Episode 5
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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