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Orchid House

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. Intenselyautobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the (usually) loyal eyes of the sisters` childhood nurse, Lally: โ€Beauty and disease, beauty and sickness, beauty and horror: that was the island.โ€First published in 1953, it was republished in 1982 as a Virago Modern Classic. It was later filmed by Channel 4 for a four-part series (1991) with Diana Quick, Frances Barber and Elizabeth Hurley (available as a DVD).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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