Iâd read âWide Sargasso Seaâ many years ago but I wasnât familiar with Jean Rhysâs other novels until my friend Emily Gould urged me to read them, so Iâm passing on this rec to you. âGood Morning, Midnight,â âAfter Leaving Mr. Mackenzie,â âQuartet,â and âVoyage in the Darkâ were all written between the two world wars, and are all slim books about a Rhys-like protagonist: a woman alone who drinks too much and is always in verging-on-desperate straits, between Paris and London. Really amazing if depressing.