Three Authors

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Paola Peretti's debut novel The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree is based on her own struggle with sight loss. The work is coloured by this impending life-altering change in perspective - and literary perspective is very much what this episode is about. We talk to Paola about how her diagnosis affects her work, and to the crime novelist Mark Hardie about how he addresses the knotty, detailed references of the crime fiction genre having lost his sight more than a decade ago. And the biographer Paddy Briggs joins the conversation, to talk about his perspective on visual impairment. Paddy is not visually impaired - but the subject of his latest work is. He's written a book about the racehorse owner and pensions expert Alan Pickering - Look Where You're Going. So how does Paddy address sight as a subject - and how does he avoid the pitfalls of talking about a disability he doesn't have? Presented by Peter White Produced by Kevin Core.