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Book of the Week: Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Book of the Week: Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour: Episode 5

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Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour, Episode 5

Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she becomes famous.

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of author Jean Rhys. Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she delivers her best-known work. 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. 

It is now the 1930s and Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she delivers her best-known work.

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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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