A Girl Behind Dark Glasses

Jessica Taylor-Bearman shares her innermost thoughts and real-time emotions, adapted from the diary she kept as a teenager growing up in southeast England. At just fifteen years old, instead of studying, socializing, and enjoying typical teenage life, Jessica became rapidly and devastatingly ill. She soon found herself bedridden, ultimately unable to move, speak, or eat.

Despite overwhelming odds, Jessica refused to give up. She dreamed of becoming an author, getting married, leaving the hos...