelitis, from the age of 15, Jessica shares her innermost thoughts and real-time emotions. The ups and downs of her illness and hospitalization.
★Jessica's thoughts and emotions are recorded through her voice-activated technology diary "Bug" and are now recreated in real time in text, truly revealing many unique moods that cannot be captured afterwards.
★Every day of her life is a heroic battle, a story of strength and resilience in the face of despair, a story of love, survival and zest for life. Her amazing personality and perseverance and adaptability shine through, but also converge into a babbling stream of hope in the desperate situation.
★Jessica created a blog called "The World of One Room" and posted a video of the same name on YouTube about her suffering from severe M.E. and then she had to live in a single room most of the time, which has attracted audiences from multiple countries.
★These stories are also a window into a life many of us don't even realize we have, and reveal the small, touching, inspiring and enlightening aspects of many of the everyday problems most of us face.
The series includes 3 titles:
A Girl Behind Dark Glasses
A Girl In One Room
A Girl Beyond Closed Doors
【Review】
“Written in a chatty style typical of any 15 year old, this memoir entertains and horrifies at the same time. A fascinating and moving account of what it feels like for ordinary daily existence to become a struggle. I’d recommend A Girl Behind Dark Glasses to anyone interested in medical memoirs and particularly for a YA audience.”
——The London Magazine
【Author】
Jessica Taylor-Bearman
Jessica shares her inner-most thoughts and real-time emotions – adapted from her diary growing up as a teenager in South-East England – as she experiences the terrifying discovery that, aged 15, instead of partying, studying and socialising, she would rapidly become bed-ridden, ultimately unable to move, speak, eat…Despite the odds, Jessica never gave up. Her dream was to become an author, to be able to marry, leave the hospital, enjoy life. Supported by a hugely successful crowdfunding project, Jessica’s story will be unveiled at an ideal time – Jessica features in a film called Unrest by Jennifer Brea, a journalist and filmmaker from New York, which aims to raise awareness about severe Myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E). After winning a prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the now Oscar-nominated film is now on general release in the UK, coinciding with a review of the controversial National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) guidelines into the diagnosis and management of the illness. |
