Good morning, midnight

This novel follows Sasha Jansen, a middle-aged woman living in Paris on little money. Haunted by earlier losses and by years of drifting, she returns to the city, wandering its cafes, hotels and rented rooms while memories of her past surface. The book moves between present and recollection in a clipped, intimate voice. It is a spare and unsparing portrait of loneliness, fragile pride and the need for kindness, and is often counted among Rhys's finest works.