Voyage in the dark

£9.99

Anna leaves the warmth of the West Indies for the cold, grey England of 1914, with its narrow streets and even narrower rules. She comes to understand a world where people offer you no help unless you’re willing to pay a price.

Have your item expertly wrapped by our booksellers with quality seasonal papers by Wrap. To add a handwritten note, please add your message at the Checkout stage.

Ask for more info
SKU: 9780141183954 Category: Tags: ,

Description

‘A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity’ Esther Freud

‘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. 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. Her childish dreams have been replaced by harsh reality. 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.

Additional information

Weight 136 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 13 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

158

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

813 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.