A self-help book wrapped in a funny poignant novel Tilda Is Visible is for anyone who has
ever looked in the mirror and found fault within themselves. Tilda Finch is a successful
businesswoman a mother to two wonderful adult daughters and besides an unexpected divorce
she’s living a relatively happy life. Until she wakes up one morning and her finger seems to
have disappeared. She thinks back to the kombucha she drank the night before—perhaps it was
spiked? Studying herself in the mirror she discovers one of her ears has also disappeared! She
rushes to the doctor who after a multitude of tests says she’s sorry to inform her that she
has invisibility a disorder that affects millions of women worldwide mostly after the age of
forty—she is disappearing and there is no cure. Tilda isn’t overly surprised. She’s felt
invisible for years. But after attending a support group for women like her and seeing how
resigned they are to simply fading away she thinks there must be a better way. Hesitant she
seeks out a controversial therapist who compels her to realize that she can’t expect the world
to see her if she can’t first see herself. And the new man she meets who she thinks is blind
to her faults might just see her more clearly than anyone has ever before. Because if we can
get the voices in our heads to stop being so critical and be more compassionate we might
realize how wonderful we truly are.
