In Plucking The Daisy (1956) she's a young provincial woman who runs off to Paris to become a famous writer and
winds up in a striptease contest (a
nonchalant flesh pageant of sexy French misses), much to the consternation of her conservative father.
This past week I've been reading A High
Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, which is shockingly cruel in its
nonchalant indifference to children — but because of this, it's strangely hilarious — it turns the storytelling on its head, it gives it a life it wouldn't have otherwise.»