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Book of the Week: Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Book of the Week: Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour: Episode 4

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Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

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Now married but still penniless, things start to look up for Jean when she moves to Vienna

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys. Now married but still penniless, things start to look up for Jean when she moves to Vienna in 1920. Read by Pooky Quesnel.

Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. 

Now married but still penniless, things start to look up for Jean when she moves to Vienna in 1920.

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Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys.

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea.

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