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Will losing her sight mean losing herself, or will Paige finally see what she’s been missing? Paige Wilding has her future mapped out – win the Year 10 Art prize, graduate top of her class and secure a place at a prestigious art school in New York. But when she is diagnosed with an incurable eye condition, the perfect life she has planned starts to blur. Determined not to let the diagnosis derail her life, she keeps her condition secret, cramming a lifetime of colour into a single year – living louder, loving wilder, and painting like her life depends on it. But as her sight fades and painting seems impossible, it’s Zac, her rival for the Art prize, who helps Paige find a way back to her art and a new kind of beautiful: messy and imperfect but fiercely alive. Inspired by the author’s aunt who lost her sight as a teenager, A New Kind of Beautiful is a call for a more compassionate world and a rebellion against the impossible ideal of filtered perfection. A story about choosing real over perfect that gently reminds us that being different isn’t something to hide.
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