After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
  • Published: 30 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141183947
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $35.00
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A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love

For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.
  • Published: 30 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141183947
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

It is a book that does not invite comparisons. . . . Its excellence is individual, intrinsic; it measures itself against itself

Saturday Review of Literature

She had an ability to see what others could not, or refused to see, and the guts to write about it

Christine Pountney, Guardian