Narrated by the spirited Madame Pratolungo, widow of a South American revolutionary, the novel is set in a Sussex village where blind Lucilla Finch falls in love with a gentle newcomer, Oscar Dubourg. Treatment for epilepsy turns Oscar’s skin dark blue, Lucilla has a horror of dark colours, and his identical twin Nugent arrives just as a surgeon offers to restore her sight.
One of Collins’s strangest sensation novels, written to show blindness as it really is. Download the free EPUB.