Jean Rhys

Anna, 18 and independent both by circumstance and by character, has exchanged the West Indian island of her childhood for the cold, grey island of England, with its narrow streets and narrow rules. She comes to understand a world where people offer you no help unless there's something they want.

Voyage in the Dark

Shelby Doherty

There was no sun sun, but the air was used-up and dead, dirty-warm, as if thousands of other people had breathed it before you.

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

I felt emptied-out and peaceful - like when you've had a toothache and it stops for a bit, and you know quite well it's going to start again but just for a bit it's stopped.

Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn't fantastic any longer, it's inevitable. The inevitable is what you're doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn't do. That goes for everybody.

The inevitable, the obvious, the expected... They watch you, their faces like masks, set in the eternal grimace of disapproval. I always knew that girl was... Why didn't you do this? Why didn't you do that? Why didn't you bloody well make a hole in the water?

The big tree in the square opposite d'Adhemar's flat was perfectly still, and the forked twigs looked like fingers pointing. Everything was perfectly still, as if it were dead. Then a bird chirped anxiously and they all started - first one, and then another, and then another.

Rocío de la Hera

Si juntas este libro con ‘The bell jar’ y ‘The house of mirth’ y escuchas ‘What was I made for?’ de Billie de fondo, tenés un combo espectacular de historias sobre qué se siente ser una piba de veinte años que no entiende qué hacer con su vida ni su lugar en el mundo. 
Jean Rhys está a nada de convertirse en otra autora favorita❤️

Often considered Jean Rhys's most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable England after a childhood in the West Indies. When an affair that at first feels like salvation comes to a disastrous end, Anna begins to unravel.

Voyage in the Dark

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