After a huge early success, writer Jean Rhys vanished from view for 25 years. She was rediscovered in the ’70s, becoming world famous in her eighties and taken to the heart of ‘cool’ London with drugs, sex and rock and roll going on all around her.

Celebrated biographer Miranda Seymour will speak about her intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of the extraordinary writer Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea, who has again become a cult figure with excerpts from Rhys’ books read by John Case.