Quartet by Jean Rhys

A spare, unsparing near-autobiographical novel about a young, impoverished expatriate in 1920s London who becomes entangled in a jealous, destructive affair with a charismatic writer and his companion; living for a time in a constricting ménage à trois, she endures betrayal, humiliation and mounting financial and emotional precarity as her autonomy and dignity are steadily eroded.

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