Watch your market here. It's a book which depends for its values on
the effectiveness of the handling of a difficult subject, and the
subject will throw it out for your conservative customers. The
story of a girl luxuriously brought up in the West Indies, who is
cast adrift, with no training for building her own life, in
England, and who slips, almost inevitably, into the sordid life of
a prostitute. Not quite so clear cut as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(her best known book here), but realism well above average. (Kirkus
Reviews)
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known', says Anna, 18 years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone, and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. 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 Jean Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style.
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