![]() ![]() ![]() Several of Rhys’s short stories deserve more attention. Moments of mad comedy punctuate Sasha’s dreadful, knowing journey towards one of the most powerful endings in the history of fiction. Set in Paris in 1937, it is whispered into our ears by Sasha Jansen, another outsider and a woman with a black sense of humour about her own misfortunes. Good Morning, Midnight is my favourite of Rhys’s five slender novels and her masterpiece. This novel is a great example of Rhys’s talent for capturing the way alienated and victimised women feel. Told by a vulnerable newcomer to London from the Caribbean, Rhys’s third novel draws on her own experience of love, heartbreak, hope and loneliness to create an unforgettable portrait of its protagonist Anna Morgan. I’d go straight from the memoir into Voyage in the Dark. Photograph: BBC/Kudos Film and Television ![]() Rebecca Hall as Antoinette Cosway, first wife of Mr Rochester, in the BBC adaptation of Wide Sargasso Sea. ![]()
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