Written with wit, warmth and razor-sharp insight, this book should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in blindness, history, society, culture and beyond.

Anna Bonet, Non-fiction book of the month, The i

Informative, heartfelt … This admirable book dispels myths around the condition.

Martin Chilton, The Independent

Spirited, irreverent … Life Unseen offers an illuminating peek into one woman's world, and asks searching questions of us all in terms of the different ways in which we perceive our world. There are no glib answers because blindness, as Life Unseen demonstrates, is a subject riven with ambiguity and complexity. In this important and hugely enjoyable book, Mills clears away some of the myths and injustices that surround it.

Susan Flockhart, The Herald

It's an extraordinary account of blindness, the mythology that surrounds it, the fallacies and taboos connected to it, and the attitudes towards it throughout the ages. Written by an author who is herself blind, it's filled with fascinating information, practical insights and teaching moments about the nature of imagination, language and perception of our world.

Joanne Harris, The Guardian

Selina Mills's defiant book is a thundering challenge to our sighted notions of blindness, a resounding battle cry for a revolution in our age-old perceptions of being blind that should be read by sighted people everywhere.

Wendy Moore, Times Literary Supplement

A beautiful, tender and inspiring book about seeing the world in a different way.

Peter Frankopan