![]() ![]() Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris, where she began writing and was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford. Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown all written in Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style. Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. 'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. ![]()
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