Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
Summary (from the publisher): 'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demimonde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Review: This is apparently a highly autobiographical novel that follows a young girl named Anna who has been brought from her home in the West Indies to England after the death of her father. Left destitute and largely alone, Anna first finds work as a chorus girl in London, before floating into a harsher existence. Many years ago, I read Wide Sargasso Sea by this author. This one felt very different in many ways, but both have similar themes: race, problematic relationships with men, young women taken advantage etc. Although she rea...
