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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys - rerun

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Goodnight, Renee

Widesauk Gassa C was published in the 60s. I remember reading them at the time and finding them indescribably painful because what we were actually telling you was we were in our 20s, it was the 70s. So it was a kind of terrifying and corrosive and eye-opening read back then. And rereading her now, what struck me about her is that the, you know, I remember when I was reading her at the time thinking, why did he get a job? You know, get a job. The jeeery's heroine does not get a job if she can help it. It's annoying girls. She sits in.

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