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Episode 2
Episode 2 of 5
Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea.
Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is sent to a chilly girls' school in Cambridge.
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Tue 29 Apr 2014
14:45
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