The escape of a rebellious young girl from the Puritan sect in which she was raised. A formidable novel of emancipation.
“Ici-Bas”: that’s the name of the place where Rosie Lane lives, between the flogging sessions inflicted on her by Ambriel, the sect’s guru, and the passion that binds her to Gabe, her childhood sweetheart. When Gabe submissively agrees to marry another girl, Rosie flees to London, the “Great Exterior”. This is modern-day England, and Rosie soon discovers the fast-paced life of the modern world. She becomes a waitress in a pub, the Sunday Morning, and discovers music, freedom and… the other side of the coin. Faced with exhausting and sometimes squalid living conditions, she escapes by reading the poems of Emily Dickinson. And by listening to Nick Cave or Joy Division over and over again. She met several men, but none of them satisfied her need for love and freedom.
Sunday Morning follows in the footsteps of Wuthering Heights, the novels of Jane Austen and Jeanette Winterson’s famous Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
