Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find
their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister
responds to the family's plight in different ways - seeking change
through romance or politics or money. Intenselyautobiographical,
The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen
through the (usually) loyal eyes of the sisters' childhood nurse,
Lally: "Beauty and disease, beauty and sickness, beauty and horror:
that was the island."First published in 1953, it was republished in
1982 as a Virago Modern Classic. It was later filmed by Channel 4
for a four-part series (1991) with Diana Quick, Frances Barber and
Elizabeth Hurley (available as a DVD).This edition has a new and
incisive introduction by the Dominican scholar Schuyler Esprit,
which casts a fresh and contemporary eye on Allfrey's life and
work.
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