Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.
Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is
chilling, cynical, and surprisingly moving
*A L Kennedy*
No one who reads Good Morning, Midnight will ever forget it
*The New York Times*
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