Boston: Little Brown, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed study of the author of Quartet and Wide Sargasso Sea, one which focuses on the many contradictions in her life - from her childhood in Dominica in the the West Indies to her schooling in England, her life in Paris Ford Maddox Ford in the 1920s, with a circle of expat writers including Hemingway and James Joyce, and more. Each section is followed by a discussion of the novel written during that period. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 761 pp. ISBN: 0-316042633.