The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Greengrass, Jessie. Sight. John Murray Publishers, 2018.

Jessie Greengrass's novel Sight is written from the first person point of view of the unnamed main character. Over the course of the novel, the narrative alternates between depictions of the narrator's past and present experiences, and descriptions of ancillary historical and scientific figures and studies. Such narrative swerves distort the narrative plot line and enact the narrator's complex and searching internal experience. For the sake of clarity, the following summary relies upon the present tense and abides by a linear mode of explanation.

When the narrator is a little girl, she grows up with her mother and father in London. She spends summers with her grandmother, a psychoanalyst who everyone calls Doctor K, in her Hampstead house. The narrator cherishes these visits to her grandmother's. She likes that Doctor K trusts her and lets her be independent. Although she enjoys her solitude and agency, she also appreciates being in constant proximity to her mother and grandmother.

When the narrator's father abandons the narrator's family, the narrator is still a young girl. She and her mother travel to Doctor K's, where they spend a prolonged period of time. The narrator's mother tunnels into a depression. Meanwhile, Doctor K encourages the narrator to talk about her feelings. She instates regular talk therapy sessions with the narrator. She teaches the narrator the importance of sharing her feelings and thoughts with another trusted individual.

Not long after the narrator turns 21, her mother becomes gravely ill. The narrator assumes the role of her caretaker. She keeps her flat in the city, but visits her mother almost every morning. Throughout this time, she feels a fracture forming between her past and her future. When her mother's condition worsens, she is moved to hospice care. The narrator visits her faithfully in this location, too. She primarily spends her visits reading aloud to her mother. They do not discuss the past as the narrator had hoped, but she does feel close to her mother at the end of her life.

In the wake of her mother's death, the narrator struggles to validate her own emotions. She holes up in her mother's house and tries to distract herself from her grief with books and reading. Over time, however, she gradually emerges from her sorrow. She meets a man named Johannes. Throughout the early days of her relationship, she feels her sorrow over her mother dissipating.

After the narrator and Johannes get married, they discuss the prospect of starting a family. Although the narrator wants to have children, she is terrified of the ways motherhood promises to change her. She is protective of her independence, and is thus unsure if she is ready to sacrifice herself to her husband or her future children.

Throughout the narrator's first pregnancy, she delves into medical, historical, and scientific texts in order to quell her anxieties about childbirth and parenting. In spite of her fears, she decides that she will be the best mother she can possibly be for the sake of her daughter.

Throughout the narrator's second pregnancy, the narrator's old fears return. She again finds herself retreating into reading and remembrance as a way to make sense of her present and her future. When the baby is born, she realizes that she must embrace the unknown into which she is traveling with her children and her husband.