![]() She is working as an actress in a touring troupe and she’s sharing a room with an older single woman, Maudie. We follow the fortunes of Anna Morgan, an eighteen year old woman recently arrived from the West Indies. ![]() It feels like the beginning of Rhys’s story, the place where she began to lose hope. Voyage in the Dark is the same, though the storm is gentler and its build slower and it’s more bearable than the others. You’ve survived, but not without being wounded. Reading Rhys is like being caught in a sudden squall: you know it’s not going to last very long and that your fears are pointless and misguided, and yet the wind whips you, the rain pummels down and all your reserves are spent, and then it’s over and your hair is plastered to your head, your clothes ruined, there’s water in your shoes and you’re exhausted. Both my prior reads of Rhys have been fraught short, little books in which the protagonist flops from one day to the next drunk, desperate, hopeless and aggressive, making the reading of them emotionally tumultuous. ![]() I’ve read a couple of other books by Rhys – Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea – and both are excellent books, but still I approached Voyage in the Dark with a sense of trepidation. ![]()
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