A review by margaretpinard
The Complete Novels: Voyage in the Dark / Quartet / After Leaving Mr Mackenzie / Good Morning, Midnight / Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

p9 stream of consciousness. p31 'my predecessor? i said. 'oh! my predecessor.' p65 collage of quotations, like stream of consciousness, great effect. p78 drunk scene and meltdown then two girls pulling at a dress--hilarity/sadness p86 "A lady--some words have a long, thin neck that you'd like to strangle" p91 the picture painting 'Loyal Heart' with 'it was the wall that mattered'...chills! p115 the 'start all over again' horror of the ending/ outlook