Sasha Jensen has been rescued, half-drowned, from the deep, dark river of her past, leaving behind a dead narriage and a dead baby. Convinced that she has recovered, she spends a fortnight back in Paris to celebrate her new beginning.
If she doesn't drink too much and avoids certain cafes and certain streets, everything will be fine. If she is careful there will be of her former self, the other Sasha with all her regrets and broken dreams. But, as Sasha knows only too well, it is impossible to escape the past entirely, even in the arms of a handsome young lover...

One of the moat honest and distinctive nivelists of her day, Jean Rhys wrote about women in an innovativr and often controversial way, with perception and sensitivity. In Good Morning, Midnight she created and unforgettable portrait of a woman forced to confront her own inevitable loneliness and despair.