Phyllis Shand Allfrey: 3 books

There is renewed interest in Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author (the Orchid House) and politician from Dominica. Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known. Her work is now being acclaimed and her place in Caribbean literary cannon assured. Allfrey’s biographer, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert,...

It Falls Into Place brings together for the first time the shorter fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey whose novel The Orchid House is a classic of Caribbean literature. These tantalising stories set in Dominica, New York and London yet always steeped in an unmistakably West Indian identity probe beneath...

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...