But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.

: /riːs/) CBE (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica. She lived with him from 1920; they wandered through Europe living mainly in London Paris and Vienna.

Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain Jean Rhys is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. : /riːs/) CBE (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica.