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3. Rapunzel, Rapunzel *** A hospital patient is sent to a convalescent home to recover. There she observes another patient who recklessly lets her hair get cut by an incompetent men’s barber, losing most of her hair in the process.

2. Till September Petronella **** (1930s/1960). A roman à clef story, apparently edited down from an abandoned novel from the 1930s. A chorus girl, Miss Petronella Gray, is invited on a countryside retreat by her artist friend but grows disillusioned by the snide remarks of the host. She escapes back to London and encounters various men on the way who say they will see her in September.

1. The Day They Burned the Books **** (1953) Set in Rhys’s birth island Domenica. A nameless girl is best friends with Eddie, the child of a mixed marriage. Eddie’s English father Mr. Sawyer maintains a large library but abuses his wife. When Sawyer dies, Mrs. Sawyer decides to sell off the best of the library and burn the rest. Eddie and his friend try to rescue one book each from the fire to come.