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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography|Jean Rhys.!
I first read Jean Rhys at university when her novel Good Morning, Midnight was on the reading list for a course about the 20th century novel. Since then she has been on my radar and I have kept most of her books on my long term TBR.
I read Wide Sargasso Sea a few years ago, but apart from that I don’t know why it has taken me this long to read more of her work.
I am on a bit of a non-fiction kick at the moment, and the purchase of Smile Please was part of that.
It was an obvious choice, as it was by an author I already knew I liked, who I knew had had an interesting life, plus it’s quite short and you can buy a beautiful Penguin Modern Classics edition with a picture of Jean Rhys on the front with a dog – which I did.
I would very much recommend reading the foreword to this book, written by the editor and author Diana Athill.
Athill was Rhys’ editor for Wide Sargasso Sea, and also worked with her on Smile Please. Given that the book is unfinished,