Rhys didn't want to be the subject of a biography and destroyed her letters and ripped out pages from her journals but that didn't deter the editor in adding her sixpence in this first and most definitive biography. Elusive, haunted, nicknamed 'Johnny Rotten' to her friends, and a talented writer whose stories dealt with race and colonialism, gender, class, and nation – rich pickings for biographers trying to pin down the Dominican-born writer for years to come.
