# Smile Please

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- Book: [Smile Please](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-rhys/smile-please) ([Smile Please.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-rhys/smile-please.md))
- Authors: [Jean Rhys](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-rhys)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4128-555-8
- Published: 2016-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist.