![]() ![]() ![]() Walter is quite taken with Anna, and when the girls’ tour winds up in the capital, he invites Anna to dinner at a hotel in Hanover Square.Īnna is young, vulnerable and inexperienced in love. One afternoon when Anna and Maudie are out for a walk they meet two men, one of whom is Walter Jeffries, a relatively wealthy man who lives and works in London. When we first meet Anna, she is working as a chorus girl in a show, sharing a room with fellow showgirl, Maudie, as their tour moves from one seaside town to another. Set largely in London in 1913-14, Voyage is narrated by an eighteen- year-old girl, Anna Morgan, brought to England from her former home in the West Indies by her stepmother, Hester, a selfish woman who all but abandons Anna to survive on her own following her father’s death. A masterpiece in miniature – a brilliant, painful, devastating book that leaves it mark upon the reader. If anything, I think Voyage is even better than its predecessor. Rhys’ second novel, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie(1931), was a favourite of mine in 2015, so it seemed right to choose her next book, Voyage, as a follow-on read. Back in December, when I put together my reading list for the Classics Club, one of the first books I selected was Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark (first published in 1934). ![]()
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