A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhyss beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris. n n Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist. n n Includes an introduction by Diana Athill. n