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.
Prescient and technically astonishing
*GQ*
The kind of book you want to stand up and applaud
*Caryl Phillips*
Every so often someone comes along whose prose style is so alert
and fresh, so remote from the mainstream idiom of English social
fiction that is seems miraculous that they should be able to write
like that and be British too. Jean Rhys is such a writer
*Jonathan Raban*
[Jean Rhys's novels] have the quality of the best books by seeming
to have written themselves, and reading them one flinches at truth
after truth
*The New Yorker*
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