'Good Morning, Midnight'

Good Morning, Midnight was published in 1939 about a woman who returns to Paris between the two great wars and finds nothing but insecurity and instability.

No money or nobody to depend on or to county upon the next morning or night. Hunger and desperation a perpetual companion as she plans her next step. At least many of the feelings and circumstances surrounding our protagonist were probably those of Rhys herself, who had a series of failed relationships, marriages, a near-fatal abortion and a son who died at a young age. Nothing was permanent in Rhys' life.

Right after it was published, author Jean Rhys fell completely out of the limelight making many think she had died. Rhys turned back up in 1949 when someone decided to turn Good Morning, Midnight into a play and they were forced to hunt Rhys down and get her permission. Alas, she was living very quietly in the English countryside.

She did not publish another piece until 1960, 21 years later.