The Orchid House

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Phyllis Shand Allfrey ISBN: 9780993108631
Publisher: Papillote Press Publication: October 28, 2016
Imprint: Papillote Press Language: English
Author: Phyllis Shand Allfrey
ISBN: 9780993108631
Publisher: Papillote Press
Publication: October 28, 2016
Imprint: Papillote Press
Language: English

Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family's plight in different ways - seeking change through romance or politics or money. Intensely autobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the (usually) loyal eyes of the sisters' childhood nurse, Lally: "Beauty and disease, beauty and sickness, beauty and horror: that was the island." First published in 1953, it was filmed by Channel 4 in 1991 for a four-part series with Diana Quick, Frances Barber and Elizabeth Hurley. This edition has a new and incisive introduction by the Dominican scholar Schuyler Esprit, which casts a fresh and contemporary eye on Allfrey's life and work.

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Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family's plight in different ways - seeking change through romance or politics or money. Intensely autobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the (usually) loyal eyes of the sisters' childhood nurse, Lally: "Beauty and disease, beauty and sickness, beauty and horror: that was the island." First published in 1953, it was filmed by Channel 4 in 1991 for a four-part series with Diana Quick, Frances Barber and Elizabeth Hurley. This edition has a new and incisive introduction by the Dominican scholar Schuyler Esprit, which casts a fresh and contemporary eye on Allfrey's life and work.

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