Books like Blindness by Henry Green
When John Haye is blinded by an accident on his way home from boarding school, he faces a future no one could have predicted. His stepmother, expecting him to stay with her as a dependent, seeks a suitable suitor from the right social class. Instead, John falls in love with the daughter of the town drunk and the town parson, who takes him to London. There he is forced to live in a cramped room above a busy thoroughfare, while their lover navigates the challenges of his new reality.
First publish date: 1926
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Henry Green
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