She whisks John off to London, where in this strange city he is confined to a room above a major thoroughfare while she gets on with her life. Blindness was first published when Henry Green was an undergraduate at Oxford. Highly praised as a master of high-modernism, Green went on to write eight other novels, including Concluding and Doting.
Blindness is a major novel. . . .
As a psychological document it is far too convincing for comfort in its classification as fiction. . . . As the story opens, two students are missing. Meanwhile, as rumors and versions of the girls disappearance spread through the school, and the governesses attempt to conceal their alarm by preparing for the school's tenth annual Founders Day Ball, the seemingly innocent proceedings take on an air of mystery, intrigue, and impending doom. Within the compass of a summer's day, a day in the life of a girl's school, in the life of an old man, . . . Stuck in a passionless marriage, Arthur becomes infatuated with Annabel, a much younger woman.